Browsing by UP Author "Masango, Maake J.S."

Browsing by UP Author "Masango, Maake J.S."

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  • Liturgy on the edge of community 
    Masango, Maake J.S.; Pieterse, Hendrik J.C. (Hennie) (Society for Practical Theology in South Africa, 2008)
    In this article we present two perspectives of the relationship between liturgy and the needs of the society as the church seeks to live out her faith. The one perspective is from the white Dutch Reformed Church, while the ...
  • Mentorship : a process of nurturing others 
    Masango, Maake J.S. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    This article is dedicated to Prof. Dr Andries van Aarde who has mentored a large number of students during his time as a lecturer at the University of Pretoria. It is written at the time when workers in South Africa are ...
  • Message of Prof Maake Masango at the memorial service of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela 
    Masango, Maake J.S. (2013-12-11)
    The message of Prof Maake Masango, Emeritus professor of Theology, at the memorial service of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, 11 December 2013, 8:30 in the Musaion of the University of Pretoria.
  • Neglect of people with disability by the African church 
    Masango, Maake J.S. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-12)
    The African community, as well as the church, has always cared for people with disability. The main problem they faced is that they care for them by imposing their own agenda on them. In other words, they take over their ...
  • The pain of migrants in a strange land 
    Masango, Maake J.S.; Olisa, Joel Uju (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-12-05)
    This article analyses the different assumptions about migrants in South Africa, coupled with levels of abuses and marginalisation of black African immigrants, which seem to be a source of depression and emotional pain ...
  • The plight of absent fathers caused by migrant work : its traumatic impact on adolescent male children in Zimbabwe 
    Nyanjaya, A.K. (Ananias Kumbuyo); Masango, Maake J.S. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-04-18)
    This article revealed the degree of trauma experienced by male adolescents when their fathers are absent. The cost of this absence could not be balanced with the material benefits the children have enjoyed, for the ...
  • Privatisation of water systems : crime against humanity 
    Mobie, Titus R.; Masango, Maake J.S. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
    This article emphasises the importance of water resources, which are vital to the sustenance of life. Water is essential for various reasons: for drinking, for personal hygiene, for cooking, for watering crops, for cleaning ...
  • The process of mourning for Eswatini widowers : a pastoral concern 
    Dlamini, Dalcy Badeli; Masango, Maake J.S. (AOSIS, 2021-07-05)
    Eswatini custom and church traditions indirectly and directly affect the way widowers handle their mourning period, after the demise of their better halves. Instead of mourning their loss of spouses for their spiritual, ...
  • Reconciliation : a gift from God 
    Masango, Maake J.S. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008)
    This article analyses the work of reconciliation based on Prof P Meiring, especially his work with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The article takes seriously the theological aspect of reconciliation that leads ...
  • Reconciliation : a way of life for the world 
    Masango, Maake J.S. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    This article deals with the issue of reconciliation as a new way of life for the world. It focuses on scriptural passages that support the topic. It also examines the spiritual aspect of reconciliation which is forgotten ...
  • Redefining trauma in an African context : a challenge to pastoral care 
    Motsi, Raymond Givemore; Masango, Maake J.S. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-05-09)
    The article attempted to analyse critically the definition of trauma as it is used in the Western medical and psychiatry contexts in order to come up with an appropriate African definition. This was undertaken with the ...
  • Religion, violence and abuse 
    Masango, Maake J.S. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-12-06)
    Abrahamic faith-based religions are always regarded as peaceful. The question to ask is as follows: how do its followers use violent text in order to justify their action? This article analyses how extremists within these ...
  • Rethinking the identity and economic sustainability of the church : case of AOG BTG in Zimbabwe 
    Tagwirei, Kimion; Masango, Maake J.S. (AOSIS, 2023-03)
    With burgeoning economic challenges that have been hard-pressing Zimbabwe for more than a decade, most Zimbabwean classical Pentecostal churches who do not strategically multiply their revenue in reciprocal correspondence ...
  • The spirit of Bandung and the struggle for freedom in South Africa 
    Masango, Maake J.S. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    This paper analyses the work of a conference that took place in April 1955 at Bandung, Central Jawa, Indonesia. The conference was and is still an important event in the lives of the oppressed people. Representatives came ...
  • Theological reflection, assurance and the doctrine of God 
    Masango, Maake J.S.; White, John D. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-12-05)
    This article focuses on the anxiety about whether God loves one or not. In the author’s nearly 30-year ministry, this pastoral difficulty continues to perplex and afflict. While the presenting problem is what in theological ...
  • The theology and praxis of practical theology in the context of the Faculty of Theology 
    Steyn, Tobias Hertzog van Reenen; Masango, Maake J.S. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-11-15)
    Notwithstanding the carefully defined parameters of the various departments within theology, the aspirant student sometimes finds it difficult to define the precise department within which a specific study would best be ...
  • Understanding power struggles in the Pentecostal church government 
    Matshobane, Mangaliso Mbangiso; Masango, Maake J.S. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-10-22)
    This article highlights the power struggles that the Pentecostal church experiences in its church governance. These power struggles become very contentious to a point where members take each other to legal courts, which ...
  • What next in mission? From the end of the earth to Jerusalem 
    Masango, Maake J.S. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008)
    This article sketches the impact of technology and globalisation on culture, and the results appear to be devastating. An appeal is made to churches to encourage missionary endeavours that reach out to the world. The ...