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Craving restoration : an ecofeminist theological perspective on Lily mine
Dissertation (MTheology)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/71026 Craving restoration : an ecofeminist theological perspective on Lily mine Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack u10045644@tuks.co.za Ras, Erika Fredrika UCTD Craving restoration Ecofeminist Theological perspective Lily mine South Africa Land Theological formation Apartheid and the capitalist mining history Theology theses SDG-15 SDG-15: Life on land Dissertation (MTheology)--University of Pretoria, 2018. In South Africa, the concept of land is caught up in various ideological, religious and political conceptions. Land is not only soil, but also home, identity, economic profit, livelihood and belonging. In this study, we will explore the complexity of land and our relationship to it by firstly exploring the history of colonialism and with it the presence of missionary activity in South Africa to investigate the theological formation and re-arrangement of people’s connection to land. The conflicting views of coloniser and colonised will also be explored. Our connection to ourselves, to others, God, and nature have been broken by the colonialist project, Apartheid and the capitalist process of commodification, which in South Africa have deep historical roots. The dual process of commodification of people and land, is exemplified by the mining history. In this regard, the Lily Mine tragedy is used as a magnifying glass to explore the effect this process has on both people and creation. Lily Mine, the heaving earth, the workers trapped deep beneath the earth and those left behind, signify a haunting. Here, Derrida’s notion of hauntology is employed as a kind of border thinking to recognise and see these ghosts that haunt. The spectre of broken and maimed bodies, and the broken earth haunts our present and poses an urgent ethical demand on those left behind. The ghost seeks wholeness, restoration, recognition and rest. To find some way of responding to the spectre’s haunting cry, we look to ecofeminism and African women’s theologies. Both, ecofeminism and African women’s theologies recognise the interdependence and interconnectedness of life and offer a way of being and doing that challenges patriarchal, androcentric and Eurocentric ontologies and epistemologies. In exploring ecofeminism and African women’s theologies we find ways, life giving praxis, that breathes life into dead and dry bones. ae2025 Dogmatics and Christian Ethics MTheology Unrestricted SDG-15: Life on land 2019-08-12T11:18:51Z 2019-08-12T11:18:51Z 2019/04/03 2018 Dissertation Ras, EF 2018, Craving restoration : an ecofeminist theological perspective on Lily mine, MTheology Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/71026> A2019 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/71026 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Craving restoration Ecofeminist Theological perspective Lily mine South Africa Land Theological formation Apartheid and the capitalist mining history Theology theses SDG-15 SDG-15: Life on land Craving restoration : an ecofeminist theological perspective on Lily mine |
| title | Craving restoration : an ecofeminist theological perspective on Lily mine |
| title_full | Craving restoration : an ecofeminist theological perspective on Lily mine |
| title_fullStr | Craving restoration : an ecofeminist theological perspective on Lily mine |
| title_full_unstemmed | Craving restoration : an ecofeminist theological perspective on Lily mine |
| title_short | Craving restoration : an ecofeminist theological perspective on Lily mine |
| title_sort | craving restoration an ecofeminist theological perspective on lily mine |
| topic | UCTD Craving restoration Ecofeminist Theological perspective Lily mine South Africa Land Theological formation Apartheid and the capitalist mining history Theology theses SDG-15 SDG-15: Life on land |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/71026 |