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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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Black Theologies of Liberation
The Ecumenical Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 503-514, October 2022., 2022 Abstract This article introduces this thematic issue of The Ecumenical Review, which originates from a colloquium hosted at the University of the Western Cape on Black theologies. Our aim is to propose a set of theological frames through which to consider the 11 articles presented here, as well as the study of Black theology in general. We propose that
Sarojini Nadar, Demaine Solomons
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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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In memoriam: Vuyani Shadrack Vellem† (25 December 1968 – 4 December 2019)
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019 Warm heart; sharp mind; frail body - black prophet treading where others do not dare…. For almost a decade, Prof. Vuyani Vellem sub-edited a special collection on black liberation theology.
Andries G. van Aarde, Stephan J. De Beer
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Ubuntu as a spirituality of liberation for black theology of liberation
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 This article aims to respond to Vuyani Vellem’s challenge to black theology of liberation (BTL) to ‘think beyond rethinking and repeating its tried and tested ways of responding to black pain caused by racism and colonialism’.
Sandiswa L. Kobe
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Between Two Trees: On Rediscovering Reconciliation in Post-1994 South Africa [PDF]
, 2018 A veiled logic minimises the gift of reconciliation from the poor when we examine the concepts of “reparation†and “deficit†in our discourse of reconciliation within South Africa.
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 Prof. Vuyani Vellem was a scholar of Black Theology of Liberation. However, he placed the African Initiated Churches (AICs) at the centre of his heart as a basis for African spirituality of liberation.
Mnyalaza T. Masuku
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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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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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