Julius Gathogo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1425465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julius Gathogo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julius |
| FAMILY NAME | Gathogo |
| SIGNATURE | GATHOGO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kenyatta University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1718-0082 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The confession of Belhar and an African indigenous perspective
A study of the Christian Statement of belief, which was written in Afrikaans as Belydenis van Belhar (The Confession of Belhar, 26 September 1986), is critically important, as it amounts to reviewing the past in order to inform the future. A reading of indigenous confessions will enrich our comparative engagement and broaden our grasp of individual and communal-inspired confessions across historical times. As a Christian witness of biblical truth…
Misrepresentations of African religion
The article sets out to understand the misconceptions and misrepresentations of religion in general and African religion in particular and how these fallacies have affected the latter since they entered the global scene. This also drives us to historicise religious discourses and eventually consider how its apologists and/or scholars of religion have responded since the first half of the 20th century. Have the African indigenous resources contrib…
Theology of African hospitality
The article is based on the premise that a theology of African hospitality emerges from the intersection of biblical themes such as eschatology, humanity, redemption, kenosis, Christology, salvation and future hope, with African indigenous concepts such as communality, migration and humanity (Ubuntu). It seeks to explore the extent to which it utilises African indigenous knowledge systems (AIKS). Does it employ indigenous research methods (IRMs) …
African women, religion and pandemics
In citing some qualitative case studies and in building on analytical-survey research design, this article explores the place of African women in warding off the pandemics, with particular reference to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in its initial stages (March 2020). With Africa being the most religious continent in the 21st century, African women who led the onslaught against COVID-19 (refer to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf [EJS], Graca Machel, Ng…
Cross-cultural agenda in a theological institution
This research article sets out to understand the extent to which a cross-cultural agenda of inclusivity and the appreciation for the ‘other’ (ubuntu) was addressed at St. Andrew’s College of Theology and Development, Kabare, Kenya, which has been viewed as a conglomeration of diverse ethnic groups, races, and nations. While appreciating the barriers of cross-cultural engagements as including, but not limited to: language, conflicting values, irre…
Liturgical initiatives and moratorium debates in Africa
African ecclesiology has experienced peculiar theological scenes right from the days of the Arianism and Donatism controversies in the first century to the present moment when a liturgy of Africa is still a pipedream. By use of theo-historical-analytical design, this article explores the quest for a liturgy of Africa by retracing some key trends such as the moratorium debates of the 1970s and other key attempts at the inculturation of liturgy in …
Nyawiras as communal liberators
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies is an acclaimed journal with broad coverage that promotes multidisciplinary, religious, and biblical aspects of studies in the international theological arena. The journal’s publication criteria are based on high ethical standards and the rigor of the methodology and conclusions reported
African Indigenous knowledge versus Western science in the Mbeere Mission of Kenya
This article sets out to explore the way in which Western science and technology was received in the Mbeere Mission of central Kenya since August 1912 when a medical missionary, Dr T.W.W. Crawford, visited the area. In his dalliance with ecclesiastical matters, Crawford, a highly trained Canadian medical doctor, was sent by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) at Kigari-Embu, in 1910, to pioneer the Anglican mission in the vast area that included …
Covid-19 Response in Kenya, March 2020 to March 2021
This study explored Kenya’s response to coronavirus disease 2019 (hereafter COVID-19) between 13 March 2020, when the first confirmed case was publicly announced, and 8 March 2021, when the country’s vaccination campaigns against the scourge began. The vaccination campaigns began after the country received some doses through the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX). Although African indigenous medicines were critical in arresting the r…
The Missionaries' Engagement with Science and Technology in Colonial Kenya, 1887-1963
The missionaries' engagement with science and technology in colonial Kenya (1887-1963) is evidentially seen through the use of the post-industrial revolution's breakthroughs of the eighteenth century, which included: advancement in science and mass production, steam engines, and the rise of digital technology. The tendency to rely heavily on post-industrial innovations and inventions were critical in fast-tracking their missiological discourses, …
Njega wa Gioko and the European missionaries in the colonial Kenya
