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Foregrounding African Ontology/Epistemology: A Reading of Deuteronomy 23:3 and Ruth 4:18–22 Considering the Nature of God

Religions
Deuteronomy 23:3, says: “No … Moabite may enter the assembly of the Lord”. This verse is motivated by a discriminatory tendency embedded in the ontology of the Deuteronomist.
Ntozakhe Simon Cezula
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
wiley   +1 more source

Myths of contestation in the medical education curriculum: A dialogical exploration

Medical Education, Volume 60, Issue 7, Page 762-769, July 2026.
Abstract Purpose In this paper, the authors use their collective experience as medical education scholars and change agents to engage in a dialogical approach examining five myths regarding the role of contestation in curricular change. In doing so, they argue that what is taught, how it is taught and what knowledge is valued in curricula is not a ...
Rachel H. Ellaway, Martina Kelly, Kent G. Hecker, Tasha R. Wyatt   +3 more
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Mother of Black Old Testament Scholarship in South Africa—Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele)

Old Testament Essays
This article asserts that Professor Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan’a Mphahlele) deserves to be recognised as the “Mother of black Old Testament scholarship in South Africa.” She ought to be celebrated for pioneering the bosadi approach, an African and black ...
Hulisani Ramantswana
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Comparison between the respective views of John Calvin and classical Pentecostals on the role of the Holy Spirit in reading the Bible

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
The growth of the Pentecostal movement in the global south implies that its pneumatological emphases be noticed by other Christian traditions, including the hermeneutical processes followed to interpret the Bible, the Christians’ source of revelation ...
Marius Nel
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African Traditional Ritual Expressions of Salvation: Contextualised Biblical Hermeneutic(s) as an Ecclesiological Praxis

European Journal of Philosophy, Culture and Religion, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this article is threefold: First, to present the African traditional ritual concept of salvation. Second, to demonstrate that this concept subconsciously forms the worldview through which African Christians interpret biblical narratives and salvation.
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Islamophobia and Danish academia

Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 263-290, June 2026.
Abstract This article investigates how Danish academics participate in, interpret, and reproduce debates on the legal and normative regulation of Muslims in Denmark since the early 2000s. Through a thematic analysis of journal articles and public dissemination outputs authored by Danish researchers, it explores the social production of legal knowledge ...
SOFIE AALTONEN
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Gender Non‐Conformity in Islamic Studies and Muslim Communities Across Times and Theoretical Frameworks

Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines gender diversity in Islamicate societies across historical and contemporary contexts, emphasizing the interplay between social norms, religious frameworks, and structural power. It addresses the methodological challenge of avoiding anachronistic applications of modern categories such as “gender” and “sexuality” to Muslim ...
Vanja Hamzić
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African contextual hermeneutics

Verbum et Ecclesia
No abstract available.
Dirk J. Human
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Black Male Studies: Addressing the Acquiescence of Theory in the Ongoing Murder of Black Men and Boys as the Matter of Introduction

Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article introduces Black Male Studies as a distinct empirically grounded field of inquiry developed to explain the systematic dehumanization, sexualization, and lethal targeting of Black men and boys within Western societies and racialized males more generally.
Tommy J. Curry
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