Mogomme Alpheus Masoga
Biographic Data
| ID | 826930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mogomme Alpheus Masoga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mogomme Alpheus |
| FAMILY NAME | Masoga |
| SIGNATURE | MASOGA M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3335-3633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Black Theology and Africa: Liberation, justice and the African context – special issue
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
Exploring the interplay of local language(s) and transformation to facilitate communication and change in (South) Africa
This research explores local language(s) and transformation as key facilitators of a dynamic interplay between the power of communication and the capacity for change. It is argued that language serves as a multifaceted tool that not only conveys thoughts and ideas, but also possesses the remarkable ability to catalyse transformation at various levels – individual, societal and cultural. However, it is noted that while language (e.g. English) can …
Uncoupling sex and heterosexual marriage: A historical-theological critique of the church’s role in sexual politics and gender-based violence in Southern Africa
This paper interrogates the historically entrenched association between sex and heterosexual marriage, particularly through the institutional lens of the Christian Church. Contrary to dominant narratives, it argues that sex and heterosexual marriage are not inherently linked and that the traditional theological framing has led to profound sociocultural and ethical consequences. Many African societies understand heterosexual marriage as the unific…
Interface Between Ecotheology and Practical Theology: An African indigenous knowledge systems perspective
The present article is an interface between ecotheology and Practical Theology from an African indigenous knowledge systems (AIKS) perspective. The article pursues to facilitate a conservationist rapport between three complementary disciplines, namely: ecotheology, Practical Theology and AIKS. The study attempts to discuss the above disciplines in the context of the phrase “theological eco-praxis”. Of particular note is the light that the above t…
Spiritual gifts in Romans 11: 29–32: Critiquing revocation of ordination at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa
The case of the revocation of ordination from the two pastors by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (hereafter, ELCSA) in the Gauteng Province, Pretoria, South Africa has motivated the present conversation. In order to respond appropriately to the scenario mentioned earlier, the research will dialogue with Paul’s teaching on spiritual gifts in Romans 11:29–32. The document released by the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Divisi…
The Pragmatism of Practical Theology in the Conservation of the Natural Habitat: An Ecotheology Perspective
There are concepts which have received little attention in scholarship and important aspects of real-life situations have not been addressed by believing communities. Politicians and policy makers have taken advantage of the laxity on the part of the sacred institution to both exploit and mismanage the natural habitat because the latter is preoccupied with matters of eternity at the detriment of the particularities of everyday life among communit…
African Thought and Western (European) Misconception: An Afrocentric Paradigm
The present study is a critical examination of a model of African thought in which Afrocentricity as a theory is employed. During both pre-colonial and colonial times, people from the West (Europe) believed themselves to be more intelligent than Africans. This misconception about African knowledge systems led to the labelling of Africa as the “dark continent”. This article explores this controversial issue by engaging with previous contributions …
Reading the text of 1 Kings 3: 7-9 As inspirational teaching on leadership to the modern church: A hermeneutical perspective
The present study critically examines the text of 1 Kings 3:7-9 in order to present its concepts as inspirational teachings on leadership to the modern church. From a hermeneutical perspective, the research attempts to discuss the chosen text not necessarily as panacea to good leadership but more so as inspirational teachings for individuals occupying leadership positions in a modern church. It is shown that Solomon ascends to the throne of kings…
A text-immanent, narrative-critical and logotherapeutic reading of the book of Amos and the necessity of a scientific approach by its readers to prevent terror deeds
A text-immanent and narrative critical approach to the Biblical book of Amos reveals that the prophet Amos had addressed the social injustices of his time. He addressed the issues of his day with the belief that it was the Lord God (Elohim) Almighty who had instructed him to do so. The leaders of the well-known terror groups, Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram and the Islamic State (IS) are also addressing contemporary social issues that confront t…
Debriefing hermeneutics for a balanced reading of the biblical text
In this study, it is argued that the trust of previous (and existing) hermeneutical approaches of promoting ancient biblical texts as applicable to the everyday life of contemporary readers is not only imaginable but also too ambitious. The Hebrew Bible emerged from an Israelite cultural context, which neither speaks to nor deliberates on issues concerning the African cultural contexts. The present essay utilises a narrative approach comprising t…
Memory, orality and ‘God-talk’ in sub-Saharan Africa
The indigenous people of sub-Saharan Africa approach their Supreme Being and express their reverence in diverse ways, as depicted in the different local names that describe this supernatural being. The African cultural worldview foregrounds that virtuous rapport with the Supreme Being provides wisdom and facilitates good cohabitation among humans. It is argued in this article that teachings from the Christian Bible contribute negatively to the di…
Socio-economic challenges faced by traditional healers in Limpopo province of South Africa: Conversations from below
Traditional healing remains core to many local communities in South Africa. This research was aimed at fostering stronger relationships between traditional healers and biomedical medicine focusing on their socio-economic challenges. This research involved collaboration between two Universities in South Africa and the USA, focusing on the social welfare and traditional healing, by articulating the experiences and positions of 40 selected tradition…
Creating an Afro-sensed, Community-engaged School: Views from Parents and School Personnel
Schools are important for the development and socialization of children to learn to function as responsible citizens, but there can be obstacles, including differences in culture, expectations, and lack of communication between adults at school and home. Family engagement with schools has been shown to improve learner outcomes and minimize differences in culture between home and school. School social work is a specialized field of practice that c…
Social work as protest: Conversations with selected first black social work women in South Africa
Radical and critical social work has existed since the start of the profession. Still, the history of social work education in South Africa does not put prominence on black women social workers like Ellen Kuzwayo and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, among others. Remarkably, these women also participated in the national women’s protest against the pass laws in 1956 by the apartheid government. The authors espouse radical perspectives, such as feminist,…
Sebata-Kgomo Basadi! Emerging indigenised women leadership patterns: Selected narratives from local rural women’s stokvels in Ga-Sekororo, South Africa
Gender inequality intersects with economic deprivation to produce more intensified forms of poverty for women than men in rural communities. Feminist theory has highlighted the undervaluing of the household and community leadership roles that women perform. This article focusses on the largely unrecognised roles many rural women perform in formal and informal leadership roles in their respective families and communities and their participation in…
A Cultural-Historical Appraisal of Three Selected Sacred Spaces of the Eastern Free State: A Phenomenological Approach
The existence of cave sites in the eastern Free State poses a number of challenges to cave dwellers, cave pilgrims, heritage practitioners, and landowners and for the continued preservation, management and restoration of the caves. This study investigates the history and contemporary significance of Mantsopa, Mautse, and Motouleng caves. The caves have special religious significance for some African indigenous religious persuasions, indigenous kn…
Women in polygynous marriages and African Initiated Churches: Selected narratives in Greater Tzaneen, South Africa
Polygynous marriage is practised in some African Initiated Churches (AICs). The article reflects on the stories of women in polygynous marriages within selected AICs in Greater Tzaneen in the Limpopo province. Conversations were held with 25 purposely selected married female believers. The women’s perceptions and status in the church and at their respective family homes are discussed and analysed. The presentation of these conversations is an att…
African indigenous ecology control and sustainable community livelihood in southern African history
Based on sources for African Indigenous Ecology Control and Sustainable Community Livelihood in Southern African history this article argues that political independence in the Southern African region has altered the historiography of the region and the African continent as a whole. Black Africans are now looking to the past for inspiration to constitute the foundations of sustainable livelihoods using their own indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) …
Traditional health practitioners' practices and the sustainability of extinction-prone traditional medicinal plants
For centuries, traditional health practitioners (THPs) have used their indigenous knowledge (IK) in conserving medicinal plants and environments in order to maintain sustainability. Medicinal plants have played an important role in the healthcare system of Africa. With the rapid environmental, social, economic and political changes occurring in many areas inhabited by rural people, the danger exists that the loss of biodiversity from habitat dest…
Lenyalo la Badimo (The Wedding of Ancestors): Music in familial and community healing rituals
This short report is based on an actual ritual event that took place in a village 60 kilometers outside Pretoria, South Africa. The description of the event explores ways in which music plays a central role in healing rituals within familial and communal groups
Scottish troops, sekhwetshe and turupa: Indigenising the west
Reading the Bible in the Global Village: Cape Town
A Cultural-Historical Appraisal of Three Selected Sacred Spaces of the Eastern Free State: A Phenomenological Approach
The existence of cave sites in the eastern Free State poses a number of challenges to cave dwellers, cave pilgrims, heritage practitioners, and landowners and for the continued preservation, management and restoration of the caves. This study investigates the history and contemporary significance of Mantsopa, Mautse, and Motouleng caves. The caves have special religious significance for some African indigenous religious persuasions, indigenous kn…
The Pragmatism of Practical Theology in the Conservation of the Natural Habitat: An Ecotheology Perspective
