DOCSLIB.ORG

DOCTORAL THESIS African Women As Mothers and Persons In

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
DOCTORAL THESIS African Women As Mothers and Persons In DOCTORAL THESIS African Women as Mothers and Persons in Rhetoric and Practice: A Critical Study of African Womanhood, Maternal Roles, and Identities in Theological and Cultural Constructs in the Roman Catholic Tradition Arabome, Anastasia Award date: 2017 General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 28. Sep. 2021 African Women as Mothers and Persons in Rhetoric and Practice: A Critical Study of African Womanhood, Maternal Roles, and Identities in Theological and Cultural Constructs in the Roman Catholic Tradition by Anastasia Arabome, MA, D.MIN A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of PhD Department of Humanities University of Roehampton 2017 1 Abstract Title: African Women as Mothers and Persons in Rhetoric and Practice: A Critical Study of African Womanhood, Maternal Roles, and Identities in Theological and Cultural Constructs in the Roman Catholic Tradition This thesis adopts maternal well-being as a prism for studying the roles and identities of African women. It critically analyzes the dynamics in culture and religion that militate against women’s quest for fullness of life. As its methodology, it adopts narratives of African women as a source and means of theological research based on the anthropological model. This method prioritizes the voices and humanity of previously silenced, excluded, and oppressed women and their conditions of maternal mortality, poverty, and oppression rooted in gender biases and patriarchal stereotypes. Theology has largely ignored the reality of maternal mortality evidenced by the paucity of theological materials. A consequence of the neglect and ignorance of this critical factor is the chasm between the rhetorical use of feminine and maternal symbolisms to represent and define the significance of women in church and society and the concrete realities that confront them as women. Bridging this gap necessitates identifying exemplary icons and models of maternal leadership and wisdom in scripture, traditions, and cultural practices to redefine the status, identity, and role of women. It also entails recognizing and harnessing the unique gifts, qualities, and spirituality of African women for the edification of church, transformation of society, and flourishing of humanity. Of salience is the practice of maternal leadership as a source of a new ethos for church and society through women’s capacities and contributions, though a patriarchal mind-set imposes biological motherhood as the sole criterion for defining women’s existence and relevance. Maternal leadership and wisdom liberated from a reductionist, biological understanding of motherhood and the highlighting of incarnated roles and identities inspired by maternal values represent innovative and original aspects of this thesis. 2 Only by listening to voices of women can church and society develop a more just, liberating, and inclusive understanding of womanhood and motherhood. Nothing substitutes for the voices of women. 3 Contents Abstract ............................................................................................................................... 1 Acknowledgments............................................................................................................... 6 Introduction: “A Bird Cannot Fly on One Wing”: Approaching the Bridge and Minding the Gaps ........................................................................................................................ 7 Terminological Considerations: Maternal Well-being, Maternal Values, Motherhood, Mothering, and Midwife…………………………………………………………12 Theological Considerations ........................................................................................ 20 Historical and Cultural Considerations ....................................................................... 21 Ecclesiological and Ethical Considerations: Looking beneath and beyond the Texts 24 Methodological Considerations .................................................................................. 26 Limitations and Lessons: Between Narrative Methodology and Practical Theology..35 Outline of Chapters ..................................................................................................... 40 Chapter 1. The Unholy Trinity of Religion, Motherhood, and Poverty ........................... 45 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 45 1. The Construction of Identities: African Women in Religion, Culture, and Society. ............................................................................................................................... 48 2. Swimming in a River Full of Crocodiles: Poverty and Maternal Mortality ........... 55 3. The Community Called Church and Maternal Mortality: Between Rhetoric and Reality ................................................................................................................... 63 3.1. The Church as Family .................................................................................... 65 3.2. Of the Joys, Hopes, Griefs, and Anxieties of Women ................................... 70 Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 81 Chapter 2. Smiling with Our Own Teeth and Telling Our Own Stories: Redeeming and Redemptive Motherhood ............................................................................................ 83 Introduction..…………………………………………………………………..... 83 1. The Power to Define and Name .............................................................................. 84 2. Silencing, (M)Othering, and the Struggle of Naming............................................. 91 2.1. Beyond Socialization ..................................................................................... 96 2.2. Mothering in a Kibera Slum .......................................................................... 98 4 3. Of the Fatherhood and Motherhood of Men ......................................................... 101 4. African Motherhood in Conversation with Christology and Ecclesiology ........... 105 4.1. The Christological Experiences of African Women in Conversation with the World Church................................................................................................ 