School of Religion, Philosophy & Classics

Johannes Andreas Smit

Johannes Andreas Smit

Professor

Discipline Religion

Email smitj@ukzn.ac.za

Contact Number 033-260-5540

Campus Howard College Campus

External Research Profile

Recent publications

  • ‘Editing Alternation: A Fifteen Year Retrospective’, Alternation 16,1(2009) 336 -358.
  • ‘Advancing Religion Studies in Southern Africa’, Alternation Special Edition 3 (2009): 331 – 353.
  • ‘The “Dis-embodied Mind” and Religion’. Alternation Special Edition 3 (2009): 354 – 387.
  • Dennis Brutus: Activist for Non-racialism and Freedom of the Human Spirit. Alternation 17,2 (2010) 8 – 71.
  • African Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Prospects. Durban: People’s Publishers. (With Mogomme A. Masoga (2012) (356 pp.)
  • The Study of Religion at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. In Gerloff, Roswith (ed): Living in Dialogue — Religious beliefs and the multiplicity of modern societies. Berlin: Weissensee Verlag. [2013] (SSIP Series Intercultural Change of Perspectives, Volume 5.)
  • Alternation website: http://alternation.ukzn.ac.za

Research Interests

  • Humanities Discourse and Social Transformation
  • Social /Knowledge Systems Theory // Colonial/ Postcolonial Theory
  • Religion and Social Transformation // Comparative Religion
  • Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp