Prof. Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy in the subject [Biblical Studies (New Testament)]
• Master of Theology in the field of New Testament (Specialising in New Testament Ethics)
• Bachelor of Theology (Hons)
• Bachelor of Theology
• Bachelor of Ministry
• Assessor Training: Outcomes-Based Education in Higher Education and Open Distance learning
• Certificate in Business Writing Skills

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Currently teaching

I am currently mentoring three post-doctoral fellows.

1. Dr Sthembiso Mthembu
2. Dr Ayobami Precious Adekola
3. Dr Themba Shingange

Books

BOOK EDITING AND BOOK CHAPTERS

2013

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae

Reference: Mothoagae, Itumeleng. D. “The Imposed marginalisation of Black Liberation Theology in public discourse in post-apartheid South Africa”, in Tradition: Fixed and Mobile Essays in honour of Rev. Prof Rodney Moss edited by Itumeleng D Mothoagae and Anselm Laurence OFM Prior, 201-234.Pretoria: Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013.

Authors: Itumeleng D. Mothoagae and Anslem Laurence (Eds.).

Reference: Tradition: Fixed and Mobile Essays in honour of Rev. Prof Rodney Moss edited by Itumeleng D Mothoagae and Anselm Laurence OFM Prior, Pretoria: Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013.

2015

Authors: Puleng J Segalo and Itumeleng D Mothoagae

Reference: Segalo, Puleng. J & Mothoagae, Itumeleng. D. “Gender equality and ethnic mobilisation as possible assets for democracy and social cohesion”, in African Theological Reflections: Critical Voices on Liberation, Leadership, Gender and Eco-Justice edited by Francisca H Chimhanda, Victor MS Molobi & Itumeleng D Mothoagae, 231-246.Pretoria: Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2015.

Authors: Francisca H. Chimhanda, Victor M. S. Molobi & Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae (Eds.).

Reference: African Theological Reflections: Critical Voices on Liberation, Leadership, Gender and Eco-Justice, edited by Francisca H Chimhanda, Victor M. S. Molobi & Itumeleng D Mothoagae, Pretoria: Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2015  

2019

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae

Reference: Mothoagae, Itumeleng. D. “The 1830–1857 Translation of the English-Setswana Bible as a Political Project”, pages 65-90 in Reformation in the Context of World Christianity: Theological, political and social interactions between Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. edited by Frieder Ludwig, Mirjam Laaser, Wilhelm Richebächer, Amélé Adamavi-Aho Ekué & Pui-Yee Pong. Wiesbaden, Germany: Otto Harrassowitz; 1st Edition, 2019.

2021

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae

Reference: Mothoagae, Itumeleng. D. “The role of religion in the formation of white nationalism: exclusion, race, ethnicity and identity in shaping democratic South Africa’s identity”, pages 41-60 in Black Religious Landscaping in Africa and the United States. Edited by Joy Bostic, Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae, Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs, New York: Peter Lang, 2021.

Authors: Joy Bostic, Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae, Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs, (Eds.)

Reference: Black Religious Landscaping in Africa and the United States,”, edited by Joy Bostic, Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae, Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs, New York: Peter Lang, 2021.

Journal articles

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Refereed/Peer reviewed articles in journals

2010

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae and Prior Laurence Anselm

Reference: Mothoagae, Itumeleng. D and Prior, Laurence. A. A new leadership for a new ecclesiology. Acta Theologica Journal, vol.30, n.1 (2010): 84-100. ISSN 1015-8758

2011

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae

Reference: Mothoagae, Mothoagae Itumeleng D. “Identity as a social construct of empire: then and now”. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 37 – Supplement, (2011): 115-130. ISSN 1017-0499.

2012

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae

Reference: Mothoagae, Itumeleng. D. “The Stony Road we Tread: The Challenges and Contributions of Black Liberation Theology in post-apartheid South Africa”. Missionalia, vol. 40, issue 03, (2012):278-287. ISSN 02569507.

