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Dr. Louis Watson Ndekha

LECTURER
Theology and Religious Studies

Research Areas

social-scientific criticism of the Bible, African Biblical interpretation, the bible/religion and social-cultural issues, interreligious relations, and religion and mental health.,

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Lecturer in Biblical Studies PhD: University of Gloucestershire 2020, Master of Theology: University of Edniburgh 2016, MBA: University of Malawi 2011, Bachelor of Theology, University of Malawi,2004

Publications

  • Journal Article
    From a public thief to benefactor: Using the fusion of horizons to read Luke 19:1-10 in Malawi (2025)
    https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v81i2.10728
  • Journal Article
    God and biodiversity in Malawi: an environmental reading of Genesis 1 (2025)
    DOI: 10.4314/jh.v33i1.3
  • Book Chapters
    Religion and Post-Conflict Humanitarian Healthcare: Reflections on Dzaleka Refugee Churches and Trauma Care in Malawi. In: Kilonzo, S.M., Chitando, E. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Religion, Health and Development in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. (2025)
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62891-7_34-1
  • Book
    African Traditional Religions Revisited : Dynamics in Indigenous Religions in 21st Century Africa ; Essays in Honour of Monsignor Professor Joseph Chaphadzika Chakanza, University of Bamberg Press (2024)
    DOI:10.20378/irb-98087
  • Book Chapters
    From the Bush to Social Media : Dynamics in the Practice of Traditional Medicine in Contemporary Malawi. In Ndekha, Louis ;  Bachmann, Judith ;  Munyenyembe, Rhodian ;  Kügler, Joachim (Eds.), African Traditional Religions Revisited : Dynamics in Indigenous Religions in 21st Century Africa ; Essays in Honour of Monsignor Professor Joseph Chaphadzika Chakanza, Bamberg : University of Bamberg, pp196-216 (2024)
    10.20378/irb-106016
  • Book
    Identity and Socio-Economic Relations in Luke’s Gospel : The Sermon on the Plain (Lk 6:20-49) and Greco-Roman Panegyrics (2023)
    DOI: 10.20378/irb-90377
  • Book Chapters
    The Strong and the Weak and the Covid-Vaccine Controversy: Reading Romans 14 in Malawi. In J. Kugler and K. Geis, COVID-19, Vaccination and Religions (pp. 75-86), University of Bamberg Press). (2023)
    10.20378/irb-90290
  • Book Chapters
    Loving the Enemy and Mob Justice in Malawi: A Contextual Reading of Luke 6:27-29. in edited Helen Paynter and Michael Spalione (Eds), Global Perspectives on the Bible and Violence (pp. 35-50). Sheffield Phoenix Press. (2023)
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  • Journal Article
    ‘Go and Do Like Wise’: Jesus and Rhetorical Syncrisis in the Parable of the ‘Magnanimous’ Samaritan (Luke 10: 25-37)’. Neutestamentica 56(2), pp. 301-316. (2022)
    https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-neotest_v56_n2_a5
  • Journal Article
    I am not strong to dig and I am afraid to beg”: Social status and status concern in the Parable of the Dishonest Steward (Lk 16:1–9)’, HTS Teologiese Studies 77(4), a6372. (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v77i4.6372.
  • Journal Article
    Praising the Poor and Blaming the Rich: A Panegyric Reading of Luke 6:0-49 in Malawian Context, HTS TeologieseStudies 76(4), a6065 (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6065.
  • Journal Article
    Zechariah the Model Priest: Luke and the Characterisation of Ordinary Priests in Luke-Acts”, HTS Teologiese Studies 74, (1), 4916. (2018)
    https://doi.org/ 10.4102/hts. v74i1.4916.
  • Journal Article
    Jesus and human development: An interrogation of the gospel tradition. Journal of Humanities, 24, 45-64. (2016)
    https://www.ajol.info/index.php/jh/article/view/151934.
  • Journal Article
    Ambivalence in Interreligious Relations in Malawi: Is an African Model of Interreligious Relations Possible?” Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, No. 152 (July 2015), 114-131. (2015)
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  • Journal Article
    Globalisation and the Changing Context of the Mission of the Church in Africa, Religion and Culture, 2, 29-35. (2015)
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  • Journal Article
    The Daughters of Zelophehad and African Women’s Rights: A Malawian Perspective on the Book of Numbers 27:1-11”, Journal of Gender and Religion in Africa, Vol.19, No 2, 37-51. (2013)
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