Philippe Denis
Biographic Data
| ID | 978225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philippe Denis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philippe |
| FAMILY NAME | Denis |
| SIGNATURE | DENIS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6102-9569 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fragment autobiographique inédit
Admiré et contesté: André Sibomana, prêtre, journaliste et militant des droits de l’homme au Rwanda
Cet article est consacré à André Sibomana, un prêtre rwandais qui dirigea le bimensuel catholique Kinyamateka de 1988 à 1996 tout en militant pour les droits de l’homme avant et après le génocide. Il montre que Sibomana fut l’objet d’un conflit de mémoire. Pour certains il était un modèle d’intégrité ; pour d’autres, des rescapés du génocide notamment, un homme fondamentalement attaché à la cause hutu
Worlds Apart: The 1984 Suspension of the South African and Namibian White Churches from the Lutheran World Federation
Continuités et discontinuités dans l'histoire du Refuge protestant aux XVI e et XVII e siècles
Le propos de cet article est de comparer les vagues successives du Refuge protestant. Celui-ci peut, à bon droit, être qualifié de global en raison de la dispersion de ses protagonistes sur plusieurs continents. Mais il ne l'est devenu que progressivement. Au xvi e siècle il était essentiellement européen, avec la Suisse, l'Allemagne, l'Angleterre et les Pays-Bas comme principales destinations. Un nombre croissant de réfugiés se rendirent en Amér…
The Genocide against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches: Between Grief and Denial
A pioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi, this is a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists.
Towards a History of the First Catholic Religious Women Born in Africa or of African Descent (1703–1939)
Religious women born in Africa or of African descent have for a long time played a significant role in the parishes, schools, clinics and orphanages run by the Catholic Church. Their history has rarely been told and they tend to be invisible both in church and society. This paper presents a survey, based on already published studies and easily available primary sources, of the early history of these black women and of the indigenous women's relig…
La glorification des valeurs et de l’ordre bourgeois dans les séries télévisuelles The Paradise et Mr Selfridge
L’engouement qu’ont rencontré The Paradise et Mr Selfridge , deux séries télévisuelles se rapportant à l’avènement des grands magasins, premier symbole d’une démocratisation du luxe moderne, soulève une interrogation quant à savoir si elles ont comblé autant les attentes et les désirs des propriétaires de ces établissements que ceux du public. En effet, si dans la société hypermoderne une valorisation du passé par la nostalgie se développe, ce qu…
The Global Refuge. Huguenots in an Age of Empire, written by Owen Stanwood
White and Black Women under the Same Roof? The Early History of Montebello’s Black Sisterhood (1922–1939)
In 1922 four young Zulu women expressed the desire to join the Oakford Dominican Sisters, a congregation of mostly German Catholic religious women based in Natal. They were accepted to the novitiate in 1926 and subsequently took vows. This raised the issue of whether they should be fully part of the Oakford congregation or form a separate congregation for black sisters only under the guidance, at least for a while, of white sisters. In other word…
The Splintering of South African Evangelicalism during the Last Decade of Apartheid
Traditionally, evangelical Christians support, if only passively, the government of the day and are reluctant to take a stand on political issues. Under apartheid, this represented a dilemma for black evangelicals. Most of them experienced the evil effects of the regime on a daily basis. But they were unable to articulate their opposition to apartheid in religious terms. The situation changed in the mid-1980s. Two ambitious initiatives saw the li…
L'apartheid du soin
The Missionaries of Africa and the Rwandan Genocide
On the basis of documentary evidence, this paper examines the position of the Missionaries of Africa, also known as White Fathers, in political and ethnic matters during the buildup to the genocide in Rwanda, the genocide itself, and the postgenocide period. It argues that the Missionaries of Africa responded to the genocide in different ways. Some, especially those who returned to Rwanda after 1994, recognised the errors done by the church and t…
Edmond Richer and the Renewal of Conciliarism in the 17th century
M gr Denis Hurley, grande figure au concile Vatican II et artisan de la lutte contre l'apartheid en Afrique du Sud
On Reading Gerald West's The Stolen Bible
Grief and Denial among Rwandan Catholics in the aftermath of the Genocide against the Tutsi
