Religion: Africa
Philosophy, Religion and the Environment in Africa: The Challenge of Human Value Education and Sustainability
... about religion today is problematic, disastrous and troubling as the violent conflicts and wars of sectarianism and terrorism continue to bombard our ears daily about the Boko Haram; ritual murder for money ...
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Religion and ecological justice in Africa: Engaging ‘value for community’ as praxis for ecological and socio economic justice
... that religion has played in various contexts, as mentioned above, such as in Brazil and South Africa, the role of CAN in addressing environmental injustice leaves much to be ...
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RELIGION AS IMPERIALISM: A CRITIQUE OF AFRICA’S EXPERIENCE
... Among the Africans, the knowledge of God has always been so self-evident that no catechetical instruction is necessary. For instance, the Ashanti of Ghana say: “Obi nkyere abofra onyame”, meaning “no one shows a child ...
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Dignity, religion and freedom of expression in South Africa
... that religion plays in our public life, and quite another for it to use religious doctrine as a source for interpreting the ...South Africa v Minister of Education 2000 (4) SA 757 (CC); Prince ...
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Religion, Violence, Poverty and Underdevelopment in West Africa: Issues and Challenges of Boko Haram Phenomenon in Nigeria
... cide bombers” actions stem fundamentally from political con- flict, not religion. This explains why most informed scholars studying the Boko Haram violence in Nigeria would ascribe political and socio-economic ...
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The Power of Peace: A Program Assessment
... Notwithstanding paragraphs 5, 8 and 71, requesting the State to maintain a constitutional impartiality 2 – which, according to Futrell (2008), does not demand equivalence in terms of acceptability and/or validity of ...
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Truth and reconciliation in South Africa: Hindu experiences and concerns
... South Africa considers itself to be a secular state where no religion can claim to be the State Religion, why are the majority of public holidays in conformity with western Christianity? “We observe ...
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Implications of a technoscientific culture on personhood in Africa and in the West
... positive. The introduction of Western technology has often been detrimental to Africa. “Western” science introduced a split in African personhood as well, although in a different way than was experienced in the ...
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Theology of religions: Models for interreligious dialogue in South Africa
... The theologian who has been most influential with regard to this model is the Protestant Karl Barth (1886–1968). According to Knitter (2012:23) Barth laid the theological foundations for the replacement model’s ...
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A systematic review on the prevalance and management of jaundice through dietary modifications
... South Africa are found to be infant’s gender, maternal religion, weight at the time of screening, place of birth, multiple gestation, use of herbal preparations during pregnancy, exclusive breastfeeding ...
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Inaugural lecture: African spirituality, ethics and traditional healing - implications for indigenous South African social work education and practice
... sub-Saharan Africa, African religion, or African tradition- al religions, accommodate a wide variety of concepts and prac- The over-reliance of South African social work on Euro-American and British ...
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Methodism and transformation in South Africa: 20 years of constitutional democracy
... of religion (South Africa 1996:5), freedom of association (South Africa 1996:18), and freedom of expression for all (South Africa ...of religion in the new South ...every ...
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Living in the townships: An appraisal of Pentecostal social ministry in Tshwane
... in Africa and South ...Now religion has probably become slightly less important, especially since 1994 when Christianity was seen as equal with other faiths in the ...
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Can symbols be ‘promoted’ or ‘demoted’?: Symbols as religious phenomena
... Egyptian religion as monotheistic or polytheistic proves to be insufficient as Beth says (in Hornung ...Egyptian religion would be to emphasise the symbolic nature of the Egyptian religion, as ...
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Structural transformation and democratic public spaces: Reflections on Habermas and the 2014 Tshwane State of the Capital City Address
... does religion then participate in the public sphere? Drawing from Habermas’s later work, Bohman describes religion as a participant in social discourse (Bohman ...effectively, religion cannot engage ...
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Faith community as a centre of liberationist praxis in the city
... (or Africa into Europe, black into white, poor into wealthy, refugee into citizen) in a world that claims to have no epistemological preference (Vuola ...South Africa some Black theologians could in the ...
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The metaphysical mind in its physical environment: Religious implications of neuroscience
... Human culture, as we know it has always been characterised by the awareness of the transcendent, inexplicable and mysterious. These transcendent experiences include, religious phenomena; visions and dreams; encounters ...
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An assessment of the Theology of Religions
... specific religion becomes the focus in dialogue, which means the comparativists would become specialists in religions (D’Costa ...about religion, but religions become known through close engagement with ...
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Understanding Apartheid in South Africa through the Racial Contract
... in Africa is a well-known phenomenon and the most intriguing in human ...South Africa provides a clear example in the area of conquest with the twin occupation by the British and the Dutch ...
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Re authoring life narratives of trauma survivors: Spiritual perspective
... As a process of learning how to write publishable stories, we attended two story-writing workshops at Diakonia in Durban in 2011 where the Durban trauma facilitators joined the story-writing project. The process dragged ...
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