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What hope is there for South Africa? A public theological reflection on the role of the church as a bearer of hope for the future

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015
What hope is there for South Africa? What role can the church play as a bearer of hope in South Africa? This article seeks to address these important questions.
Dion A. Forster
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‘Holiness’ and faith practice today: A contribution towards interreligious dialogue

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2019
The notion of ‘holiness’ has a long history of interpretation. In many ways, it is an ambivalent term. On the one hand, it denotes moral integrity by distinction, or ‘being set apart’.
John-Charles Stay, Tanya van Wyk, Yolanda Dreyer   +2 more
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The Constellation: A Reappraisal of Walter Benjamin's Influence on Theodor W. Adorno

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the 1920s and 1930s, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno both sought to develop a notion of Darstellung—of philosophical presentation or representation—that could provide an alternative to the classically idealist tendency to subsume objects under abstract concepts.
E. Lawrence Bradford
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John Gray: ‘Americanism’ and the Perversion of Post‐liberalism

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article will make the case for John Gray's inclusion in the canon of post‐liberals despite his protests to the contrary, and will argue that his peculiar post‐liberalism is important for its challenges to the dominance of liberalism as both a political culture and way of theorising the ends of politics based on the model of the American ...
Paul Kelly
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A ‘good’ wife? A theological challenge to gender constructs, culture and gender-based violence in the Kore-Kore Zimbabwean society

Verbum et Ecclesia
The subject matter of gender-based violence (GBV) has been a topical dialogue in a variety of contexts and has received increasing attention as it relates to social activism and women’s rights and their dignity.
Tsitsi Mwapfaa, Tanya van Wyk
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Morality and spirituality: The missing link for economic development in the 21st century

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015
Whilst religion may have been of relevance in the quest for material prosperity and economic advancement in the 16th century, it seems not to have such importance today.
Greg Kame, Rothney S. Tshaka
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Postmodernism, identity and mission continuity in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2020
The Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (COCZ) is a Christian denomination with its own internal substance and purpose in life. However, postmodernist changes have affected the Church’s operation with religious, ethical and spiritual implications.
Gift Masengwe, Francisca H. Chimhanda
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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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The Christian politician? An investigation into the theological grounding for Christians’ participation in politics

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
Party politics is a controversial subject in mainline ecclesiastical circles in South Africa. While one can be forgiven for thinking that this perception changed after 1994, the reverse seems to be the case.
Rothney Tshaka, Boitumelo Senokoane
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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