Njega wa Gioko (1865–1948) was one of the pioneer Chiefs in Kirinyaga county of Kenya. The other pioneer Chief in Kirinyaga county was Gutu wa Kibetu (1860–1927) who reigned in the Eastern part of Kirinyaga county. Gioko reigned in the western part of Kirinyaga county (Ndia) that extended to some geographical parts of the present-day Nyeri county and the present-day Embu county. Njega also became the first paramount Chief of Embu district, which …
Legacies and pitfalls amongst the African Evangelicals
The research study sets out to explore the contribution of the African Evangelicals in both the colonial and post-colonial Kenya to the social lives of the nation. Can’t it be viewed as a positive social influence or an ecclesiastical pitfall? In utilising a socio-historical design, it poses the question: how did the Evangelical European Missionaries demonstrate their theological and social influences in Kenya, and how did the post-missionary Eva…
Legacies and pitfalls amongst the African Evangelicals
The research study sets out to explore the contribution of the African Evangelicals in both the colonial and post-colonial Kenya to the social lives of the nation. Can’t it be viewed as a positive social influence or an ecclesiastical pitfall? In utilising a socio-historical design, it poses the question: how did the Evangelical European Missionaries demonstrate their theological and social influences in Kenya, and how did the post-missionary Eva…
Njega wa Gioko and the European Missionaries in the Colonial Kenya
Njega wa Gioko (1865–1948) was one of the pioneer Chiefs in Kirinyaga county of Kenya. The other pioneer Chief in Kirinyaga county was Gutu wa Kibetu (1860–1927) who reigned in the Eastern part of Kirinyaga county. Gioko reigned in the western part of Kirinyaga county (Ndia) that extended to some geographical parts of the present-day Nyeri county and the present-day Embu county. Njega also became the first paramount Chief of Embu district, which …
Latin American liberation theology
Three decades after the proposal for a shift of theological paradigm, from liberation to reconstruction in an African context (1990-2020), it is worthwhile to ask: Was this proposal timely? Did the proposal speak for other related theologies of liberation in the majority-world such as Black theology of North America and more specifically, Latin American liberation theology? In this proposal, African theologies of liberation were urged to embrace …
Memory and history
Some historians have always erred in ignoring oral history methods, as it is always assumed wrongly that the only reliable and trustworthy source of history is the written word. The aim of this article is to underscore the nature and significance of oral histories, which rely on the memory of the narrators. In the case of both Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s and Wole Soyinka’s literary works, their respective childhood experiences are well captured, as they …
Intolerance before and after the 1517 Reformation and the Kenyan context
The article sets out to demonstrate that theo-social intolerance in both colonial and post-colonial Kenya, a phenomenon which reminisces other forms of intolerance during and after the 1517 reformation and the persecutions in the early Church, can be overcome. In Kenya, theo-social intolerance was evident when both the missionaries and the colonial authorities blocked any room for dialogue with the practitioners of African religion. It reached it…
A brave one-legged general
This article sets out to demonstrate the role of the ‘one-legged devil’ (as the colonialists called Patrick Gichimu Njogu), also called General Kassam. Kassam was one of the pioneer generals of the Mau Mau, a guerrilla movement that operated from the central Kenya forests as they participated in the war of liberation from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. Was Kassam a one-legged general from the word go? Methodologically speaking, the article i…
Karubiu wa Munyi and the making of modern Kirinyaga, Kenya
The article sets out to explore the lessons that can be drawn from the selfless and integrity-driven leadership offered by some pioneer post-independent Kenyan leaders such as Karubiu wa Munyi. With more financial scandals increasing in the public domains, as in the case where over 15 mega corruption scandals remained unaccounted for, by 2018, the need to draw some lessons from the likes of wa Munyi becomes an important matter worth consideration…
Religion and Development in Africa
What is development? Who defines that one community/ country is “developed”, while another community/ country is “under-developed”? What is the relationship between religion and development? Does religion contribute to development or underdevelopment in Africa? These and related questions elicit quite charged reactions in African studies, development studies, political science and related fields. Africa’s own history, including the memory of marg…
The Leven House Factor in the Birth of Digo Mission and Christian Empire in East Africa
Leven House, as it exists in the 21st century in Mombasa city of Kenya, remains one of the most historic buildings in eastern Africa. In our focus on both the birth of the Christian Empire in East Africa (that stretches from the Kenyan Coast to the Democratic Republic of Congo), and the Digo Mission that began in 1904, Leven House becomes a critical issue. As the Anglican Diocese of Mombasa commemorated 114 years of the Digo Mission (1904–2018) i…
