Research Profiles
Degrees Held
- BA
- BA(Hons) Social Anthropology
- BA (Hons) Religious Studies
- MA
- HDE (Secondary)
- PhD
Research Interests
- African Traditional Religion
- African Culture and Philosophy
- African Intellectual History
- Christianity in Africa: African indigenous/independent churches, Pentecostalism
- Comparative Religion
Teaching
- RELG205 African Systems of Thought
- RELG203 Sociology of Religion
- RELG214 Women in Religion
- RSTR704 Introduction to African Religion and History
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2018. “Ironies of Christian Presence in Southern Africa”. Journal for the Study of Religion 31(2): 209-231, Online ISSN 2413-3027; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3027/2018/v31n2a10
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2017. “Why do you hate me so much? An Exploration of Religious Freedom from the perspective of African Religion(s)”. HTS Theological Studies 73(3), a4628. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v73i3.4628
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2015. “Indigenous conceptions of conversion among African Christians in South Africa”. Journal for the Study of Religion, 28(2): 87-112. Available at: http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/jsr/v28n2/05.pdf
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2015. “Prophets never die?: The story of Bishop PJ Masango of the St John’s Apostolic Faith Mission”. Alternation, 14: 231-246. Available at: http://alternation.ukzn.ac.za/Files/docs/22.3/12%20Masondo.pdf
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2014. “African Indigenous Churches’ spiritual resources for democracy and social cohesion”. Verbum et Ecclessia, 35(3): 1-8. Available at: http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/vee/v35n3/08.pdf
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2014. “The Growth Model for Managing Change in African Christianity: a case of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in a Cape Town Township”. Studia Historia Ecclesiasticae, 40(2): 189-206. Available at: http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/she/v40n2/13.pdf
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2013. “The Crisis Model for Managing Change in African Christianity: The Story of St John’s Apostolic Church”. Exchange, 42: 157-174. Available at: https://brill.com/abstract/journals/exch/42/2/article-p157_4.xml
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2011. “African Traditional Religion in the face of secularism in South Africa”. Focus: The Journal of the Helen Suzman Foundation, 62: 32-38. Available at: https://hsf.org.za/publications/focus/focus-62/Sibusiso%20Masondo_African%20Traditional%20Religion.pdf
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2005. “The History of African Indigenous Churches in Scholarship”. Journal for the Study of Religion, 18(2): 89-103. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jsr.v18i2.6172; On UKZN JSTOR platform: https://www-jstor-org.ukzn.idm.oclc.org/stable/pdf/10.2307/24764358.pdf
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2004. “Three generations of Shembe: Leadership contests within the Nazareth Baptist Church”. Journal of Theology for Southern Africa.118, 69-79.
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2002. “Models of change in African Christianity: South African case studies”. Journal for the Study of Religion, 15(2): 145-166. On UKZN JSTOR Platform: https://www-jstor-org.ukzn.idm.oclc.org/stable/pdf/10.2307/24764374.pdf
Chapters in Books
- Masondo, Sibusiso. (2018) “Umuntu Akalahlwa: An Exploration of an African Ethics”. Roderick Hewitt and Chammah Kaunda (eds.) WHO IS AN AFRICAN? Race, Identity, and Destiny in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Lanham; Boulder; New York; London: Lexington Books/ Fortress Academic, 111-123. Available at: https://www.amazon.com/Who-African-Identity-Destiny-Post-apartheid/dp/1978700547
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2015. “Theological Biography of Bishop Manas Buthelezi”. Hanns Lessing, Tilman Dedering, Jürgen Kampmann, Dirkie Smit (eds.) Contested Relations Protestantism between Southern Africa and Germany from the 1930s to the Apartheid Era, Wiesbaden, Pietermaritzburg: Harrassowitz Verlag, Cluster Publications, 376-387.
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2011. “The Practice of African Traditional Religion in Contemporary South Africa”. TW Bennett (ed.) Traditional African Religions in South African Law. Cape Town: UCT Press, 19-36. Contents page available at: https://juta.co.za/law/products/16492-traditional-african-religions-in-south-african-law/
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2007. “Religion and Spirituality in South Africa”. Rory Bester (ed.) Figure/ Ground: Reflections on the South African Reserve Bank Art collection. Johannesburg: South African Reserve Bank, 140-144.
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2006. “African Pentecostalism”. R. Wuthnow (ed.): Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. London & New York: Routledge. On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Politics-Religion-2-set/dp/0415187400
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2004. “Apartheid”. Palmer-Fernandez (ed.): Encyclopedia of Religion and War. New York, London: Routledge, 16-20. ON Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Religion-War-Society/dp/0415942462
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2004. “Models of Change in African Christianity: South African case studies”. Abdulkader Tayob, Wolfram Wiesse, and David Chidester (eds.) Religion, Politics, and Identity in a changing South Africa. Munster: Waxmann, 161-181.
- Masondo, Sibusiso. 2003. “Religious Freedom in South Africa”. In Cookson, Catherine (ed.): Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom. New York, London: Berkshire/ Routledge.
Book Reviews
- A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church. By Matthew Engelke. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 76(2):507-509, 2008
- A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present. Journal for the Study of Religion 12 (1/2), 134-137, 1999.
Conference Proceedings
Masondo, Sibusiso. 2012. “Ironies of Christian presence in Africa”. German Evangelical Churches in colonial Southern Africa: A conference to mark the end of the Study Process on the role of the German Protestant work overseas in colonial southern Africa up to the 1920s, Hofgeismar, 28 – 30 September 2011, no. 8. Frankfurt. February 2012, 7-13.