Abstract

LANDMAN, Christina. An Afrikaans woman minister of the Word: en route with being reformed. STJ [online]. 2020, vol.6, n.3, pp.199-222. ISSN 2413-9467.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17570/stj.2020.v6n3.a6.

Auto-ethnography, as developed by Caroline Ellis, allows this author to tell her story as an ordained minister of the Word in the Reformed tradition in South Africa, working within a variety of cultures and ecumenical relationships. After "auto-ethnography" is explained as a methodological point of departure, the author, firstly, describes views on womanhood in the Reformed Afrikaans culture in which she was born as well as her reaction to it. Secondly, the culture of the academic reaction against apartheid is briefly described in which she was engaged as a white, Afrikaans speaking woman lecturer in Theology, of which there were very few during the 1980s and 1990s. Finally, the challenges of being the only white woman minister of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa are identified and discussed within the past, present and future of Afrikaans speaking Reformed women ministers in South Africa.

Keywords : Outo-etnografie; vrouepredikante; vroue en die gereformeerde tradisie in Suid-Afrika; Mary-Anne Plaatjies-Van Huffel; Carin van Schalkwyk.

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