School of Humanities: Recent submissions

Now showing items 601-620 of 1985

Y Chromosomes Traveling South: The Cohen Modal Haplotype and the Origins of the Lemba—the “Black Jews of Southern Africa”

Le Roux, Magdel Mark, Thomas Parfitt, T. Skorecki, K. Bradman, N. Goldstein, D.B. (Elsevier, 2000)

The Lemba are a traditionally endogamous group speaking a variety of Bantu languages who live in a number of locations in southern Africa. They claim descent from Jews who came to Africa from “Sena.” “Sena” is variously ...
On The Death of the Charismatic Founder Re-Viewing Some Buddhist Sources

Clasquin-Johnson, Michel (Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, 2013-03)

Routinization is a term invented by Max Weber to describe events after the death of a charismatic religious leader. It has become widely used in the humanities in a variety of contexts. The death of the historical Buddha ...
Minister for a day - online ordination and the place of religion in the 21st century

Clasquin-Johnson, Michel (Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, 2016)

The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have seen the rise of a new phenomenon - online ordination. It can be accepted that much of this burgeoning industry is a financial scam, but is that the whole story? The ...
The church as alternative community and the struggle for liberation in the work of David Bosch

van Wyngaard, Cobus (NGTT, 2013-12)

The church as alternative community remains a key aspect in understanding the work of David Bosch, while some of the most important critique of his work emerged from liberation theology. By exploring Bosch’s use of the ...
The public role of the Christian community in the work of David Bosch

van Wyngaard, Cobus (Missionalia, 2011-04)

The article is a response to a recent claim by William Storrar that Bosch’s paradigm of mission can be named a public paradigm of mission, and that the creative tensionbetween the elements of Bosch’s emerging paradigm of ...
Glaubens- und Kompetenzentwicklung durch Mentoring : eine empirisch-qualitative Arbeit am Beispiel des Missions Discipleship Trainings von Operation Mobilisation, Deutschland

Hurst, Barbara Simone (2016-11)

In dieser Studie werden die Auswirkungen von Mentoring zur Förderung von Glaube und Kompetenzen innerhalb des einjährigen Jüngerschaftsprogrammes „Missions Discipleship Training“ von OM Deutschland untersucht. Zum einen ...
Gerettet wovor? : die Heils- und Gerichtsverkündigung im Lukasevangelium

Baum, Rainer (2015-11)

Diese Studie untersucht die Gerichts- und Heilsverkündigung innerhalb des Lukasevangeliums, um herauszufinden, wie der Zusammenhang von Heil und Gericht dargestellt wird, welche Vorstellung von Gericht und Heil der ideale ...
Serve the City : eine empirisch-theologische Untersuchung zu Jugendpartizipation aus der Perspektive einer Offentlichen Theologie

Petry, Andreas (2015-04)

The basis for the work at hand is a look at current and future societal challenges in living together in communities. Public Theology claims to offer an important contribution as far as the overcoming of societal issues ...
L'intersubjectivite humaine comme socle fonctionnel pour une mondialisation democratique : approache levinasienne = (The intersubjectivity of human nature as reliable basis for a democratic globalization : Levinas approach)

Nduku, Nazaire Mavanga (2016-06)

This dissertation deals with the globalization as a system with transnational vocation aiming at reducing more and more the distance between communities by means of the exchanges in diverse domains: economic, scientific, ...
The response of the Anglican Diocese of Bujumbura to the challenge of urbanization in Burundi

Bahizi, Thierry (2016-06)

The study explores the response of the Anglican diocese of Bujumbura to the challenge of urbanization, especially in the area of urban poverty. The introductory Chapter provides the framework within which the study will ...
Missional character of music in worship : a study of select churches in the metropolitan city of Abeokuta, Nigeria

Odewole, Israel Oluwagbemiga Omoniyi (2016-06)

In this thesis, the researcher engages in emerging work in music in worship to deepen contemporary conversations about musical styles in worship. This thesis critically examines the missional character of music ...
Post-Apartheid Whiteness and the Challenge of Youth Ministry in the Dutch Reformed Church

Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (Brill. All rights reserved., 2011-11-01)

This article seeks to draw from postcolonial missiology and critical perspectives on whiteness in identifying the continuing challenges concerning racialised whiteness facing youth ministry within the Dutch Reformed Church ...
The Bank of Mozambique : historical review from 1975 to 2010

Pateguana, Carmelia (2016-05)

The Banco de Moçambique (Bank) was established in May 17, 1975. The 1920 Brussels Conference recommended that in countries without a central bank, it should be created. The ‘Bank’ followed the new model of emerging countries’ ...
Pastorale handelinge met en vir die tagtig plus ouer persoon

Labuschagne, Jean (2016-05)

Hierdie navorsing vorm deel van die kerk se roeping tot barmhartigheid en fokus op daardie aspek van die bediening wat gemoeid is met die welsyn van die tagtig plus ouer persoon in die besonder. ŉ Kwalitatiewe studie binne ...
The Spirituality of “Following Jesus” according to the Gospel of John: an investigation of "akoloutheo" and correlated motifs

Kim, Sean Seongik (2016-04)

The present thesis explores the Spirituality of following Jesus according to the Fourth Gospel by investigating the whole profile of the term akoloutheo. In particular, this thesis probes what theological implications are ...
The spiritual significance of the Sabbath as an expression of faith within Conservative Adventism

De Jager, Eben (2015-09)
Volks' Kirche?: Relevanz partizipativer Beteiligungsmöglichkeiten in deutschen Grosskirchen: eine empirisch-theologische Untersuchung am Beispiel kirchlicher Jugendarbeiten in Köln.

Allgaier, Tim (2015-06)

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird empirisch-theologisch der Frage nachgegangen, welche Relevanz Partizipation in der kirchlichen Praxis für beteiligte Ehrenamtliche besitzt. Dazu wurden qualitative, halb-standardisierte ...
Facing homeless people in the inner City of Tshwane : a missiological conversation with the Wesleyan tradition

Ntakirutimana, Ezekiel (2015-12)

This study was conducted within the pressing social conditions of human vulnerability manifested in a worsening situation of homelessness which forces homeless people into a deplorable life in the inner city of Tshwane. ...
A critical assessment of African communitarianism for environmental well-being

Watadza, Mhazo (2016-02)

It is an undeniable truism that the world at large and Africa in particular is facing serious environmental problems such as deforestation, water pollution, air pollution, wetlands destruction, poaching as well as global ...
Mission and hospitality : a literary ethnography of the Pauline Churches

Brouwer, Leendert (2015-11)

This study explores the practice of hospitality within the Pauline churches and links this practice with mission. It is theoretically informed by Käsemann’s (1963) emphasis on the unity of the church as “an eschatological ...

Recently added

School of Humanities: Recent submissions

Search UnisaIR

Browse

All of UnisaIR

This Community

My Account