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Without a voice, with a violated body: Re-reading Judges 19 to challenge gender violence in sacred texts

open access: yesMissionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2012
Although they are a majority of the South African population, African women in South Africa remain on the periphery of the margins of our communities. They are women who, although are a majority, mostly remain without a voice.
Masenya, Madipoane J. (ngwan’a Mphahlele)
doaj   +1 more source

Meaning‐in‐Action: A Theory of Symbolic Causality

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Theories of social behaviour often acknowledge that action is meaningfully organised, but they remain less precise about how meanings become causally efficacious in practice. This article develops a critical realist account of meaning‐in‐action.
Matthew Coetzee
wiley   +1 more source

Reading Galatians 3:28 from a congregational perspective

open access: yesActa Theologica
How would reading a biblical text (Gal. 3:28) be interpreted from a congregational perspective? First, the article uses a model of African hermeneutics to develop a more contextual reading of a text.
W.J. Schoeman
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African Traditional Ritual Expressions of Salvation: Contextualised Biblical Hermeneutic(s) as an Ecclesiological Praxis

open access: yesEuropean 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.
openaire   +1 more source

Lonely and Sick: The Role of Social Media in Consumer Practices of Relief

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, Volume 43, Issue 11, Page 3129-3146, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Loneliness is increasingly recognized as a major mental health concern, yet the role of social media in alleviating it remains poorly understood. This study asks how social media help consumers cope with loneliness amid chronic illness. Focusing on women living with endometriosis, an under‐recognized and often stigmatized condition marked by ...
Beatrice Medici   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesReligions
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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“It's Like Learning a Whole New Language”: Bilingual Counselors‐in‐Training in a Spanish Internship Course

open access: yesCounselor Education and Supervision, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 202-214, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of bilingual Spanish‐speaking counselors‐in‐training (BS‐CITs) enrolled in a Spanish internship course within a Bilingual Counseling Certificate program. Participants included nine master's‐level counseling students who completed individual, semi‐structured interviews.
Claudia G. Interiano‐Shiverdecker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hermeneutical Reparations

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Veli Mitova
wiley   +1 more source

Relatability as a Racialised Construct in Corporate Graduate Recruitment: Revealing a Hidden Mechanism of Labour Market Exclusion for Black African Youth in South Africa

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 4, Page 812-828, September 2026.
ABSTRACT In corporate graduate recruitment worldwide, candidates are often assessed not only on competence but on whether they are deemed relatable. This study theorises relatability as a racialised cultural–affective filter that covertly sustains inequality. Drawing on qualitative interviews, we identify five interlinked processes of self‐presentation,
Sifiso Mthembu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enduring After God: An Anatheistic Reframing of Augustine on Suicide

open access: yesThe Heythrop Journal, Volume 67, Issue 5, Page 529-542, September 2026.
Abstract This paper proposes a retrieval of Augustine's argument on suicide in De Civitate Dei I.17–27, rearticulating its ethical core for a post‐theistic age through the hermeneutic lens of Richard Kearney's anatheism. Confronting the dual reality of persistent suicide and declining religiosity, I argue that Augustine's pastoral case against ending ...
Kornelius Lumbanbatu
wiley   +1 more source

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