{"title":"Death in abundance versus life in abundance in the context of COVID-19 and poverty: A practical theological reflection on pastoral accompaniment during the grieving process","authors":"O. Buffel","doi":"10.4102/tv.v46i1.156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/tv.v46i1.156","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34066,"journal":{"name":"Theologia Viatorum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47579541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jeremiah 17:11 and blood money rituals among youths in southern Nigeria","authors":"F. Uroko","doi":"10.4102/tv.v46i1.162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/tv.v46i1.162","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34066,"journal":{"name":"Theologia Viatorum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42539715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Contrary to some Vhavenḓa poets who recognise Ṅwali and/or Raluvhimba as Jehovah, this article argues that Ṅwali and Jehovah are two distinct deities. It further asserts that there is no kinship or continuity between these deities. Although there are possibilities of there being some similarities of attributes between these deities, their conceptual distinctions highlight significant incongruities between them. Ṅwali in Tshivenḓa traditional religion (TTR) is identified as the Semitic Ṅwali, which is arguably evidence that there has been a ‘Hellenisation’ of TTR and the Vhavenḓa’s concept of God. Consequently, the Vhavenḓa have been left with essentially two distinct deities to consider – a fact that has contributed and still contributes immensely to the ambivalence of the modern-day Vhavenḓa’s spiritual lifestyle. This article might add to the ongoing discourse on the decolonisation of African traditional religions and their attendant theology.
{"title":"Blurry boundaries between Ṅwali and Jehovah in some Tshivenḓa modern poems","authors":"Moffat Sebola","doi":"10.4102/tv.v46i1.160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/tv.v46i1.160","url":null,"abstract":"Contrary to some Vhavenḓa poets who recognise Ṅwali and/or Raluvhimba as Jehovah, this article argues that Ṅwali and Jehovah are two distinct deities. It further asserts that there is no kinship or continuity between these deities. Although there are possibilities of there being some similarities of attributes between these deities, their conceptual distinctions highlight significant incongruities between them. Ṅwali in Tshivenḓa traditional religion (TTR) is identified as the Semitic Ṅwali, which is arguably evidence that there has been a ‘Hellenisation’ of TTR and the Vhavenḓa’s concept of God. Consequently, the Vhavenḓa have been left with essentially two distinct deities to consider – a fact that has contributed and still contributes immensely to the ambivalence of the modern-day Vhavenḓa’s spiritual lifestyle. This article might add to the ongoing discourse on the decolonisation of African traditional religions and their attendant theology.","PeriodicalId":34066,"journal":{"name":"Theologia Viatorum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42972429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The metaverse’s potential impacts on the God-centred life and togetherness of Indonesian Christians","authors":"R. Chandra, N. Boiliu","doi":"10.4102/tv.v46i1.157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/tv.v46i1.157","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34066,"journal":{"name":"Theologia Viatorum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45942899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The link between aphorisms on Jewish eschatological expectation of the anti-Christ and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Pentecostal Christians in Makurdi, Nigeria","authors":"F. Uroko, L. Okwuosa","doi":"10.4102/tv.v46i1.150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/tv.v46i1.150","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34066,"journal":{"name":"Theologia Viatorum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43505794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It is no news that the ‘invisible enemy’ with devastating and visible human mortality more than second World War casualties in America makes Covid-19 pandemic number one global health challenge of all centuries. Wuhan city, China has been identified as the first place of the emergence of a new strain of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in December, 2019. However, due to the contagious nature of COVID 19 and its proliferation, on March 11, 2020 World Health Organisation declared it as a global pandemic. Meanwhile, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention on 3 April, 2020 mandated that the general public, with or without COVID 19 symptoms, should wear face masks in public settings as well as social distancing in order to prevent the spread of the virus as part of the COVID 19 Protocols. The socio-economic, health and human fatality redefined socialcultural and religious practices which heralded ‘new normal’ in social lexicon as behavioural changes were imperative due to the contagious and incurable nature of COVID 19 before the advent of vaccines. In view of the novelty and fatal nature of COVID 19 and its variants lately, religious practitioners in the country's response are quite diverse, intriguing and interesting as some rationalize the pandemic through various conspiracy theories. This study examines the overview of change behavioural theories particularly Health Belief Model as its theoretical framework. The research data will be gathered through ethnography research method, interviews and participant observations while maintaining all Covid-19 protocols in accordance with regulations of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
{"title":"The ‘invisible enemy’ COVID-19 and the responses of Aladura churches in South West Nigeria","authors":"B. Adedibu, Akinwumi A. Akindolie, A. A. Olujobi","doi":"10.4102/tv.v46i1.138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/tv.v46i1.138","url":null,"abstract":"It is no news that the ‘invisible enemy’ with devastating and visible human mortality more than second World War casualties in America makes Covid-19 pandemic number one global health challenge of all centuries. Wuhan city, China has been identified as the first place of the emergence of a new strain of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in December, 2019. However, due to the contagious nature of COVID 19 and its proliferation, on March 11, 2020 World Health Organisation declared it as a global pandemic. Meanwhile, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention on 3 April, 2020 mandated that the general public, with or without COVID 19 symptoms, should wear face masks in public settings as well as social distancing in order to prevent the spread of the virus as part of the COVID 19 Protocols. The socio-economic, health and human fatality redefined socialcultural and religious practices which heralded ‘new normal’ in social lexicon as behavioural changes were imperative due to the contagious and incurable nature of COVID 19 before the advent of vaccines. In view of the novelty and fatal nature of COVID 19 and its variants lately, religious practitioners in the country's response are quite diverse, intriguing and interesting as some rationalize the pandemic through various conspiracy theories. This study examines the overview of change behavioural theories particularly Health Belief Model as its theoretical framework. The research data will be gathered through ethnography research method, interviews and participant observations while maintaining all Covid-19 protocols in accordance with regulations of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.","PeriodicalId":34066,"journal":{"name":"Theologia Viatorum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44912933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of the Eucharist in national healing, reconciliation and peacebuilding: A case study of Zimbabwe’s fractured society","authors":"S. Mokgoatšana, Mischeck Mudyiwa","doi":"10.4102/tv.v46i1.142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/tv.v46i1.142","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34066,"journal":{"name":"Theologia Viatorum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49605318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reimagining socio-economic well-being through the integration of Arthashastra’s economic treatise and Madhva’s philosophical notion on social cohesion","authors":"M. Shunmugam, Maniraj Sukdaven","doi":"10.4102/tv.v46i1.139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/tv.v46i1.139","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34066,"journal":{"name":"Theologia Viatorum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48659552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Childhood theology and implications for pedagogy","authors":"J. A. Chiroma, N. Chiroma","doi":"10.4102/tv.v46i1.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/tv.v46i1.115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34066,"journal":{"name":"Theologia Viatorum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47755113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The assurance that Yahweh can and will keep his own: An exegesis of Psalm 121:1–8","authors":"D. Adamo, Bukola Olusegun","doi":"10.4102/tv.v46i1.125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/tv.v46i1.125","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34066,"journal":{"name":"Theologia Viatorum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43967754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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