106 4.2. In Their Own Words .................................................................................... 116 Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 121 Chapter 3. Living Witnesses and Prophetic Voices: Maternal Values of African Women ................................................................................................................................... 124 Introduction ............................................................................................................... 124 1. Pentecost Revisited: the Holy Spirit in the Church .............................................. 125 2. African Women: Experiences of the Reality and Gifts of the Spirit .................... 132 3. The Spirit in the Lives of African Women: New Roles and Identities ................. 141 3.1. Marguerite Barankitse: the Value of Peace and Life ................................... 141 3.2. Leymah Gbowee: The Value of Justice and Peace ...................................... 143 3.3. Angelina Atyam: The Midwife of Forgiveness and Reconciliation ............ 147 3.4. Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe: The Value of Hospitality and Dignity ................. 150 4. Gifts of the Spirit: Maternal Values of African Women ....................................... 152 The Gift of Wisdom ............................................................................................ 153 The Gift of Counsel ............................................................................................ 155 The Gift of Fortitude ........................................................................................... 157 The Gift of Piety ................................................................................................. 158 The Gift of the Fear of the Lord .......................................................................... 160 Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 161 Chapter 4. When a Sleeping Woman Wakes Up: Critical and Creative Retrieval of Historical and Biblical Resources ............................................................................. 163 Introduction ............................................................................................................... 163 1. Peering through History and Searching the Scriptures
Load more

Recommended publications
  • BARGAIN SALE Table of Contents
    PAULIST PRESS BARGAIN FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ORDERS % % 30 off -80 off HUNDREDS OF TITLES Hurry while supplies last! Expires May 31, 2021 Orders Must be Prepaid • All Sales Final • Supplies limited 2 Category BARGAIN SALE Table of Contents Ancient Christian Writers Series ................................18-19 Bible....................................................................3-6 Bookmarks ......................................................49 Children ........................................................6-11 Classics of Western Spirituality Series ........................27-31 Ethics and Social Issues..............11-12 Faith and Culture ................................12-14 Faith Formation ....................................14-15 History ........................................................15-20 Liturgy and Worship ............................20-21 Order Form ......................................................47 Pastoral Ministry ................................21-23 Personal Growth..................................23-26 Philosophy ......................................................26 Pope Francis ..........................................45-46 Sacraments ............................................26-27 Spirituality ..............................................31-39 Theology ....................................................39-42 Free Shipping on all Orders World Religions....................................42-44 Bible 3 101 Questions Book of God’s Promise & Answers on the Exodus, The Covenant Relation- Historical
    [Show full text]
  • Feminist Ecclesiology: a Trinitarian Framework for Transforming the Church's Institutional and Spiritual Life
    LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations Summer 2019 Feminist Ecclesiology: A Trinitarian Framework for Transforming the Church's Institutional and Spiritual LIfe Stacy Geere Loyola Marymount University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation Geere, Stacy, "Feminist Ecclesiology: A Trinitarian Framework for Transforming the Church's Institutional and Spiritual LIfe" (2019). LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations. 807. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/807 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Feminist Ecclesiology: A Trinitarian Framework for Transforming the Church’s Institutional and Spiritual Life by Stacy T. Geere A thesis presented to the Faculty of the Department of Theological Studies Loyola Marymount University In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in Theology May 7, 2019 Table of Contents Introduction 2 Chapter 1 – Ecclesiology as a Reflection of Women’s Theological Identity 7 1.1 A Feminist Reconsideration of Ecclesiology 8 1.2 Classical Theological Anthropology 12 1.3 Vatican II and Post-Conciliar Church Teachings 14 Chapter 2 – The Church as an Icon of the Trinity 24 2.1 Collapsing
    [Show full text]
  • A Critical Study of African Womanhood, Maternal Roles, and Identities in Theological and Cultural Constructs in the Roman Catholic Tradition
    DOCTORAL THESIS African Women as Mothers and Persons in Rhetoric and Practice: A Critical Study of African Womanhood, Maternal Roles, and Identities in Theological and Cultural Constructs in the Roman Catholic Tradition Arabome, Anastasia Award date: 2017 General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 02. Oct. 2021 African Women as Mothers and Persons in Rhetoric and Practice: A Critical Study of African Womanhood, Maternal Roles, and Identities in Theological and Cultural Constructs in the Roman Catholic Tradition by Anastasia Arabome, MA, D.MIN A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of PhD Department of Humanities University of Roehampton 2017 1 Abstract Title: African Women as Mothers and Persons in Rhetoric and Practice: A Critical Study of African Womanhood, Maternal Roles, and Identities in Theological and Cultural Constructs in the Roman Catholic Tradition This thesis adopts maternal well-being as a prism for studying the roles and identities of African women.
