Dr NNN Mlambo

Qualifications

• BA Film and Media Production - University of Cape Town
• Postgraduate Diploma in Theology - Stellenbosch University
• Masters in Theology - Stellenbosch University
• PhD - Stellenbosch University

Currently teaching

• THE1503
• BTH3702
• HRKEG81
• HMKEG80

Fields of academic interests

• South African Church History
• Land Justice
• Spatial Justice
• Decolonialism 

Field of Specialisation

South African Church History and Spatial Justice

Books

• Mlambo, N and Riches, T. 2023. Ideological coloniality and Decolonizing Worship Practice at Hillsong. Book chapter in The Pentecostal World, edited by Michael Wilkinson and Jörg Haustein.
• Mlambo N. 2022. Youth and the contestation of inequality with #RhodesMustFall: challenging the status quo and an emergence of a theology of spatial justice from below. Book chapter in Faith, Race and Inequality amongst Young Adults in South Africa: Contested and contesting discourses for a better future, edited by Prof Nadine Bowers Du-Toit.

Journal articles

• Mlambo, N., & Mbaya, H. 2024. The Church of Nazarene in Khayelitsha: Developing a missional spatial consciousness with special reference to COVID-19. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 80(1), 7 pages. Available:https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v80i1.9217
• Mlambo, N. 2023. Dutch Reformed Church in inner city Pretoria: forming a new church space in South Africa: 1856–2020. Stellenbosch Theological Journal, Vol 9 (1): 1–15.
• Mlambo, N. & Mbaya, H.,2023, St John’s Parish in Cape Town and a history of the lived spatial justice acts: 1956–2020. In die Skriflig, 57(1): a3002. 
• Powell, C., & Mlambo, N. 2022. Space, Place and the Church: Fostering a Consciousness and a Theology of Spatial Justice in South African Churches. International Journal of Public Theology. 16(1), 74-88.
• Mlambo, N. 2020. Church Land Reform through a Combination of Examples and Theology of Spatial Justice: The Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Mariannhill 1999 to the Present. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 46 (2):15 pages.

Paper presentations

Local conference presentations

• Church Land Reform through a combination of Examples and Theology of Spatial Justice: The Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Mariannhill 1999 - the present, presented at the Church History Society of Southern Africa (CHSSA) conference, August 2019
• A new spatial dynamic: creating a church for the poor in the midst of COVID-19, paper presented at South African Missiological Society conference, September 2020

International conference presentations

• Space, Place and The Church: Fostering a consciousness and a theology of spatial justice in South African churches, paper presented as co-author at the Global Network of Public Theology conference in Bamberg, Germany, September 2019
• What is whiteness outside of blackness: A possible political theology after the colony, paper presented as co-author at Oxford University in Oxford, UK, March 2023

Other publications, reports, and contributions

Presentations

• Youth and the contestation of inequality with #RhodesMustFall: challenging the status quo and an emergence of a theology of spatial justice from below, paper presented at the ‘Faith, race and inequality among young adults in South Africa: Contested and contesting discourses for a better future’ colloquium by Stellenbosch University, February 2021
• Development Action Group Brownbag discussion: Expropriation without Compensation online seminar by the Development Action Group, June 2021
• The State of the Church in South Africa webinar by the Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology at the University of South Africa, September 2021
• Spatial (in)justice and the post-apartheid state webinar, by the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, September 2021
• What is a possible decolonial reality/realities? Reflections from a Black Pentecostal woman, paper presented at the ‘Confronting Decolonial Realities Symposium’ by ETF Leuven in Belgium, October 2021
• Space: Philosophy Otherwise, paper presented at the Philosophy Otherwise Colloquium by the Institute of Christians Studies in Canada, November 2021
• “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT THERE HAS BEEN A PROPHET AMONG THEM” Preaching Faith, Hope, and Resistance Amidst Calamities. Lecture response, response of a lecture by Prof Allan Boesak in a lecture series called “The Fire, the River, and the Scorched Earth Between: The Rise, Relevance, and Resilience of Black Theology in South Africa, Fifty Years of Black Theological Thinking and Doing”, November 2021
• A (re)newed spatial imagination: A call to just holy spaces, paper presented at the Stellenbosch University Faculty of Theology’s Theological Day, February 2022

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

Professional Associations and Academic Citizenship Activities

• Member of Theological Society of South Africa
• Member of South African Missiological Society
• Member of Church History of Southern Africa
• Deputy Editor of Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae journal
• Board member of the Institute of Urban Ministry

Projects

Meal of Peace - departmental community engagement project