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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Defilement"”.
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Desecration and Defilement in the Old Testament
… translated interchangeably by desecration or defilement. Since the root hll is used in opposition to the root qds, while tm' stands in opposition to thr, it remained to be investigated whether their equation is justified because they appear in parallel or whether they should be visualized as …
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An Analysis of Defilement: Role,performance and Efficacy of the Law Enforcement Mechanisms and the Sopport System dealing with the sexual offence
… seized with the task of analyzing the offence of defilement in Zambia and generally ascertaining and establishing the structures that address the offence of defilement at the same time, the role, performance and efficacy of these institutions dealing with the sexual offence was established. The …
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An investigation into the link between traditional medicine and the rise in cases of defilement: The case of Mazabuka District
… of traditional medicine and the rise in cases of defilement. The objectives of the study were to: investigate if traditional healers were responsible for advising their patients to defile minors for the cure of any disease; ascertain whether or not defilement cures HIV and AIDS; establish whether …
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An investigation into the link between traditional medicine and the rise in cases of defilement: The case of Mazabuka District
… of traditional medicine and the rise in cases of defilement. The objectives of the study were to: investigate if traditional healers were responsible for advising their patients to defile minors for the cure of any disease; ascertain whether or not defilement cures HIV and AIDS; establish whether …
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The defiled self: towards a theological response to the experiential phenomenon of defilement amongst adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse
… theoretical literature related to CSA and shame, defilement, mental contamination and disgust/self-disgust pointed to the conclusion that the Defiled Self is an emotion schema whereby the emotions of shame and self-disgust and the cognitions associated with perceiving oneself to be defiled …
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Is there adquate juvenile justice? A critical analysis of the Law of defilement by juvenile offenders and the issues raised in Kapya Kandeke V the People
… juvenile justice with regard to the law of defilement paying particular attention to the case of Kapya v the people. In approaching the subject matter, the research begins by giving a general background of the juvenile justice system. The research has gone further to explain the position of …
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The Penal Code (Amendment) Act, 2005, Does the intention of Parliament Harmonize with the practice of Courts?
An increase in reports of child defilement has been described as unprecedented in the history of Zambia. It is an out break to the extent that Civil Society has been advocating for mandatory death penalty for the offenders while courts have resorted to imposing long jail sentences on the convicts. …
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Evaluating the role of DNA evidence in sexual offence cases in Zambia between 2007 and 2014
… law categorises sexual offences into; rape, defilement, incest and others, with defilement constituting the majority of the cases (>89%). Between 2010 and 2012, only <39% of defilement cases were taken to court, and convictions were achieved in only 13% of the cases reported to the police. …
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Cleansing the Common: A Narrative-Intertextual Study of Mark 7:1-23
… and the religious leaders over the issue of defilement is the meeting point of a variety of disciplines: Purity studies, Jewish studies, exegetical studies, Historical Jesus studies, and studies on Jesus and the law. The crux of the passage, the meaning of the parable in v. 15 and the ensuing …
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Scents and scent-sibilities: A sociocultural inquiry of smells in everyday life experiences
… how malodours depict not merely hygienic defilement, but indicate backwardness and a threat to social order. Smell as a postmodern entity is also deliberated upon, where (wo)men are able to produce and simulate particular smells for specific purposes, demonstrating a certain amount of …
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Rethinking the Community as Temple: Discourse and Spatial Practice in the Community Rule (1QS)
… how space is used as a response to the perceived defilement of the Jerusalem Temple and how it addresses the problems of atonement and priestly authority for a community without a physical temple. Edward Soja’s concept of Thirdspace—social space transformed by material and mental …
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An evaluation of the communication strategies used in anti gender based violence campaigns: A case of the young Women's Christian Association in Linda Township of Lusaka
… range from sexual harassment, spouse battery, defilement, rape and human trafficking. The findings also reveal that most people are aware of what GBV is as well as the grievance mechanisms for victims of this scourge. It has also been seen that the strategies used by YWCA, which include …
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Sexual and gender-based violence and its effects on married women: A case of Ngombe compound in Lusaka district
… in their households include marital rape, rape, defilement and incest. The causes and factors of violence identified include alcohol abuse, peer pressure, financial misunderstanding, jealousy, bride price, biased laws and above all, traditions issues. Interestingly, the lack of water and lack of …
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Sexual and gender-based violence and its effects on married women: A case of Ngombe compound in Lusaka district
… in their households include marital rape, rape, defilement and incest. The causes and factors of violence identified include alcohol abuse, peer pressure, financial misunderstanding, jealousy, bride price, biased laws and above all, traditions issues. Interestingly, the lack of water and lack of …
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The Cultic Motif in Space and Time in the Book of Daniel
… seventy years and seventy weeks, ten days of non-defilement. All of the texts where these references and allusions occur are examined by linguistic, literary, and contextual analyses, taking into account biblical and non-biblical traditions. The chapter also probes the following cultic and …
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Perception of the community towards child sexual abuse in Chawama,Lusaka,district, Zambia
… to minimise the scourge, the prevalence of defilement remains high. The study sought to explore the Perception of the Community towards child sexual abuse in Chawama. A qualitative design was employed using focus groups discussions (FGD) and indepth interviews to collect data from a sample …
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Perception of the community towards child sexual abuse in Chawama,Lusaka,district, Zambia
… to minimise the scourge, the prevalence of defilement remains high. The study sought to explore the Perception of the Community towards child sexual abuse in Chawama. A qualitative design was employed using focus groups discussions (FGD) and indepth interviews to collect data from a sample …
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The Gawain-Poet and the Textual Environment of Fourteenth-Century English Anticlericalism
… Abraham, and Daniel struggle against ritual defilement, and <em>Patience</em> presents an extended example of a single character, the prophet Jonah, who shirks his duties as an absentee priest. These contextual readings situate the poems within the rich textual environment of 14th-century …
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A Re-Examination of Pentateuchal Hamartiology and Atonement as a Hermeneutical Framework for Interpreting the Laying on of Hands
… evaluate the commonly-accepted automatic defilement hypothesis (ch. five). In the third section, I present the ritual theory created by biblical scholars that coincides with the theoretical framework that I identified in the course of this study, which assisted in achieving the main and …
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