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Un-thinking the West: The spirit of doing Black Theology of Liberation in decolonial times

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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VukaniBantuTsohangBatho – Spirituality of black liberation: In memory of Vuyani Shadrack Vellem

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
No abstract available.
Fundiswa A. Kobo, Rothney S. Tshaka
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White responses to Black Theology: Revisiting a typology

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
This article reflects on a threefold typology of white responses to Black Theology (rejection-sympathy-solidarity) which I used in my doctoral thesis (1988). This article, which is dedicated to the memory of Vuyani Vellem, shows how the typology was used
Johannes N.J. Kritzinger
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Prophetic Theology in Black Theology, with special reference to the Kairos document

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2010
The ‘Protest’ and ‘Confessing’ Models in the streams of Black Theology of liberation provide a creative link between the Prophetic Theology in the Kairos document (KD) and the Black Theology of liberation.
Vuyani S. Vellem
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Epistemological dialogue as prophetic : a black theological perspective on the land issue [PDF]

, 2016
Land is life and land is our mother. The absence of the content of liberation for the dispossessed in theologies that seek to address the question of land is the ‘original’ sin of the debate about land in South Africa.
Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack
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Tumelo le Moruo

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015
Paleng ya rona batho ba batsho, tumelo ya boKreste e fihlile lefatsheng la rona la Afrika Borwa mmoho le dikgoka tsa ditjhaba tsa boPhirima. BoKreste bo fihlile ka nako ya dintwa tseo mohopolo wa tsona e neng e le ho hapa lefatshe la, batho ba batsho. Ka
Vuyani S. Vellem
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A womanist theological engagement of triple patriarchy and its implications on (Ejagham) women’s liberation

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
This article seeks through Ejagham women’s experience in the ritual dances of Ngbokondem and Moninkim to engage the notion of patriarchal control of African women’s sexuality in ‘female genital mutilation’ discourses as postulated by second-wave feminist
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A critical black analysis of the church's role in the post-apartheid struggle for socio-economic justice [PDF]

, 2013
Peer reviewedThis article reflects on the role of the church in the economic justice discourse post 1994 within the context of a dominant calculative rationality.
Vellem, Vuyani
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Moderne slawerny in die post-1994 Suid-Afrika? ‘n Kritiese en etiese analise van die nasionale Ontwikkelingsplan se beloftes aangaande werkloosheid in Suid-Afrika [PDF]

, 2014
In African ethics, work is not work if it is not related to God or gods. Work, or umsebenzi, is for God or gods ultimately; work without God is the definition of slavery in my interpretation of the African ethical value system.
Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack
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In search of our human face: Black consciousness, black spirituality, inclusive humanity and the politics of vulgarity

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
This contribution grapples with the question: Is there a relationship between Steve Biko’s ‘quest for a true humanity’ or, differently put, his search for South Africa’s ‘human face’ and Vuyani Vellem’s quest for an African spirituality?
Allan A. Boesak
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