Mau-Mau war rituals and women rebels in Kirinyaga county of Kenya (1952-1960)
The Mau-Mau war of independence in Kenya was fought after the returnees of the first and Second World Wars (1919Wars ( -1945)), who were mainly Christians, succeeded in politicising the black majority in the then Kenyan colony to demand justice across the colour divides, as a religio-ritual duty which climaxed in oaths. The first stage of the war was seen in the change of contents in the African ritualistic dances that young men and women had got…
Some Expressions of African Hospitality Today
The paper sets out to demonstrate that any emerging post Cold War theology, in Africa, ought to underline the concept of hospitality as it is not only an inherently African conception but more importantly, it is both a reconstructive and reconciliative element in the Africa of the 21st century. In particular, it is critical to include hospitality into the theological schema of reconstruction. To do this, it has attempted a survey on the socio-rel…
Reconciliation Paradigm in the Post Colonial Africa
The article sets out to stir up the debate on reconciliation project in the post colonial Africa. As we strategise on ways and means of delivering the promise of reconstruction, there is need to pay more attention on the reconciliation for individual and society. In other words, does reconciliation mean blanket forgiveness or reparation? How can we ensure that those who looted Africa account for their misdeeds without further complicating the sit…
Black Theology of South Africa
The paper is based on the premise that the proposal for a shift of paradigm, from liberation to reconstruction, in post-apartheid South Africa and the post-cold war Africa, was not received with great enthusiasm among the practitioners of Black theology, as was widely expected. Could it be a quiet way of saying, "Look our concerns such as racism, poverty, land redistribution, deconstruction of patriarchy, fair redistribution of the national resou…
Some Expressions of African Hospitality Today
The paper sets out to demonstrate that any emerging post Cold War theology, in Africa, ought to underline the concept of hospitality as it is not only an inherently African conception but more importantly, it is both a reconstructive and reconciliative element in the Africa of the 21st century. In particular, it is critical to include hospitality into the theological schema of reconstruction. To do this, it has attempted a survey on the socio-rel…
Covid-19 Response in Kenya, March 2020 to March 2021
This study explored Kenya’s response to coronavirus disease 2019 (hereafter COVID-19) between 13 March 2020, when the first confirmed case was publicly announced, and 8 March 2021, when the country’s vaccination campaigns against the scourge began. The vaccination campaigns began after the country received some doses through the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX). Although African indigenous medicines were critical in arresting the r…
The Missionaries' Engagement with Science and Technology in Colonial Kenya, 1887-1963
The missionaries' engagement with science and technology in colonial Kenya (1887-1963) is evidentially seen through the use of the post-industrial revolution's breakthroughs of the eighteenth century, which included: advancement in science and mass production, steam engines, and the rise of digital technology. The tendency to rely heavily on post-industrial innovations and inventions were critical in fast-tracking their missiological discourses, …
Black Theology of South Africa
The paper is based on the premise that the proposal for a shift of paradigm, from liberation to reconstruction, in post-apartheid South Africa and the post-cold war Africa, was not received with great enthusiasm among the practitioners of Black theology, as was widely expected. Could it be a quiet way of saying, "Look our concerns such as racism, poverty, land redistribution, deconstruction of patriarchy, fair redistribution of the national resou…
Reconciliation Paradigm in the Post Colonial Africa
The article sets out to stir up the debate on reconciliation project in the post colonial Africa. As we strategise on ways and means of delivering the promise of reconstruction, there is need to pay more attention on the reconciliation for individual and society. In other words, does reconciliation mean blanket forgiveness or reparation? How can we ensure that those who looted Africa account for their misdeeds without further complicating the sit…
Some Expressions of African Hospitality Today
The paper sets out to demonstrate that any emerging post Cold War theology, in Africa, ought to underline the concept of hospitality as it is not only an inherently African conception but more importantly, it is both a reconstructive and reconciliative element in the Africa of the 21st century. In particular, it is critical to include hospitality into the theological schema of reconstruction. To do this, it has attempted a survey on the socio-rel…
Mau-Mau war rituals and women rebels in Kirinyaga county of Kenya (1952-1960)
The Mau-Mau war of independence in Kenya was fought after the returnees of the first and Second World Wars (1919Wars ( -1945)), who were mainly Christians, succeeded in politicising the black majority in the then Kenyan colony to demand justice across the colour divides, as a religio-ritual duty which climaxed in oaths. The first stage of the war was seen in the change of contents in the African ritualistic dances that young men and women had got…
