Alternative and Innovative Approaches to Reconciliation: A South African Perspective

Thesnaar, Christo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58359-4_12

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“…Whilst social work and theology are both disciplines aimed at improving the quality of lives of and interactions between people (cf. George 2012;Thesnaar 2012;Van der Westhuizen & Kleintjes 2015), the arts becomes the vehicle to create awareness and to promote communication between individuals, groups and communities in a non-threatening manner (Kinnunen & Kaminski 2003). Joint musical activities include cultural diversity being viewed as an asset and an opportunity for communities to learn from each other.…”

Section: A Transdisciplinary Approach To Authentic Community Developmentmentioning

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Authentic African community development practices in a diverse society: A transdisciplinary approach

Westhuizen

Beukes²,

Greuel

2021

Verbum et Ecclesia

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The South African people continuously engage in social actions characterised by intolerance, pointing to frustrations and disillusionment in a post-apartheid era. A need to find creative ways to engage diverse communities to work together to participate in their own development and well-being was identified. This article is based on long-term transdisciplinary discourse and work. The aim is to explore how the disciplines of social work, theology and the arts could contribute together towards the development of communities where participation, collaboration and cooperation as key principles of authentic community development are actively implemented. Within a transdisciplinary framework, the disciplines engaged in participatory research projects that resulted in findings that informed the development of a process where people at grassroots level become aware and more tolerant of each other, begin to work together and as such become involved in their own futures. It is concluded that by encouraging participation, collaboration and cooperation in social change processes, the South African people can be empowered towards working together and becoming involved in their own futures.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The disciplines of social work, theology and the arts entered into a transdisciplinary dialogue and work over the past years. The transdisciplinary team engaged in four participatory research projects to include input from grassroots levels to inform their understanding of how the different disciplines can better contribute towards a process of authentic community development in the diverse South African society. This resulted in the process

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Section: A Transdisciplinary Approach To Authentic Community Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Authentic African community development practices in a diverse society: A transdisciplinary approach

Westhuizen

Beukes²,

Greuel

2021

Verbum et Ecclesia

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“…Following the ideal of the ‘rainbow nation’, enormous strides have since been made towards racial integration. However, this usually remains restricted to public spaces (Hofmeyr and Govender, 2015: 7 in Thesnaar, 2012: 5). Durrheim and Dixon (2010: 285) observed that only a ‘minority of the Black population have moved into arenas previously dominated by Whites (higher positions in organizations, social spaces, universities, etc.…”

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A Foolish Proposal? Vulnerability as an Alternative Attempt to Contribute to Decolonisation and Reconciliation in Post-Colonial South Africa

Grohmann

2020

Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission St

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Reconciliation in South Africa is often taken to mean the creation of culturally diverse communities. In reality, though, the multicultural often turns out to be multiracial only with People of Colour being included in White-dominated spaces. Likewise, socio-economic transformation means raising people’s chances to attain a living standard more equal to that of the bulk of the White population. In both cases, the strong position of White people in sociocultural and socio-economic terms remains largely untouched. Hence the calls for decolonisation which seem to render the reconciliation discourse dispensable. Vulnerability by White South Africans is proposed as an alternative response to ongoing inequalities which – it is suggested – could contribute to both decolonisation and reconciliation on an interpersonal level. Likely objections to such a proposal are considered before making a case for vulnerability as an appropriate Christian way of living, particularly in the context of former settler colonialism.

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“…This is evident as early as 1954, when Irion stated that the two (2) main functions of a funeral were: 1) to engage in a therapeutic process of mourning, and 2) to present the Christian faith (1954:8). For many decades, a kerygmatic proclamation, above all else, was paramount in pastoral bereavement care (Thesnaar 2012;Louw 1998). This type of sequence and hierarchy is illustrated in Figure 3 below.…”

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A practical theology of bereavement care: Re-ritualization within a paradigm of “comforting presence”

Gibson

Louw

2018

STJ

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The investigation focuses on a concern for the marginalization of bereaved human beings in the context of cultural shifts now shaping twenty-first century pastoral care. The article advocates for a practical theology of bereavement to aid in nurturing care and eudaimonic well-being (including both vocational pastors and funeral directors) within the paradigmatic framework of a theopaschitic understanding of compassion (oiktirmos). The investigation examines the growing threat of deritualization – a public openness to revise, replace, minimize the significance of, and even eliminate or avoid long-held funerary rituals to assist in the adaptation of loss. The notion of re-ritualization is operationalized as an intentional act of restoring and re-engaging in creative and meaningful ritual forms that give symbolic expression to significant thoughts and feelings of the bereaved within a social ethos that is no longer committed to a conventional or fixed approach to ritualization. In order to facilitate a process of re-ritualization, bereavement care is linked to the notion of “comforting presence”.

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Alternative and Innovative Approaches to Reconciliation: A South African Perspective

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Authentic African community development practices in a diverse society: A transdisciplinary approach

Authentic African community development practices in a diverse society: A transdisciplinary approach

A Foolish Proposal? Vulnerability as an Alternative Attempt to Contribute to Decolonisation and Reconciliation in Post-Colonial South Africa

A practical theology of bereavement care: Re-ritualization within a paradigm of “comforting presence”

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