Authors: Mokhele J. S. Madise & Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae (Guest Editors)

Reference: “Contra-culturing voicelessness histories and futures” [Editorial] Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae., vol.XXXVIII, Supplement, (2012): xiii. ISSN 1017-0499

Author: Mokhele J. S. Madise & Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae (Guest Editors)

Reference: “Voice or echoing voices in the new millennium” [editorial] Missionalia 40:3 (Nov 2012):188

Authors: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae and Mokhele J. S. Madise (Conference Proceedings)

Reference: Mothoagae, Itumeleng D., and Mokhele J. S. Madise. "Land is Development: A Developmental Sustainability for Trade Integration for Africa’s Advancement." In Proceedings of USM-AUT International Conference 2012 Sustainable Economic Development: Policies and Strategies edited by Hooi Hooi Lean and Saidatulakmal Mohd, 75-82. Malaysia: School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysi, 2012 ISBN No: 978-967-394-115-5

2013

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae

Reference: Mothoagae, Itumeleng. D. “Expelled and Peripheral: The Resistance of the Black marginalised Majority and the Call for a New Liberation in Post-Apartheid South Africa” Scriptura Journal for hermeneutics in Southern Africa, vol. 112, issue 03, (2013): 455-483. ISSN 025418

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae (Guest Editor)

Reference: Mothoagae, Itumeleng. D. “Reconfiguring Theology: A need for Organic Intellectuals and a challenge to Epistemic Privilege” [editorial] Scriptura Journal for hermeneutics in Southern Africa, vol. 112, issue 03, (2013): 385-356. ISSN 02541807

2014

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae

Reference: Mothoagae, Itumeleng. D. “The gendered God in the Setswana Bible and the captivity of Modimo: Moffat and the translating of the Bible into Setswana”. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae., vol.40, no.2, (2014):149-168. ISSN 1017-0499 1

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae

Reference: Mothoagae, Itumeleng. D. “An Exercise of Power as Epistemic Racism and Privilege: The Subversion of Tswana Identity”, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, 16:1-2, (2014):11-27, DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2014.931085

2015

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae

Reference: Mothoagae, Itumeleng. D. ‘Setswana proverbs within the institution of lenyalo [marriage]: A critical engagement with the bosadi [womanhood] approach’, Verbum et Ecclesia 36(1), Art. #1403 (2015), 7 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v36i1.1403

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae and Boshadi Mary Semenya

Reference: Mothoagae, Itumeleng. D. & Boshadi Mary Semenya., ‘The operation of memory in translation: On Moffat’s desecration of the Batswana linguistic heritage in the production of the Setswana Bible’, Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae (2015):44-62.

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae

Reference: Mothoagae, Itumeleng. D. ‘The Eurocentric, Christian patriarchal structural system approach of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC): a critical engagement with the book God, Love, Life and Sex’, Scriptura 114.1 (2015:), 1-16. http://scriptura.journals.ac.za

2016

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae

Reference: Mothoagae, I.D. ‘Reclaiming our Black Bodies: Reflections on a Portrait of Sarah (Saartjie) Baartman and the Destruction of Black Bodies by the State’, Acta Theologica Suppl 24: (2016), 62-83.

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae (Guest Editor)

Reference: Mothoagae, I.D. 2016. Lineages of Black Theology of Liberation. [editorial] Acta Theologica Supplementum 24.

2017

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae

Reference: Mothoagae, I.D., 2017, ‘The transmutation of bogwera in Luke 2:21 in the 1857 English-Setswana Bible’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 73(3), 4523. https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v73i3.4523

2018

Author: Itumeleng D Mothoagae

Reference: Mothoagae, I.D., 2018, ‘The reordering of the Batswana Cosmology in the 1840 English-Setswana New Testament’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 74(1), 4786. https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v74i1.4786

2019

Author: Itumeleng D Mothoagae

Reference: Mothoagae, I.D., 2019, ‘Moopa or barren: A rereading of the 1840 English–Setswana gospel of Luke 1:36–38 from a Setswana traditional practice’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 75(3), a5506. https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v75i3.5506

2021

Author: Itumeleng D Mothoagae

Reference: Mothoagae, I.D., 2021, ‘A decolonial reading of the 1840 English-Setswana Gospel of Luke with specific reference to Luke 1:59 and Luke 2:21 from the perspective of the damnés’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 77(1), a6914. https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v77i1.6914

Author: Itumeleng D Mothoagae

Reference: Mothoagae, I.D., 2021, ‘The colonial matrix of power: Image ontology and the question of blackness’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 77(4), a7074. https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v77i4.7074

