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Pentecostal Ministry During COVID-19 in South Africa: Pastoral Care Perspective
The impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on Pentecostal ministry in South Africa has resulted in some pastoral ministers braving the storm and succeed,...
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The Victims: An African-Ecofeminist Reading
The Victims (1993) is a novel set in Botswana and South Africa during the apartheid era. It depicts the impact of the apartheid policies on the...
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Healing in African Spirituality and Ethics
In this chapter, it was argued that African spirituality has contributed to healing in Southern Africa. I will argue that Christian spirituality and...
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Experience of Muslims in Francophone West Africa
This chapter diachronically analyzes the experiences of Muslims in West Africa, from the first contacts of West Africans with the new religion of...
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Experience of Muslims in Francophone West Africa
This chapter diachronically analyzes the experiences of Muslims in West Africa, from the first contacts of West Africans with the new religion of...
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Essentials of African Spirituality
This chapter discusses what have been identified as the essentials of African spirituality and ethics. Firstly, the idea of the all-encompassing...
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Introduction
Within the African context, early missionaries transmitted their knowledge of God and religious experiences from the perspective of western cultural...
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Seeking Allies Within the Institutional Church: Reflections from South Africa on Partnership as Means to Unsettling Deadlocked Conflict?
One of the means that has long been proposed with regard to addressing the deadlocked conflict with regard to issues such as gender and sexuality,...
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The Practice of Secret Cult by Some NPC Prophets in South Africa
This chapter studies the practice of secret cults by some prophets in South Africa. There is often a tendency among prophets to visit some secret...
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Omasihlalisane: A Feminist Pastoral Response to the Plight of Young Zimbabwean Women Migrants Entrapped in Survivalist Marriages in South Africa
Zimbabwe is currently going through tidal waves of migration as people are leaving their motherland in search for greener pastures. Since time...
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NPC Prophets and Religious Cult in South Africa
In this chapter, I discuss the relationship between some religious extremism and cultism in South Africa. The prophets have been engaged in some...
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Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and Politics
This chapter singles out Prophet Shepherd Bushiri as one of the most popular prophets in South Africa and how he has been relating to various...
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The Use of Social Media by Churches During the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Africa
This chapter discusses the use of social media by some classical South African Pentecostal churches to minister to their members during the...
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Religious and Human Rights Attitudes of the Youth of South Africa
The bill of rights in Chap. 2 of the South African constitution protects the rights of the citizens...
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Islam and Christianity in Africa
The chapter shows the long history of Christianity and Islam in Africa and how in many parts of Africa the two faiths have encountered each other,...
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Sharīʿa Law in Muslim Africa
The chapter examines how different societies and states in Africa have used sharīʿa to regulate aspects of social life. In much of Africa, sharīʿa...
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Southern Africa’s Muslim Communities: Selected Profiles
Muslim communitiesMuslim communities have resided in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for generations. This is especially so in...
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Catholic Missions and Colonial States
Most of the European missionary activity that laid the basis for Catholicism in contemporary Africa took place during the height of the colonial...
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Catholic Missions and African Responses II: 1800–1885
Nineteenth-century renewed Catholic mission in sub-Saharan Africa reflected innovative new missionary bodies, renewed papal support, the growth of...
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Virtual Ecclesiology on the Rise: Considering the Challenges Posed by COVID-19 in South Africa
Times of trouble provide opportunities for innovation within religion. The current pandemic opens opportunities to create a new, global, inclusive...