Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Religion and Theology)
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The muslim judicial council a descriptive and analytical investigation
(University of the Western Cape, 1989)This thesis proposes to investigate the application of the Shari'a or Islamic Law in South Africa. To this end, the work of the Cape Town-based Muslim Judicial Council, which follows the Shafi's school of thought, is ... -
Facing the image in the mirror: “whiteness” in South African missional discourse
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This study is situated within the discipline of missiology and seeks to contribute to missional theology as one important contemporary school of thought within the discipline. Missional theology emerged in the 1990s ... -
The concept of tolerance in the chishtī ṣūfī order
(University of the Western Cape, 2024)The purpose of this thesis is to provide a critical analysis of the concept of tolerance (al-tasāmuḥ) in the Chishtī Ṣūfī Order, one of the main Ṣūfī orders within Islam. The notion of tolerance implies various connotations ... -
Public pedagogy and the socio-political economy of religious media: A Qualitative Study of the Advent Cable Network Nigeria (ACNN)
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)In Nigeria, academic conversations that intersect religion, media and education are framed mostly from a formal school perspective. Moreover, the dominant narrative on religious media is approached from a Christian Pentecostal ... -
Pilgrimage walking and spiritual well-being: A case study of a personalised covid trail in Cape Town and surrounding areas
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Pilgrimage, walking, as well as pilgrimage walking are not new concepts. The art of walking, putting one foot before the other, creates many opportunities, including ones for hope, healing, and finding solutions to ... -
A critical assessment of ubuntu as a source for moral formation in contemporary Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)This study presented a critical evaluation of Ubuntu as a source of moral formation in contemporary Africa. In African society, Ubuntu as a notion of African humanism has been and still is subject to much criticism. ... -
The healing factor in religious tourism with regard to health and wellbeing in Africa: A case study of synagogue church of all nations in Lagos, Nigeria
(University of Western Cape, 2021)The journey of self-discovery is unique to human beings, and quests to resolve any existing problem entails taking steps leading to solutions, even if one may not have a guarantee that the steps would automatically bring ... -
Daughters as water-fetchers: ‘Streamlining’ water-gender dialectics in biblical narrative
(2021)Biblical interpreters have often been unwittingly anthropocentric in their reading of biblical narratives, ignoring the living and nonliving presence of physical world characteristics that underpin the narrative’s overall ... -
Food, sex and text: Exploring survival sex in the context of food insecurity through communal readings of the book of Ruth
(University of Western Cape, 2021)The study explored how contextual Bible study (CBS) contributes to the understanding of survival sex in the context of food insecurity. Even though South Africa is a food secure nation, a large percentage of the population ... -
Divine intervention? Understanding the role of Christian religious belief systems in intervention programmes for men who abuse their intimate partners
(University of Western Cape, 2021)South Africans live in one of the most religious yet most violent societies the world over, with gender-based violence (GBV) against women in intimate relationships flagged as a national priority. Traditionally, and ... -
Die "kritiese stem" teen apartheidsteologie in die Ned Geref Kerk (1905-1974): 'n Analise van die bydraes van Ben Marais en Beyers Naudé
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)The problem investigated in this study centres around two theological trends in the Dutch Reformed Church (henceforth DRC) during the period 1905-1974, namely, on the one hand, the theology of apartheid (resulting in ... -
God’s Chosen People? A critical investigation of discourses in North American Black and Pan-African Theologies
(University of Western Cape, 2021)In Black and African theology, especially in the North American and African contexts, there is consensus that claims of people of European descent being regarded as God’s chosen people, are heretical and serve to legitimise ... -
The contemplative life and a life of contemplation: The cases of Thomas Keating (1923-2018) and Henri J M Nouwen (1932-1996
(University of Western Cape, 2021)There has been an upsurge of interest in Christian spirituality in recent years. In this thesis I will provide a brief survey of the history and forms of Christian spirituality in order to sketch the background against ... -
Patriarchy in the house of Jacob and the house Phalo: Contribution to contextual Hermeneutics
(University of Western Cape, 2020)This study investigates the privileges and hermeneutical advantages enjoyed by a Phalo interpreter of practices in the bilbical text that are similiar to or the same as those found in Phalo's patriarchal culture. The study ... -
Patriarchy in the House of Jacob and PhaloPatriarchy in the House of Jacob and Phalo: Contribution to Contextual Hermeneutics
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)This study investigates the privileges and hermeneutical advantages enjoyed by a Phalo Phalo1 interpreter of practices in t he biblical text that are similar to or the same as those found in Phalo’s patriarchal culture. ... -
Partnerships between faith-based organizations in Elsies river and the Western Cape government: a critical assessment
(University of Western Cape, 2020)With the National Development Plan vision 2030, the South African government has charted a path to ensure that through social development, poverty, inequality and unemployment will be eradicated in post-apartheid South ... -
What does Athens 2005 have to do with cape town 2010? A critical comparison of mission theologies of the commission for world mission and evangelism and of the Lausanne movement on social responsibility.
(University of Western Cape, 2020)This research compares the similarities and differences in the official documents and proceedings of the Commission for World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) in Athens 2005 and the Lausanne Movement held in Cape Town in 2010. ... -
What on earth is wrong with the world? Five Christian voices on hamartology and ecology
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)This study is situated in the context of Christian ecotheology, which offers both a Christian critique of ecological destruction and an ecological critique of Christianity. One dimension of Christian ecotheology involves ... -
God se deernis met die weerloses van sy volk. 'n Kritiese ondersoek na 'n spesifieke dimensie van die Godsverkondiging in die Ou Testament
(University of Western Cape, 1991)Benewens persoonlike belangstelling in die boodskap van die Ou Testament vir die kerk van vandag, is dit veral kontemporêre teologiese debatte en verwikkelinge op die kerklike terrein, plaaslik sowel as op die breë ekumeniese ... -
Pentecost, process, and power: A Critical Comparison of Concursus in Operational Pentecostal-Charismatic Theology and Philosophical Process-Relational Theology
(University of Western Cape, 2010)This doctoral thesis comprises a critical comparison of the theme of concursus, the way in which God and humanity interact, in the Pentecostal-Charismatic and Process-Relational traditions. The comparison is literature-based; ...
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