Current Research Project

2022 Student: Black Women’s Healing from Trauma: Centering Christian Spirituality in a Story Telling Community Healing Methodology

Exploring Lived experiences of Black South African women testifying at church about their sufferings: A case of a Pentecostal church in a Cape Metro township.
The aim of this study is to explore the lived experiences of black South African women on witnessing about their personal suffering in a Pentecostal church context and how this experience shapes how they make sense of their suffering. Broadly this study seeks to contribute to trauma literature on witnessing, with a specific focus on religious forms of testimony in relation to personal suffering through the lived experiences of black South African women.

Supervisor: Dr. Kim Wale
Co-supervisor :Prof Christo Thesnaar

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