Given the Dominance of the West in the Production of Knowledge, Can Theological Education in South Africa Ever be Transformed?
Colonisation has been violent in many instances towards Black people. This form of violence has not only occurred physically but indeed has happened epistemologically as well. Attempts at debunking the falsehoods that have over centuries been spread about Africans and their ways of life are sometime...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Black theology
Year: 2025, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 181-193 |
| Further subjects: | B
Practical Theology
B Black Theology of Liberation B decolonial education B South Africa B Paulo Frere B African Theology |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Colonisation has been violent in many instances towards Black people. This form of violence has not only occurred physically but indeed has happened epistemologically as well. Attempts at debunking the falsehoods that have over centuries been spread about Africans and their ways of life are sometimes exacerbated by the very Africans who seem to have imbibed these falsehoods. In the case of theology and practical theology specifically, we find that the dominant narratives are still allowed to exist with no due regard for the harm caused to certain communities. A humanising education is most needed for a country that has yet to have sincere and difficult conversations on the production of knowledge presently and for the future. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1670 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Black theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2025.2591508 |
