James R Cochrane
Biographic Data
| ID | 349789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James R Cochrane |
| GIVEN NAMES | James R |
| FAMILY NAME | Cochrane |
| SIGNATURE | COCHRANE J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5995-7227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Toward Common Ground: Rethinking Both Public Health and Religion, Together
Community asset mapping as an action research strategy for developing an interpersonal violence prevention programme in South Africa
The aim of this article was to report and critically reflect on community asset mapping processes used to develop a contextually valid interpersonal violence prevention programme in South Africa to promote positive forms of masculinity, safety and peace. This study was informed by a critical public health framework, and was guided by the values and principles of community-based participatory action research. The research and action methods used i…
Religion, Health, and Wellbeing
Anthropologists characterize the relationships between religion and health as inherently social. They ask how, in everyday settings, tangible and intangible forms of religious or spiritual assets shape people's views of the world and ways of acting during their lifelong journeys of health. They examine how healthworlds are constructed and how the actions of religious people, groups, organizations, and traditions function as assets to shape wellbe…
The role of religious leaders in anti-Apartheid mobilisation: Implications for violence prevention in contemporary South Africa
This study examines how South African religious leaders mobilised spiritual capacity and religious assets to resist and fight against state and structural violence during the 1970s and 1980s. Document analysis and qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with six key informants who were directly or indirectly involved in an interfaith Peace March in 1989 in Cape Town. Our analysis was aimed at identifying and understanding the factors, whic…
ReligioninSustainable Development
After World War II religion was effectively rejected or sidelined in development policy and practice. Newly emerging international agencies—like the United Nations (UN), the World Health Organizati
Thinking about Complexity
Reflecting on research on “religion” and “health” in Africa, one quickly confronts the challenge of what we might call “the complex real”. Adequately to understand and act upon the complex real requires multiple disciplines and interlocking theoretical constructs that transcend any particular discipline. Here the issue of transdisciplinarity arises and, with it, the relationship between knowledge and ethics. Does this have relevance for African S…
Religion and the Health of the Public: Shifting the Paradigm
The book proposes a critical theory of the role and place of religion in public health and argues for a programmatic reorientation of these two fields of practice and inquiry to more effectively align
Against the Grain: Responsible Public Theology in a Global Era
In commenting on William Storrar’s distinction between theologies of public anger (liberation theologies) and theologies that reflect public spirit, the latter being for him more properly understood as public theologies, this article considers the roots of critical theology in South Africa. The former are neither homogeneous nor as distinct from post-apartheid public theologies as Storrar’s formulation might suggest. Thus this article argues for …
Healthworlds: Conceptualizing Landscapes of Health and Healing
People think about health and illness in multifaceted ways, evidencing a conceptual complexity that corresponds to equally complex behaviours in relation to a diversity of healing practices. Stimulated by fieldwork in Lesotho and elsewhere, and engaging principally with Jürgen Habermas, we set out to introduce, explain and develop a conceptual innovation: healthworld. We argue that this notion describes and provides a key analytical tool for the …
Fire from Above, Fire from Below: Health, Justice and the Persistence of the Sacred
The essay refers to a concern for social justice in the origins of public health, borne in part by religious commitments, and to more recent expressions of a similar concern in debates about health equity. Equity, moreover, is affected by discursive power relations (dominant/hegemonic versus local/suppressed), which are discussed in relation to current research in the African Religious Health Assets Programme on the interaction of particular 'hea…
Seeing Healthworlds Differently
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Theology, HIV/Aids and Public Policy in Africa
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
R eligion , P ublic H ealth and C hurch for the 2I st C entury
In the midst of enormous challenges threatening the public health systems in sub‐Saharan Africa, faith‐based organizations (FBOs) are making a substantial contribution to the health of communities. This paper offers a brief retrospective into the development of such collaboration, and how scientific “religion blindness” made it all but invisible. In this context, the African Religious Health Assets Programme (ARHAP) was initiated to research and …
Conceptualising Religious Health Assets Redemptively
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Religion in the Health of Migrant Communities: Asset or Deficit
Through a reading of a case study on local governance in South Africa—which highlights the complexities of migration in South African cities and the impact this has on an already complex context of health care policy and provision, and illuminates the reality of compromised personal, familial and communal environments, and weak support structures—this article reassesses the importance of ‘religious health assets’ in understanding and responding t…