    [Show full text]
  • A Correction of Pastoral Care That Overlooks the Most Vulnerable
    Testamentum Imperium – Volume 5 – 2016 www.PreciousHeart.net/ti V o l u m e 5 – 201 6 A Correction of Pastoral Care that Overlooks the Most Vulnerable by Dr. Nontando Hadebe Lecturer, St. Augustine College Johannesburg, South Africa1 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 2 A. Liberation Theologies: Voices of Vulnerable and Marginalized .......................... 4 1. Latin American Liberation Theologies ......................................................... 4 2. Feminist/Womanist Liberation Theologies ................................................. 5 3. African Liberation Theologies ..................................................................... 6 1 Hadebe earned her ThD from St. Augustine College, Johannesburg, South Africa, and her ThM and BT from the University of KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa. She was Fulbright Scholar in residence at Emmanuel College, Boston, MA, and an International Fellow at the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkley, CA. She is a member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians and the Theological Colloquium on Church, Religion and Society in Africa’s Women's Caucus comprosed of catholic women theologians in Africa. She has written several articles and book chapters, including “Commodification, Decolonisation and Theological Education in Africa: Renewed Challenges for African Theologians,” HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 73, no. 3 (2017); “The Cry of the Earth Is the Cry of Women: Ecofeminisms in Critical Dialogue with Laudato Si,” Grace and Truth 42, no. 2 (2017); “Moving in Circles. A Sankofa-Kairos Theology of Inclusivity and Accountability Rooted in Trinitarian Theology as a Resource for Restoring the Liberation Legacy of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians,” Verbum et Ecclesia 37, no. 2 (2016); “Not in Our Name without Us: The Intervention of Catholic Women Speak at the Synod of Bishops on the Family: A Case Study of a Global Resistance Movement by Catholic Women,” HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 72, no.
    [Show full text]
  • The Editors on the Presidential Election
    THE EDITORS ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF MANY THINGS 106 West 56th Street New York, NY 10019-3803 Ph: (212) 581-4640; Fax: (212) 399-3596 followed the returns on election fight in which victory has displaced Subscriptions: (800) 627-9533 www.americamedia.org night from a hotel room in the common good as the ultimate end. facebook.com/americamag I Barcelona. As the evening evolved Yet the common good is something to twitter.com/americamag (or devolved, depending on one’s which we can all aspire, while victory PRESIDENT AND EDITOR IN CHIEF perspective), it was increasingly clear obviously is not. Matt Malone, S.J. that a huge swath of voters was sending a “Victory is a myth,” David Neuhaus, EXECUTIVE EDITORS Robert C. Collins, S.J., Maurice Timothy Reidy powerful message to another huge swath S.J., recently told America: “The idea MANAGING EDITOR Kerry Weber in the only way it now could: through that you can be victorious gets in the LITERARY EDITOR Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. the blunt instrument of the ballot box. way of pulling down the walls. And SENIOR EDITOR AND CHIEF CORRESPONDENT Kevin Clarke In those halcyon though still imperfect when we speak as church of pulling EDITOR AT LARGE James Martin, S.J. pre-Google days of American politicking, down the walls, we are speaking first CREATIVE DIRECTOR Shawn Tripoli such messages were also exchanged of a process that we must undergo.” EXECUTIVE EDITOR, AMERICA FIlmS Jeremy Zipple, S.J. In other words, prescinding from before the balloting through reasoned POETRY EDITOR Joseph Hoover, S.J.
