Department Of Religious Studies, Classics and Philosophy
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Religious Studies is concerned with religion as a phenomenon, the sociology, psychology and philosophy of religion. Although it looks at all the major religions of the world, it concentrates on the three main religions in Zimbabwe, i.e. African Traditional Religion, Christianity and Islam. Within the compass of Christianity come Biblical Studies (both Old and New Testament), Christian History and Thought, Christian Theology and African Theology. Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Greek form part of the Religious Studies programme. Classics offers Classical Greek, Latin and Classical Studies as separate subjects. The latter introduces students to the life, literature (in English translation), thought, history and culture of the Greco-Roman world in which Christianity grew, and from which much modern Western culture is derived. Philosophy is concerned with the major questions of the nature and meaning of being and knowledge, various answers that have been proposed for these questions, and the logical processes that must underpin all serious thought. Classical, Mediaeval, and contemporary Western philosophy, African philosophy and Applied Ethics are all covered.
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The Significance of Glossolalia in the Apostolic Faith Mission, Zimbabwe
(Edinburgh University Press, 2011)This study seeks to look at the meaning and significance of Glossolalia1 in the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe.2 This paper has also been influenced by debates surrounding speaking in tongues in most of the Pentecostal ... -
‘Dismantling “Reason-based Moral Status” in Environmental Ethics.’
(2009-08-01)This article critically explores the assumptions of ‘reason-based moral status’ theorists, as well as ‘sentient’ theorists in establishing moral status. While ‘reason based moral status’ theorists regard reason as the key ... -
The Conversion of Paul in the Light of the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2004)Paul’s influence on Christian teaching and practice cannot be underestimated. Several times his teaching is quoted to support certain Christian practices even in African Christianity today. However, the conversion of ... -
Contrasting Aspects of Africa Decolonisation Processes and Missions in West and Southern Africa: Ghana and Angola as Case Studies
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2002)A major result of the Second World War was a radically new world constellation. In 1945, Soviet Russian and American troops in Torgau at the Elbe shook hands over the ruins of an old Europe that never would dominate the ... -
Black Female Identities in Harare: The Case of Young Women with Dreadlocks
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2004)The construction of post-colonial African female identities has faced a number of challenges. Colonial ideologies and African patriarchal traditions threaten to stifle African women. African cities have become sites of ... -
The Debate Over Elephant Culling: Is it Ever Morally Justified to Cull Elephants ?
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2002)This article argues that, since elephants do not just live in forests or parks but in a whole social, economic, political and ecological environment, it is necessary to look at how surplus elephant populations affect the ... -
Ethics Among the Shona
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2001)This essay is a contribution towards an appreciation of Hunhu/Ubuntu as the basis of African philosophy. It seeks to demonstrate, by means of a specific example taken from an African text, that within the African ... -
Elizabeth Musodzi: The Catholic Woman Agent of the Gospel
(2006-06-22)The role played by Catholic African Women agents of the gospel in the propagation of the faith in Zimbabwe has not been highlighted in Catholic historiography in Zimbabwe This article focuses on Mai Musodzi of St Peters ...