The attitude of church members and church leaders - Catholic as well as Protestant - during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda is an ongoing object of contestation. A careful examination of the sources shows that the Catholic Church never spoke with one voice on this matter. During the genocide itself and in the period immediately following the genocide, the Catholic bishops, the Holy See and a good number of missionaries failed to recognis…
Oral histories of HIV/Aids support group members, NGO workers and home-based carers in KwaZulu-Natal
The purpose of this paper is to bring to the attention of the AIDS research community the existence of an oral history project known as the Memories of AIDS Project. The project focused on HIV/AIDS support group members, non-governmental organisation (NGO) workers and home-based carers in the Umgungundlovu (Pietermaritzburg) District Municipality, South Africa. The project was carried out by the Sinomlando Centre for Oral History and Memory Work,…
Anglicanism, Uhuru and Ujamaa: Anglicans in Tanzania and the Movement for Independence
The Anglican Church in Tanzania emerged from the work of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) and the Australian Church Missionary Society (CMSA). The Anglican missions had goals which stood against colonialism and supported the victory of nationalism. Using archives and interviews as sources, this article considers the roles and reaction of the Anglican missions in the struggle for political independence in Tanganyika and Zanzibar,…
Memory and commemoration as a subject of enquiry for African Christianity scholars
Little attention has been paid to the Christian churches in memory studies in southern Africa. Using new and existing research, the paper proposes a first approach to this new field of enquiry, with special reference to southern African Christianity. The churches embody their memories in liturgies, canonisations, monuments, commemorative events and name-giving practices. They utilise what French historian Pierre Nora calls lieux de mmoire (sites …
Abbot Pfanner, the Glen Grey Act and the Native Question
In November 1893 Franz Pfanner, a Catholic missionary born in Austria, founder of the Trappist monastery of Mariannhill near Pinetown, sent to two Natal newspapers an article on the Native Question which attracted a fair amount of attention. A more elaborate version of his proposals was published the following year in the form of a pamphlet. Pfanner recommended the establishment of villages in Natal for African people where each of them would rec…
HIV/Aids and religion in sub-Saharan Africa: An Emerging Field of Enquiry
In 2000 Robert Garner, a British anthropologist who became an AIDS activist, prefaced an article on the effect of religious affiliation on sexual behaviour in an AIDS-stricken South African township with the comment that the religious perspective was a “virtual foreigner” in the literature on AIDS (Garner, 2000: 41). In a review article on religion and HIV/AIDS policy Jill Olivier noted the longstanding “invisibility of religious organisations to…
The Beginnings of Anglican Theological Education in South Africa, 1848–1963
Various attempts at establishing Anglican theological education were made after the arrival in 1848 of Robert Gray, the first bishop of Cape Town, but it was not until 1876 that the first theological school opened in Bloemfontein. As late as 1883 half of the Anglican priests in South Africa had never attended a theological college. The system of theological education which developed afterwards became increasingly segregated. It also became more c…
Literatur zur schweizerischen Reformationsgeschichte
Literatur zur schweizerischen Reformationsgeschichte
Literatur zur schweizerischen Reformationsgeschichte
Introduction to Special Issue: Engaging Christianities: Negotiating HIV/Aids, Health, and Social Relations in East and Southern Africa
Introduction to Special Issue: Engaging Christianities:Negotiating HIV/AIDS, Health, and Social Relations in East and Southern Africa Ruth Prince (bio), Philippe Denis (bio), and Rijk van Dijk (bio) The purpose of this special issue1 is to explore and analyze the ways in which Christianity is becoming one of the most influential factors in the engagement of AIDS in some African countries. This special issue addresses the consequences of this rapi…
The Splintering of South African Evangelicalism during the Last Decade of Apartheid
Traditionally, evangelical Christians support, if only passively, the government of the day and are reluctant to take a stand on political issues. Under apartheid, this represented a dilemma for black evangelicals. Most of them experienced the evil effects of the regime on a daily basis. But they were unable to articulate their opposition to apartheid in religious terms. The situation changed in the mid-1980s. Two ambitious initiatives saw the li…
Memory and commemoration as a subject of enquiry for African Christianity scholars