Intolerance before and after the 1517 Reformation and the Kenyan context
The article sets out to demonstrate that theo-social intolerance in both colonial and post-colonial Kenya, a phenomenon which reminisces other forms of intolerance during and after the 1517 reformation and the persecutions in the early Church, can be overcome. In Kenya, theo-social intolerance was evident when both the missionaries and the colonial authorities blocked any room for dialogue with the practitioners of African religion. It reached it…
A brave one-legged general
This article sets out to demonstrate the role of the ‘one-legged devil’ (as the colonialists called Patrick Gichimu Njogu), also called General Kassam. Kassam was one of the pioneer generals of the Mau Mau, a guerrilla movement that operated from the central Kenya forests as they participated in the war of liberation from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. Was Kassam a one-legged general from the word go? Methodologically speaking, the article i…
Karubiu wa Munyi and the making of modern Kirinyaga, Kenya
The article sets out to explore the lessons that can be drawn from the selfless and integrity-driven leadership offered by some pioneer post-independent Kenyan leaders such as Karubiu wa Munyi. With more financial scandals increasing in the public domains, as in the case where over 15 mega corruption scandals remained unaccounted for, by 2018, the need to draw some lessons from the likes of wa Munyi becomes an important matter worth consideration…
Religion and Development in Africa
What is development? Who defines that one community/ country is “developed”, while another community/ country is “under-developed”? What is the relationship between religion and development? Does religion contribute to development or underdevelopment in Africa? These and related questions elicit quite charged reactions in African studies, development studies, political science and related fields. Africa’s own history, including the memory of marg…
The Leven House Factor in the Birth of Digo Mission and Christian Empire in East Africa
Leven House, as it exists in the 21st century in Mombasa city of Kenya, remains one of the most historic buildings in eastern Africa. In our focus on both the birth of the Christian Empire in East Africa (that stretches from the Kenyan Coast to the Democratic Republic of Congo), and the Digo Mission that began in 1904, Leven House becomes a critical issue. As the Anglican Diocese of Mombasa commemorated 114 years of the Digo Mission (1904–2018) i…
Njega wa Gioko and the European Missionaries in the Colonial Kenya
Njega wa Gioko (1865–1948) was one of the pioneer Chiefs in Kirinyaga county of Kenya. The other pioneer Chief in Kirinyaga county was Gutu wa Kibetu (1860–1927) who reigned in the Eastern part of Kirinyaga county. Gioko reigned in the western part of Kirinyaga county (Ndia) that extended to some geographical parts of the present-day Nyeri county and the present-day Embu county. Njega also became the first paramount Chief of Embu district, which …
Latin American liberation theology
Three decades after the proposal for a shift of theological paradigm, from liberation to reconstruction in an African context (1990-2020), it is worthwhile to ask: Was this proposal timely? Did the proposal speak for other related theologies of liberation in the majority-world such as Black theology of North America and more specifically, Latin American liberation theology? In this proposal, African theologies of liberation were urged to embrace …
Memory and history
Some historians have always erred in ignoring oral history methods, as it is always assumed wrongly that the only reliable and trustworthy source of history is the written word. The aim of this article is to underscore the nature and significance of oral histories, which rely on the memory of the narrators. In the case of both Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s and Wole Soyinka’s literary works, their respective childhood experiences are well captured, as they …
Njega wa Gioko and the European missionaries in the colonial Kenya
Njega wa Gioko (1865–1948) was one of the pioneer Chiefs in Kirinyaga county of Kenya. The other pioneer Chief in Kirinyaga county was Gutu wa Kibetu (1860–1927) who reigned in the Eastern part of Kirinyaga county. Gioko reigned in the western part of Kirinyaga county (Ndia) that extended to some geographical parts of the present-day Nyeri county and the present-day Embu county. Njega also became the first paramount Chief of Embu district, which …
Legacies and pitfalls amongst the African Evangelicals
The research study sets out to explore the contribution of the African Evangelicals in both the colonial and post-colonial Kenya to the social lives of the nation. Can’t it be viewed as a positive social influence or an ecclesiastical pitfall? In utilising a socio-historical design, it poses the question: how did the Evangelical European Missionaries demonstrate their theological and social influences in Kenya, and how did the post-missionary Eva…
Legacies and pitfalls amongst the African Evangelicals
The research study sets out to explore the contribution of the African Evangelicals in both the colonial and post-colonial Kenya to the social lives of the nation. Can’t it be viewed as a positive social influence or an ecclesiastical pitfall? In utilising a socio-historical design, it poses the question: how did the Evangelical European Missionaries demonstrate their theological and social influences in Kenya, and how did the post-missionary Eva…
