Willem Fourie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1400449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Willem Fourie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Willem |
| FAMILY NAME | Fourie |
| SIGNATURE | FOURIE W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9313-4053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reclaiming leadership knowledge: Decolonising the study of leadership in Africa
Leadership studies have long been dominated by Western paradigms, often overlooking the diverse cultural, political, and socio-historical contexts that define leadership in Africa. Scholars have increasingly acknowledged the need to decolonise leadership studies, advocating for a more representative and inclusive approach that integrates African perspectives. Decolonisation in this context refers not only to addressing historical biases but also …
Non-state actors in state-driven development processes: The Case of Religious Actors and Foreign Aid Flows
How should non-state actors engage state-led development processes? This article uses the theological notion of “religious bilinguality” as a conceptual basis for identifying three roles in which religious communities can engage the state-led process of foreign aid distribution. The roles range from being granted to claiming the right of participation. As “guests”, religious actors are able to reinvigorate existing dialogue platforms; as “servant…
The 2030 Agenda and coherent national development policy: In dialogue with South African policymakers on Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development
The Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD) agenda is regarded as the principal instrument to ensure the coherent alignment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with domestic policies. Due to PCSD's genesis in the foreign aid donor–recipient relationship, there is a shortage of research on policymakers in developing countries' perspective on PCSD. In this article, interviews with South African policymakers are used to evaluate …
Religion and Limitations to the Protection of Human Life
Despite the contention that modern legal systems should function as if God did not exist, religious beliefs and practices continue to play an important role in how people develop, interpret, and choose to respond to legal systems. This article seeks to investigate the relation between religion and international human rights law, focusing on the protection of life in three religions: Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. Political theory is drawn upo…
Aligning South Africa's National Development Plan with the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals: Guidelines from the Policy Coherence for Development movement
Sustainable development depends on coherence between the development policies of recipients and the providers of development assistance. Yet achieving coherence is difficult. This paper examines the extent to which the Policy Coherence for Development movement offers guidelines for aligning national development priorities with global development priorities. This qualitative paper focuses on alignment between South Africa's National Development an…
Sixty years of research on leadership in Africa: A review of the literature
This paper reviews peer-reviewed research on leadership in Africa published from 1950 to 2009. The review has a dual purpose. On the one hand, it provides scholars with an entry point to the relatively large body of historical literature by means of a descriptive diachronic analysis of the literature. On the other hand, it also applies a synchronic analysis, and concludes with four interpretative statements on the scholarship on leadership in Afr…
Thou shalt not fail? Using theological impulses to critique the heroic bias in transformational leadership theory
Leaders whose mistakes are made public are often under pressure to relinquish their positions. The expectation that true leaders should be infallible is particularly pronounced in transformational leadership theory. Its heroic bias seems to point towards a conception of leadership that is at odds with the inevitability of human failure. In this article, we use impulses from Protestant theology to identify and critique the heroic bias in transform…
Finding an academic voice in postapartheid South Africa: Systematic Theology at the University of Pretoria
How can an academic voice concerning systematic-theological reflection find expression at a public university in a postapartheid SA? In this chapter, the different research foci of the members of the Department of Dogmatics and Christian Ethics at the UP are presented and interpreted as attempts to find such a voice as a collection of voices within a society characterised by shifting social-ecclesial and theological landscapes. The specific resea…
Contextuality and Intercontextuality in Public Theology: On the Structure of Churches’ Public Engagement in South Africa and Germany
Contextuality and intercontextuality remain important themes in the burgeoning field of public theology. The authors employ a comparative and descriptive approach to contribute to this complex of themes. It is done by investigating and comparing the concrete ways in which churches in South Africa and Germany structure their public engagement. The authors find both significant similarities and differences and conclude with two consequences for ref…
Four concepts of Africa
What makes the words 'Africa' and 'African' possible and useful? In this article it is argued that at least four internally coherent concepts of Africa exist, and that none of these concepts are ethically neutral. The article is presented as a contribution to attempts at using the term 'Africa' in self-critical, reflexive and constructive ways. It could therefore be of interest to all researchers, particularly those in the humanities and theology…
Can Christian ethics be used to engage business? A (South) African consideration
