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Da 'wah Movements and Sufi Tariqahs: Competing for spiritual spaces in contemporary South(ern) Africa
(Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs; Carfax Publishing; Taylor & Francis; http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13602004.asp, 2005-08)
This paper provides a brief survey of the contemporary da'wah movements and Sufi orders (tariqah) that have redefined and reformulated some of the social institutions among the Muslim community in southern Africa. After ...
Acceptance and rejection: The Traditional-healer prophet and his intergration of healing methods
(Boleswa Journal of Theology, Religion and Philosophy (BJTRP), 2005-12)
This paper examines the practices of traditional healing and how they are integrated or rejected by the African Independent Churches (AICS)in Botswana. The paper argues that in spite of some doubtful elements of rejection ...
The God That Answers With Fire: Religious Transformation And Public Morality In Africa
(Boleswa Journal of Theology, Religion and Philosophy (BJTRP), 2005-12)
This paper focuses on public morality in Africa and examines the contributions of Christian theology to moral decline in Africa. The paper points out the disparity between the theology of purnishment in African religions ...
Modern pentecostalism as an urban phenomenon: the case of the family of God church in Zimbabwe.
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2005)
The past twenty to thirty years in the history of Zimbabwean
Christianity have witnessed the emergence of a new breed of Pentecostalism
that tends to attract the middle and upper classes urban residents. This
paper ...