Research, identity and rationalism
Subtitle: thinking about theological research in Africa : a compilation of papers presented at the twenty-fifth symposium of the Research Institute for Theology and Religion (Unisa) held at the University of South Africa in Pretoria on 5 and 6 September 2001
By: editor, C.W. du Toit
Contributors: Du Toit, C. W.
Publisher: Research Institute for Theology and Religion, Unisa
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Pretoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Theology; Congresses; Study and teaching; Methodology; Learning and scholarship; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Eurocentrism and Africentrism : what is Western/African research? / G.F. Snyman; title: Expressing the ineffable : experiencing from within and describing from the outside / G.A. van den Heever; title: The quest for commonalities in rationality and research : cognitive science and the embodiment of African rationality / C.W. du Toit; title: Rationality and the question of diversity in South Africa / M.B. Ramose; title: Post-colonial research, the African renaissance and Africa's contribution towards research / M.T. Speckman; title: The culture of logic and the logic of culture : themes in the interface of science, culture and society in post-apartheid South Africa / E. Biakolo; title: The impact of indigenous knowledge systems on a South African research tradition / M.P. van Niekerk; title: Education will not bite you : African identities and their impact on research/education and vice versa / T.S. Maluleke; title: Thinking and poverty : what liberation theology taught us / H.J.C. Pieterse; title: Religious identity and rationality : case studies in pastoral therapy / C. Landman; title: Summary : a way forward / J. Liebenberg.