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"A boy, being a victim, nobody really buys that, you know?": dynamics of sexual violence against boys
(Elsevier, 2017)The aim of this study was to present the dynamics of sexual violence against boys. Interviews were conducted with four male victims of sexual abuse between the ages of six and 10, as well as four psychologists employed in ... -
A call for recognition and empowerment of women in ministry in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
(The Church History Society Of Southern Africa, 2017)Women were already in ministry in Old and New Testament times, though they were not officially recognised as ministers as they are today. This practice was adopted by the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA). Despite ... -
A case for loyalty-based relational business models: Assessing direct - and mediating effects of the Net Promoter Score (NPS) metric in commercial football consumption decisions
(AJHTL, 2016)Although the Net Promoter Score (NPS) consumer metric as proposed by Reichheld (2003) has been established as a pragmatic commercial revenue indicator in business management, empirical scrutiny of the measure remains ... -
A comparative-philosophical perspective on divine hiddenness in the Hebrew Bible
(OASIS, 2015)This study is concerned with the problem of divine hiddenness as it has taken shape in analytic philosophy of religion over the past two decades. More specifically, the interest lies with providing a comparative-philosophical ... -
A comprehensive philosophical approach to Qohelet's epistemology
(Univ Pretoria Hts, 2015)An increasing number of studies have seen the light over the last few decades concerning the epistemology of the book of Ecclesiastes. The extant research seems to be limited to try to find a suitable philosophical profile ... -
A comprehensive typology of philosophical perspectives on Qohelet
(OASIS, 2015)In this article, the author seeks to provide the first comprehensive typology of philosophical approaches to the book of Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). Six overlapping, yet functionally distinct, meta-philosophical categories ... -
A conceptual study of spirituality in selected writings of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
(Sage, 2017)Several authors have noted that one of émile Jaques-Dalcroze's aims was to dissolve the mind-body dualism, typical of Cartesianism. However, there has been little research on the spirit-body connection, as it appears in ... -
A context specific framework approach to community based monitoring
(Look Academic Publishers, 2017)This paper aims to outline the development of a generic citizen science framework that can be implemented at educational institutions such as university campuses and schools. The framework was developed as a reflective ... -
A fruitful missional exegesis for a missional hermeneutic and missiology
(AOSIS, 2017)Bosch (1991:497) advocated for a 'third-way' (Bekele 2011:155; Du Plessis 1990:83) in which a deductive and an inductive approach were unified in a creative tension. A fruitful interdependence is achieved by means of the ... -
A GF miniature resource grammar for Tswana: modelling the proper verb
(Springer, 2017)The Grammatical Framework (GF) not only offers state of the art grammar-based machine translation support between an increasing number of languages through its so-called Resource Grammar Library, but is also fast becoming ... -
A group intervention programme for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse
(Stellenbosch University, 2016)This study reports on the core components of the Survivor to Thriver strengths-based group intervention programme for women who experienced childhood sexual abuse. It advocates a balanced approach and draws on an eclectic ... -
A guideline for the strategic implementation of social media messaging within a marketing communication context
(University of Johannesburg, 2016)Marketing communication practitioners lack a guideline for implementing social media strategically. In the light of this, the authors of this article explored the strategic implementation of social media within a marketing ... -
A history of the Waterlit collection (1974-1999): A hard copy research collection on water studies and its digital catalogue
(University of the Free State // Institute for Contemporary History Sabinet, 2015)In the second half of the twentieth century South Africa built up a reputation as one of the foremost countries of the world in terms of water infrastructure development. Dam projects such as the Orange River Scheme and ... -
A long walk to obedience: missiology and mission under scrutiny (1910-2010)
(AOSIS, 2017)This article describes the discipline of missiology and mission over the last century since Edinburgh 1910 followed by two world wars to Edinburgh 2010, as a long walk to obedience - a walk in discerning God's will. Even ... -
A pastoral evaluation and responses to the challenge of spiritual insecurity in African pastoral ministry and Christianity
(AOSIS, 2017)This article argues that there is a form of Christian syncretism operating in African Christians' use of traditional African powers to address their spiritual insecurity challenges that arises from their former traditional ... -
A practical-theological reflection on the usage of symbols and metaphors in intercultural pastoral care in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2016)The African continent is associated with a variety of problems. Irrespective of having achieved a new democracy more than two decades ago, South Africa still seems to suffer the same fate as the rest of the continent because ... -
A proposition for an integrated church and community intervention to adolescent and youth sexual reproductive health challenges
(AOSIS, 2016)Adolescents and youth in South Africa comprise about 30% of the total population. This phenomenon is referred to as a youth bubble. Research shows that 52% of young people have had full penetrative sex by age 17, and yet ... -
A quality management model for community newspapers: the case of developing countries
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Managers' ability to effectively and efficiently obtain, manage and utilise organisational resources plays an important role in the quality of the product their organisations present audiences with. A literature review ... -
A radical feminism assessment of women's recant of the male symbolic order in the name of difference
(IFE Centre for Psychological Studies (ICPS), 2016)Feminism, in general is a belief that women are and should be treated as potential intellectual equals and social equals to men. Though the ideology is commonly and perhaps falsely associated mainly with women, a feminist ... -
A reason to stay healthy: the role of meaning in life in relation to physical activity and healthy eating among adolescents
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2015)The present longitudinal study investigated the incremental contribution of meaning in life to sustaining health–promoting behaviors, after controlling for well–being and health values among East–European adolescents (N = ...