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

• Superior document: Numen Book Series ; Volume 106
• TeilnehmendeR: Oosthuizen, G. C.; Smit, Johannes A.; Kumar, P. Pratap, 1952-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston: : Brill,, 2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Numen Book Series 109.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (299 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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 some of the most important scholars of religion in South Africa and elsewhere. With his critical acumen and insightful understanding of the ebb and flow of the South African socio-political landscape of the last fifty-odd years, he has been a distinguished leader in research and has been honoured with Honorary doctorates from South Africa’s leading universities. This collection constitutes a small token of appreciation for his more than fifty years in academia and his academic leadership.

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.