    [Show full text]
  • Peopleʼs Pastoral from the Catholic Committee of Appalachia
    ii The Telling Takes Us Home: Taking Our Place in the Stories that Shape Us A Peopleʼs Pastoral from the Catholic Committee of Appalachia CATHOLIC COMMITTEE OF APPALACHIA Spencer, West Virginia A People's Pastoral from the Catholic Committee of Appalachia iii The Telling Takes Us Home: Taking Our Place in the Stories that Shape Us A PEOPLE’S PASTORAL FROM THE CATHOLIC COMMITTEE OF APPALACHIA © 2015 Catholic Committee of Appalachia. This text is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Interna- tional license. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. This license does not apply to photographs or artwork contained herein. Artwork and photographs appearing herein are used with permission and remain the property of the respective artists and photographers. Unless otherwise noted, scripture quotations are from The Inclusive Bible: The First Egalitarian Translation, copyright © 2007 Priests for Equality. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Cover and interior design by Liz Pavlovic, www.lizpavlovic.com Front and back cover art by Christopher Santer, www.christophersanter.com Printed in the USA by Morgantown Printing & Binding, Morgantown, W.Va. First printing, December 2015 Published by the Catholic Committee of Appalachia (CCA) 885 Orchard Run Spencer, WV 25276 [email protected] www.ccappal.org www.peoplespastoral.org Facebook – www.facebook.com/groups/ccappalachia Twitter – @ThisLandIsHome Contact CCA for additional copies. iv The Telling Takes Us Home:
    [Show full text]
  • TUI MOTU Interislands
    TUI MOTU InterIslands our th Independent Catholic Magazine Issue 200 December 2015 $7 Christmas 200 issue CONTENTS FEATURES EDITORIAL Joseph’s Dreams and Journeys . 4 Bruce DrysDale Celebrating Birth, Life The Wise Ones . 6 Joy cowley and Family Vulnerability in the Face of Power . 8 Mike riDDell I had a Dream . 10 ann l Gilroy saw my godchild born. The memory brings a Desperately Needed Peace . 14 catch to my throat still. It began in awkwardness cecily Mcneill I and moved through waiting, admiration and I Can Write the Precious Word – Syria . 16 amazement, to breathtaking intensity — then horror yasMina el saBeh when the midwife held a little blue body. (I’d missed Food for the Journey . 18 the antenatal chat about expecting that.) Finally we Jack Derwin hugged a wee pinking-up “transubstantiation” — a No Place to Call their Own . 24 susan sMith water creature gulping air in alarmed cries. A little Making Do and Making Community . 26 “incarnation” — our hope appearing in flesh. Our Peter Murnane baby — an exceptional and everyday miracle. Birth, like Not All who Wander are Lost . 28 death, is breathtakingly raw and emotional. PhiloMena clare The birth of Jesus — as of all babies — exposes COMMENT us again to intense joy and reenergises us to work for a safer world. While the scriptures lend Jesus Editorial . 2 regal, adult titles — “Prince of Peace” and “Saviour The Gift of our Name . 3 Pa henare tate of the People” — he was born a scrap of flesh and “Best Friends” Fall Out . 23 bundle of promise. As with our babies, he needed Jan Barnett his family, extended family and neighbourhood to From First to 200 Issues .
