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A journey on the path of an African feminist theologian and pioneer, Mercy Amba Oduyoye : continuing the pursuit for justice in the church and in society

Lenkabula, Puleng (Church History Society of South Africa, 2007)

The central thrust of this article is a review of Mercy Amba Oduyoye’s contribution to African feminist theologies in her pursuit of justice in the church and in society, particularly with regard to gender justice. The ...
Other ways of being a diviner-healer : Musa W Dube and the African church's response to HIV and AIDS

Chitando, Ezra; Gabaitse, Rosinah (Church History Society of South Africa, 2007)

Scholars of African Christianity have tended to celebrate African women purely as charismatic founders of movements. Alternatively, they focus on African women’s active participation in church life. Rarely have young ...
Musa W Dube and the study of the Bible in Africa

Togarasei, Lovemore (Church History Society of South Africa, 2008)

This article tells the story of Musa Dube’s interpretation of the Bible. It is not a biography of Dube’s personal life but rather a story of how she has contributed to the direction of African biblical scholarship; it ...
Malla Moe and the founding of a nondenominational mission in Swaziland, 1893-1902

Hale, Frederick, 1948- (Church History Society of South Africa, 2008)

This article examines the early years of the career of Malla Moe (1863-1953), a Norwegian who served in the Scandinavian Alliance Mission of North America (SAMNA) and played a key role in the opening of its field in ...
Vrouepredikante in die Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika : 'n opdraande stryd

Oliver, Erna (Church History Society of South Africa, 2008)

More than 30 years have passed since the Nederduitsch Hervormde Church, the second largest of the three traditional Afrikaans-speaking sister churches, opened the door for women to become ministers. Statistics are used ...
Spiritual care of women in South African prisons : historical development and current situation

Du Preez, Nicolien, 1964- (Church History Society of South Africa, 2008)

This article provides a short history of female imprisonment and the role that religion and spiritual care have played and may play in the lives of female prisoners in the South African context. This is illustrated by ...
Uganda martyrs : place and role of women

Banja, Olivia Nassaka (Church History Society of South Africa, 2008)

This article examines the place and role of women in the Uganda Martyrs’ story. Many people both men and women wonder what women have to do with the Uganda Martyrs’ story since it is commonly known that there were no ...
The contribution of missionary wives in the planting of the church in Botswana in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Nkomazana, F. (Fidelis) (Church History Society of South Africa, 2008)

This article highlights the contributions to mission work by the wives of the missionaries working in Botswana in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While these women made a substantial contribution to the ...
Mai Chaza: an African Christian story of gender, healing and power

Dube, Lilian (Church History Society of South Africa, 2008)

Mai Chaza’s story is one of evolution from wife, mother and “bloused” member of the Methodist Church's women’s union to elder, faith healer and founder of the Guta RaJehovah Church. Chaza’s healing ministry to women ...
Elizabeth Catez (1880-1906) : a mystic for the 21st century

Kourie, Celia Ellen Teresa, 1946- (Church History Society of South Africa, 2008)

Elisabeth Catez (1880-1906), a relatively unknown French mystical writer, lived an obscure life as a Carmelite in Dijon, France, dying at the young age of 26 yrs. Whilst not reporting extraordinary mystical experiences, ...
Hi/stories of gender in/justice

Landman, C. (Christina) (Church History Society of South Africa, 2008)

Churches in South Africa have a history of gender injustice, that is, of not being accountable to women believers. This article presents stories of women testifying to the effects of unjust gender discourses on their ...
Charlotte Makgoma Manye Maxeke: her legacy lives on

Millard-Jackson, Joan (Church History Society of South Africa, 2008)

This article deals more with Charlotte Maxeke’s work than with the details of her life history. Maxeke was the first black South African woman to receive a BSc degree − this at a time when few women were graduating from ...
The marginalisation of women in the African initiated churches in South Africa, 1882 to 2006

Molobi, Victor (Church History Society of South Africa, 2008)

This article contributes to the continuing debate on gender equity in the African Initiated Churches (AICs) and their leadership, emphasising the united stand taken by women of the Zionist and Apostolic wings of the ...
Laat ander die praatwerk doen

Buchner, Elsje (Church History Society of South Africa, 2008)

Stories of the calling of female ministers in the Dutch Reformed Church played out over a period of approximately 107 years. The folk mother discourse, which silenced women’s voices in public, developed in the Afrikaner ...
The struggle against patriarchalism in Kenya (1980-1992) : revisiting the history of women ministries

Gathogo, Julius (Church History Society of South Africa, 2008)

The recommendation to ordain women as full priests in the Anglican Church was first made at the Lambeth Conference of 1978. Usually, Lambeth Conferences are held every ten years and all bishops of the Anglican Communion ...
Raising consciousness regarding the dignity and vocation of women in the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe : a historical developmental process

Chimhanda, Francisca Hildegardis (Church History Society of South Africa, 2008)

Shona culture, Church tradition, and the Roman Catholic Church in particular, are very patriarchal. Thus culture and Church have the capacity at once to include and exclude, liberate and oppress, empower and disengage. ...

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