No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2006.

Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2004.

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2007.

The modern system of education is less than two centuries old. It is premised on secularism. It is the outcome of theological and philosophical debates as much as of the politics and power interests of the 16th and 17th centuries. The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of Islamic schools in Europe, the United States and South Africa. The initial aim of these schools was to provide an Islamic environment to the learners. During the 80s their focus contoured to the process of Islamization. This project was initiated in the US by Muslim academics including Isma'il al-Faruqi, Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Fazlur Rahman as a response to the secularization of Muslim society, including its educational institutions. Since then seven international conferences have been held in various parts of the Muslim World. The International Institute of Islamic Thought and the Association of Muslim Social Scientists have joined hands in the effort to Islamize education. The first five conferences laid the theoretical and philosophical foundation of education. The sixth conference was held in South Africa and took the form of workshops to drive the Islamization project at school level. The outcome of the sixth conference was a concrete set of Islamized syllabi, which could be implemented in Muslim schools. The South African schools were chosen to do the field-testing; this provided me with the impetus for this research. The aim is to determine the extent to which Muslim independent schools in South Africa can be viewed as challenging the secular model of education through the process ofIslamization. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2006.

No abstract available / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.

Abstract not available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Durban-Westville, 1989.

The primary reason for writing a thesis on this particular theme is to focus on some of the explosive and obscure issues that touch on the lives of many Africans near and far. Much has already been said and written in this land about Black Theology and African Theology. About African Traditional Religion very little has been written. In actual fact there are some people who would not even credit it as an acceptable topic for academic debate. Yet it is a religion that lived and was practised by almost all African Christians in this country and further north in the continent. In this thesis an endeavour is made to distil and analyze in a simple and digestible form the main features and claims of the African Theology. The emergence of Black Theology and African Theology signalled a need for a reviewed African Traditional Religion, something long aspired for, by the aboriginal people of this continent. However, this was perceived by Western Christians as syncretism. The problem of paying less heed to the African cry for real revival and revitalization of African culture by some mainline church leaders accelerated the spirit of African nationalism which is embodied in African culture. The application of a hermeneutical approach to African Traditional Religion is an attempt to address the question of African culture as explicated and explored by the early missionaries, anthropologists, sociologists, historians and theologians. It is also an attempt to survey the plight of African culture as it is now on the brink of being dealt a death blow by western civilization and western Christianity as well as other foreign religions which have been imported to Africa. Thus a hermeneutical assessment of African Traditional Religion becomes imperative particularly in the present prevailing winds of change sweeping the whole continent of Africa. The revived spirit of nationalism amongst Africans is growing day by day as a demand for total decolonization of Africa is fast multiplying. A complete and thorough liberation of Africa will be achieved only when the political, social, economic, psychological, religious and spiritual oppression has been removed and eradicated. This implies that religion as aspect of life cannot escape or survive the strength of the call of times for change. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Durban-Westville, 1991.

Abstract not available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Durban-Westville, 1995.

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Durban-Westville, 2004.

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