    [Show full text]
  • (٢٠١٠). Al-Shaw*Ahid Al-Qur**An*Iyah F*I Lis*An Al-*Arab Li-Ibn Man*Z*Ur
    .al-Shaw*ahid al-Qur**an*iyah f*i Lis*an al-*Arab li-Ibn Man*z*ur : dir*asah na*haw*iyah bal*agh*iyah .(٢٠١٠) .Abd al-*Az*iz, K. a* al-Q*ahirah, Mi*sr, Maktabat al-*Ad*ab. .al-Qur&#x٠٢bc;*an al-kar*im wa-riw*ay*at al-madrasatayn. Bayr*ut, al-Majma* al-**Alam*i li-Ahl al-Bayt .(٢٠١٠) .Askar*i, M. d* .al-Khi*t*ab wa-al-*hij*aj. Bayr*ut, Lubn*an, Mu*assasat al-Ri*h*ab al-*Had*ithah .(٢٠١٠) .Azz*aw*i, A. u. B* .Burushaski as an Indo-European "Kentum" language : reflexes of the Indo-European gutturals in Burushaski .(٢٠١٠) .Cašule, I* München, Lincom Europa. .al-Maq*ay*is al-usl*ub*iyah f*i al-dir*as*at al-Qur**an*iyah. Bayr*ut, Lubn*an, al-Mu*assasah al-J*ami**iyah .(٢٠١٠) .Ha*dr*i, J. a* ,al-Na*zar*iyah al-lughaw*iyah *inda al-*Arab : al-a*sw*at, al-*sarf, al-ma**ajim, al-na*hw. al-Q*ahirah .(٢٠١٠) .Hasanayn, A. h. T. a* Maktabat al-*Ad*ab. .Maf*ah*im wa-maw*aqif f*i al-lughah wa-al-qur**an. al-Q*ahirah, Mi*sr, **Alam al-Kutub .(٢٠١٠) .Hass*an, T. a* .Nepevny*i ob'*i*ekt ba*z*hann*i*a : *I*Evropa v ukraïns*komu politychnomu dyskursi .(٢٠١٠) I*Avors*ka, H. and O. Bohomolov* Kyïv, Vydavnychy*i Dim Dmytra Buraho. .Shar*h al-*I*s*am *alá Matn al-Samarqand*iyah f*i *ilm al-bay*an .(٢٠١٠) I*s*am al-Asfar*ay*in*i, I.
    [Show full text]
  • NWNC Test Fall 2018 FINAL
    New Women, New Church W O M E N ' S O R D I N A T I O N C O N F E R E N C E Vol 41 v. 2 $2.00 Fall/Winter 2018 Knock, Knock. Who’s there? The Vatican Suffragists! B Y K A T E M C E L W E E The XV Ordinary Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment approved a final document calling the inclusion of women in decision-making structures a "duty of justice" and recommended "making everyone more aware of the urgency of an inescapable change.” This is a big deal. No mention of the feminine genius. No mention of complementary gender roles. However, make no mistake: the bishops did not just decide to include a line or two about women in the final document — those came from the voices outside the synod—the knocking on the doors, from the grassroots. W. OC supporters witness outside the Vatican gates as prelates walk in to the Synod. On the opening day of the synod “Cardinal Tagle: Let women vote! I stared at him and hesitated only for a twenty-five activists from around the Cardinal Cupich: Let women vote!” We moment before returning to chant world gathered outside of the recited until our voices were hoarse. alongside the group: "Knock, knock! Sant’Uffizio gate (located in front of We pumped our fists in the air when Who's there?” the Congregation for the Doctrine of we cried out “Knock! Knock!” the Faith). Under the guise of a touring After I refused to be silent or give over prayer group, we gathered together Our peaceful demonstration called out my passport, the scene quickly and recited two “Hail Mary’s” as a nod the exclusionary policies of the escalated.
