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ALTERNATION Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa, Special Edition No. 11, 2013 ISSN 1023-1757 Research in Religion and Society * Alternation is an international journal which publishes interdisciplinary contri- butions in the fields of the Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa. * Prior to publication, each publication in Alternation is reviewed by at least two independent peer referees. * Alternation is indexed in The Index to South African Periodicals (ISAP) and reviewed in The African Book Publishing Record (ABPR). * Alternation is published every semester. * Alternation was accredited in 1996. EDITOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR Johannes A Smit (UKZN) Judith Lütge Coullie (UKZN) Editorial Assistant: Beverly Vencatsamy EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Catherine Addison (UZ); Urmilla Bob (UKZN); Denzil Chetty (Unisa); Brian Fulela (UKZN); Mandy Goedhals (UKZN); Rembrandt Klopper (UKZN); Jabulani Mkhize (UFort Hare); Shane Moran (UFort Hare); Priya Narismulu (UKZN); Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa (UKZN); Thengani Ngwenya (DUT); Corinne Sandwith (UKZN); Mpilo Pearl Sithole (UKZN); Graham Stewart (DUT). EDITORIAL BOARD Richard Bailey (UKZN); Marianne de Jong (Unisa); Betty Govinden (UKZN); Dorian Haarhoff (Namibia); Sabry Hafez (SOAS); Dan Izebaye (Ibadan); RK Jain (Jawaharlal Nehru); Robbie Kriger (NRF); Isaac Mathumba (Unisa); Godfrey Meintjes (Rhodes); Fatima Mendonca (Eduardo Mondlane); Sikhumbuzo Mngadi (UJ); Louis Molamu (Botswana); Katwiwa Mule (Pennsylvania); Isidore Okpewho (Binghamton); Andries Oliphant (Unisa); Julie Pridmore (Unisa); Rory Ryan (UJ); Michael Samuel (UKZN); Maje Serudu (Unisa); Marilet Sienaert (UCT); Ayub Sheik (UKZN); Liz Thompson (UZ); Cleopas Thosago (UNIN); Helize van Vuuren (NMMU); Hildegard van Zweel (Unisa). NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Carole Boyce-Davies (Florida Int.); Ampie Coetzee (UWC); Simon During (Melbourne); Elmar Lehmann (Essen); Douglas Killam (Guelph); Andre Lefevere (Austin); David Lewis-Williams (Wits); Bernth Lindfors (Austin); Jeff Opland (Charterhouse); Graham Pechey (Hertfordshire); Erhard Reckwitz (Essen). COVER A.W. Kruger CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS The Editor: Alternation, Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal, Priv. Bag X10, Dalbridge, 4041, DURBAN, South Africa; Tel: +27-(0)31-260-7303; Fax: +27-(0)31-260-7286; Web: http://alternation.ukzn.ac.za e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] ISSN 1023-1757 Copyright Reserved: Alternation Alternation Special Edition No 11, 2013 ISSN 1023-1757 Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa ARTICLES Johannes A. Smit, Denzil Chetty and Beverly Vencatsamy Editorial: Research in Religion and Society ......................................................................................................... 1 Johannes A. Smit Research in Religion and Society ........................................................ 10 Farid Esack Redeeming Islam: Constructing the Good Muslim Subject in the Contemporary Study of Religion .................................................................................... 36 P. Pratap Kumar Does Comparative Theology have an Advantage over Religious Studies? .......................................................................................................... 61 Nisbert Taisekwa Taringa The Historical-typological Phenomenology of Religion: Problems and Promises ................................................................................... 87 Nelly Mwale Religion and Development in Zambia: The Role of the Roman Catholic Church in the Political Development of Zambia: 1890-1964 ............ 110 Auwais Rafudeen The Orion Cold Storage Saga: Debating “Halaal” in South Africa ... 134 Garth Mason Frances Banks – Mystic and Educator: The Visionary Solipsist ............. 163 Irvin G. Chetty Origin and Development of the ‘New Apostolic Reformation’ in South Africa: A Neo-Pentecostal Movement or a Post-Pentecostal Phenomenon? ...... 190 Herbert Moyo Research in Religion, Pastoral Care and Indigenous African Knowledge Systems: Healing and Communal Reconstruction in African Communities .................................................................................................... 207 W.A. den Hollander and Madhu I. Kasiram Training Pastoral Counsellors for HIV/AIDS Care and Management in South Africa: Perspectives from Post Foundationalism, Contextual Therapy and Narrative Therapy ............................. 237 Madhu I. Kasiram, N. Ngcobo and D. Mulqueeny Exploring Positive Living in the Face of HIV and AIDS: Implications for Life Skills .................................................... 255 Peter Sandy Does Spirituality Play a Role in Smoking Cessation? A Case Study Report of a Smoking Cessation Programme on Service Users with Schizophrenia ...... 