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Browsing Practical Theology by Type "Thesis"
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)This study presents a pastoral perspective on depression among young people in the urban African context of Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. Depression is one of the more prevalent mental disorders. In African contexts ...
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A practical theological reflection on discipline : listening to the voices of children and parents (University of Pretoria, 2018)The topic of parents disciplining children is very relevant in our South African society since the removal of Corporal Punishment in our country. The question came to be: “Does their religion have an influence on how parents ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The role of women in the Zimbabwean Christian faith communities, particularly in a Pentecostal context, has been subject to a patriarchal and masculine environment, as well as to African cultural systems. In order for women ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Grimes (2000:346) writes: “ordinary acts, when extraordinarily practised, break open, transforming human conventions and revealing what is most deeply desirable, most cosmically orienting, and most fully human.” One is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-10-11)Only men can initiate boys into men. Boys are prepared into men by men of integrity, for that reason, when a father is absent a male model has to be found. Lack of models is the number one enemy for our adolescent males ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)This multidisciplinary study, which includes Practical Theology and also insights from Psychology and Sociology, investigates experiences of abuse in social structures such as the church. My epistemological approach is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-10-11)The Anglican Church is experiencing a growing number of clergy who abuse alcohol, and this has made people to ask whether clergy still embody the image of God or if they are “alcoholics.” I therefore undertook to do a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The study investigates the effect of mushrooming, unaccountability unsupervised leadership tendency, which has affected the African religiosity and took it by storm. Hence, the study of this nature will gaze its attention ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010)ENGLISH: This study looks at the bereavement of adolescents left orphaned by and vulnerable to the HIV and Aids crisis that is crippling the continent of Africa. Their bereavement and the psycho-spiritual issues relating ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-10-04)In general, adolescence is regarded as a period of growth between childhood and maturity. Children in this phase undergo a so-called developmental stage of the human life cycle. Consequently, family circumstances are of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-10-26)Afrikaans: In hierdie navorsingstuk en proefskrif word die probleem van adolessente selfmoord en selfmoordgedrag binne ‘n sosiaal-konstruksionistiese paradigma met die klem op ‘n pastoraal narratiewe terapeutiese benadering ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Prisons in Africa tend to focus on punitive measures rather than on the rehabilitation and reintegration of inmates into society. In African traditional courts, inmates were not sentenced to be imprisoned but were rather ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The prevalence of children and youth living with a disability is a matter of concern on a national and international level. From a theological perspective the responsibility of faith communities toward children and youth ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-05)This study is an historical evaluation of the approaches of church polity and efforts at church union in Zambia in its history between 1965 and 2010. The study is situated within two unique phases. First, it is located ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-10-11)The study was undertaken as a response to the need existing within the church. The author’s observation of how one widow was going to board a taxi on a very cold day to attend the church service triggered the desire to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This study focuses on women who have been victims of astral projection. Astral Projection is a phenomenon that enables men to violate women while they are in deep induced sleep. A qualitative method of research was conducted ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-10-12)The present thesis is about the Autonomy of the Igreja Presbiteriana de Moçambique (IPM). The IPM was started by Mozambicans who had heard the message of the gospel in South Africa (Spelonken) since 1870. Yosefa Mhalamhala, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Behoeftes van en bediening aan universiteitstudente in Suid-Afrika: ‘n Empiriese studie (Needs of and ministry to university students in South Africa: an Empirical study) is an empirical study conducted in the student ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-04-11)The theme of this study is the relationship between recruiting non-Christians for the Korean church through the patterns or styles of its diaconal services, and its influence on the religious actions of the church in South ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-10-11)Death, and in special ways, sudden death has struck the church and various families at different times in our lives. The grief in the bereaved has challenged the church, in numerous ways including having to deal with people ...
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