Little attention has been paid to the Christian churches in memory studies in southern Africa. Using new and existing research, the paper proposes a first approach to this new field of enquiry, with special reference to southern African Christianity. The churches embody their memories in liturgies, canonisations, monuments, commemorative events and name-giving practices. They utilise what French historian Pierre Nora calls lieux de mmoire (sites …
HIV/Aids and religion in sub-Saharan Africa: An Emerging Field of Enquiry
In 2000 Robert Garner, a British anthropologist who became an AIDS activist, prefaced an article on the effect of religious affiliation on sexual behaviour in an AIDS-stricken South African township with the comment that the religious perspective was a “virtual foreigner” in the literature on AIDS (Garner, 2000: 41). In a review article on religion and HIV/AIDS policy Jill Olivier noted the longstanding “invisibility of religious organisations to…
Les enfants aussi ont une histoire: Travail de mémoire et résilience au temps du sida
Préface de Boris Cyrulnik. " Un seul événement peut changer la manière dont on se représente soi-même et avec laquelle on s'engage dans l'existence. Alors, une boîte à mémoire peut modifier une évolution qui paraissait fatale mais qui plus tard peut devenir dans la mémoire un moment douloureux de l'histoire qui n'empêche pas une reprise de développement résilient. " (Boris Cyrulnik). L'importance du travail de mémoire n'a jamais semblé aussi déci…
L'utilisation de la comptabilite des societes par les banques et les organismes financiers
Cabon P., Denis Ph., de Murard G. L'utilisation de la comptabilité des sociétés par les banques et les organismes financiers. In: Revue économique, volume 15, n°3, 1964. pp. 443-454
Le Lecteur
Within the Un/Doing
Les Églises d'étrangers en pays rhénans (1538-1564)
The Dominican Friars in Southern Africa: A Social History (1577-1990)
The purpose of this book is to gather in a single narrative the rather disparate stories of Dominican friars in Southern Africa over the past four centuries. It is a social history of the Dominicans in Southern Africa, that is, a history that deals specifically with the social and cultural factors of historical development
Les enfants aussi ont une histoire: Travail de mémoire et résilience au temps du sida
Préface de Boris Cyrulnik. " Un seul événement peut changer la manière dont on se représente soi-même et avec laquelle on s'engage dans l'existence. Alors, une boîte à mémoire peut modifier une évolution qui paraissait fatale mais qui plus tard peut devenir dans la mémoire un moment douloureux de l'histoire qui n'empêche pas une reprise de développement résilient. " (Boris Cyrulnik). L'importance du travail de mémoire n'a jamais semblé aussi déci…
Men of the Cloth: The Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa, Inkatha and the Struggle against Apartheid
On 25 August 1985, a crowd of a hundred people, led by the mayor of Imbali, Patrick Pakkies, and a member of the KwaZulu Legislature, Velaphi Ndlovu, demanded that the staff and students of the Federal Theological Seminary of Southern of Africa (Fedsem) leave their premises by the following Friday, allegedly because they had been instrumental in the school boycott and the street demonstrations organised the same month by the youth in protest agai…
Introduction to Special Issue: Engaging Christianities: Negotiating HIV/Aids, Health, and Social Relations in East and Southern Africa
Introduction to Special Issue: Engaging Christianities:Negotiating HIV/AIDS, Health, and Social Relations in East and Southern Africa Ruth Prince (bio), Philippe Denis (bio), and Rijk van Dijk (bio) The purpose of this special issue1 is to explore and analyze the ways in which Christianity is becoming one of the most influential factors in the engagement of AIDS in some African countries. This special issue addresses the consequences of this rapi…
Literatur zur schweizerischen Reformationsgeschichte
Literatur zur schweizerischen Reformationsgeschichte
Literatur zur schweizerischen Reformationsgeschichte
Seminary Networks and Black Consciousness in South Africa in the 1970s
The article argues that a significant number of priests and pastors trained in seminaries in the 1970s were influenced by the Black Consciousness movement. The South African Student Association (SASO) had branches in at least three seminaries for blacks, the Federal Theological Seminary at Alice, the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Umphumulo and St Peter's Seminary at Hammanskraal. Many students or former studens from these institutions were mem…
The Beginnings of Anglican Theological Education in South Africa, 1848–1963
