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Interpreting Luguru religious practice through Colonialist eyes: Child Sacrifice and East African Dance in Brett Young’s The Crescent Moon
(AJOL, 2015)
Public perceptions of indigenous African religious life have been heavily influenced by its representation in imaginative literature and film, both before and after serious scholarly investigations yielded detailed analyses ...
Italian grand opera at the Cape of Good Hope : the 1875 and 1876 Cagli seasons
(South African Society for Cultural History, 2015)
The history of Italian grand opera (opera seria) remains a woefully underexplored topic in the cultural historiography of South Africa. The present article is intended to fill one of the many gaps by exploring the first ...
Forecasting the future of religion in the 1920s: Ramsden Balmforth's post-orthodox prognostications
(The Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015)
Standing at the apogee of post-Protestant theological liberalism, the scholarly Unitarian minister Ramsden Balmforth, who served the Unitarian Church in Cape Town from 1897 until 1937, responded to a broad spectrum of ...
Opera through varying theological lenses: religious nonconformists interpret Wagner's Parsifal
(Koninklijke Brill NV, 2015)
Although a great deal of scholarly attention has been devoted to Richard Wagner and his renowned works since the nineteenth century, and considerable attention has been given to Christian interpretations of them from ...
A Whale of a fight against Hitler: Norwegian-South African Whalers in the Second World War
(NLSA, 2015)
The article discusses the Norwegian-South African whalers' participation in World War II against Germany and Axis Powers, including military recruitment of whalers in Durban, South Africa. An overview of the impact that ...