Stress among black women in a South African township: The protective role of religion

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 577-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikeea Copeland-Linder
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
South African ◽  
Protective Role ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
South African Township

scholarly journals “I’m not a teacher”: A case of (dys)functional parent-teacher partnerships in a South African township

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Rockie Sibanda
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
South African ◽  
Teaching Role ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Children's Schooling ◽  
Successful School ◽  
Pedagogical Function ◽  
South African Township

Teachers collaborating with parents is an axiom of successful school programmes. The parents’ role should be supportive and complementary to the teachers’ pedagogical function. A functional or dysfunctional parent-teacher partnership is a predictor of children’s success or failure in school. The functionality of parent-teacher partnerships is often measured through student achievement. The aim of this article was to illuminate how a coordinated parent-teacher partnership can be supportive to children’s schooling. Focus is on teachers’ teaching role complimented with the supportive and monitoring role of parents. Data were collected through interviews with parents and teachers at a township primary school. I engage the concern that a lack of parental involvement affects parent-teacher partnerships in township schools. Findings of this study demonstrate teachers’ lack of understanding of the sociocultural and economic circumstances constraining parental involvement, resulting in a chasm of understanding between teachers and parents on how to collaboratively support children’s learning positions at school and at home.

scholarly journals Doctrine as security? A systematic theological critique of the operational theological framework of the controversial South African neo-Pentecostal prophets

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Collium Banda
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Protective Role ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Theological Critique ◽  
Theological Thinking

This research article uses the theoretical framework of doctrine as believer’s security to critique the theological framework behind the controversial activities reported amongst some South African neo-Pentecostal prophets (NPPs), which include feeding congregants with grass, spraying them with insecticides and sexual violation of women congregants. The framework of the article falls within the discipline of systematic theology by raising the importance for South African Christians to develop a critical doctrinal framework for protecting themselves from controversial NPPs. The following main question is answered by the article: from a systematic theological perspective, how can we evaluate the theological framework, which leads to the recent controversial activities reported amongst some NPPs in South Africa? Consequently, the article, firstly, describes the critical theological framework of the protective role of Christian doctrine. Secondly, it describes the South African NPPs and their controversial practices. Thirdly, this article analyses some of the theological problems in the current operative framework of NPPs. Fourthly, it argues for the need for doctrinally informed critical thinking as a safety measure against controversial NPPs. Finally, some steps that must be taken by NPPs to develop critical theological thinking in order to overcome doctrinally vacuous experientialism that promotes controversial religious activities are provided.Contribution: From a systematic theological approach, this article attempts to demonstrate the importance of critical doctrinal thinking as a defence mechanism for protecting Christians from falling prey to harmful religious practices, such as those recently reported amongst some NPPs in South Africa.

scholarly journals Practice of Ritual Sacrifice and the Role of Religion in Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cas Wepener
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
Ritual Sacrifice ◽  
African Context ◽  
Role Of Religion

The practice of ritual sacrifice within the South African context is explored in the light of the emerging global discussion regarding religion and development. Firstly, some aspects of the theory of René Girard on sacrifice is discussed, as well as African theories pertaining to sacrifice and modern ways in which sacrifice/offering enters language. The following section presents three case studies pertaining to sacrifice from South Africa: one from fiction, one from fieldwork done in an African Independent church and a description of a recent sacrifice conducted on a beach in Cape Town. In a succeeding section, the data presented in the empirical part is interpreted in the light of the preceding theories. In the concluding section a thesis is advanced regarding the possible meaning and significance of sacrifice for an African understanding of development.

The protective role of oestradiol against silent myocardial ischemia and hypertension risk in South African men: The SABPA study

2017 ◽  
Vol 244 ◽  
pp. 43-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolaas T. Malan ◽  
Roland von Känel ◽  
Hendrik S. Steyn ◽  
Ruan Kruger ◽  
Leoné Malan
Keyword(s):  
Myocardial Ischemia ◽  
South African ◽  
Protective Role ◽  
Silent Myocardial Ischemia ◽  
Hypertension Risk

scholarly journals Pastors or Lawyers? The Role of Religion in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Process

2002 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
P.G.J. Meiring
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Committee Member ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
The South ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Religion In The South

In  this  article, Piet Meiring who served as Committee Member on the TRC discusses the often disputed religious character of the Commission. Quoting examples from the TRC process he describes the debate that developed – on Archbishop Tutu’s religious way of handling the affairs of  the  Commission. Meiring discusses the TRC liturgy that was developed during the course of the process, as well as how important the role of religion proved to be in terms of three crucial issues: the process of remembering, the quest for truth, and the costliness of reconciliation.

Theology amidst Wickedness: Is African Theology Equipped to Address Intractable Societal Issues?

2020 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-225
Author(s):  
Teddy Chalwe Sakupapa
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
African Theology ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
Public Role ◽  
African Context ◽  
Role Of Religion

Abstract In light of scholarly debates on the wicked problems framework, this contribution offers an appraisal of the role of theology in an African context characterized by myriad wicked problems. I argue that within the (South) African context, the decolonization of theology is indispensable for doing theology that is self-consciously contextual and therefore responsive to societal issues. This is crucial not least because of the widely recognized public role of religion in Africa. Drawing on the analytical framework of decoloniality and the theoretical concept of wicked problems, I will argue that although the category of wicked problems emerged within the framework of the intellectual world of the Northern Hemisphere, its analytical capacity is no less significant for contemporary African theological discourse on decoloniality.

Naming the Moment

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 237-273
Author(s):  
Gerhard van den Heever
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
New South ◽  
University Education ◽  
African History ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Student Protest ◽  
Cultural Alienation ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Role Of Religion

This essay introduces and frames a collection of essays speaking into a particularly burning and troubling period in South African history. The slow economic decline over a period of roughly ten years have now accelerated into a two year-long running student protest over high costs of university education. The protesters themselves, and commentary on the protest movement, link the protests to the failure of the promises of the 1994 compromise that saw the inauguration of the new South Africa. At the same time, the protests also pick up on another exclusion, i.e., the vestiges of colonial knowledge regimes and cultural alienation. In the essays here, issues are address that speak into this situation from various perspectives, namely, the agency of African in defining their own history, the authority and sovereignty to interpret the context, and the role of religion in education to construct social identity.

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