Liturgical initiatives and moratorium debates in Africa
African ecclesiology has experienced peculiar theological scenes right from the days of the Arianism and Donatism controversies in the first century to the present moment when a liturgy of Africa is still a pipedream. By use of theo-historical-analytical design, this article explores the quest for a liturgy of Africa by retracing some key trends such as the moratorium debates of the 1970s and other key attempts at the inculturation of liturgy in …
Nyawiras as communal liberators
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies is an acclaimed journal with broad coverage that promotes multidisciplinary, religious, and biblical aspects of studies in the international theological arena. The journal’s publication criteria are based on high ethical standards and the rigor of the methodology and conclusions reported
African Indigenous knowledge versus Western science in the Mbeere Mission of Kenya
This article sets out to explore the way in which Western science and technology was received in the Mbeere Mission of central Kenya since August 1912 when a medical missionary, Dr T.W.W. Crawford, visited the area. In his dalliance with ecclesiastical matters, Crawford, a highly trained Canadian medical doctor, was sent by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) at Kigari-Embu, in 1910, to pioneer the Anglican mission in the vast area that included …
Covid-19 Response in Kenya, March 2020 to March 2021
This study explored Kenya’s response to coronavirus disease 2019 (hereafter COVID-19) between 13 March 2020, when the first confirmed case was publicly announced, and 8 March 2021, when the country’s vaccination campaigns against the scourge began. The vaccination campaigns began after the country received some doses through the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX). Although African indigenous medicines were critical in arresting the r…
The Missionaries' Engagement with Science and Technology in Colonial Kenya, 1887-1963
The missionaries' engagement with science and technology in colonial Kenya (1887-1963) is evidentially seen through the use of the post-industrial revolution's breakthroughs of the eighteenth century, which included: advancement in science and mass production, steam engines, and the rise of digital technology. The tendency to rely heavily on post-industrial innovations and inventions were critical in fast-tracking their missiological discourses, …
African women, religion and pandemics
In citing some qualitative case studies and in building on analytical-survey research design, this article explores the place of African women in warding off the pandemics, with particular reference to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in its initial stages (March 2020). With Africa being the most religious continent in the 21st century, African women who led the onslaught against COVID-19 (refer to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf [EJS], Graca Machel, Ng…
Cross-cultural agenda in a theological institution
This research article sets out to understand the extent to which a cross-cultural agenda of inclusivity and the appreciation for the ‘other’ (ubuntu) was addressed at St. Andrew’s College of Theology and Development, Kabare, Kenya, which has been viewed as a conglomeration of diverse ethnic groups, races, and nations. While appreciating the barriers of cross-cultural engagements as including, but not limited to: language, conflicting values, irre…
Misrepresentations of African religion
The article sets out to understand the misconceptions and misrepresentations of religion in general and African religion in particular and how these fallacies have affected the latter since they entered the global scene. This also drives us to historicise religious discourses and eventually consider how its apologists and/or scholars of religion have responded since the first half of the 20th century. Have the African indigenous resources contrib…
Theology of African hospitality
The article is based on the premise that a theology of African hospitality emerges from the intersection of biblical themes such as eschatology, humanity, redemption, kenosis, Christology, salvation and future hope, with African indigenous concepts such as communality, migration and humanity (Ubuntu). It seeks to explore the extent to which it utilises African indigenous knowledge systems (AIKS). Does it employ indigenous research methods (IRMs) …
The confession of Belhar and an African indigenous perspective
A study of the Christian Statement of belief, which was written in Afrikaans as Belydenis van Belhar (The Confession of Belhar, 26 September 1986), is critically important, as it amounts to reviewing the past in order to inform the future. A reading of indigenous confessions will enrich our comparative engagement and broaden our grasp of individual and communal-inspired confessions across historical times. As a Christian witness of biblical truth…
Political science (20 works) · Law (17 works) · History (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (14 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (11 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (10 works) · Indigenous (10 works) · Colonialism (9 works)