Narratives of difference and sameness
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Strachan, Jacobus J. (Jakkie)
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AOSIS OpenJournals
Abstract
As an Afrikaner man doing research on ubuntu, what are the possibilities for meaningful
research? In this article, some aspects of the difficulties and possibilities that may be
encountered in such a research programme will be explored. Within a postmodern worldview,
and framed within postfoundational practical theology, social-constructionism, a narrative
hermeneutic metaphor and autoethnography will be used as tools to explore some difficulties
and possibilities of such a research undertaking.
Description
This article was written as
part of the research for a MTh
degree that was done under
supervision of Prof Julian
C. Muller, Department of
Practical Theology, University
of Pretoria, South Africa.
Keywords
Ubuntu, Postfoundational practical theology, Social-constructionism, Narrative hermeneutic metaphor, Autoethnography, Afrikaner man, Post-apartheid South Africa
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
Strachan, J.J., 2015, 'Narratives of difference and sameness', Verbum et Ecclesia 36(2), Art. #1445, 8 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.4102/ve.v36i2.1445.