Buhle Mpofu (0000-0002-6833-0810)

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Buhle Mpofu is a senior lecturer with the department of Practical Theology and Mission studies at the faculty of Theology and Region, University of Pretoria and is also an ordained minister with the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA). Mpofu has a background in ecumenical work and served as the Secretary of the African Communion of Reformed Churches (ACRC), a regional body of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC). His research focuses on Church and Society by interrogating the interface between Christian mission, migration, cultures and borders through trajectories such as poverty, development, race and identity. These intersecting themes are explored through the lens of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), life affirming values, missiology, decolonization and socio-economic transformation.

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University of Pretoria: Pretoria, Gauteng, ZA

2020 to present | Senior Lecturer (Practical Theology and Mission Studies)

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University of Pretoria: Pretoria, Gauteng, ZA

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University of KwaZulu-Natal College of Humanities: Pietermaritzburg, Kwa Zulu Natal, ZA

Stellenbosch University: Stellenbosch, Western Cape, ZA

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Soshanguve Uniting Presbyterian Church: Pretoria, Gaiteng, ZA

Southern African Missiological Society: Menle Park, ZA

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Works (37)

An investigation into harmful traditional, cultural and religious practices in South African Schools

An epistemic death or wrong perceptions? Power dynamics and complexities in theological learning spaces

Ambivalence and the unsettling aftershocks: Postcolonial perspectives on Vellem’s spirituality

A theological response to racism in post-apartheid South Africa: A Korean perspective

A trio reclaiming blackness and black spirituality: A tribute to Vuyani Vellem

Protest Movement as Mission from the Margins: COVID-19, racism, xenophobia and sustainable livelihoods in Southern Africa

Decolonization of Christian mission in South Africa: Towards a missiology of reconstruction

Rethinking theological training as ministerial empowerment for contextual mission: A case of the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa

Dislocation and continuity: Marking the 30th anniversary of the Catholic Bishops’ pastoral letter Living Our Faith

International Handbook on Creation Care and Eco-Diakonia. Concepts and Theological Perspectives of Churches from the Global South

Missio-pastoral and theological implications for migration and increased demagoguing in South Africa A call to prophetic and transformative engagement with migrants.

A conversation with a stranger: Debunking religiosity and poverty in South Africa

I’m Not a Fruit which Fell from a Tree: Migrants’ Discourses of Resistance in the Context of Dehumanization and Economic Exploitation in Southern Africa

Rethinking the Eucharist in the aftermath of COVID-19 disruptions: A comparative study of Reformed and Pentecostal theology of sacraments

I’m Somali and I’m Christian: A dilemma for religion and identity in the context of migration in Southern Africa

Pursuing fullness of life through harmony with nature: Towards an African response to environmental destruction and climate change in Southern Africa

Mission to live: A gendered perspective on the experience of migration in Southern Africa

COVID-19, Masculinities, and Religion in South Africa

Transversal modes of being a missional church in the digital context of COVID-19

COVID‐19 IN AFRICA: PERSPECTIVES ON ECONOMIC AND GENDER JUSTICE

Re-thinking philanthropy as religious cost signalling in the context of socio-economic transformation in South Africa

‘It is now in your hands’: South Africa’s dilemma for religion and governance in the changing COVID-19 context

Mission on the margins: A proposal for an alternative missional paradigm in the wake of COVID-19

Navigating Changing Cultural Landscapes: A Quest for Identity and Belonging among Migrant Adolescents in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

From Post-Doc to lockdown Teaching and Learning: Pedagogical lessons for Religion and Mission in the changing post-COVID-19 context

Mpofu B. (2020). Reimaging Marginality: Covid-19 and the changing fortunes of South Africa’s foreign migrants

Liturgy and migration: A Missiological critique into the lived experiences of African Migrants within the Transnational Spaces of Worship in Johannesburg

Migration, xenophobia and resistance to xenophobia and socio-economic exclusion in the aftermath of South African Rainbowism

Theologies of Belonging and Emerging Transnational Identities in Southern Africa

Church as Hostile, Host or Home: Perspectives on the Experiences of African Migrants in South Africa

Economic Inclusion: A paradigm Shift from the Radical Economic Transformation (RET) in the Context of Growing Xenophobia in South Africa

Xenophobic encounters: sociological perspectives on the experience of migration in South Africa

Xenophobic encounters: sociological perspectives on the experience of migration in South Africa

Current Migration and Religion. A Transnational Discourse

A Golden City we built together Sociological and Theological Perspectives on the experience of Migration in S.A

Social responsibility with respect to religion and migration in South Africa

Unwelcome strangers: The suffering of migrants and refugees as an ecumenical global challenge for the 21st Century.