Throughout the annals of research history, Nietzsche and Qohelet have often crossed paths. This intersection is made possible by the similarity of thought prevalent in both texts which both evaluate the state of human existence in the face of paradigm shifts. Humanity has an existential need to create meaning and ascribe value.

In South Africa anti-queer attitudes are propped up by religious moral claims and by strong assertions that queer sexualities are un-African and a secular Western import. This study contributes to the growing body of literature which challenge these claims, and at the same time interrupts scholarly trends in the field of religion and sexuality which either characterises institutional religion as singularly oppressive or homogenises queer Christians as inherently subversive.

Since 1994, the District Six Museum, in constructing histories of forced removals from District Six, Cape Town, commenced as a post-apartheid memory project which evolved into a memorial museum. Design has been a central strategy claimed by the museum in its process of making memory work visible to its attendant publics evolving into a South African cultural brand.