- PERSONAL DETAILS
Name : Gert Johannes Alwyn Lubbe
Date of birth : 11 February 1941
Date of Death : 2 January 2016
Marital status : Married
EDUCATION
1989 : D Litt et Phil (Religious Studies),University of South Africa.
1978 : Master of Arts (Semitic languages), University of Johannesburg.
1974 : BA Honours (Semitic Languages), University of Johannesburg.
1968 : Graduate Diploma in Theology, University of Pretoria.
1966 : Bachelor of Arts, University of Pretoria.
- POSITIONS HELD
2008 – : Emeritus Professor and Research Fellow, Dept. Religious Studies and Arabic, UNISA
2005 – 2006 : Professor, Dept. Religious Studies, member of Senate, UNISA
2005 – 2008 : External Moderator, Graduate Studies, University of Cape Town.
2005 – 2008 : External Moderator, Graduate Studies, University of Limpopo.
2003 – 2006 : Chairperson, Departmental Committee for Graduate Students
1997 – 2005 : Associate Professor, Dept. Religious Studies, UNISA
1998 – 2000 : Guest lecturer, biannual seminar, National Defense Force
1996 – 1997 : Member of Council and Senate, College for Teachers’ Education,
1995 – 1997 : External Moderator, University of Lesotho.
1995 – 1997 : Guest lecturer, biannual seminar, Dept. of Foreign Affairs
1991 – 1993 : External Moderator, University of Malawi.
1991 : Guest lecturer, Catholic University of Würzburg, Germany.
1991 : Guest lecturer, University of Bordeaux, France.
1984 – 1996 : Senior lecturer, Dept. Religious Studies, UNISA
1983 : Lecturer, Dept. Religious Studies, UNISA
- PRE-RETIREMENT ACADEMIC INVOLVEMENT
Under-graduate level: Introduction to the Religions of the World ,Africa’s Religious Heritage, Religion in Public Life
Graduate level: African Religion, Islam, Religion and Societies
During the period 1993 to 2010, 19 doctoral dissertations and 16 masters theses were supervised on themes relating to African Religion, Christianity , Islam, Judaism and Religion in Society.
- PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
2004 Re-elected President, Association for Study of Religion in Southern Africa.
2002 President of Association , Study of Religion in Southern Africa.
2002 Member, International Association for History of Religion
1978 Co-founder, Association for Study of Religion in Southern Africa
- AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2004 Elected Executive Chairperson, Board of Trustees, Desmond Tutu Diversity Trust.
2003 Received scholarship from Fulbright American Studies Institutes Program to attend seminar on Church, State and Society in the United States of America, Boston, Massachusetts
2002 Appointed on Standing Advisory Committee for Religion in Education by Minister of Education. Served as member of Executive Committee.
1993 – 1994 Chairperson of Panel of Religious Leaders for Electoral Justice.
1992 Recipient Indicator Human Right’s Award for work in the area of religious freedom in a new constitutional dispensation.
1991- 1995 Co-facilitator National Peace Initiatives and Peace Convention.
1991 Participant in Seminar on International Human Right Standards and Constitutional Law, Geneva, Switzerland (UNCHR and WCC).
1991 Participant in Consultation on Religion and Apartheid held in Geneva, Switzerland. (WCC and UNESCO).
1984 -1994 National President South African Chapter of the World Conference on Religion and Peace.
1984 Keynote speaker at Interfaith Colloquium on Apartheid, held in Windsor, UK under auspices of UNCHR.
- COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Executive member, Standing Advisory Committee on Religion in Education.
Chairperson, Board of Trustees, Desmond Tutu Diversity Trust.
President of the Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa.
Evaluator for Higher Education Quality Committee, Council on Higher Education.
Ordained minister of religion, Uniting Reformed Church.
- POST-RETIREMENT INVOLVEMENT
Member Editorial Advisory Board E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies (registered at the Ghana Library Board) August 2015
Invited to deliver Martin Luther King Jnr Memorial Lecture, Bethel University, Minnesota, Minneapolis April 2009
Keynote speaker 25th Anniversary Celebrations, Call of Islam, Cape Town Sept. 2008
Published Simply Ask Nicely – A Guide on Religious Sensitivity for Healthcare Professionals under auspices of the Desmond Tutu Diversity Trust, August 2008
Guest of honour, Freedom Day Celebrations, South African Embassy, Kigali, Rwanda, 27 April 2008
Evaluator of applications for accreditation for Higher Education Quality Committee, Council on Higher Education.
External examiner for post-graduate studies in religion, UCT.
Since 1 January 2007 under contract with UNISA for the supervision of 8 doctoral and 2 master’s students