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Getrude Kapuma’s Narrative Theology of Pastoral Care : A Therapy for Trauma among Widows in Malawi
Chilongozi, Mwawi N.; Chilapula, Mercy (2024): Getrude Kapuma’s Narrative Theology of Pastoral Care : A Therapy for Trauma among Widows in Malawi, in: Nelly Mwale, Rosinah Gabaitse, Fundiswa Kobo, u. a. (Hrsg.), Nehanda : Women’s Theologies of Liberation in Southern Africa (Circle Jubilee Volume 3), Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, S. 161–174, doi: 10.20378/irb-96494.
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Nehanda : Women’s Theologies of Liberation in Southern Africa (Circle Jubilee Volume 3)
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2024
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978-3-98989-000-8
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English
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Gertrude Aopesyaga Kapuma is a renowned woman theologian and an ordained minister in the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP), Blantyre Synod in Malawi. She is also a writer who has written several articles. Kapuma’s theology can be described as a narrative theology of pastoral care. This chapter narrates the life, writings and theology of Kapuma. It shows that Kapuma was a fearless crusader of women’s rights in the Church as she has fought for the ordination of women in the Church and championed the cause of the Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women. She has also contributed to theological education as a Senior Lecturer in Practical Theology at the Zomba Theological University of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) in Malawi. As a member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, Kapuma has written on pastoral care of widows as women who are marginalised in most communities in Africa. Kapuma’s theology is a narrative theology as she is committed to the theological significance of storytelling and the power of storytelling that brings healing to the traumatised and especially widows. The chapter also demonstrates that through her writing, Kapuma narrates the challenges that widows face from property grabbing to widow cleansing rituals and argues that the church has an important role of pastoral care to the widows as they are denied their human dignity and most of them suffer in silence. The influence of ther theology was far reaching as the Blantyre Synod had taken on board the narrative theology of pastoral care for widows while some congregations/churches were creating support networks for widows.
GND Keywords: ; ; ; ; ;
Kapuma, Gertrude
Narrative Theologie
Seelsorge
Psychisches Trauma
Witwe
Malawi
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Theology
pastoral care
therapy
trauma
widows
Malawi
Getrude Kapuma
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Contribution to an Articlecollection
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July 23, 2024
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