Dr Vuyani Vellem

Vellem, who is a specialist in Liberation Theology,  focuses his research interests on themes such as Christianity and Democracy, Christianity and Economics, and fields such as Ecclesiology, Public and Liberation Theologies, and Spirituality.

Publications in peer-reviewed or refereed journals

2010. “On Black South African Public Theology in a Global Era,” in Theologia Viatorum 34(1), 101-119.

2010. “Prophetic witness in Black Theology – with special reference to the Kairos Document in HTS Teologiese Studies /Theological Studies Journal 66(1), Art. #800,6 pages. DOI:10.4102/hts.v66i1.800

2010. “Ideology and Spirituality: A Critique of Villa Vicencio's Project of Reconstruction” in Scriptura Vol 105 (2010:3), 457-460.

2010. “ Serithi/Isidima: Reflections on Human Dignity in South Africa from a Black African Perspective,” in Scriptura 104 (2010:2), 314-321.

2012. “The Opiate of neoliberal Globalization and the Dawn of Democracy in South Africa” in Theologia Viatorum, volume 36.1.,76-93.

2012. “Interlocution and Black Theology of Liberation in the 21st reflection” in Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae Volume XXXVIII, 345-360.

2013. “The Reformed tradition as Public Theology,” HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 69(1), Art. #1371,5 paeges.http:/dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v69i.1371.

2013. “A critical black analysis of the Church’s role in post-Apartheid struggle forsocio-economic justice” in Studia Historiae Ecclesiaticae December 2013, XXXIX (2)(in printing)

2013. The ‘Native Experiment’: The Formation of the Bantu Presbyterian Church and the defects of faith Transplanted on African Soil in Missionalia, 41 (2) 2013 (in printing)

2013. From Mission to Stewardship: The Social Analysis of Black Mission in the Context of Empire in Journal of Black and African Studies in printing

Articles and book Chapters accepted for Publication

Vellem, V. “Legitimacy: The Praxis of Consensing and Consenting in the Contested Post- Racial Democratic Discourse in South Africa” in press, Drew, Tshaka, et al. (eds.) Pretoria: Unisa Press.

Vellem, V. (in press) “Isixeko: A counter-hegemonic form of liturgy with implications for public theology,” in Mekoa & M. Mpadimeng (eds.), Remaking ourselves: A Reader in African Culture, 1, Saltry Print, Cape Town.

Vellem, V. (in press) “Life-giving Democracy,” in Mekoa & M. Mpadimeng (eds.), Remaking ourselves: A Reader in African Culture, 1, Saltry Print, Cape Town.

Vellem, V. et al (in press) Prophet from the South (2nd Edition), Stellenbosch: SunMedia

Vellem, V. (in press) “Re-discovering Reconciliation: A Response to the Call for Reconciliation as a Governing Symbol in Post 1994 South Africa”

Vellem, V (in press) “Ecumenicity and a Black Theology of Liberation”

Vellem, V. “Life-giving assets at Thabo Mbeki Village: Black faith and the Baal’s of Multiculturalism in the 21st Century” in Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism . . .(Palgrave Macmillan)

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