Prof Mokhele Madise

Qualifications

• BTh
• MTh
• DTh

Fields of academic interests

• The Early Church History
• Medieval History
• Reformation History
• African and South African Church History

Field of Specialisation

South African Church History

Books

• Taunyane LM & Madise MJS. 2009. The Life and Times of Dr SK Matseke.. Moutloatse Publishers, Johannesburg.
• Taunyane LM & Madise MJS 2012. The Methodist Church in Africa: 1930-2001. Printed by Bontshi Business Services

Book Chapters

• Madise MJS 2000. Orality, Memory and the Past. Title of the chapter is: From Mokone To the Black Methodist Consultation (The problem of Racism in the Methodist Church). Cluster publications, Pietermaritzburg.

Journal articles

Madise MJS 2001. Christian healing in the African Independent Churches. Studia Historiae Ecclesiaticae. Vol. XXVIII. No.2, pages 122 - 132. December.

Madise MJS 2002. Difeqane/Mfeqane:The Battle of Dithakong. An anti-clockwise migration of the mission expansion to the Southern Batswana. Studia Historiae Ecclesiaticae Volume XXVIII. No. 1, pages 276 - 286. June,.

Madise MJS The training of clergy English-speaking Churches: The Native Ministry. Studia Historiae Ecclesiaticae: Vol. 29, No. 1, June 2003.

Madise MJS & Lebeloane LDM 2003. An Independent Church Facilitates the establishment of a secondary education in South Africa: A Historical Account. Studia Historiae Ecclesiaticae: Vol. 29, No. 2, December.

Madise MJS 2004. Worshipping under the Mimosa Tree. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae: Vol. 30, No. 2, December. 

Madise MJS 2005. The Parallels of the European Reformation and the Church Reformation in Africa: The Cultural Dichotomy and reflections. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, Vol. 31, No.1 June.

Matsepe SS & Madise MJS 2005. A new phenomenon in Zionist churches of Botswana: The use of divination bones and sacred places. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae: Vol. 31. No 2. October.

Madise MJS 2006. The Christian Families’ participation in Baptism as a basis for including Children in Holy Communion. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae: Vol. 32. No.1. May.

Madise MJS &Lebeloane LDM 2006. The use of different types of water in the Zion Christian Church. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae Vol 22, No 2, September 

Madise MJS & Lebeloane LDM 2008. The Manyano movements in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa: An expression of freedom of worship (1844 to 1944). Studia Historia Ecclesiasticae, Vol XXXIV, No. 2, December, University of South Africa.

Madise MJS & Lebeloane LDM 2009. The Influence of Calvinism on South Africa’s education system Journal of Educational Studies, Vol XXXV, (2), October.

Madise MJS & Lebeloane LDM 2008. Evaluating the beautification of Schools’ Campaign as an environmental Management Tool. Journal of Educational Studies, Vol 7, No. 2.

Madise MJS 2010. Christian Emergence among the Batlhaping ba ga Phuduhucwana tribe in Taung: the London Missionary Society. Studia Historia Ecclesiasticae, Volume XXXVI. (2) University of South Africa, October.

Madise MJS & Lebeloane LDM 2011 .Minister Fraternal vis-à-vis ecumenism: a close look at the confrontation between the South African Council of Churches and the then Bophuthatswana Ministers Fraternity (1976-1994), Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae XXXVII (1) – May.

Madise MJS & Lebeloane LDM 2011.Using proverbs to facilitate understanding of environmental education in literature. Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies. No 2, Volume 21, December.

Landman C & Madise MJS 2011. Soccer Prayers as a means of Teaching Religious Values. Journal for Common Youth and Development. Volume 9, No1, July.

Madise MJS & Lebeloane LDM 2012. Freedom of Learners as a Challenge for Teacher Education in 21^st Century Classrooms: The Case of South Africa. Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, Vol 16. Issue 1,  Weber State University, UTAH, USA, January.

Madise MJS 2013. The centenary of Amadodana in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa: development and influence of this movement. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae XXXIX Supplement – August.

Madise MJS 2014.The Leadership of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa during the 1980s and 1990s: The transition from apartheid to the democratic era in South Africa. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae. Vol. XL, Supplement – August.

Oliver WH & Madise MJS 2014. The formation of Christian theology in Alexandria. Verbum et Ecclesia 35 (1), Art. #1314, 13 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v35i1.1314

Mashabela JK & Madise MJS 2016, Manas Buthelezi : The church leader, liberation activist and scholar in the South African context. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae. Vol 24, No 1,  University of South Africa.

Paper presentations

Local Conferences

• Healing in the African Independent Churches.
• The role of the youth in the Church and in the age of AIDS, Democracy and Permissiveness.
• Difeqane/Mfecane: An anti clockwise migration of the mission expansion to the Southern Batswana.
• The Training of Clergy in the English-speaking churches: The Native Ministry
• Parallels between the European Church Reformation and the Church Reformation in Africa: The Cultural dichotomy and reflections.
• The Christian Families’ participation in Baptism as a basis for including Children in Holy Communion.
• Manyano movements within the Methodist Church of Southern Africa: An expression of freedom of worship (1844 to 1944).
• The emergence of an ecumenical theological education in South Africa: The Federal Theological Seminary. 
• Minister fraternal vis-a-vis ecumenism: a close look at the confrontation between the South African Councils of Churches and the then Bophuthatswana Ministers Fraternity (1976-1994).
• Using proverbs to facilitate understanding of environmental education in literature.
• Towards Effective Teaching and Meaningful Learning in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education.

International conferences:

• Voices of the Black Clergy during Colonialism and Apartheid.
• Increasing research capacity and Productivity to facilitate improved university output: The case of Unisa.
• Freedom of learners as a challenge in Education for Sustainability to teachers in the 21^st century classroom: The case study and Identified challenges of teaching learners in an environmentally directed way for lifelong learning: The case study of South Africa.
• Challenges of Equal Access to Education in South Africa and Challenges of Implementing Educational Policy in South Africa.
• The impact of the closure of Colleges of Education in South Africa and challenges for teacher educators in the twenty first century. Inculcating the culture of environmental protection and management: a challenge for teacher educators in South Africa in the twenty first century.
• Exploring challenges of building environmental questions in the learning content: A case study and Identified challenges of introducing and using ICT in an open distance learning institution: The case of the University of South Africa.
• A Challenged Teacher Education: Facts, Feelings Formations.  
• After Liberation what next?
• Land is money: Developmental, sustainability as a model for trade integration for Africa’s advancement. 
• Discrimination or captivity of women in the Zionist churches of South Africa. 

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

Professional positions

• Guest Editor: Studia Historiae and Missionalia

Fellowships

• Church History Society of Southern Africa

Awards

• Grant holder of the research fund from National Research Foundation for the Doctoral Research for the year 2003 and 2004.
• Winner of the Unisa Principal’s Prize for research 2005.

Projects

• Voice and voicelessness