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The Case of ‘Suspected Adulteress’

Old Testament Essays, 2021
As studies have shown, marital sexual infidelity is attested in every society of the world. In African societies, adultery is not only strictly prohibited on social, moral and religious grounds but is also regarded, in some African cultures, as an ...
Alexander I. Abasili
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Deconstructing gendered glorification of charitable work: A case of women in Nomiya Church

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), COVID-19 and Ebola have exposed the magnitude of care-related tasks on women.
Telesia K. Musili
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Professor David Tuesday Adamo’s Biblical Scholarship on Women: Reflections from an African-South African Mosadi

Old Testament Essays, 2021
One of the prolific writers in the discipline of African Biblical Hermeneutics is the Nigerian Old Testament (OT) scholar, Professor Tuesday David Adamo.
Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele)
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Being Human

Old Testament Essays
In the context of life-denying forces that have deeply scarred (South) Africa, what does it mean to be human? In the book of Psalms, we see a keen acknowledgment of humanity as precious and powerful, created “a little lower than God and crowned… with ...
Juliana Claassens
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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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A hermeneutical critique of women in ecclesiastical office within the Reformed Churches in South Africa: A reformed missional lens in decoloniality

In die Skriflig
The ordination of women to ecclesiastical office remains a contested issue within the Reformed Churches in South Africa (GKSA). The most recent decision of the GKSA General Synod in 2026 to bar women from ordination as ministers and elders seems to have ...
Thinandavha D. Mashau
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A Bosadi-Pentecostal Approach to Earth Care in Gauteng Township Contexts

Global Journal of Human-Social Science
This article contends that addressing environmental concerns in the South African context requires acknowledgment of the intertwined issues of land grabbing, littering, illegal dumping, and inadequate service delivery. It suggests that Pentecostals, as members of diverse communities, should shift their focus from spiritual
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Pastoral Therapy: Problematizing the Imbokodo Image through the Bosadi Theorization

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change
“I am a rock” followed by the isiZulu expression “Wathinta abafazi, wathinta imbokodo” (“you strike a woman, you strike a rock”) has historically functioned as a cultural metaphor affirming women’s strength and resilience in African societies. However, within contemporary African contexts characterised by pervasive Gender-Based Violence (GBV), this ...
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Social disharmony, inauthenticity and patriarchy: an Ubuntu perspective on the practice of female genital mutilation. [PDF]

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Ally TA, Tandwa LA.
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Kyriarchy and the Ever-Consuming Proverbial “Kraal of the Heart”? Casting a Bosadi Gaze on South Africa, Post-Independence

Black Women and Religious Cultures, 2022
The Northern Sotho proverb, lešaka la pelo, ga le tlale—literally, “the kraal of a (human) heart does not get full”—has the tenor that foregrounds the human tendency to be greedy and self-serving. In a nutshell, the more material goods one acquires, the more one would like to have. Taking my cue from the honoree, Dr.
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