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Browsing Practical Theology by Type "Postprint Article"
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Knoetze, Johannes Jacobus
(Sage, 2025-01)
This contribution draws on the Agenda 2063 document to engage the role of family and youth ministry in relation to inequality and poverty. The question this paper addresses is, how can we read Agenda 2063 with a specific ...
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Wepener, Cas; Pieterse, Hendrik J.C.
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2018-11-05)
Expressions of anger can be observed all over South Africa and by individuals and groups from different social, economic and racial backgrounds. In this article the argument is advanced that such expressions of anger can ...
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Knoetze, Johannes Jacobus; Wotango, Henok
(Sage, 2023-10)
The current Ethiopian government established the ‘Identity and Boundary Affairs Commission’ in order to solve the conflicts that arise from identity and geographical boundary quests. It is believed that these conflicts are ...
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Dreyer, Yolanda
(Springer, 2014-12)
This article reflects on emotion as an internal state caused by external forces that can
result in mood disturbance. It traces the shift from affect to feeling to emotion to mood,
following Johann Gottfried von Herder ...
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Black, Timothy Jay; Harold, Godfrey
(Baptist Union of Southern Africa, 2014)
History is replete with examples illustrating the impact that evangelicals have had upon society. A recent publication by sociologist Robert Woodberry identifies the work of missionaries as ‘the single largest factor in ...
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Scott, Hilton Robert
(Sage, 2021-03)
The idea of Remembrance Day (also known as Armistice Day) in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries carries two important notions: (1) to remember significant tragedies and sacrifices of the past by paying homage, ...
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Khosa-Nkatini, Hundzukani Portia; Wepener, Cas
(University of LIMPOPO, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, 2015)
The aim of this article is to develop a liturgical theory for praxis that will enable the EPCSA
to recognise and accommodate non-Tsonga speaking worshippers found within the church.
There are young Africans in South ...
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Knoetze, Johannes Jacobus
(Sage, 2023-07)
In discussing the opportunities and challenges of theological education within a ‘glocal’ context, which in the context of this article is focussing on Africa, African Traditional Religions, other living faiths, post-Christendom, ...
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Öhlmann, Philipp; Swart, Ignatius, 1965-
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2022-12)
Achieving ecologically sustainable societies necessitates fundamental social and cultural transformations. Religion has the potential to foster the required paradigm shifts in mindsets, behaviour and policy. Moreover, in ...
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Öhlmann, Philipp; Huttel, Silke
(Routledge, 2018)
Literature analysing the interrelation of religion and economic performance suggests religion to explain differences in household income. Religious communities foster economically conducive attitudes and are important ...
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Wepener, Cas; Meyer, Esias E.
(Brill, 2012)
This article offers the results of research in which two theological fields cooperated in order to investigate one specific repertoire of liturgical rituals. From the perspective of both Liturgical Studies, and its focus ...
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Wepener, Cas; Swart, Ignatius; Ter Haar, Gerrie; Haar, Gerrie ter; Barnard, Marcel
(Brill, 2010)
The article is a presentation of a South African research project in which researchers in the fields of ritual-liturgical studies and social development are collaborating to explore the role of religious ritual in the kinds ...
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Powell, Caroline Jane; Mlambo, Ntandoyenkosi
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2022-03)
Located within the wider questions that the South African church is asking about the relationship between reconciliation and restitution in post-apartheid South Africa, this article tracks the emergence of a movement of ...
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Dreyer, Yolanda
(Springer, 2018-06)
This article demonstrates that a state of anxiety, which includes fear, can be harmful and destructive not only on the personal but also on the communal and societal levels. Democratic South Africa (post-1994), a highly ...