273 Contributors ..................................................................................................................... 295 Editorial Associates (1994 - 2013) .................................................................................. 299 PRINT CONNECTION Tel (031) 202-7766; 202-7766 Alternation Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa Research in Religion and Society Guest Editors Johannes A. Smit, Denzil Chetty and Beverly Vencatsamy 2013 CSSALL Durban Acknowledgement of Reviewers We wish to acknowledge the participation of the following reviewers in the production of this issue of Alternation. Anastasia Apostolides (University of South Africa, South Africa) Jaco Beyers (University of Pretoria, South Africa) Brian Bocking (University College Cork, Ireland) Denzil Chetty (University of South Africa, South Africa) Irvin Chetty (University of Fort Hare, South Africa) Michel Clasquin-Johnson (University of South Africa, South Africa) Yusuf Dadoo (University of South Africa, South Africa) Gordon Dames (University of South Africa, South Africa) Elijah Dube (University of South Africa, South Africa) Charlotte Engelbrecht (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Danie Goosen (University of South Africa, South Africa) Elijah Mahlangu (University of Pretoria, South Africa) Garth Mason (University of South Africa, South Africa) Maud Mthembu (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Marilyn Naidoo (University of South Africa, South Africa) Sunette Pienaar (University of South Africa) Rubeena Partab (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Jan Platvoet (African Association for the Study of Religion, Netherlands) Auweis Rafudeen (University of South Africa, South Africa) Sue Rakoczy (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Tanusha Raniga (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Peter Sandy (University of South Africa) Johannes A. Smit (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) Maniraj Sukdaven (University of Free State, South Africa) Johan Strijdom (University of South Africa, South Africa) Beverly Vencatsamy (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) Razvan Tatu (University of South Africa, South Africa) Edwina Ward (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Editorial: Religion and Society Johannes A. Smit Denzil Chetty Beverly Vencatsamy The rising significance of the focus on scholarly discourse development on ‘religion and society’ is evident from a number of recent initiatives. For instance, the Religion and Society Programme is a £12m research initiative funded by UK research councils between 2007-2013. To this we can add the growing significance of the Journal of Religion and Society published by Berghahn Journals in both Oxford and New York, the Encyclopedia of Religion and Society of the American Academy of Religion, and the fact that we shall have a fourth international conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society in 2014 at the Universidad Nacional Costa Rica Heredia. The founding of programmes for postgraduate research (University of Aberdeen for instance), and research Centers for Religion and Society at universities (Notre Dame University, US; Victoria University; and University of Western Sydney Australia are examples) also speak to this fact. This can rightly be termed a renewed interest for scholarship in the New Millennium. This is also borne out by the seminal book, edited by Gerrie ter Haar and Yoshio Tsuruoka in 2007, viz. Religion and Society: An Agenda for the 21st Century (2007). In their book, Ter Haar and Tsuruoka deal with a number of themes that they regarded as seminal for discourse development on religion and society back in 2007. Firstly, it makes some seminal contributions to two of the most pressing issues that confront the religions. These focus on the study of the religious dimensions of conflict – ‘War and Peace’ – and the articulation of technology with ‘Life and Death’. Secondly, it contributes some seminal perspectives on the articulation of local cultures with their Alternation Special Edition 11 (2013) 1 - 9 1 ISSN 1023-1757 Johannes A. Smit, Denzil Chetty & Beverly Vencatsamy global religious counterparts as well as the vexed issue of boundary making and marginalisation which is part and parcel of much of how religions function socially. Thirdly, it contains sections on method and theory in the study of religion and the study of religion in one country, viz. Japan. In some detail, each of the articles in this volume of Alternation, makes a contribution to these different focuses. The main contribution of this volume though, is that it quite consciously engages the issues from within the southern African context or at least from consciously positioned postapartheid and postcolonial perspectives1. In his presidential address of 2012, Johannes A. Smit points
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