Re-authoring narratives in a divorce recovery ministry

This study began from the pain of a woman going through divorce and experiencing invisibility in the church. Through conversations with divorced people in a small research group and a participatory research process, the study brings together the narratives of literature, narrative therapy and pastor...

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Main Author: Skidmore, Susan Ann
Other Authors: Kotze, E.
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2015
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Online Access:Skidmore, Susan Ann (2002) Re-authoring narratives in a divorce recovery ministry, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16053>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16053
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Summary:This study began from the pain of a woman going through divorce and experiencing invisibility in the church. Through conversations with divorced people in a small research group and a participatory research process, the study brings together the narratives of literature, narrative therapy and pastoral care to challenge the dominant discourses of divorce and its influence and effects on people's lives and the communities in which they live and worship. From the study has grown a healing ministry with people who are divorced, which has begun to tum around their experience of invisibility and isolation into an experience of community, inclusion and care. === Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology === M. Th. (Practical Theology (Pastoral Therapy))