Lee-Shae S Scharnick-Udemans
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee-Shae S Scharnick-Udemans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee-Shae S |
| FAMILY NAME | Scharnick-Udemans |
| SIGNATURE | SCHARNICK-UDEMANS L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7491-9309 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Critical Concepts for the Study of Religions in South Africa
This special issue emerged from a panel at the 43rd Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa Conference in October 2022. The conference theme, ‘Religion and Humanities’, inspired the four postgraduate student panellists to revisit concepts often overlooked as critical to the study of religions in South Africa. These concepts were non- English and included ‘gam’, ‘djyg’, and ‘slamse’. The editors later invited one doctoral candidat…
Rethinking Indigenous Religious Traditions with Jace Weaver
This roundtable revolves around Jace Weaver’s article ‘“Either the Ball is Green, or the Ball is Not Green”’. Arguing that the field of Indigenous religious traditions has been both under-analyzed and under-theorized, Weaver rejects the facile statement that such traditions are those practiced by Indigenous groups or peoples. He sets forth seven definitional characteristics that create a rubric with which to test religious traditions. He then tes…
Enqi Weng, Media Perceptions of Religious Changes in Australia
Enqi Weng, Media Perceptions of Religious Changes in Australia: Of Dominance and Diversity, Oxon/New York: Routledge, 2020, pp. 252, ISBN: 9780429201387 (ebook). US$27.74. Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita and Marie Rodet, Religion, Media and Marginality in Modern Africa, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2018, pp. 332, ISBN: 9780821446249 (ebook). US$79.99
Decolonising Religious Studies in South Africa
In light of the decolonial turn in scholarship, this essay maps the state of the field for Religious Studies in South Africa, 26 years after the first democratic elections. It suggests that between the genealogical critique of the discipline and the mapping of decoloniality in research and teaching, a description and assessment of the institutional presence and politics of Religious Studies and theology is necessary. This conceptual pause allows …
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Religion
This article assesses the ways in which religious diversity and religious pluralism are asserted and negotiated within the context of contemporary South Africa through scrutinising the Christian Friendly Products campaign which advocates against the ubiquity of the halaal food symbol and halaal food in South Africa. Halaal is an Islamic term, which refers to food products that are ritually permissible for consumption by Muslims. The campaign clai…
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Religion
This article assesses the ways in which religious diversity and religious pluralism are asserted and negotiated within the context of contemporary South Africa through scrutinising the Christian Friendly Products campaign which advocates against the ubiquity of the halaal food symbol and halaal food in South Africa. Halaal is an Islamic term, which refers to food products that are ritually permissible for consumption by Muslims. The campaign clai…
Decolonising Religious Studies in South Africa
In light of the decolonial turn in scholarship, this essay maps the state of the field for Religious Studies in South Africa, 26 years after the first democratic elections. It suggests that between the genealogical critique of the discipline and the mapping of decoloniality in research and teaching, a description and assessment of the institutional presence and politics of Religious Studies and theology is necessary. This conceptual pause allows …
Enqi Weng, Media Perceptions of Religious Changes in Australia
Enqi Weng, Media Perceptions of Religious Changes in Australia: Of Dominance and Diversity, Oxon/New York: Routledge, 2020, pp. 252, ISBN: 9780429201387 (ebook). US$27.74. Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita and Marie Rodet, Religion, Media and Marginality in Modern Africa, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2018, pp. 332, ISBN: 9780821446249 (ebook). US$79.99
Rethinking Indigenous Religious Traditions with Jace Weaver
This roundtable revolves around Jace Weaver’s article ‘“Either the Ball is Green, or the Ball is Not Green”’. Arguing that the field of Indigenous religious traditions has been both under-analyzed and under-theorized, Weaver rejects the facile statement that such traditions are those practiced by Indigenous groups or peoples. He sets forth seven definitional characteristics that create a rubric with which to test religious traditions. He then tes…
Critical Concepts for the Study of Religions in South Africa
This special issue emerged from a panel at the 43rd Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa Conference in October 2022. The conference theme, ‘Religion and Humanities’, inspired the four postgraduate student panellists to revisit concepts often overlooked as critical to the study of religions in South Africa. These concepts were non- English and included ‘gam’, ‘djyg’, and ‘slamse’. The editors later invited one doctoral candidat…
Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Computational Physics and Python Applications (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies (2 works) · Download (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)