Denzil Chetty

University of South Africa | unisa · Department of Religious Studies and Arabic

Comic Studies Seminar: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reflecting-on-comic-books-from-slavery-to-apartheid-tickets-154211397441

Distance education offers a variety of teaching and learning modes, including various instruction periods, such as a year or six months. This study examined the use of semesters for teaching and learning in undergraduate programmes at a specific university offering open distance education. The authors present the perceived pedagogic challenges for...

Over the past decade, we have witnessed a comic book renaissance. The impact of this renaissance can be described as threefold. First, we have seen comic books emerge as a compelling component of popular culture; second, as a "hybrid" form of texts and graphics, comic books have attained a new level of literary acceptance; and third, we have seen t...

This article primarily outlines the discursive threads in Prozesky's 'Implications of Apartheid for Christianity in South Africa' in the book he edited, Christianity Amidst Apartheid: Selected Perspectives on the Church in South Africa ([1985] 1990); his first book, Religion and Ultimate Well-Being: An Explanatory Theory (1984); and his latest book...

Digital Culture and Religion in Asia By Sam Han and Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir London and New York: Routledge 2016, 129 pages. ISBN: 978-0-415-52185-7 Reviewer: Denzil Chetty, University of South Africa

Post-Apartheid South Africa witnessed a major shift from Christian National Education to a multi-religion educational approach that sought to treat all religions within an impartial academic context. The National Policy on Religion Education (2003) provided the framework in which the objectives of a multi-religion education found its expression in...

Over the past few years, we have seen the advent of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) transforming our conventional understanding of education, more specifically teaching and learning practices. While the introduction of ICTs have brought to the fore many optimistic benefits, such as improved lecturer-student interactions, and new m...

The growing presence of Hinduism and its adherents in India's cyberspace has led to the conceptualization of the categorical identity the 'Internet-Hindu.' Using Castell's theorizing of communication in a network society, this paper articulates a critique on the nature of cyberspace and its use by the Hindu community in the construction of online r...

Over the past decade, we have seen the production of knowledge in the academe undergo fundamental change. This change has challenged traditional disciplines, practices and policies that form the foundation of established educational institutions. Elements such as the interrelatedness of abstract and applied research, the transdisciplinarity setting...

The Humanities should be re-imaged in terms of interdisciplinarity and that as a collaborative 'digital Humanities' in Africa. Where student numbers and financial viability often trump the intellectualization of disciplines, the humanities more often than not find itself victim to higher education 'cut backs'. In addition, major shifts in society,...

Over the past decade, we have seen the advent of technologies (more especially Information and Communication Technologies) transforming the higher education landscape. One of the critical challenges emerging within this new landscape has been how to position the integration of technology within an appropriate learning theory. The three 'traditional...

Since the promulgation of the National Policy on Religion and Education (2003), Faculties of Education have worked hard to develop the Religious Component of the Life Orientation curriculum—Religion Education. Schools also started to offer Religion Studies as a full Grade 12 subject. This paper investigates the background to and current state of th...

There are various theories of social interaction that can be used to analyse the current state of Africa, albeit, there is also an inherent need for a theory which can capture the salient factors that perpetuate the state of social conflict that is unique to the African context. Hence, the aim of this research paper is to advance an African discour...