Business enterprises are in a position to exert a significant influence on society – particularly in the context of developing countries. Businesses no longer simply influence shareholders, employees and customers, but also play a role in strengthening (or weakening) political institutions and contributing to the wellbeing of other stakeholders. The result is that business enterprises are increasingly accountable to a growing number of stakeholde…
Can Public Theology Be Practised beyond the State
This article reflects on the relationship between public theology and the state. It suggests that a state-centric paradigm plays a significant role in the self-understanding and practice of public theology, and that transnationalism can serve as correction to state-centrism. It argues that these concepts complement the existing discourse on glocalization in public theology. The article investigates the role of churches in the struggle against apa…
Het kerke n publieke rol in n pluralistiese Suid-Afrika
Churches public role in a pluralistic South Africa South Africa s diversity provides significant challenges to public involvement by churches. In some circles it is even believed that this diversity disqualifies churches from any form of public involvement. This diversity is protected by a liberal constitution and nurturing it is one of the explicit aims of the South African consolidating democracy. The German theologians Michael Welker and Wolfg…
Four concepts of Africa
What makes the words 'Africa' and 'African' possible and useful? In this article it is argued that at least four internally coherent concepts of Africa exist, and that none of these concepts are ethically neutral. The article is presented as a contribution to attempts at using the term 'Africa' in self-critical, reflexive and constructive ways. It could therefore be of interest to all researchers, particularly those in the humanities and theology…
Can Public Theology Be Practised beyond the State
This article reflects on the relationship between public theology and the state. It suggests that a state-centric paradigm plays a significant role in the self-understanding and practice of public theology, and that transnationalism can serve as correction to state-centrism. It argues that these concepts complement the existing discourse on glocalization in public theology. The article investigates the role of churches in the struggle against apa…
The 2030 Agenda and coherent national development policy: In dialogue with South African policymakers on Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development
The Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD) agenda is regarded as the principal instrument to ensure the coherent alignment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with domestic policies. Due to PCSD's genesis in the foreign aid donor–recipient relationship, there is a shortage of research on policymakers in developing countries' perspective on PCSD. In this article, interviews with South African policymakers are used to evaluate …
Aligning South Africa's National Development Plan with the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals: Guidelines from the Policy Coherence for Development movement
Sustainable development depends on coherence between the development policies of recipients and the providers of development assistance. Yet achieving coherence is difficult. This paper examines the extent to which the Policy Coherence for Development movement offers guidelines for aligning national development priorities with global development priorities. This qualitative paper focuses on alignment between South Africa's National Development an…
Het kerke n publieke rol in n pluralistiese Suid-Afrika
Churches public role in a pluralistic South Africa South Africa s diversity provides significant challenges to public involvement by churches. In some circles it is even believed that this diversity disqualifies churches from any form of public involvement. This diversity is protected by a liberal constitution and nurturing it is one of the explicit aims of the South African consolidating democracy. The German theologians Michael Welker and Wolfg…
Thou shalt not fail? Using theological impulses to critique the heroic bias in transformational leadership theory
Leaders whose mistakes are made public are often under pressure to relinquish their positions. The expectation that true leaders should be infallible is particularly pronounced in transformational leadership theory. Its heroic bias seems to point towards a conception of leadership that is at odds with the inevitability of human failure. In this article, we use impulses from Protestant theology to identify and critique the heroic bias in transform…
Finding an academic voice in postapartheid South Africa: Systematic Theology at the University of Pretoria
How can an academic voice concerning systematic-theological reflection find expression at a public university in a postapartheid SA? In this chapter, the different research foci of the members of the Department of Dogmatics and Christian Ethics at the UP are presented and interpreted as attempts to find such a voice as a collection of voices within a society characterised by shifting social-ecclesial and theological landscapes. The specific resea…
Het kerke n publieke rol in n pluralistiese Suid-Afrika
Churches public role in a pluralistic South Africa South Africa s diversity provides significant challenges to public involvement by churches. In some circles it is even believed that this diversity disqualifies churches from any form of public involvement. This diversity is protected by a liberal constitution and nurturing it is one of the explicit aims of the South African consolidating democracy. The German theologians Michael Welker and Wolfg…
Can Christian ethics be used to engage business? A (South) African consideration
Business enterprises are in a position to exert a significant influence on society – particularly in the context of developing countries. Businesses no longer simply influence shareholders, employees and customers, but also play a role in strengthening (or weakening) political institutions and contributing to the wellbeing of other stakeholders. The result is that business enterprises are increasingly accountable to a growing number of stakeholde…