There are concepts which have received little attention in scholarship and important aspects of real-life situations have not been addressed by believing communities. Politicians and policy makers have taken advantage of the laxity on the part of the sacred institution to both exploit and mismanage the natural habitat because the latter is preoccupied with matters of eternity at the detriment of the particularities of everyday life among communit…
Sebata-Kgomo Basadi! Emerging indigenised women leadership patterns: Selected narratives from local rural women’s stokvels in Ga-Sekororo, South Africa
Gender inequality intersects with economic deprivation to produce more intensified forms of poverty for women than men in rural communities. Feminist theory has highlighted the undervaluing of the household and community leadership roles that women perform. This article focusses on the largely unrecognised roles many rural women perform in formal and informal leadership roles in their respective families and communities and their participation in…
Reading the Bible in the Global Village: Cape Town
Scottish troops, sekhwetshe and turupa: Indigenising the west
Lenyalo la Badimo (The Wedding of Ancestors): Music in familial and community healing rituals
This short report is based on an actual ritual event that took place in a village 60 kilometers outside Pretoria, South Africa. The description of the event explores ways in which music plays a central role in healing rituals within familial and communal groups
Traditional health practitioners' practices and the sustainability of extinction-prone traditional medicinal plants
For centuries, traditional health practitioners (THPs) have used their indigenous knowledge (IK) in conserving medicinal plants and environments in order to maintain sustainability. Medicinal plants have played an important role in the healthcare system of Africa. With the rapid environmental, social, economic and political changes occurring in many areas inhabited by rural people, the danger exists that the loss of biodiversity from habitat dest…
African indigenous ecology control and sustainable community livelihood in southern African history
Based on sources for African Indigenous Ecology Control and Sustainable Community Livelihood in Southern African history this article argues that political independence in the Southern African region has altered the historiography of the region and the African continent as a whole. Black Africans are now looking to the past for inspiration to constitute the foundations of sustainable livelihoods using their own indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) …
Women in polygynous marriages and African Initiated Churches: Selected narratives in Greater Tzaneen, South Africa
Polygynous marriage is practised in some African Initiated Churches (AICs). The article reflects on the stories of women in polygynous marriages within selected AICs in Greater Tzaneen in the Limpopo province. Conversations were held with 25 purposely selected married female believers. The women’s perceptions and status in the church and at their respective family homes are discussed and analysed. The presentation of these conversations is an att…
Social work as protest: Conversations with selected first black social work women in South Africa
Radical and critical social work has existed since the start of the profession. Still, the history of social work education in South Africa does not put prominence on black women social workers like Ellen Kuzwayo and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, among others. Remarkably, these women also participated in the national women’s protest against the pass laws in 1956 by the apartheid government. The authors espouse radical perspectives, such as feminist,…
Sebata-Kgomo Basadi! Emerging indigenised women leadership patterns: Selected narratives from local rural women’s stokvels in Ga-Sekororo, South Africa
Gender inequality intersects with economic deprivation to produce more intensified forms of poverty for women than men in rural communities. Feminist theory has highlighted the undervaluing of the household and community leadership roles that women perform. This article focusses on the largely unrecognised roles many rural women perform in formal and informal leadership roles in their respective families and communities and their participation in…
A Cultural-Historical Appraisal of Three Selected Sacred Spaces of the Eastern Free State: A Phenomenological Approach
The existence of cave sites in the eastern Free State poses a number of challenges to cave dwellers, cave pilgrims, heritage practitioners, and landowners and for the continued preservation, management and restoration of the caves. This study investigates the history and contemporary significance of Mantsopa, Mautse, and Motouleng caves. The caves have special religious significance for some African indigenous religious persuasions, indigenous kn…
Socio-economic challenges faced by traditional healers in Limpopo province of South Africa: Conversations from below
Traditional healing remains core to many local communities in South Africa. This research was aimed at fostering stronger relationships between traditional healers and biomedical medicine focusing on their socio-economic challenges. This research involved collaboration between two Universities in South Africa and the USA, focusing on the social welfare and traditional healing, by articulating the experiences and positions of 40 selected tradition…
Creating an Afro-sensed, Community-engaged School: Views from Parents and School Personnel
Schools are important for the development and socialization of children to learn to function as responsible citizens, but there can be obstacles, including differences in culture, expectations, and lack of communication between adults at school and home. Family engagement with schools has been shown to improve learner outcomes and minimize differences in culture between home and school. School social work is a specialized field of practice that c…