Facing the Truth: South African Faith Communities and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Coming to Terms: South Africa's Search for Truth
Coming to Terms is a groundbreaking consideration of a country's attempts to put a troubled history behind it and reach a new stage of development. Martin Meredith takes an unprecedented look into the key cases presented to the commission - both those involving well-known figures such as Stephen Biko and Winnie Mandela, and those that deal with the routine violence and torture that shaped the lives of average South Africans. In vivid narrative an…
Religious Pluralism in Post-Colonial Public Life
Religious Pluralism in Post-Colonial Public Life Get access James R. Cochrane James R. Cochrane professor in the department of religious studies and director University of Cape Town, South Africa; Research Institute on Christianity, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 42, Issue 3, Summer 2000, Pages 443–465, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/42.3.443 Published: 01 Jul…
Facing the Truth: South African Faith Communities and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The authors suggest new roles that faith communities can play in the search for truth and in the reconstruction of South Africa
In Good Faith: Canadian Churches against Apartheid. Renate Pratt
Truth, Reconciliation, and Amnesty in South Africa
Servants of Power: The Role of English-Speaking Churches in South Africa, 1903-1930
Healthworlds: Conceptualizing Landscapes of Health and Healing
People think about health and illness in multifaceted ways, evidencing a conceptual complexity that corresponds to equally complex behaviours in relation to a diversity of healing practices. Stimulated by fieldwork in Lesotho and elsewhere, and engaging principally with Jürgen Habermas, we set out to introduce, explain and develop a conceptual innovation: healthworld. We argue that this notion describes and provides a key analytical tool for the …
Community asset mapping as an action research strategy for developing an interpersonal violence prevention programme in South Africa
The aim of this article was to report and critically reflect on community asset mapping processes used to develop a contextually valid interpersonal violence prevention programme in South Africa to promote positive forms of masculinity, safety and peace. This study was informed by a critical public health framework, and was guided by the values and principles of community-based participatory action research. The research and action methods used i…
The role of religious leaders in anti-Apartheid mobilisation: Implications for violence prevention in contemporary South Africa
This study examines how South African religious leaders mobilised spiritual capacity and religious assets to resist and fight against state and structural violence during the 1970s and 1980s. Document analysis and qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with six key informants who were directly or indirectly involved in an interfaith Peace March in 1989 in Cape Town. Our analysis was aimed at identifying and understanding the factors, whic…
Coming to Terms: South Africa's Search for Truth
Coming to Terms is a groundbreaking consideration of a country's attempts to put a troubled history behind it and reach a new stage of development. Martin Meredith takes an unprecedented look into the key cases presented to the commission - both those involving well-known figures such as Stephen Biko and Winnie Mandela, and those that deal with the routine violence and torture that shaped the lives of average South Africans. In vivid narrative an…
Against the Grain: Responsible Public Theology in a Global Era
In commenting on William Storrar’s distinction between theologies of public anger (liberation theologies) and theologies that reflect public spirit, the latter being for him more properly understood as public theologies, this article considers the roots of critical theology in South Africa. The former are neither homogeneous nor as distinct from post-apartheid public theologies as Storrar’s formulation might suggest. Thus this article argues for …
Servants of Power: The Role of English-Speaking Churches in South Africa, 1903-1930
In Good Faith: Canadian Churches against Apartheid. Renate Pratt
Truth, Reconciliation, and Amnesty in South Africa
Coming to Terms: South Africa's Search for Truth
Coming to Terms is a groundbreaking consideration of a country's attempts to put a troubled history behind it and reach a new stage of development. Martin Meredith takes an unprecedented look into the key cases presented to the commission - both those involving well-known figures such as Stephen Biko and Winnie Mandela, and those that deal with the routine violence and torture that shaped the lives of average South Africans. In vivid narrative an…
Religious Pluralism in Post-Colonial Public Life
Religious Pluralism in Post-Colonial Public Life Get access James R. Cochrane James R. Cochrane professor in the department of religious studies and director University of Cape Town, South Africa; Research Institute on Christianity, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 42, Issue 3, Summer 2000, Pages 443–465, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/42.3.443 Published: 01 Jul…
Facing the Truth: South African Faith Communities and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The authors suggest new roles that faith communities can play in the search for truth and in the reconstruction of South Africa
Facing the Truth: South African Faith Communities and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
