Gender, Race, Power and Religion
Women in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa in Post-Apartheid Society
©2005
Thesis
312 Pages
Summary
This book addresses the evolving structure of the three traditional women’s organisations of the Methodist Church in post-apartheid South Africa, and the experiences of women in leadership roles within the church. These organisations are still more or less divided along racial lines. The aim of the fieldwork – carried out from 1995 to 1997 and in 2000 – was to find out if these racial boundaries would begin to dissolve and if women would find more empowerment in their congregations after the democratisation of the country. Further topics are the renaissance of African traditions and religious practices that came about with the end of apartheid. The methodology follows an ethnographic approach that relies heavily on interviews and participant observation, with the analysis bringing South African women’s voices to bear on these issues, rather than providing an external and analytical analysis of the issues.
Details
- Pages
- 312
- Publication Year
- 2005
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631528402
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Frauenverband Methodist Church Post-Apartheid Society Methodist Church of Southern Africa
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2005. 312 pp., num fig. and tables
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