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Ebuhlanti Amandla ngawethu: Womanism and black theology of liberation, in memory of Vuyani Shadrack Vellem [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
The liberation of black humanity has been an area of scholarly reflection by black theologians and the black consciousness communities. The constructs of oppression such as race, class and sexism amongst others have been critiqued in the quest for ...
Fundiswa A. Kobo
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Cracking the Eurocentric Code: A Battle on the Banks of the ‘New Blood Rivers’ [PDF]

Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2019
Belief in divine privilege or God’s creation of a volk is fundamental a motif in the propulsion of the superiority of one race against another in the world, ipso facto, the continuous management of systems of knowledge, authority, economics, and a ‘world
Vellem, Vuyani
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Tiyo Soga: Violence, disruption and dislocation in the white polis [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
Tiyo Soga must be celebrated as he is the personification of a body of knowledge pertinent to the development of foundational knowledge in examining the violence, disruptions and dislocations of the bodies, knowledge and spirit in modernity. The question
Vuyani Vellem
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Imvuselelo: Embers of liberation in South Africa post-1994 [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
The unprecedented cultural consciousness after decades of black cultural suppression in the South African public life since the 1990s summons us to the need to harness African ecclesiopolitical symbols in public life. This task is executed at a time when
Vuyani Vellem
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Unshackling the Church [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015
In whose ‘order’, ‘newness’ and ‘foundation’ is ecclesiology based in South Africa? The colonial legacy of pigmentocracy, the cultural domination and annihilation of the indigenous dispensation of black Africans, is not devoid of institutional structures
Vuyani Vellem
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A dialogue with Sen’s Theory of capabilities and its implications for our National Democratic Revolution [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
In ‘traditional’ liberation theological discourse, especially the Latin American strand, the concept of development, desarrollismo, that is developmentalism, has been severely critiqued.
Vuyani Vellem
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Spirituality of liberation: A conversation with African religiosity [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
The arrival of a salvationist, authoritative religiosity through Western Christianity in South Africa, in the company of a capitalist modernity, did not only dismantle and subvert the African indigenous dispensation of religiosity.
Vuyani S. Vellem
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Un-thinking the West: The spirit of doing Black Theology of Liberation in decolonial times [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
It is indisputable that Black Theology of Liberation (BTL) intentionally un-thinks the West. BTL has its own independent conceptual and theoretical foundations and can hold without the West if it rejects the architecture of Western knowledge as a final ...
Vuyani S. Vellem
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The task of urban black public theology [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
Twenty years after the demise of apartheid, a typical South African city remains bifurcated. The mushrooming of squatter camps, mekhukhu, in our big cities, symptomises a history that defined the majority of South Africans as sojourners and vagabonds in ...
Vuyani S. Vellem
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The “Native Experiment”: the formation of the Bantu Presbyterian Church and the defects of faith transplanted on African soil [PDF]

Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2013
The missionary institutionalization of the Church of Christ, ipso facto, the formation of the Bantu Presbyterian Church in South Africa (BPC), is a tale of ambivalence and original defects of faith in a visible form of a Church. A product of the Scottish
Vellem, Vuyani S.
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