Feminist spiritualities, gender equality, and sustainable development : the possibilities of a countermovement

dc.contributor.authorSwanepoel, N.
dc.contributor.authorVan Wyk, Tanya
dc.contributor.emailnadine.swanepoel@ up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-29T09:09:22Z
dc.date.available2024-02-29T09:09:22Z
dc.date.issued2023-06
dc.descriptionThis article includes reworked aspects of the PhD study of N. Swanepoel, entitled “Mapping the contribution of feminist spiritualities to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal of ‘gender equality’”, completed in the Department of Systematic and Historical Theology, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria, under the supervision of Tanya van Wyk.en_US
dc.description.abstractFeminist historiography indicates that spirituality has historically been one of the instruments whereby women could “speak”. This “voice” implied recognition and authority, to a certain degree, in a patriarchal-oriented reality. In this regard, feminist spirituality became a vehicle for women to authorise their own religious and spiritual contributions and insights. Feminist spirituality became a countermovement – countering perceptions and ingrained convictions that a woman could not be a mediator between God and humanity. Feminist spirituality contributed to the creation of spaces for women to study and participate in the creation of religious-spiritual texts. Women’s contexts are diverse and intersectional, and so is feminist spirituality, to the extent that it is more appropriate to speak of feminist spiritualities in the plural. This article explores the possibilities of feminist spirituality as countermovement that contributes to the realisation of gender equality, in the way that gender equality finds expression in the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. It is situated within a growing field of work that explores how faith communities’ religion and spirituality contribute to their being agents of sustainable development, and within the contextual urgency of the sustainable development agenda.en_US
dc.description.departmentDogmatics and Christian Ethicsen_US
dc.description.librarianam2024en_US
dc.description.sdgSDG-05:Gender equalityen_US
dc.description.urihttp://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aten_US
dc.identifier.citationSwanepoel, N. & Van Wyk, T . 2023, 'Feminist spiritualities, gender equality, and sustainable development : The possibilities of a countermovement', Acta Theologica, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 211-232. https://DOI.org/10.38140/at.v43i1.6986.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1015-8758 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2309-9089 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.38140/at.v43i1.6986
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/95001
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Free State, Faculty of Theologyen_US
dc.rights© Creative Commons With Attribution (CC-BY)en_US
dc.subjectFeminist spiritualityen_US
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten_US
dc.subjectGender equalityen_US
dc.subjectReligionen_US
dc.subjectFeministiese spiritualiteiten_US
dc.subjectVolhoubare ontwikkelingen_US
dc.subjectGender gelykheiden_US
dc.subjectReligieen_US
dc.subjectSDG-05: Gender equalityen_US
dc.titleFeminist spiritualities, gender equality, and sustainable development : the possibilities of a countermovementen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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