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Christianity and African Identity: Against the Incompatibility Thesis

Ignatius Onwuatuegwu

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 39 No. 1 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

The paper presents the case to refute the Incompatibility thesis which states that there is a fundamental opposition between Christianity and African identity. It argues that the Incompatibility thesis is based on a colonial simplification of African ontology, a cultural misunderstanding of…

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Religion Matters in Africa: Navigating African Christian Identity, Climate Change in Zimbabwe, and Pentecostal Religious Economies in South Africa

Tristán Kapp

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 39 No. 1 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

For the largest part of history, African scholarship on religion in Africa has mostly been overshadowed by external non-African perspectives and epistemologies. In recent years, the situation has changed, in part, owing to the small but meaningful contribution of the Journal for the Study of…

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No Rest for the Dead: Climate Change and Indigenous Burial Practices among the Shona People in Zimbabwe

Bernard Pindukai Humbe; Zorodzai Dube

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 39 No. 1 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

This study utilizes a cultural destruction conceptual framework to examine the negative impact of climate change on burial practices – graves and their surrounding environments – among the Shona people of Zimbabwe who constitute the majority among Zimbabwe’s ethnic groups. Among other practices…

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African Pentecostal Churches as Mediating Institutions of Socio-Economic Integration among African Migrants in Cape Town

Anjofui Patience Anegub

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 39 No. 1 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

This study examines African Pentecostal Churches as mediating institutions of socio-economic integration among African migrants in Cape Town, South Africa. Drawing on Social Capital Theory, it explores how church-based networks facilitate migrants’ access to resources, opportunities, and support…

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Reproducing Whiteness: Prophets for Profit, Prosperity Cults, and Big Religion in South Africa

Tristán Kapp

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 39 No. 1 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

This research investigates the emergence of Megacostalism in post-apartheid South Africa, focusing on how white Pentecostal Charismatic and Evangelical megachurches utilize prosperity theology to maintain racial and economic hierarchies. The author argues that these institutions function as ‘Big…

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A Religious Minority in Post-Apartheid Political Secularism Muslim Active Citizenship

Ala Rabiha Alhourani

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 38 No. 2 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

Cape Muslims perform an active sense of citizenship rooted in their history of political and civic involvement, from slavery and apartheid to the current post-apartheid period. Their active citizenship and sense of national belonging have been fostered by post-apartheid political secularism, which…

Kingdom Come: The Politics of Faith and Freedom in Segregationist South Africa and Beyond

Alapa Odugbo

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 38 No. 2 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

In this review, I engage Tshepo Chéry’s Kingdom Come: The Politics of Faith and Freedom in Segregationist South Africa and Beyond as a powerful and necessary intervention in the fields of African religious history and postcolonial political thought. I highlight how Chéry reframes South African…

Sanctifying Settler Colonialism: An Intersectional Discursive Analysis of a South-African Christian Zionist Media Statement

Thandi Gamedze; Sarojini Nadar

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 38 No. 2 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

This paper presents an intersectional discursive analysis of a web statement issued on January 10, 2024 by a group of self-identified South African Christian leaders opposing the South African government’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Using a critical…

Religious communities and ecological sustainability in Southern Africa and beyond

Senzokuhle Doreen Setume

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 38 No. 2 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

Climate change and environmental degradation are current realities worldwide. This book is a result of two inter-disciplinary groups in the field, A capacity-building Webinar for Religious Communities and Ecological Sustainability in Southern Africa held on September 1, 2020 (Öhlmann and Stork…

Lived religion and lived development in contemporary society

Tshenolo Jennifer Madigele

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 38 No. 2 · 2026 · Inggris · DOAJ

This book review critically examines Lived religion and lived development in contemporary society. The book honors Wilhelm Gräb. It explores the complex link between lived religion and development using interdisciplinary, empirical, and decolonial frameworks. The book offers insights into practical…

Icisungu – Divining Mother Earth in the Bemba Puberty Rite

Mutale Mulenga Kaunda

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 38 No. 1 · 2025 · Inggris · DOAJ

Bemba culture celebrates two distinct rites for young women. The first rite is celebrated at puberty (icisungu) and the second is celebrated at marriage (imbusa). This article focuses on the first rite called icisungu when the girls reach puberty. The significance of icisungu rite is its centrality…

Editorial Special Issue: Religion at the Intersection of Gender, Health, and Leadership in Contemporary Times

Nelly Mwale

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 38 No. 1 · 2025 · Inggris · DOAJ

There is a growing recognition of the need to foster gender equality, health and leadership in diverse spheres in contemporary times. However, numerous factors continue to impede gender equality, health, and leadership. The outbreak of the global pandemic, COVID-19 also disrupted the gains, which…

Mother Earth, Pandemics, and Women’s Reproductive Health in African Apostolic Indigenous Churches in Nyanga, Zimbabwe

Lindah Tsara

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 38 No. 1 · 2025 · Inggris · DOAJ

Using the context of HIV and AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics, this article explores how the African Apostolic Indigenous churches (AAICs) of Nyanga in Zimbabwe responded to pandemics, particularly regarding women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). It is informed by findings from a…

Trance and Transfiguration in Rock Art and literature, Unisa Press/Routledge 2025

Garth Mason

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 38 No. 1 · 2025 · Inggris · DOAJ

Academic courses on psychedelic drugs and religion are very popular among Ivy League universities, notably, Brown University, Berkeley, Duke, and Harvard University. Current research articles and books abound on the topic (see for example Johnson (2022), Richards (2016), Cherniak et al (2022)). The…

Mission from the Margins in the Context of HIV and AIDS: Grandmothers’ Narratives of Transforming Religious Communities in Maai Mahiu, Kenya

Pauline Wanjiru Njiru

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 38 No. 1 · 2025 · Inggris · DOAJ

Using the narratives of grandmothers in Maai Mahiu, Kenya, this article demonstrates how the grandmothers from different Christian denominations and ministries were stigmatised within their religious communities, how they responded to the stigma meted on them and their contributions towards the…