A text-immanent, narrative-critical and logotherapeutic reading of the book of Amos and the necessity of a scientific approach by its readers to prevent terror deeds
A text-immanent and narrative critical approach to the Biblical book of Amos reveals that the prophet Amos had addressed the social injustices of his time. He addressed the issues of his day with the belief that it was the Lord God (Elohim) Almighty who had instructed him to do so. The leaders of the well-known terror groups, Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram and the Islamic State (IS) are also addressing contemporary social issues that confront t…
Debriefing hermeneutics for a balanced reading of the biblical text
In this study, it is argued that the trust of previous (and existing) hermeneutical approaches of promoting ancient biblical texts as applicable to the everyday life of contemporary readers is not only imaginable but also too ambitious. The Hebrew Bible emerged from an Israelite cultural context, which neither speaks to nor deliberates on issues concerning the African cultural contexts. The present essay utilises a narrative approach comprising t…
Memory, orality and ‘God-talk’ in sub-Saharan Africa
The indigenous people of sub-Saharan Africa approach their Supreme Being and express their reverence in diverse ways, as depicted in the different local names that describe this supernatural being. The African cultural worldview foregrounds that virtuous rapport with the Supreme Being provides wisdom and facilitates good cohabitation among humans. It is argued in this article that teachings from the Christian Bible contribute negatively to the di…
African Thought and Western (European) Misconception: An Afrocentric Paradigm
The present study is a critical examination of a model of African thought in which Afrocentricity as a theory is employed. During both pre-colonial and colonial times, people from the West (Europe) believed themselves to be more intelligent than Africans. This misconception about African knowledge systems led to the labelling of Africa as the “dark continent”. This article explores this controversial issue by engaging with previous contributions …
Reading the text of 1 Kings 3: 7-9 As inspirational teaching on leadership to the modern church: A hermeneutical perspective
The present study critically examines the text of 1 Kings 3:7-9 in order to present its concepts as inspirational teachings on leadership to the modern church. From a hermeneutical perspective, the research attempts to discuss the chosen text not necessarily as panacea to good leadership but more so as inspirational teachings for individuals occupying leadership positions in a modern church. It is shown that Solomon ascends to the throne of kings…
Interface Between Ecotheology and Practical Theology: An African indigenous knowledge systems perspective
The present article is an interface between ecotheology and Practical Theology from an African indigenous knowledge systems (AIKS) perspective. The article pursues to facilitate a conservationist rapport between three complementary disciplines, namely: ecotheology, Practical Theology and AIKS. The study attempts to discuss the above disciplines in the context of the phrase “theological eco-praxis”. Of particular note is the light that the above t…
Spiritual gifts in Romans 11: 29–32: Critiquing revocation of ordination at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa
The case of the revocation of ordination from the two pastors by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (hereafter, ELCSA) in the Gauteng Province, Pretoria, South Africa has motivated the present conversation. In order to respond appropriately to the scenario mentioned earlier, the research will dialogue with Paul’s teaching on spiritual gifts in Romans 11:29–32. The document released by the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Divisi…
The Pragmatism of Practical Theology in the Conservation of the Natural Habitat: An Ecotheology Perspective
There are concepts which have received little attention in scholarship and important aspects of real-life situations have not been addressed by believing communities. Politicians and policy makers have taken advantage of the laxity on the part of the sacred institution to both exploit and mismanage the natural habitat because the latter is preoccupied with matters of eternity at the detriment of the particularities of everyday life among communit…
Black Theology and Africa: Liberation, justice and the African context – special issue
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
Exploring the interplay of local language(s) and transformation to facilitate communication and change in (South) Africa
This research explores local language(s) and transformation as key facilitators of a dynamic interplay between the power of communication and the capacity for change. It is argued that language serves as a multifaceted tool that not only conveys thoughts and ideas, but also possesses the remarkable ability to catalyse transformation at various levels – individual, societal and cultural. However, it is noted that while language (e.g. English) can …
Uncoupling sex and heterosexual marriage: A historical-theological critique of the church’s role in sexual politics and gender-based violence in Southern Africa
This paper interrogates the historically entrenched association between sex and heterosexual marriage, particularly through the institutional lens of the Christian Church. Contrary to dominant narratives, it argues that sex and heterosexual marriage are not inherently linked and that the traditional theological framing has led to profound sociocultural and ethical consequences. Many African societies understand heterosexual marriage as the unific…
Sociology (16 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (5 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (5 works)