Study of Religion in Southern Africa, Essays in Honour of G.C. Oosthuizen.

Study of Religion in Southern Africa, Essays in Honour of G.C. Oosthuizen.

This collection of essays is brought together in the honour of Gerhardus Cornelis (Pippin) Oosthuizen on his eighty third birthday. Pippin has been one of the most significant religion researchers and prolific Humanities publishers South Africa has ever produced. Among his friends and colleagues are...

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Main Author: Johannes Smit; Pratap Kumar (Editors)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2005.

Series: Numen Book Series 109.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

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Religion > Southern Africa.
RELIGION > History.

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Call Number: BL2463 .S78 2005

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Johannes A. Smit and P. Pratap Kumar
  • Introduction /
  • Johannes A. Smit and P. Pratap Kumar
  • G.C. Oosthuizen and the Study of Religion in Kwazulu-Natal /
  • Johannes A. Smit and P. Pratap Kumar
  • 'Once the Buddha was a Seagull . . .': Reading Fonathan Livingston Seagull as a Mahayana Buddhist Text /
  • Michel Clasquin
  • Mwali: A God of War or a God of Peace? /
  • Leslie S. Nthoi
  • Strategies for Expressing Social Conflict within Communal African Societies in Southern Africa /
  • N.S. Turner
  • Circle Readings of the Bible/Scriptoratures /
  • Musa W. Dube
  • Kirimomo: A Hermeneutical Approach in Gospel Proclamation among the Urhobo of the Niger Delta /
  • J. Enuwosa
  • The Challenge of Nigerian Pentecostal Theology and the Perspicuity of Scripture /
  • A.O. Nkwoka
  • The Prophetic Vocation of the African Scholar: A Celebration of Wholeness /
  • Maarman Sam Tshehla
  • Towards a Mudzimu Hermeneutic: A Basuto Reading of the 'Strange Woman' in the Post-Exilic Texts /
  • Denzil Chetty
  • Religion in the Political Culture of Kenya /
  • Hassan Ndzovu
  • Facing the Reality of the Ethiopian Encounter /
  • A.L. Pitchers
  • The Amec Schism in Namibia (1946) /
  • Hendrik Rudolf Tjibeba
  • The Long Walk to Freedom: From Religious Instruction to Religion in Education /
  • Manila Soni Amin
  • From Denial and Displacement to Readjustment: Indian Diaspora in South Africa /
  • P. Pratap Kumar
  • Before Gandhi: Leo Tolstoy's Non-Violent Kingdom of God /
  • J.A. Loubser
  • Index /
  • Johannes A. Smit and P. Pratap Kumar.