Research Outputs (Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology): Recent submissions

  • The Ethical Leadership Project's Official Newsletter 
    Dames, Gordon E; Naicker, Anusha; Delport, Robert (The Entertainment factory, 2008-06-25)
    In South Africa, after our demoralising history of Apartheid, the more defective our leaders, the more we long for highly effective, ethical leaders. Regrettably, our leaders sometimes consciously act in unethical ways, ...
  • Report on Ethical Leadership in and through Labour Conference 
    Dames, Gordon E (The Ethical Leadership Project, 2007-04-03)
    The objective of the conference was to explore whether existing labour practices amongst the leadership in the labour movement is also aimed at: 1. contributing in and through ethical labour practices to a morally ...
  • The 2nd Paarl World of Business Workshop 
    Dames, Gordon Ernest (The Ethical Leadership Project, 2007-11-01)
    This one-day event took place on the 1st November 2007 at the Paarl cricket club. The Black Association of Wine and Spirits Industry’s (BAWSI) structure was analysed to identify specific sectors and target groups for the ...
  • The Ethical Leadership Projects Official Newsletter 
    Dames, Gordon E; Naicker, Anusha; Delport, Robert (The Entertainment factory, 2007-04-25)
    The Ethical Leadership Project (ELP) aims at the development of ethical leadership in all walks of life in our young democracy. We would like to see that every citizen exercises leadership and responsibility in the different ...
  • Ethical Leadership Project's Official Newsletter 
    Dames, Gordon E (The Entertainment Factory, 2009-03-25)
    It depends on how you define globalization. The standard definition of globalization is that the world is being connected up – you know, the concept of the global village, we’re being connected up economically, socially, ...
  • Ethical leadership for a morally transformed society 2004-2007: Current trends, issues future policy options 
    Dames, Gordon E (The Entertainment Factory cc, 2008-04-15)
    The Ethical Leadership Project was launched in 2005 and is a joint research and teaching project on the building and strengthening of ethical leadership. The following institutions constitute its corporate identity: Moral ...
  • The dilemma of traditional and 21stcentury pastoral ministry: Ministering to families and communities faced with socio-economic pathologies 
    Dames, G.E. (HTS Teologiese Studies/, 2010-09)
    A holistic pastoral methodology is sought in transforming the socio-economic and systemic pathologies of poor families and local communities. Missional pastoral ministry is proposed from a critical hermeneutical and ...
  • The pedagogical role of multicultural leadership in post-apartheid South Africa 
    Dames, G.A.; Dames, G.E. (HTS Theological Studies, 2014-07-09)
    Practical theology in the 21st century is faced with increasing diversity that requires a new pedagogy to address multicultural challenges. Multiculturalism serves as a subversive agency for monocultural and “silent minority” ...
  • Ministerial formation of theological students through distance education 
    Naidoo, Marilyn (Oasis Open Journal, 2012)
    Ministerial formation is a multifaceted activity involving critical thinking, the acquisition of knowledge, skills development, religious identity formation and the development of ministerial and spiritual maturity expected ...
  • An empirical study on spiritual formation at theological training institutions in South Africa 
    Naidoo, Marilyn (Brill Online Books and Journals, 2011)
    Abstract Spiritual formation is a significant component of the educational work of a theological institution that prepares students for church leadership. Theological institutions have a responsibility to engage students ...
  • Ministerial Training: the need for pedagogies of Formation and Contextualization in theological education 
    Naidoo, Marilyn (Sabinet, 2010)
    Developing the next generation of competent Christian leaders with vision and character for the new millennium remains a major concern in church and society. This article explains how and why, within the theological ...
  • The potential of spiritual leadership in workplace spirituality 
    Naidoo, Marilyn (AOSIS OpenJournals., 2014)
    Abstract We live in the transition period between the old definition of work as survival and the newdefinition of work as livelihood. A new awareness of the value of spirituality can add to theinnovation and creative ...
  • The researcher: engaged participant or detached observer? 
    Dreyer, Jaco S. (Brill Online Books and Journals, 1998)
    The relationship between the researcher and the researched is one of the fundamental methodological issues which distinguish different approaches to empirical enquiry. Methodological debates on this issues usually contrast ...
  • Interreligious orientations among South African youth 
    Dreyer, Jaco S.; Pieterse, Hendrik J.C.; van der Ven, Johannes A. (Brill Online Books and Journals, 1999)
    In this article we investigate the interreligious orientations of a sample of 538 students from Standard 9 (Grade 11) who attended Anglican and Catholic schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region during 1995. In the first ...
  • Interreligious orientations among South African youth: Expressions of religious identity 
    Dreyer, Jaco S.; van der Ven, Johannes A.; Pieterse, Hendrik J.C. (Brill Online Books and Journals, 2002)
    In a religiously plural world it is important to ask how people of different faiths and with different religious identities can live justly and harmoniously together. In this article we take as point of departure that there ...
  • Human rights: A channel for salvation? 
    Dreyer, Jaco S.; van der Ven, Johannes A.; Pieterse, Hendrik J.C. (Brill Online Books and Journals, 2003)
    In the light of many severe social-economic and health problems many South Africans today experience a situation of helplessness and despair. In the face of these problems we ask whether there is a better solution than ...
  • Practical theology and human well-being: An exploration of a multidimensional model of human action as conceptual framework 
    Dreyer, Jaco S. (Sabinet Online, 2008)
    The notion of human well-being has become popular in academic discourses. In the first part of the article it is argued that in view of the theological importance of human salvation and human flourishing, practical theology ...
  • Public theology and the translation imperative: A Ricoeurian perspective 
    Dreyer, Jaco S. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011)
    The aim of this article is to contribute to the academic discussion on the inter-linguistic translation of the Christian message in the public sphere. There seems to be consensus amongst academic public theologians and ...
  • Religious socialisation and the ongoing quest for a human rights culture in South Africa. 
    Dreyer, Jaco S.; van der Ven, Johannes A.; Pieterse, Hendrik J.C. (Sabinet Online, 2004)
    The aim of this paper is to explore the role of religious socialisation, approached from a social learning perspective, towards establishing a human rights culture in South Africa. On the basis of longitudinal survey ...
  • The evil of violence. A trigger for a human rights culture? 
    van der Ven, Johannes A.; Dreyer, Jaco S.; Pieterse, Hennie J.C. (Brill Online Books and Journals, 2006)
    This article seeks to answer the following question: to what extent does the interpretation of violence as evil contribute – positively, negatively or not at all – to a human rights culture among some 2000 grade 11 students ...

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