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Missionary colonial mentality and the expansion of Christianity in Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1800 to 1900	2995	64	21	3080
'Now we know that the enemy is from within': Shembeites and the Struggle for Control of Isaiah Shembe's Legacy and the Church	1446	59	7	1512
Religious Violence in Contemporary Nigeria: Implications and Options for Peace and Stability Order	1059	35	4	1098
The African Independent Apostolic Church's Doctrine under Threat: The Emerging Power of Faith-based Organisations' Interventions and the Johanne Marange Apostolic Church in Zimbabwe	860	22	10	892
A Historical and Critical Overview of Religion and Public Broadcasting in South Africa	743	26	5	774
African Religion and Colonial Rebellion: The Contestation of Power in Colonial Zimbabwe's Chimurenga of 1896-1897	686	77	8	771
Social Responsibility with Respect to Religion and Migration in South Africa	582	14	1	597
The deployment of a 'sacred song' in violence in Zimbabwe: The case of the song 'Zimbabwe Ndeye Ropa Ramadzibaba' (Zimbabwe was/is Born of the Blood of the Fathers/Ancestors) in Zimbabwean Politics	546	35	4	585
Attachment theory and religious violence: theorizing adult religious psychopathology	541	13	3	557
Migration and Muslim Identities: Malawians and Senegalese Muslims in Durban, South Africa	540	14	2	556
Religious Indoctrination or Marginalization Theory? Muslim-Christian Public Discourses and Perceptions on Religious Violence in Kenya	532	11	2	545
Moral Responsibility and Environmental Conservation in Karamoja Mining Area: Towards a Religious Engagement	521	8	2	531
From non-violent protests to suicide bombing: social movement theory reflections on the use of suicide violence in the Nigerian Boko Haram	512	16	2	530
Equally able, differently looking: discrimination and physical violence against persons with albinism in Ghana	513	14	2	529
Reconstructing the Distorted Image of Women as Reproductive Labour on the Copperbelt Mines in Zambia (1920-1954)	513	11	1	525
Secure between God and man: peace, tranquility and sexuality through the pietistic aspirations of believing women	497	9	4	510
Open Space Worship: A Religious Identity of the Johane Masowe Chishanu Church in Zimbabwe	484	17	9	510
Symbolic Dimensions of 19th Century Dutch Colonial Settlement at the Cape of Good Hope	498	8	1	507
Will the real Nigantha Nātaputta please stand up? Reflections on the Buddha and his contemporaries	243	7	244	494
Invisibilising the victimised: churches in Manicaland and women's experiences of political violence in national healing and reconciliation in Zimbabwe	477	9	4	490
An analysis of the epistemic link between the Catholic religion and violence in Uganda's history	469	14	0	483
A Gift of Grapes: What Biography Reveals of the Uniquely Religiously-based Friendship between P.Q. Vundla and Nico Ferreira	464	13	3	480
The Rastafarian movement in South Africa: A religion or way of life?	413	62	1	476
Holy Toledo: Muslim-Christian Relations and Catholic Nationalism in Vicente Blasco Ibánez's The Shadow of the Cathedral	458	7	5	470
The Ambivalence of Freedom of Religion, and Unearthing the Unlearnt Lessons of Religious Freedom from the Jonestown Incident: A Decoloniality Approach	449	13	5	467
Sexual Surveillance and Student Sexual Agency: Catholic Moral Teaching and HIV Prevention in a Higher Education Context	445	13	5	463
Kereke Ya Sephiri: A Study of a Secret Society in Botswana and South Africa	333	76	41	450
'Make the Circle Bigger': Alternate Discourses of Identity Construction in Black Theologies	434	9	6	449
'Everything is Plastic': The Faith of Unity Movement and the Making of a Post-Catholic Religion in Uganda	413	19	1	433
Ironies of Christian Presence in Southern Africa	383	28	2	413
Religion as political instrument: The case of Japan and South Africa	377	21	9	407
Rethinking religion, magic and witchcraft in South Africa: From colonial coherence to postcolonial conundrum	326	46	11	383
Chuma Ulete: Business and Discourses of Witchcraft in Neoliberal Tanzania	328	26	0	354
World religions in the world	292	26	0	318
A case of hopeless failure: The role of missionaries in the transformation of Southern Africa's indigenous architecture	301	13	2	316
A study of literature on the essence of ubungoma (divination) and conceptions of gender among izangoma (diviners)	269	26	5	300
'Sanctifying Sex': Exploring 'Indecent' Sexual Imagery in Pentecostal Liturgical Practices	247	25	8	280
African philosophy of education as a response to human rights violations: Cultivating Ubuntu as a virtue in religious education	233	38	1	272
The Role of the London Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society in the Abolition of Oozhiyam (Bonded Labor Service) in Kerala	230	29	13	272
Indigenous conceptions of conversion among African Christians in South Africa	238	21	5	264
Reflections on gender identity in a safe space for transforming classroom praxis	234	3	0	237
Albinism in the Ancient Mediterranean World	218	12	2	232
Teilhard de Chardin's vision of science, religion and planetary humanity: A challenge to the contemporary world	206	11	2	219
Covid-19 and its Impact on Religiosity: Reflections on Religious Life and Practice in Uganda	99	72	44	215
Decolonizing the Study of Religions: Muslim Intellectuals and the Enlightenment Project of Religious Studies	173	26	1	200
TV is the Devil, the Devil is on TV: Wild Religion and Wild Media in South Africa	182	11	1	194
Religious Intolerance: The Case of Principals in Multi-faith Schools	170	12	1	183
