Browsing Department Of Religious Studies, Classics and Philosophy by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
‘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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
