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Who do you say that I am?
(Sage Publications / http://www.sagepublications.com, 2007)
This article is an amalgam of four talks given over several days at The
Community of Women and Men in Mission Conference. The overall title
'Who do you say that I am?' covers the subjects of Jesus the Liberator, The
Healer, ...
Gaborone Muslim Community: A Vignette into their lives
(Faculty of Theology, University of Stellenbosch, http://academic.sun.ac.za/tsv/Scriptura/scriptura.htm, 2006)
Southern Africa's Muslim minorities have been growing at a steady pace through procreation, conversion and migration. These Muslim communities have rooted and embedded themselves onto the Southern African soil and have ...
Theological challenges: proclaiming the fullness of life in the HIV/AIDS and global economic era
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2002)
Since the first clinical evidence of AIDS was reported two decades ago, HIV/AIDS has spread to every corner of the world. Still rapidly growing, the epidemic is reversing development gains, robbing millions of their lives, ...
Covenant with death: the attitude of churches in Botswana towards the use of condoms by Christians, and its social implications
(Botswana Society, http://www.botsoc.org.bw, 2000)
This paper examines the preventative role of condoms in the fight against HIV/ AIDS. It will be argued in this paper that because of the magnitude, severity, devastation and complexity of the HIV/AIDS pandemic there is ...
Christianity and ancestor veneration in Botswana
(Edinburgh University Press, 2003)
Argues that although Botswana is predominantly a Christian country, belief in and veneration of ancestors continues unabated. Ways in which the resilience of ancestor worship is based on the fact that it is the core of the ...
As it is in Heaven! Mimetic theory, religious transformation and social crisis in Africa
(Sage Journals; http://journals.sagepub.com/, 2009)
This article is an overview of Rene Girard’s mimetic theory and its application to and implications for conflict in Africa. It accepts Girard’s basic idea that imitation is a feature of all individuals but disagrees with ...