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Pastoral Care to People Working in Mining in South Africa from the Perspective of African Women’s Ecotheologies [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
The challenges of pastorally caring for people working in mining in South Africa are addressed by considering scenarios typical to a mining environment. Since mining is considered to be potentially detrimental to the environment, the insights of African ...
Christina Landman
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Pastoral care as a resource for development in the global healthcare context: Implications for Africa’s healthcare delivery system

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
Development is concerned with the transformation of people to foster their health, wholeness and growth. The link between health and development points to religion as potential social capital for development.
Emem Agbiji, Obaji Agbiji
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Cultural dynamics of gender-based violence and pastoral care in South Africa

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
Gender-based violence is a prevalent issue that impacts most South Africans. The spread of sexual violence has created and atmosphere of intense fear in most homes.
Lufuluvhi M. Mudimeli, Hundzukani P. Khosa-Nkatini   +1 more
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Doing public pastoral care through church-driven development in Africa: Reflection on church and community mobilisation process approach in Lesotho

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
African communities face various challenges that require different sectors’ interventions to be effectively addressed. Churches as key community structures in Africa along with people experience these life challenges.
Vhumani Magezi
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‘Deliver us from patriarchy’: A gendered perspective of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa and implications for pastoral care

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2020
The church is a fertile ground for nurturing and protecting patriarchy. Within the Christian church, gender equality remains a theoretical notion, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (ELCSA) is no exception in this regard. Written from
Sinenhlanhla S. Chisale
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Overcoming fragmentation and waste in health care systems in Africa: Collaboration of health care professionals with pastoral caregivers

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
This article explores the possibility and limits of collaboration between medical professionals and pastoral caregivers with a view to overcoming fragmentation and waste in the African hospital care sector. It argues that the quality of health and health
Emem Agbiji, Christina Landman
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A practical-theological reflection on the usage of symbols and metaphors in intercultural pastoral care in South Africa

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
The African continent is associated with a variety of problems. Irrespective of having achieved a new democracy more than two decades ago, South Africa still seems to suffer the same fate as the rest of the continent because of the inability to solve its
Amanda Du Plessis
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Community development as an embodiment of pastoral care in Africa

Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 2023
The pursuit of a fulfilling existence is a common goal among all human beings. As a result, promoting and sustaining quality humanhood or personhood (quality life) is the ultimate goal that international institutions, continental and regional bodies, and nations strive for. From a religious standpoint, theology and Christian religion need to contribute
Patrick Nanthambwe, Vhumani Magezi
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A qualitative Pastoral Care Model on teenage care in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2021
This paper sought to explore the perceptions of and the experiences of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) on teenage care in territories of the Port Elizabeth North Circuit. It is during adolescence that religious beliefs and values are anticipated to begin to assume the same meanings that they have in later life. The study, from which this
X. Jibiliza
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Why is pastoral care crucial to Africa? Towards an African pastoral care perspective

Theologia Viatorum
Without a doubt, pastoral care as the frontline ministry of the church has been crucial in Africa. Numerous obstacles confronting the African continent as a whole make pastoral care indispensable.
Patrick Nanthambwe
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