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Gender conflicts and the church: pastoral care with immigrant African-Zimbabwean women
Kwaramba, Christinah
Kwaramba, Christinah
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Fort Worth, TX : [Texas Christian University],
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2016
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The ?Zimbabwean diaspora? emerges as an outlet valve of existential relief for the Zimbabweans, evolving into a new constituency of immigrants, with its own unique and diverse challenges, needs and demands in the western world. This project seeks to answer the question: What does it mean to be an effective pastor or chaplain and offer pastoral care to women who migrated to the USA and/or western countries? My focus is on how issues of gender roles and the conflicts that arise therein might be addressed through offering a ?needs-based ministry? to this particular constituency of immigrant women. By an ?effective needs-based ministry? I mean offering care and support to people/community based on their characteristic spiritual and ministerial demands as a function of what is happening in their lives. As a matter of fact, the church is a central component of the African-Zimbabwean womans livelihood; is the church then relevantly addressing her needs with respect to gender formation? Is the church bringing life amidst the challenges inherited by this woman from her culture, religion and dislocation? This gender-role conflict impact I am raising in this project is a pastoral theology and care issue where pastoral theology is to be understood as faith and practice in a world community. My project explores the conflict that arises for women who experience the unreasonable expectations of African-Zimbabwean men because of their (men women) scriptural interpretation and socialization of gender roles. It also proposes a potential pastoral care solution to the problem, especially to the theology that is part of the larger context.--Abstract.
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Feminist theology Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Zimbabweans United States.
Women immigrants United States.
African diaspora.
Pastoral care.
Church work with women.
Women, Black Pastoral counseling of.
Women in Christianity Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe Emigration and immigration.
Zimbabweans United States.
Women immigrants United States.
African diaspora.
Pastoral care.
Church work with women.
Women, Black Pastoral counseling of.
Women in Christianity Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe Emigration and immigration.
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Brite Divinity School