Various attempts at establishing Anglican theological education were made after the arrival in 1848 of Robert Gray, the first bishop of Cape Town, but it was not until 1876 that the first theological school opened in Bloemfontein. As late as 1883 half of the Anglican priests in South Africa had never attended a theological college. The system of theological education which developed afterwards became increasingly segregated. It also became more c…
HIV/Aids and religion in sub-Saharan Africa: An Emerging Field of Enquiry
In 2000 Robert Garner, a British anthropologist who became an AIDS activist, prefaced an article on the effect of religious affiliation on sexual behaviour in an AIDS-stricken South African township with the comment that the religious perspective was a “virtual foreigner” in the literature on AIDS (Garner, 2000: 41). In a review article on religion and HIV/AIDS policy Jill Olivier noted the longstanding “invisibility of religious organisations to…
Memory and commemoration as a subject of enquiry for African Christianity scholars
Little attention has been paid to the Christian churches in memory studies in southern Africa. Using new and existing research, the paper proposes a first approach to this new field of enquiry, with special reference to southern African Christianity. The churches embody their memories in liturgies, canonisations, monuments, commemorative events and name-giving practices. They utilise what French historian Pierre Nora calls lieux de mmoire (sites …
Abbot Pfanner, the Glen Grey Act and the Native Question
In November 1893 Franz Pfanner, a Catholic missionary born in Austria, founder of the Trappist monastery of Mariannhill near Pinetown, sent to two Natal newspapers an article on the Native Question which attracted a fair amount of attention. A more elaborate version of his proposals was published the following year in the form of a pamphlet. Pfanner recommended the establishment of villages in Natal for African people where each of them would rec…
Oral histories of HIV/Aids support group members, NGO workers and home-based carers in KwaZulu-Natal
The purpose of this paper is to bring to the attention of the AIDS research community the existence of an oral history project known as the Memories of AIDS Project. The project focused on HIV/AIDS support group members, non-governmental organisation (NGO) workers and home-based carers in the Umgungundlovu (Pietermaritzburg) District Municipality, South Africa. The project was carried out by the Sinomlando Centre for Oral History and Memory Work,…
Anglicanism, Uhuru and Ujamaa: Anglicans in Tanzania and the Movement for Independence
The Anglican Church in Tanzania emerged from the work of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) and the Australian Church Missionary Society (CMSA). The Anglican missions had goals which stood against colonialism and supported the victory of nationalism. Using archives and interviews as sources, this article considers the roles and reaction of the Anglican missions in the struggle for political independence in Tanganyika and Zanzibar,…
On Reading Gerald West's The Stolen Bible
Grief and Denial among Rwandan Catholics in the aftermath of the Genocide against the Tutsi
The attitude of church members and church leaders - Catholic as well as Protestant - during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda is an ongoing object of contestation. A careful examination of the sources shows that the Catholic Church never spoke with one voice on this matter. During the genocide itself and in the period immediately following the genocide, the Catholic bishops, the Holy See and a good number of missionaries failed to recognis…
Edmond Richer and the Renewal of Conciliarism in the 17th century
M gr Denis Hurley, grande figure au concile Vatican II et artisan de la lutte contre l'apartheid en Afrique du Sud
The Global Refuge. Huguenots in an Age of Empire, written by Owen Stanwood
White and Black Women under the Same Roof? The Early History of Montebello’s Black Sisterhood (1922–1939)
In 1922 four young Zulu women expressed the desire to join the Oakford Dominican Sisters, a congregation of mostly German Catholic religious women based in Natal. They were accepted to the novitiate in 1926 and subsequently took vows. This raised the issue of whether they should be fully part of the Oakford congregation or form a separate congregation for black sisters only under the guidance, at least for a while, of white sisters. In other word…
The Splintering of South African Evangelicalism during the Last Decade of Apartheid
Traditionally, evangelical Christians support, if only passively, the government of the day and are reluctant to take a stand on political issues. Under apartheid, this represented a dilemma for black evangelicals. Most of them experienced the evil effects of the regime on a daily basis. But they were unable to articulate their opposition to apartheid in religious terms. The situation changed in the mid-1980s. Two ambitious initiatives saw the li…
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