Reimagining Gender-Based Violence in the Eye of the Covid-19 Storm and Beyond

A Practical-Missiological Reflection on an African Family through the Lenses of the Biblical Narrative of Tamar

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3476884
AutoresThinandavha Derrick Mashau (0000-0002-9914-8982, University of South Africa, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume13
Fascículo5
Páginas394
Data de publicação2022-04-25
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel13050394
OpenAlexW4224945181
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas28

Humanity is not battling only against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but also against gender-based violence (GBV), which has risen to epidemic proportions globally during the COVID-19 storm. There has been a rapid increase in domestic violence and other forms of GBV as nations imposed lockdown restrictions as a way to curb the COVID-19 storm. In this article, it is my contention that some of the people who were compelled to quarantine became vulnerable to GBV. In his presidential address to the nation on 18 June 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa identified GBV in South Africa as a second pandemic. There is also a considerable outcry in our inability, both as humanity at large and government, in particular, to deal with this scourge and find lasting solutions to it. This article locates the scourge of GBV within the 'storm' of COVID-19 using an African family unit as a case study. Upon presenting a practical-missiological reflection of the biblical narrative of Tamar in 2 Samuel 13-both through missional lenses and hermeneutic analysis-this article reimagines an ecclesial praxis that is life-affirming and liberating to victims of GBV as it applies in family contexts. It proposes tangible solutions to GBV within an African family, but the results can be replicated globally where GBV remains a pandemic to be dealt with

Art · Criminology · Disease · Humanity · Literature · Narrative · Pandemic · Political science · Praxis · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Gender Studies · History · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Medicine · Philosophy