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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Practical Theology) by Title
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Kimpinde, Mwansa Claude
(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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Van Rooyen, Lizette Mathilde
(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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Kwaramba, Joachim
(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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Flynn, Dalene Shonnie
(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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Mbhele, Moruti Herbert
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
This study focused on the search of the impact of absent father on the lives of young adults in the household. In the interview with the coparticipants,
the research revealed that the problems of absent father prevailed ...
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Thwala, Thokozani Crommuel
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
The aim of the study is to describe and determine the factors impactacting on
township learners due to absent father. We have determined, that no study has
yet been done in South Africa regarding this topic. “The impact ...
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Nyanjaya, A.K. (Ananias Kumbuyo)
(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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Visser, Rosemare Ann
(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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Kgabe, Vicentia
(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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Mapogoshe, Modise Johannes
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
This study concerns itself with the task of creating a pastoral model in order to provide effective spiritual care to domestic violence victims by alcohol abusing brass band men. The African Independent Churches are ...
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Moje, Khumoetsile Dorcas
(University of Pretoria, 2013-01-10)
The purpose of this research is to help people who have been hurt by bad leadership, and also to find out why they move from one church to the other. This is an undercover issue since in most cases the Pentecostal church ...
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Lindani, Sibusiso Lordwell
(University of Pretoria, 2009-01-13)
[This dissertation is] helpful because it does not only talks about abuse, which is a problem and trauma, it also brings a solution which is a healing for abusive ministers, the choice is left with abusive ministers, to ...
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Rivas, Gary Lloyd
(University of Pretoria, 2012)
No abstract available.
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Thwala, Thokozani Crommuel
(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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Richter, Amanda
(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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Kim, Bunyoung
(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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Strydom, Jean
(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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Akih, Abraham Kpwegeh
(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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Mnisi, T B S
(University of Pretoria, 2008-05-16)
Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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Kleynhans, Cornelis Theodorus
(University of Pretoria, 2006-06-13)
The motivation for this research is found in the presumption that music as an auschultation activity is used in many congregations but without the optimal benefit that could be arrived with proper implementation. The ...