Exploring gender relations in Paul’s use of salutations to house churches and the ubuntu oral praxis of sereto or isiduko

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ID21493545
AuthorsAbraham Modisa Mkhondo Mzondi (0000-0002-0289-877X, South African Theological Seminary, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume78
Issue2
Publication date2022-10-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0259-9422 • E-ISSN: 2072-8050
PublisherAOSIS (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.4102/hts.v78i2.7573
OpenAlexW4306942282
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

Paul usually ends his letters with salutations to believers who meet in someone else’s house. Far from being individualistic, these greetings also include people from different house churches. Considered from a functional angle, these greetings cement relationships between house churches. Within an ubuntu worldview, the oral praxis of sereto (Sepedi) or isiduko (IsiXhosa) (praise-poetry) establishes and confirms relationships between members of the same community (family, clan or tribe). The question is how such praxes affect women who belong to such communities. Contribution: This article is a comparative analysis of how some of the salutations used at the end of some of Paul’s epistles touch on gender relations in the same way as the ubuntu oral praxis of sereto or isiduko touches on gender relations among members of a community (family, clan or tribe)

Aesthetics · Art · Clan · Individualism · Political science · Praise · Praxis · Sociology · Tribe · Anthropology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Christian Theology and Mission · Gender Studies · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology

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