Browsing Research articles (Dept of Theology and Religious Studies) by Title
Now showing items 1-20 of 25
-
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 ... -
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 ... -
Between the just and the expedient: the problem of conflict resolution in Africa
(Philosophy Documentation Center; https://www.pdcnet.org/, 2015)This paper is about African conflicts and their tendency to persist despite attempts to resolve them. Such persistence has in the past been attributed to various causes but it is the contention of this paper that African ... -
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 ... -
Confronting a culture of silence in an African classroom: an exercise in philosophical Pptice
(Humanities Institute, Kangwon National University, Korea, http://www.kangwon.ac.kr/english/menu3/sub_03_01_02_14.php, 2017)Can Philosophy perform a useful function in contemporary society? This question is usually answered in the affirmative by philosophy teachers who point to the development of the mind as its most important tool, claiming ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Ditumelo secondary literature review: HIV prevention and faith-based organisation in Botswana
(Boleswa Journal of Theology, Religion and Philosophy (BJTRP), 2008-06)The following secondary literature review was developed by a team of researchers from the University of Botswana, primarily from the Department of Theology and Religious studies, as part of an assessment of the present and ... -
E-learning platforms and humanities education: an African case study
(Edinburgh University Press, www.eupjournals.com/ijhac, 2011)The advent of e-learning has been a welcomed development in African universities, especially in countries where the demand for university education far outstrips capacity. This form of instruction not only has helped in ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Images of Jesus among christian women in Harare
(Edinburgh University Press, http://www.euppublishing.com/, 2007)This study seeks to find out what has attracted women to Christianity. In particular, it seeks to find out the existential circumstances and needs of the Harare Christian women that have led them to be attracted to Jesus. ... -
Jerusalem and antioch: inter-state, intra-church politics in the Family of God Church in Botswana
(Research and Development Unit, University of Botswana, 2008)Most of the literature on religion and politics in Africa celebrates the role that churches have played in fighting the oppressive yoke of colonialism, in fighting the ills of ethnicity and tribalism and in the process of ... -
Livingstone’s ideas of Christianity, commerce and civilization
(University of Botswana, National Institute of Development and Cultural Reseach, http://www.thuto.org/pula/html/pula-home-page.htm, 1998)David Livingstone is often misunderstood as being a conscious promoter of European colonization of Africa. On the contrary, he believed that the key to Africa's future was the stimulation of indigenous development and good ... -
Making money or spreading the gospel? An analysis of the mission of gospel musicians in contemporary Zimbabwe
(Unisa Press, http://www.unisa.ac.za & Routledge, http://www.informaworld.com, 2007)Statistics show that at present there are more gospel musicians in Zimbabwe than secular musicians. Consequently this paradigm shift has not gone unquestioned. People have asked what the mission of these gospel musicians ... -
Mediating conflicts, promoting peace and preserving relationships: lessons from traditional African justice systems
(Philosophy Documentation Center; https://www.pdcnet.org, 2017)Why do Conflicts occur? Why do they recur? Why do conflicts escalate and why do they become protracted? These questions have been variously posed by scholars of conflict and there is a rich body of theory that answers them. ... -
The Ministry of the church to people with disability
(John Wiley & Sons, https://www.wiley.com, 2019)Jesus’ ministry on earth is meant to be a model of the ministry of the church. It affected all types of people regardless of their socio-economic and religious status. Jesus regarded all ... -
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 ... -
Prolegomena to a Critical Thinking Therapy
(Humanities Institute, Kangwon National University, Korea, http://www.kangwon.ac.kr/english/menu3/sub_03_01_02_14.php, 2014)Thinking may be a universal feature of human beings but correct, strategic and directed thinking is something that eludes a large section of humanity. Yet it is this kind of directed thinking that is needed in organizations ... -
Reasoning and the military decision making process
(Center for Cognition and Neuroethics, http://cognethic.org/, 2014)The archetypal view of the military is that of a hierarchical organization whose members are conditioned to respond to command without question. Its election of obedience as “the supreme military virtue” portrays it as ...