Mémoire (M.A.) - Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 2007. / Comprend des réf. bibliogr. (f. 142-148). Également disponible en format microfiche et PDF. CaQTU

This work is a reflection about and case study in Apostolicity. It is also about the power of an individual to be a change agent in socio-political contexts. Its subject is Dr. Michael Cassidy who is founder and former international team leader of African Enterprise, an international Evangelistic organisation, that partner with churches in Africa to foster the growth of the Christian movement in cities through its ten national indigenous teams spread through Africa. Cassidy is also regarded as a prominent Evangelical leader at home and abroad, and is a strong influence in the Lausanne movement. The thesis traces the ministry of Cassidy in his years leading up to the founding of the work and his nearly 50 years of witness in the turbulence of Africa and South Africa during and after the Apartheid years. This historical review has special interest for the ecumenical witness of the church in its fight against Apartheid through great conferences like The Durban Congress on Mission and Evangelism 1973, The South African Christian Leadership Assembly (SACLA l and SACLA ll), the National Initiative for Reconciliation and the Rustenburg Church Consultation. In the research the theological, missiological and philosophical motifs of Cassidy’s work are discussed, with special attention to the issues of truth and the socio-political implications of love. The thesis also describes Cassidy’s involvement in the Marriage Alliance and the struggle to bring a biblically based outcome to the South African legislation on the matter of gay marriage. Cassidy’s worldview and his spirituality, weighed against the current debate on these issues, are examined. A primary interest expressed in the thesis is the concept of Lay Apostolicity, a concept that was powerfully raised by Cassidy whose ministry has been as a layman who has not been ordained. The structures for mission are deeply examined from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. The writer argues that Cassidy’s ministry has special value as a model and example for others in understanding and participating in the apostolic ministry of the ordinary Christian man and woman in the local church or in the working context. The thesis takes as its leitmotif the Prayer of Jesus in John 17 - and the life of Cassidy is discussed alongside reflections of and in relation to Jesus’ prayer for in his Apostles ( and those who follow) in the hours before his passion. The ‘marks’ in Jesus’ prayer have been identified as: Mission, Glory, Unity, Love, Truth, Holiness, Spirituality, Joy, Successive Chapters on each of these appear in the thesis. An analysis of Cassidy’s witness and mission was made through a survey with 120 respondents to measure the effect of Cassidy’s ministry. The chapter on Joy deals with this. The final chapters deal with an assessment of Cassidy’s life and work. The first of these looks at the dynamics of leadership and a critical assessment of his peers and others. The last chapter on “The measure of the man” attempts to list and clarify special significances, abilities and characteristics that have contributed to a unique calling and contribution to our understanding of Lay Apostolicity. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Science of Religion and Missiology / unrestricted

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This paper analyzes composer Aaron Cassidy’s 2014-2016 ensemble work The wreck of former boundaries, focusing on Cassidy’s compositional approach to sonically simulating interactive modes and sonic ideals featured prominently in mid-20th century recordings of free jazz artists such as Albert Ayler (Bells [1965]) and John Coltrane (Ascension [1965]). Because these musical conventions can be heard as socio-political simulacra in and of themselves, I argue that Wreck’s sonic simulations dissimulate the anti-hegemonic implications of the sound of free jazz, depicting spontaneous, hetero-original confrontations with socio-political constraint as symbolic and insubstantial. In my conclusion I argue that while an apparitional circulation of free jazz simulacra seems to de-politicize free jazz musical conventions, Wreck can be understood more precisely as critically analyzing the history of revolution. Heard through the interpretive lens of a broader history of hegemonic improvisations that absorb and displace open expressions of political defiance, Wreck appears to pessimistically reimagine free jazz as a novel form of symbolic, musical constraint.

Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis presents an analysis of ‘township typography’ as a complex visual dialect generated by various economic and historical factors within the South African social landscape. A combination of specific tools, skills-sets and applications has produced a body of typographic letterforms that can be visually distinguished from standardised letterforms found in mainstream typography. Due to the origin of these letterforms, as well as their distinct appearance, ‘township typography’ has the capacity to evoke specific social, cultural or demographic structures in systems of communication. This study reveals that typographic features from ‘township typography’ are drawn into mainstream cultural production, particularly in the field of local advertising, as the result of a complex process of incorporation and institutional consecration. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis bied ‘n analise van ‘township tipografie’ as ‘n komplekse visuele dialek wat gegenereer word deur verskeie ekonomiese en historiese faktore eie aan die Suid- Afrikaanse sosiale landskap. Die spesifieke kombinasie van gereedskap, vaardighede en aanwendings lei tot ‘n liggaam van lettertipes wat visueel onderskei kan word van die standaard wat in hoofstroom tipografie voorkom. Vanweë hierdie dialek se oorsprong, asook die kenmerkende voorkoms daarvan, het ‘township tipografie’ die vermoë om spesifieke sosiale, kulturele en demografiese strukture in kommunikasie op te roep. Hierdie studie toon hoe eienskappe eie aan ‘township tipografie’ weens ‘n komplekse proses van inkorporasie en institusionele inseëning in hoofstroom kulturele produksie opgeneem word, veral op die gebied van plaaslike advertensiewese.

Michael Cassidy and Albert Nolan both develop their understanding of evangelism and social action within the context of the struggle for a democratic South Africa. This understanding is determined by their own personal contexts and their social analysis of the South African situation. Within these contexts they develop their views of sin and salvation. These underlying issues, contexts and analyses are crucial to and part of their understanding of the relationship between evangelism and social action. This thesis sets out to consider the relationship between evangelism and social action in their theologies by considering the underlying issues that determine this relationship, before finally defining the exact nature ofthis relationship. It considers each theology individually first as each has developed over time in context and needs to be seen as a unified whole as it relates to the . issue of the relationship between evangelism and social action. It then compares their views with each other with insights from other views. Michael Cassidy and Albert Nolan both see sin and hence salvation as personal and social, but Nolan understands these concepts as primarily social. Hence his understanding ofevangelism and social action expressed in evangelization is primarily social. It sees them relating in evangelization in an integrated, holistic way. However, in practice his emphasis on the need to take sides in the struggle and on salvation as primarily in and through the struggle leads to salvation becoming sometimes indistinguishable from human liberation. Thus evangelization also sometimes becomes indistinguishable from the struggle. Cassidy sees these concepts as firstly spiritual and then social and this determines his understanding of the relationship between evangelism and social action. He emphasises these as transforming every level of human relationships, but starting with a right relationship with God. Cassidy achieves a more balanced Evangelical view of partnership in mission but with an emphasis on evangelism and Nolan a somewhat more holistic liberationist theological view of an integrated relationship between evangelism and social action in evangelization but with an emphasis on social action. / Thesis (M.Th.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1996.