R eligion , P ublic H ealth and C hurch for the 2I st C entury
In the midst of enormous challenges threatening the public health systems in sub‐Saharan Africa, faith‐based organizations (FBOs) are making a substantial contribution to the health of communities. This paper offers a brief retrospective into the development of such collaboration, and how scientific “religion blindness” made it all but invisible. In this context, the African Religious Health Assets Programme (ARHAP) was initiated to research and …
Conceptualising Religious Health Assets Redemptively
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Religion in the Health of Migrant Communities: Asset or Deficit
Through a reading of a case study on local governance in South Africa—which highlights the complexities of migration in South African cities and the impact this has on an already complex context of health care policy and provision, and illuminates the reality of compromised personal, familial and communal environments, and weak support structures—this article reassesses the importance of ‘religious health assets’ in understanding and responding t…
Seeing Healthworlds Differently
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Theology, HIV/Aids and Public Policy in Africa
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Fire from Above, Fire from Below: Health, Justice and the Persistence of the Sacred
The essay refers to a concern for social justice in the origins of public health, borne in part by religious commitments, and to more recent expressions of a similar concern in debates about health equity. Equity, moreover, is affected by discursive power relations (dominant/hegemonic versus local/suppressed), which are discussed in relation to current research in the African Religious Health Assets Programme on the interaction of particular 'hea…
Healthworlds: Conceptualizing Landscapes of Health and Healing
People think about health and illness in multifaceted ways, evidencing a conceptual complexity that corresponds to equally complex behaviours in relation to a diversity of healing practices. Stimulated by fieldwork in Lesotho and elsewhere, and engaging principally with Jürgen Habermas, we set out to introduce, explain and develop a conceptual innovation: healthworld. We argue that this notion describes and provides a key analytical tool for the …
Against the Grain: Responsible Public Theology in a Global Era
In commenting on William Storrar’s distinction between theologies of public anger (liberation theologies) and theologies that reflect public spirit, the latter being for him more properly understood as public theologies, this article considers the roots of critical theology in South Africa. The former are neither homogeneous nor as distinct from post-apartheid public theologies as Storrar’s formulation might suggest. Thus this article argues for …
Religion and the Health of the Public: Shifting the Paradigm
The book proposes a critical theory of the role and place of religion in public health and argues for a programmatic reorientation of these two fields of practice and inquiry to more effectively align
Thinking about Complexity
Reflecting on research on “religion” and “health” in Africa, one quickly confronts the challenge of what we might call “the complex real”. Adequately to understand and act upon the complex real requires multiple disciplines and interlocking theoretical constructs that transcend any particular discipline. Here the issue of transdisciplinarity arises and, with it, the relationship between knowledge and ethics. Does this have relevance for African S…
The role of religious leaders in anti-Apartheid mobilisation: Implications for violence prevention in contemporary South Africa
This study examines how South African religious leaders mobilised spiritual capacity and religious assets to resist and fight against state and structural violence during the 1970s and 1980s. Document analysis and qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with six key informants who were directly or indirectly involved in an interfaith Peace March in 1989 in Cape Town. Our analysis was aimed at identifying and understanding the factors, whic…
ReligioninSustainable Development
After World War II religion was effectively rejected or sidelined in development policy and practice. Newly emerging international agencies—like the United Nations (UN), the World Health Organizati
Religion, Health, and Wellbeing
Anthropologists characterize the relationships between religion and health as inherently social. They ask how, in everyday settings, tangible and intangible forms of religious or spiritual assets shape people's views of the world and ways of acting during their lifelong journeys of health. They examine how healthworlds are constructed and how the actions of religious people, groups, organizations, and traditions function as assets to shape wellbe…
Community asset mapping as an action research strategy for developing an interpersonal violence prevention programme in South Africa
The aim of this article was to report and critically reflect on community asset mapping processes used to develop a contextually valid interpersonal violence prevention programme in South Africa to promote positive forms of masculinity, safety and peace. This study was informed by a critical public health framework, and was guided by the values and principles of community-based participatory action research. The research and action methods used i…
Toward Common Ground: Rethinking Both Public Health and Religion, Together
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Law (9 works) · South African History and Culture (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (5 works)