Can Public Theology Be Practised beyond the State
This article reflects on the relationship between public theology and the state. It suggests that a state-centric paradigm plays a significant role in the self-understanding and practice of public theology, and that transnationalism can serve as correction to state-centrism. It argues that these concepts complement the existing discourse on glocalization in public theology. The article investigates the role of churches in the struggle against apa…
Four concepts of Africa
What makes the words 'Africa' and 'African' possible and useful? In this article it is argued that at least four internally coherent concepts of Africa exist, and that none of these concepts are ethically neutral. The article is presented as a contribution to attempts at using the term 'Africa' in self-critical, reflexive and constructive ways. It could therefore be of interest to all researchers, particularly those in the humanities and theology…
Sixty years of research on leadership in Africa: A review of the literature
This paper reviews peer-reviewed research on leadership in Africa published from 1950 to 2009. The review has a dual purpose. On the one hand, it provides scholars with an entry point to the relatively large body of historical literature by means of a descriptive diachronic analysis of the literature. On the other hand, it also applies a synchronic analysis, and concludes with four interpretative statements on the scholarship on leadership in Afr…
Thou shalt not fail? Using theological impulses to critique the heroic bias in transformational leadership theory
Leaders whose mistakes are made public are often under pressure to relinquish their positions. The expectation that true leaders should be infallible is particularly pronounced in transformational leadership theory. Its heroic bias seems to point towards a conception of leadership that is at odds with the inevitability of human failure. In this article, we use impulses from Protestant theology to identify and critique the heroic bias in transform…
Finding an academic voice in postapartheid South Africa: Systematic Theology at the University of Pretoria
How can an academic voice concerning systematic-theological reflection find expression at a public university in a postapartheid SA? In this chapter, the different research foci of the members of the Department of Dogmatics and Christian Ethics at the UP are presented and interpreted as attempts to find such a voice as a collection of voices within a society characterised by shifting social-ecclesial and theological landscapes. The specific resea…
Contextuality and Intercontextuality in Public Theology: On the Structure of Churches’ Public Engagement in South Africa and Germany
Contextuality and intercontextuality remain important themes in the burgeoning field of public theology. The authors employ a comparative and descriptive approach to contribute to this complex of themes. It is done by investigating and comparing the concrete ways in which churches in South Africa and Germany structure their public engagement. The authors find both significant similarities and differences and conclude with two consequences for ref…
Religion and Limitations to the Protection of Human Life
Despite the contention that modern legal systems should function as if God did not exist, religious beliefs and practices continue to play an important role in how people develop, interpret, and choose to respond to legal systems. This article seeks to investigate the relation between religion and international human rights law, focusing on the protection of life in three religions: Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. Political theory is drawn upo…
Aligning South Africa's National Development Plan with the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals: Guidelines from the Policy Coherence for Development movement
Sustainable development depends on coherence between the development policies of recipients and the providers of development assistance. Yet achieving coherence is difficult. This paper examines the extent to which the Policy Coherence for Development movement offers guidelines for aligning national development priorities with global development priorities. This qualitative paper focuses on alignment between South Africa's National Development an…
The 2030 Agenda and coherent national development policy: In dialogue with South African policymakers on Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development
The Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD) agenda is regarded as the principal instrument to ensure the coherent alignment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with domestic policies. Due to PCSD's genesis in the foreign aid donor–recipient relationship, there is a shortage of research on policymakers in developing countries' perspective on PCSD. In this article, interviews with South African policymakers are used to evaluate …
Non-state actors in state-driven development processes: The Case of Religious Actors and Foreign Aid Flows
How should non-state actors engage state-led development processes? This article uses the theological notion of “religious bilinguality” as a conceptual basis for identifying three roles in which religious communities can engage the state-led process of foreign aid distribution. The roles range from being granted to claiming the right of participation. As “guests”, religious actors are able to reinvigorate existing dialogue platforms; as “servant…
Reclaiming leadership knowledge: Decolonising the study of leadership in Africa
Leadership studies have long been dominated by Western paradigms, often overlooking the diverse cultural, political, and socio-historical contexts that define leadership in Africa. Scholars have increasingly acknowledged the need to decolonise leadership studies, advocating for a more representative and inclusive approach that integrates African perspectives. Decolonisation in this context refers not only to addressing historical biases but also …
Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (5 works)