Authors: Itumeleng D Mothoagae and Azwihangwisi Mavhandu-Mudzusi

Reference: Mothoagae, Itumeleng D. and Mavhandu-Mudzusi, Azwihangwisi. 2021. The intersectionality of religion, race and gender at the time of COVID-19 pandemic: A South African reflection Pharos Journal of Theology Volume 102 – Special Ed 2 https://doi.org/10.46222/pharosjot.102.220 13

Author: Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae (Guest Editor)

Reference: Mothoagae, I.D., 2021, ‘Reception of biblical discourse in Africa’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 77(1), a7204. https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v77i1.7204

Paper presentations

GUEST SPEAKER ACTIVITIES
• Presented a lecture at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey State (October 02, 2014)
Title: This is not your house: Black Consciousness and Non-Racialism in South Africa

• Presented a lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey State (October 03, 2014)
Title: "Why Culture Matters: Racial Justice and the need for Radical Christian Voices and Praxis".

• Ecumenical Service for Socio Economic Transformation, South Africa (6 August 2015).
Title: “Tracing the Ecumenical Movement in the Fight against Social Injustices in post-apartheid South Africa”.

• African Renaissance Centre, Ghana
I was invited to present a paper at a conference on: The churches of the Reformation in their social and political responsibility for the One World: Case studies and country analyses from Africa, Asia, America and Europe Fachhochschule für Interkulturelle Theologie Hermannsburg. (22-25 June 2016).
Title: Reformed theology: Where is Zacchaeus in the church in a South African Context?

• St. Augustine College, South Africa
Invited to speak at the St John Paul II Catholic Chaplaincy to The African Union. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (16-22 October 2020). It is part of a Webinar series of lectures

• Invited as a panellist Topic: ETF Leuven Expert Symposium: Confronting Decolonial Realities, Time: Oct 1, 2021, 09:30 Brussels.

• Interpreting Sacred Texts within the changing contexts in Africa (2022), University of Ghana, Legon
Title of the paper: A decolonial and Black Theological re-reading of the Third Chapter of the Gospel of John in the 1826 Moffat’s Translation of the Catechism into Setswana.

Projects

1. Special Issues Project: 2021-2025

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies and Acta Theologica (Journals) - A five-year special issue on The Reception of Biblical Discourse.

• Concept note submitted to editors in 2020.

• Diverse editorial contributors (continental and global) identified for the 5-year period.

• Reviewers appointed annually

Projection of expected outputs over 5 years

2021

Themes:

Biblical Discourse in the digital era

Biblical discourse on healing, COVID and the monopolization of vaccines

Status/Progress of Special 2021 Special Issue: 8 journal articles published in HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies.

2022

Themes:

Biblical reception and the production of African cultures

Biblical reception and African affectivity

The Transmission and Reception of Biblical Discourse in Africa

Status/Progress of Special 2022 Special Issue: 12 journal articles published in HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies.

2023

Themes:

Biblical reception and the construction of social hierarchies in Africa.

Biblical reception in conflict with African cultures.

Status/Progress of Special 2022 Special Issue:

30 journal articles planned for publication in HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies and Acta Theologica in 2023.

2024

Themes:

The Bible, Race and the Gender Question (LGBTIQ+)

Biblical reception and African politics.

Status/Progress of Special 2022 Special Issue:

30 journal articles planned for publication in HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies and Pharos Journal of Theology in 2024.

2025

Themes:

Decolonial Project and Bible translation

Postcolonial and Bible Translation

Status/Progress of Special 2022 Special Issue:

30 journal articles planned for publication in HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies and SHE in 2025.

2. Book Project - The role and legacy of black music in the struggle: Emancipation of black folk (2022-2025).

3. Research Project: Haitian Revolution and the emancipation of black folks: Where to from here? (2023 – 2025).

4. Forthcoming Publications/Book Chapters

• I was invited by leading scholars in Theology and religion to contribute a book chapter. The title of the book is: African religions and gender in response to COVID-19. (For submission 31 May 2023).

• Contributing a chapter with a colleague from School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn Univerisity, Sweden in a book chapter. The Proposed title of the book is: Indigenous Epistemologies: African Proverbs on Human Relations, the Supernatural and Environment in honour of John S. Mbiti (July 2023).

• Co-editing a book with a colleague from Pittsburgh Seminary. The title of the book is: Preaching to Social Context: Africa, edited by Drew Smith and Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae [forthcoming]. (Manuscript is under review – currently with the publisher Routledge).