SCRIPTURA  

Cornelia Roux

This special edition of Scriptura includes papers, rewritten as articles, of the International Network for Interreligious and Intercultural Education held at Stellenosch University in March 2004. This Network was established in 1994 between the University... see more

Robert Jackson

In this article the emergence in Britain (late 1960s) of a secular religious education(RE), utilising material from the religions of the world and referring to its role inmulticultural education in the 1970s will be given. Developments in the history ofth... see more

Geir Skeie

The article discusses how the concept intercultural can be used to understand humanrelations in general and educational settings in particular. Drawing on the theory ofintercultural communication, it is argued that all human encounters may beinterpreted a... see more

Wolfram Weisse

The Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in South Africa can be regarded as one of theimportant pressure groups for religious education (RE) in schools. Based on a casestudy this contribution focuses on the following question: Does the DRC opt for atraditional, Ch... see more

Cornelia Roux,Petro Du Preez

Understanding religion and especially different aspects of world religions is today,more than ever, an important part of social science. Religion is not only a meanswhereby many different cultures categorise and define human values, but it alsoprovides a ... see more

Ina ter Avest,Cok Bakker

In this article we focus on a newly developed Dutch method of introducing pupilsand students into the religious dimension of the various subjects of the schoolcurriculum. We call this method of Religious Education (RE): Lessons inApprehension (LiA). The i... see more

Cornelia Roux

The National Policy on Religion and Education emphasised the value of recognisingthe diversity of belief systems in South Africa, particularly in the school system. Thedocument focuses on the South African Constitutional values while the framework isbased... see more

Christine Müller

Since the beginning of the early 1990s, Jewish life in Germany has begun to revitalise.Due to the immigration of Jews from the states of the former Soviet Union, theJewish community in Germany has increased from 30,000 to 120,000 individualsand its age st... see more

Ursula Günther

This article considers five recent empirical studies dealing with religious selfconceptionsamong Muslim adolescents and assembles selected results. Embeddedin the particular German migration context, these results emphasise that changes ofparadigm within ... see more

Elisabeth Arweck,Eleanor Nesbitt,Robert Jackson

This article compares two values education programmes currently available for UKschools and the Hindu-related organisations – the Brahma Kumaris World SpiritualUniversity and the Sathya Sai Service Organisation UK – with which they areassociated. Attentio... see more

Gordon Mitchell

Peace-building and religious dialogue projects are increasingly experimenting withintercultural encounters in places such as mosques, churches or synagogues. It isassumed that such places have particular value for at least one of the parties and itis ther... see more

Cok Bakker,Ina ter Avest

In the Netherlands the debate on the identity of a school is influenced by the longand dominant history of a close linking between religious traditions (mainly theChristian tradition) and the design of the national school system. For almost 100years, most... see more

Andrew D. Abdool,Marlize Drinkwater

The situation in the education system in South Africa is not unique when comparedto other countries in the world, but the situation has brought about changes andeducators have to deal with change, especially in the classroom with multi-culturallearners wi... see more

Njongonkulu Ndungane

In this article Archbishop Ndungane reflects on various aspects related to thechallenge that HIV/Aids poses to the church in South Africa and to Christiantheology. He draws on biblical motifs to address a wide range of issues such asstigma, gender, youth,... see more

Denise Ackermann

This paper explores the nature of stigma in relation to HIV/Aids by way of fifteeninterrelated observations. It serves as an example of “embodied theology”. It alsooffers reflections on what could constitute an appropriate response to stigma on thepart of... see more

Afe Adogame

The HIV/Aids pandemic is one crisis that has catapulted the African continent intoglobal limelight, particularly in the last decade. In spite of the common rhetoricwhipped by the international community, prevention and impact mitigationresponses have been... see more

Ernst M. Conradie

This article reflects on the classic theodicy problem in relationship with HIV/Aids. Itfirst offers some general comments about the very need to address the theodicyproblem. A next section offers an analysis of various sources of human sufferingwhich is t... see more

Piet Naudé

This paper first explains why the HIV/Aids pandemic requires a fundamental reorientationof our theological reflection, followed by three reasons why such reflectionis inhibited in the present churches’ context. It then attempts to set out howGod the creat... see more

Miranda N. Pillay

The Aids pandemic presents challenges that are varied and complex, and thus itrequires exploring unique and creative responses by all sectors of society, includingthe church. Skewed gender power-relations, and particularly the marginalization ofwomen are ... see more

Emmanuel K. Twesigye,S. Aden,Mollie Wollam Benedicts

This article offers an assessment of the significance of The Movement for theRestoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTCG) in Uganda. It describes howthe MRTCG leaders proposed celibacy and physical withdrawal from the supposed“corrupt, evil and damn... see more

Godwin I. Akper

Liberation, it is often argued, is no longer the most helpful metaphor for the presentsituation in (South) Africa, which needs to capture the complex social andtheological challenges ahead. There is a popular view that the new social andpolitical changes ... see more

Anthony Balcomb

Contextual theology has faced something of a crisis since the advent of democracyand the new dispensation in South Africa. The roots of the crisis may be found in thefact that much of the contextual theology of the past was based on the politicalagenda of... see more

Peter Barrett

The burgeoning science-and-theology discourse of the past four decades hasproduced a new natural theology, broadened beyond its traditional task of findingarguments for the existence of God. Much of its concern has been to address theevolutionary world-pi... see more

Ernst M. Conradie

This survey is based on data which I collected through colleagues at varioustheological institutions in the Southern African region.1 These institutions countamongst the most prominent theological institutions in the region. The data thereforeprovides a f... see more

Etienne de Villiers

The central Reformed conviction that Christians are called by God to contribute tothe transformation of society has, within a very short time span, lost much of itsprevious legitimacy in the South African society. In the article the factors thatcontribute... see more

Piet J. Naudé

This article proceeds in three sections: In the first section globalisation is depictedas homogenizing cultural force and usurping power of moral formation. In thesecond section the ethical challenges posed by globalisation in terms of “culturaljustice” a... see more

Neville Richardson

In order to survey the road ahead for South African theology, it is necessary first tolook back to the road behind us. We espoused the contextual method duringapartheid, but are we now trapped in a method no longer appropriate to our newcontext? A sweepin... see more

David Williams

The lack of interest, even rejection, of the intellectual study of Christianity byPentecostals and their related movements is not a new feature. On the other hand,their stress on the direct experience of the Spirit has often been derided as irrational.How... see more