Mapping Post-Secular Islamic Liberation Theology	64	63	42	169
Agency and the Critical Study of Religion	57	69	42	168
Theology before and after Bishop Robinson's Honest to God (1963)	150	14	2	166
Contextualization of Christian Theological Formation in Ghana: Nature, Challenges, and Prospects	59	64	43	166
Latter-Day Saint Theology of a Material, Embodied Deity vis-à-vis Evolutionary Conceptions of Embodiment, Agency, and Matter	54	64	43	161
Money Dwells in the Spiritual Pocket! The Gospel of Prosperity and the Empowerment of Women through Talents/'Matarenda among ZAOGA FIF Adherents in Gweru, Zimbabwe1	138	20	2	160
'Senses': Assessing a Key Term in David Chidester's Analysis of Religion	145	9	2	156
The Influence and Legacy of the Shepherding Movement on the Current Neo-Pentecostal Movement in South Africa	123	29	4	156
Frontier Zones and the Study of Religion	143	10	0	153
A Mall Intercept Survey on Religion and Worldview in the Cape Flats of Cape Town, South Africa	125	12	14	151
Indigenous knowledge systems discourse and inclusionality: An Afro-centric quest for recognition in a globalised world	132	16	2	150
An encroachment of ecological sacred sites and its threat to the interconnectedness of sacred rituals: A case study of the Tonga people in the Gwembe valley	112	34	3	149
Fakecraft	58	6	84	148
Interpersonal Friendship: A Prerequisite to Mystical Contemplation, according to St. Teresa of Avila	42	61	43	146
'If this is of God': Choosing to Curse in Ghanaian Charismatic Christianity	124	15	5	144
Ng'angas - Zambian Healers-Diviners and their Relationship with Pentecostal Christianity: The Intermingling of Pre-Christian Beliefs and Christianity	127	7	4	138
Islam, Muslims, and the Coloniality of Being: Reframing the Debate on Race and Religion in Modernity	101	21	8	130
'Quinine', 'Ditaola' and the 'bible': Investigating Batswana health seeking practices	97	23	6	126
David Chidester Publications (1982-2018)	108	16	0	124
Christian humanism, progressive Christianity and social transformation	110	12	0	122
The startling phenomenon of the Western Tibetan Buddhist nun: the challenges faced by Western nuns in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition living outside the traditional Tibetan Buddhist regions	111	7	2	120
Learning from Black Theology	109	10	0	119
The study of religion as passionate engagement: The visionary sensibility of talal asad	105	9	1	115
From religious education to worldview education and beyond: The strength of a transformative pedagogical paradigm	103	8	1	112
Debating virginity-testing cultural practices in South Africa: a Taylorian reflection	97	10	4	111
Convergence and divergence: A Christian response to Prozesky's 'global ethic' and secular spirituality	98	11	1	110
Villa-Vicencio, C. 2021. Living between science and belief: The modern dilemma. Eugene: Cascade Books. 156 pages. Paperback ISBN 978-1-7252-6500-4. Hardcover ISBN 978-1-7252-6501-1. EBook ISBN 978-1-7252-6502-8.	44	60	0	104
Covid-19, Congregational Worship, and Contestation over 'Correct' Islam in South Africa	73	26	3	102
Exploring South African girlhoods: The self-identifications of young muslim female learners in post-apartheid South African high schools	50	39	11	100
An emergent consciousness of the role of christianity on Zimbabwe's Political field: a case of non-doctrinal religio-political actors	83	12	2	97
A Faith that Does Justice: The Public Testimony of Oliver Tambo	90	6	1	97
Ahmad Deedat: The making of a transnational religious figure	65	26	1	92
Can't Help Lovin': David Chidester's Pop Culture Colonialism	69	9	9	87
Gloria Anzaldúa's El Mundo Zurdo: Exploring a relational feminist theology of interconnectedness	81	3	2	86
J.T. van der Kemp and his Critique of the Settler Farmers on the South African Colonial Frontier (1799-1811)	79	5	0	84
Materializing Religion: Essays in Honor of David Chidester	78	5	0	83
South Africa's Weekly Media: Front-Page Reporting 9/11, Preventing Islamophobia	60	17	6	83
A history of resistance: Ivone Gebara's transformative feminist liberation theology	52	20	8	80
Homo ethicus: Understanding the human nature that underlies human rights and human rights education	72	5	3	80
Covid-19 and the South African Pentecostal Landscape: Historic Shift from Offline Liturgical Practice to Online Platforms	54	19	7	80
Can ethics be taught?	61	18	0	79
The New Apostolic Reformation and Christian Zionism	75	3	0	78
Gandhi: A man for our times?	63	14	1	78
The paradigms of contemporary religious education	69	8	0	77
Mapping an interoceanic landscape: Dube and Gandhi in early 20th century Durban, South Africa	66	5	2	73
Unpacking the Socio-Political Background of the Evolution of Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria: A Social Movement Theory Approach	48	21	4	73
Religious Freedom and the Law: A Reality or Pipe Dream for Prisoners in South Africa?	51	17	4	72
Can the Rwandan Catholic Church Overcome its History of Politicization? A Reply to Philippe Denis	59	8	2	69
Reflection in practice as source of values: The cross-cultural creation of a health-care ethic in post-apartheid South Africa	57	10	1	68
Resurgent Fundamentalism, Politics, and the Anti-Liberal Agenda: Challenges for South Africa's Constitutional Democracy	52	9	6	67
J.T. Van der Kemp and eighteenth century coded subjectivity	59	7	0	66
Interrogating the Role of Language in Clergy Sexual Abuse of Women and Girls in Zimbabwe	52	12	2	66
Singing and Sounding the Sacred - the Function of Religious Songs and Hymns in the Public Sphere	46	19	0	65

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