 Marthinus L. Daneel
Professor of Missiology (Part-time)
Co-Director of the Center for
Global Christianity and Mission
B.A. (with honors) University of Stellenbosch,
South Africa
Th.D. Free University, Amsterdam
Dr.
Daneel's Publications
M.L. “Inus” Daneel has developed contextualized
ecumenical ministries in theological education, community
development, and earthkeeping for and with the African Initiated
Churches in Zimbabwe. He served for 16 years as senior professor
in missiology at the University of South Africa, Pretoria.
His widely acclaimed publications focus mainly on African
Traditional Religion and indigenous African Christianity.
His book Guerilla Snuff won a prize for best English-language
novel at the Harare Book Fair. Dr. Daneel was employed as
a senior research officer at both the Free University of
Amsterdam and the African Studies Center, Leiden. He has
held research fellowships at the University of Zimbabwe,
Harare; the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard
University; and the African Studies Center at Boston University.
Daneel has lectured widely in Europe, North and South America,
and Africa. With Dana L. Robert, he edits the book series “African
Initiatives in Christian Mission.”
Dr. Daneel’s publications include God
of the Matopo Hills (1970), Zionism
and Faith-healing (1970), Old
and New in Southern Shona Independent Churches Vols. 1-3 (1971,
1976, 1988), Quest for Belonging (1987), Fambidzano--Ecumenical
Movement of Zimbabwean Independent Churches (1989), Christian
Theology of Africa (1989), Guerrilla
Snuff (a novel, 1995), African
Earthkeepers: Interfaith Mission in Earth Care Vols. 1-2
(1998, 2000), African Christian Outreach,
Vol. 1 (2001), and Fullness of Life
for All (co-editor, 2003).
Over the past few years, Prof. Daneel has been conducting
field-based research into the high god religion of the
Shona. This research follows up studies done in the 1960s
in which
Daneel was the first outsider to be admitted to the high
god oracle in the Matopo Hills. Born on a Dutch Reformed
mission station, Dr. Daneel is a well-known ecumenical
figure who functions as a bishop in an African-Initiated
Church,
the Ndaza (Holy Cord) Zionists. A patron of the Network
of Earthkeeping Christian Communities in South Africa,
he is
committed to environmental preservation, African contextual
theology, fishing, and watching rugby and cricket. Daneel
spends six months a year in Masvingo, Zimbabwe, and six
months a year in Boston.
Visit The Center for Global Christianity and Mission website
at http://www.bu.edu/sth/cgcm/
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