    [Show full text]
  • Despite a Burgeoning Literature Considering Religion and Young People (Cf
    Negotiating the popular, the sacred and the political: an extended case study of three UK-based youth Christian social justice initiatives The engagement of young people of religious faith with global injustice has been little explored in studies either of youth religiosity or youth political participation. The recently-established youth initiatives of Christian Aid and Tearfund, two of the UK’s most widely-recognised Christian non- governmental organisations, offer a way to explore this, alongside the SPEAK Network, a grassroots Christian student and youth movement that campaigns on social justice issues. Analysing the blog posts of these three initiatives, this paper will focus particularly upon the ways in which Tearfund Rhythms, the Christian Aid Collective and SPEAK use popular culture, categorising their various uses as either innovation, appropriation, resistance or reclamation. It will then explain the groups’ differing emphases by considering their varying relationships with their members and their different religious positioning, before critically assessing what it means for young adults to “do” religion and politics online. Key words: popular culture, religion, politics, lifestyle, youth Despite a burgeoning literature considering religion and young people (cf. Collins-Mayo & Dandelion, 2010; Lynch, 2002; Flory & Miller, 2008), little has considered the engagement of young people of religious faith with politics, particularly issues of social justice, and furthermore how this might intersect with popular culture. Within the last few years, two of the most established and most widely-recognised Christian development charities and advocacy organisations in the UK, Christian Aid and Tearfund, have set up their own youth branches – Christian Aid Collective and Tearfund Rhythms.
    [Show full text]
  • Program Is One of the Most Varied We’Ve Seen Yet
    Hosted by Ryerson University Toronto, Canada Welcome note………………………………………...1 Conference at a Glance……………………………...2 Keynote speaker: Jane Ash Poitras………………...4 Tuesday abstracts……………………………………5 Wednesday abstracts……………………………….41 Thursday abstracts…………………………………76 Friday abstracts…………………………………….95 Index of speakers, media, locations, topics………104 Welcome to Ryerson University and th The 7 International Conference on Media, Religion and Culture My first academic meeting as a graduate student was the 1996 Conference on Media, Religion and Culture hosted by Stewart Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I arrived alone and knowing no one, but found a welcoming network of people who approached this field of endeavour in new, interesting, truly interdisciplinary ways, and it made all the difference to my own work. This series remains my favourite academic gathering, and I’m delighted to be able to return the hospitality extended to me in each subsequent setting. Following up on exploratory conversations at the 2008 Sao Paulo meeting, we’ll be discussing the future organization of the group Thursday, Aug. 12 at noon. Please consider joining us for this important meeting. Photo: Catherine Farquharson This year, you’ll find fewer plenary sessions but more chances to hear about the research of your colleagues from across the spectrum. The call for papers emphasized diversity of traditions and approaches, and I think you’ll agree that the program is one of the most varied we’ve seen yet. Ryerson University is well-known for its attention to teaching, so it also gives me great pleasure to see the number of panels which address the way in which we might evolve this important aspect of our academic pursuits.
    [Show full text]
  • Of Hiv/Aids As an Ethical Challenge to the Catholic Church in Uganda: Lessons of Catholic Social Teaching Athanasius Kikoba
    Santa Clara University Scholar Commons Jesuit School of Theology Dissertations Student Scholarship 9-2018 “The eF male Face” of Hiv/Aids as an Ethical Challenge to the Catholic Church in Uganda: Lessons of Catholic Social Teaching Athanasius Kikoba Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/jst_dissertations Part of the Religion Commons “THE FEMALE FACE” OF HIV/AIDS AS AN ETHICAL CHALLENGE TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN UGANDA: LESSONS OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING A dissertation by Athanasius Kikoba Presented to The Faculty of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctorate in Sacred Theology Berkeley, California September 2018 Committee Signatures ____________________________________________ Dr. William O’Neill, S.J. (Director) Date ____________________________________________ Dr. Marianne Farina, C.S.C. (Reader) Date ____________________________________________ Dr. Teresia Hinga (Reader) Date To my parents who led me into the Church and whose love has nurtured me. CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VI ABRREVIATIONS VIII ABSTRACT XI GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE: GENDERED VULNERABILITY OF WOMEN AND GIRLS TO HIV/AIDS IN UGANDA 13 Introduction 13 A Personal and Ministerial Encounter with Persons with HIV/AIDS 13 Gendered Vulnerability of Women and Girls to HIV/AIDS on the Global Level 18 Gendered Vulnerability to Women and Girls to HIV/AIDS on Continental Level: Sub-Saharan Africa 26 Historical Implications of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Uganda 29
    [Show full text]