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The “Pinkster Kerk” as a Site of Indigenous Religious Expression within Black Pentecostal Theology

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 600-616, October 2022., 2022
Abstract Deploying a decolonial epistemological framework that brings critical race and identity theory into conversation with African and Black theologies, this article explores the phenomenon of Pinkster Kerk as a productive site for indigenous meaning‐making within studies on Black theology and African Pentecostalism.
Johnathan Jodamus
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Vulnerable by Design

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 527-540, October 2022., 2022
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic plunged vulnerable populations and the church in South Africa into a crisis. This article argues that the situation of poor and vulnerable people is not an accident but a deliberate design of the powerful and is therefore closely linked to South Africa’s political past.
Eugene Fortein
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Black Theology in Theological Education

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 631-644, October 2022., 2022
Abstract The development and key features of African women’s theologies, primarily through the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, has entered the mainstream of theological education, which could provide insights for Black theology. In the landscape of theological education, which has been dominated by western‐centric approaches, Black ...
Selena D. Headley
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Of Theological Burglaries and Epistemic Violence

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 541-560, October 2022., 2022
Abstract The purpose of this article is to explore how the historical roots of Black and other liberation theologies are undermined through the usurping of the vocabulary of decolonial language. Through a critical discourse analysis of a selected publication, we demonstrate how the foregrounding of perspectives, the trivializing of positionality and ...
Sarojini Nadar, Tinyiko Maluleke
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Walking Together to the Promised Land

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 645-657, October 2022., 2022
Abstract This article posits that Black theology of liberation (BTL) focused only on race and class, even when it included patriarchy in its theological vision, thus running the risk of truncating the liberation of Black humanity. The rigidity of patriarchy and the continued tendency of BTL to speak of the Black community as if Black women do not exist
Fundiswa A. Kobo
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Interlocution after liberation: Who do we interpret with and which biblical text do we read with?

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
This article aims to point out two seminal reflections on interlocution: Frostin’s insightful late-1980s (1988) analysis of ‘Third World’ liberation theologies and his contention that the decisive question for liberation theologies was the question of ...
Gerald O. West
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INTERVIEW WITH VUYANI S. VELLEM

Acta Theologica, 2018
Martin Laubscher interviewed Prof. Vuyani S. Vellem from the University of Pretoria.
Martin Laubscher
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Black theology of liberation and the economy of life [PDF]

, 2015
The original sin of capitalism is its relationship with racism, a repugnant expression of White supremacy, therefore to engage the metaphysics of neoliberal economics one must have to confront the symbiotic relationship between racism and capitalism ...
Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack
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Black Theology of liberation: A theology of life in the context of Empire

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015
The cry for life by the peoples of the global South and all the victims of the vicious antics of Empire is our hope. Living against the logic of Empire is rebellion against the life killing order of Empire.
Vuyani S. Vellem
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The idolatry of white supremacy in church and society? Some reflections on Black Theology of Liberation in present-day South Africa in memoriam of Vuyani Vellem

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
In remembering Vuyani Vellem, this paper delves into his scholarship, a scholarship that admittedly exudes his activism in academia, church and society.
Rothney S. Tshaka
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