The Bible in the Gay-Debate in South Africa: Towards an Ethics of Interpretation

Punt, Jeremy

doi:10.7833/93-0-1380

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“…For instance, although the bible is used as a tool to interpret Christian basic teachings on homosexuality (depending on who does the interpretation and the informing worldview), interpreters often come to different conclusions. While in some instances the Christian bible is used to condemn homosexuality, in others it is used to challenge the same condemnation (Punt 2006;Gunda 2010;Chitando & Van Klinken 2016). This brief overview helps to shed light on how the subject of homosexuality is contested across African societies.…”

Section: Positioning the Concept Of Homosexualitymentioning

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Critical Perspectives on Governance, Religion and Humanitarian Aid in Africa

Kumalo¹

2021

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The cover art work by Ms. Thandeka N. Moyo illustrates the reality of humanitarian aid in Africa. Aid comes from Western donor institutions mainly in the form of money shown in $s and the green box for the greenback. The white hands from the west give aid which is received by agents in the form of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs). The faceless man in a suit represents the African agents who are the main beneficiaries of humanitarian aid. They are faceless and with ropes that trap the money before it reaches the ideal intended beneficiaries. The agents have jobs and consume the bulk of the aid with crumbs reaching the intended beneficiaries illustrated by the many black African hands receiving the 'money'. The aid comes with strings attached shown by the red string. The recipients lose their agency as they have to use the money according to the will of the donors. Africa has remained darkest, despite the aid, as it direct funding towards sustainable development projects in Africa because the intermediary agents, and the strings attached, to the aid. Hence the black Africa in the art work, remains underdeveloped. The artwork suggests that the current modus operandi in respect of donor aid to Arica, around humanitarian aid, cannot develop Africa and Africans, because it is not by, for, with and in support of Africans and their own African initiatives and African agency. Artwork by Thandeka N. Moyo

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Section: Positioning the Concept Of Homosexualitymentioning

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Critical Perspectives on Governance, Religion and Humanitarian Aid in Africa

Kumalo¹

2021

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The haunting shadow of the 2014 anti homosexuality law in Uganda

Kisitu¹

2021

Critical Perspectives on Governance, Religion and Humanitarian Aid in Africa

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Although attempts to [re]criminalize homosexuality in Uganda in 2014 failed, the effects and influence of this attempt linger on. The Constitutional Court ruling against the 2014 anti-homosexual law (2014 AHL), made on technical grounds other than on its substance, not only paints a misleading perception on the defeat of anti-homosexuality activism but also keeps the possibility of [re]criminalization of homosexuality alive in the country. Factors that influenced the 2014 AHL remain contextually unchallenged and continue to shape public rhetoric on homosexuality, including how the general public speaks of homosexuality and relates to LGBTIQA+ 1 communities. Violence, discrimination, evictions, and arbitrary arrests of LGBTIQA+ people are not experiences of the past, but continue to prevail in the present. As a counter response, LGBTIQA+ communities have resorted to creating safe[r] spaces, which seem to attract more hostile surveillance. Through a critical paradigm, this paper argues that the 2014 AHL was annulled only on paper but not in the perception of the public. As a consequence, surveillance over homosexuality and LGBTIQA+ communities continues in an attempt to silence gender and sexual minorities in the country.

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“…2 Daar het ook verskeie artikels waarin die verhouding ter sprake is verskyn. In terme van die verhouding tussen hermeneutiek in en vanuit die NGK, sien De Villiers (2006),Punt (2006aPunt ( , 2006b,Steyn (2007),Cilliers (2008), Van Zyl (2016. In terme van dié verhouding in Afrika, sienBongmba (2015).…”

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Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk, hermeneutiek en etiek? (1986–2019)

Westhuizen

2021

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The Dutch Reformed Church – hermeneutics and ethics (1986-2019)?In this article I ask about the relation between hermeneutics and ethics in the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) from 1986–2019. The article, more specifically, asks about the relation between hermeneutics and homosexuality. For the DRC, homosexuality has been the most critical ethical theme since 1986. The article’s main concern is with the reports of the Algemene Sinode (General Synod) on the Bible, on the one hand, and homosexuality, on the other. The article, therefore, especially focusses on the two reports on homosexuality of the AS of 2007. It is within these two reports that one finds at least some of the definitive hermeneutical differences within the Dutch Reformed Church.

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The Bible in the Gay-Debate in South Africa: Towards an Ethics of Interpretation

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Critical Perspectives on Governance, Religion and Humanitarian Aid in Africa

Critical Perspectives on Governance, Religion and Humanitarian Aid in Africa

The haunting shadow of the 2014 anti homosexuality law in Uganda

Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk, hermeneutiek en etiek? (1986–2019)

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