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Perceptions of church leaders on the integration of migrant youth into South Africa: The case of refugees in the refugee camps managed by churches at Musina 教会领袖对移民青年融入南非的看法:Musina教会管理的难民营中的难民案例

Theologia Viatorum Pub Date : 2020-06-10 DOI: 10.4102/tv.v44i1.34

S. F. Rapholo

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引用次数: 4

The structural advancement of religious communities and the commercialisation of the Christian religion in Nigeria 尼日利亚宗教社区的结构进步和基督教的商业化

Theologia Viatorum Pub Date : 2020-06-08 DOI: 10.4102/tv.v44i1.31

Benjamin C. Diara, Mmesoma Onukwufor, F. Uroko

{"title":"The structural advancement of religious communities and the commercialisation of the Christian religion in Nigeria","authors":"Benjamin C. Diara, Mmesoma Onukwufor, F. Uroko","doi":"10.4102/tv.v44i1.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/tv.v44i1.31","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the activities of Christian religious communities and the birth of a commercialised Christian religion. It begins by creating an atmosphere that the Nigerians find themselves in, and explaining as to why they rely more on religious vendors for solutions to their physical and spiritual problems. Thus, the real causalities are the people with no contentment. The commercialisation of religion in Nigeria has been characterised by increased poverty and social vices such as armed robbery, bad leadership and bad citizenship. Findings reveal that adherents of the various churches that have commercialised their blessings comprise both the poor and the rich of the society. The poor are seeking God for instant blessing, while the rich are seeking God for the sustainability of their wealth and protection. True religion is now lost in Nigeria. Some pastors treat the church as an investment, expecting to get something in return personally when the institution prospers financially. This is evident in the rise in sugar-coated preaching in most Nigerian churches. It was discovered that commercialisation of churches is mainly for financial gains, and it is an offshoot of the proliferation of churches in Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":34066,"journal":{"name":"Theologia Viatorum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45416302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Climate change in sub-Saharan Africa: Nature restoration as an ethical issue 撒哈拉以南非洲的气候变化:自然恢复作为一个伦理问题

Theologia Viatorum Pub Date : 2019-11-22 DOI: 10.4102/tv.v43i1.4

D. N. Buwani, R. Dolamo

引用次数: 1

Voluntary medical male circumcision versus religio-cultural circumcision and initiation rites: The case of Varemba of Mwenezi district in response to the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Zimbabwe 自愿医疗男性包皮环切与宗教文化包皮环切和入会仪式：津巴布韦Mwenezi区Varemba预防人体免疫缺陷病毒和获得性免疫缺陷综合征的案例

Theologia Viatorum Pub Date : 2019-10-31 DOI: 10.4102/tv.v43i1.3

Onias Matumbu, Vengesai Chimininge

{"title":"Voluntary medical male circumcision versus religio-cultural circumcision and initiation rites: The case of Varemba of Mwenezi district in response to the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Zimbabwe","authors":"Onias Matumbu, Vengesai Chimininge","doi":"10.4102/tv.v43i1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/tv.v43i1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Male circumcision has long been associated with religious or cultural rituals which bestow culturally valuable status. In some communities, circumcision is believed to provide concomitant access to economic and spiritual resources such as land and the ability to communicate with the ancestors. However, the recent promotion of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) in 2009 as an additional dimension for reducing the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was received with mixed feelings by different people in Zimbabwe. The resistance was more pronounced in those districts where male circumcision was a traditional norm. It is considering this background where this article examines whether VMMC and religio-cultural male circumcision are distant cousins or siamese twins. This is performed by taking a leaf from the Varemba of Mwenezi district in Zimbabwe. Data collection was performed between May and October 2017 using in-depth individual interviews within the context of the hermeneutics paradigm which emphasises the existence of multiple realities across time and culture. Our analysis of data shows that the Varemba of Mwenezi district does not believe in the efficacy of VMMC because it is void of the ritualistic cultural–spiritual dimension that usually accompanies male circumcision. The study recommended that VMMC should contextualise the cultural value to achieve set targets for HIV prevention.","PeriodicalId":34066,"journal":{"name":"Theologia Viatorum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43423667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Mutual conditioning of gender and love: Towards a non-gendered idea of humanity 性别与爱的相互制约：走向非性别的人性观

Theologia Viatorum Pub Date : 2019-10-24 DOI: 10.4102/tv.v43i1.1

J. Slater

{"title":"Mutual conditioning of gender and love: Towards a non-gendered idea of humanity","authors":"J. Slater","doi":"10.4102/tv.v43i1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/tv.v43i1.1","url":null,"abstract":"It is a presumed opinion that gender and love mutually condition each other and that this presumption ought to be embraced by cultural norms, religion, human rights and the ethic of freedom. The notion of mutual conditioning presupposes a healthy and principled environment that facilitates the free dynamic interaction between gender and love. It is the purpose of this article to explore the outcomes of the gender revolution and the additional strands of complexities that it contributed to the human condition. Although feminism has created terminologies such as sex and gender, it is believed that these words have outlived their usefulness to make way for the present-day evolution towards a non-gendered idea of humanity. Gender diversity seeks mutuality, and true love accommodates multiplicity; hence, the interacting and intra-acting of gender and love inevitably come face-to-face with cultural, legal, social, religious and moral milieus that hamper or even contradict the concept of mutual conditioning. This article seeks to trace the evolution of gender within diverse cultural constructions created by new liberal living conditions, but which have not yet infiltrated the diverse cultural domains where gender remains an entity without cultural freedom and therefore undermines the process of mutual conditioning of gender and love. The idea of gender as transcending bodily sex forms part of an old theological and philosophical debate; it, however, resurfaces here while revisiting Aristotle’s idea of a non-gendered society or humanity. A degendered society implies a society that is free from dependence on gender, whereas a non-gendered humanity transcends gender divisions and associations, with its aspirations linked to the transcendence or consciousness of human nature. Love, in this sense, transcends all human dissections, and this article ascertains its capacity to mutually condition the diversity of gender and love.","PeriodicalId":34066,"journal":{"name":"Theologia Viatorum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45338244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Sexual exploitation or legitimate surrogacy: Reading the Hagar narrative (Gn 16:1–4a) in African context 性剥削或合法代孕：在非洲背景下阅读哈格的叙述（Gn 16:1-4a）

Theologia Viatorum Pub Date : 2019-07-30 DOI: 10.4102/TV.V43I1.2

S. Ademiluka

引用次数: 2