Gender Equality Workshop: Churches, seminaries and gender statistics

MEN ON THE PULPIT, WOMEN IN THE PEWS? ADDRESSING GENDER INEQUALITY IN AFRICA

Churches, seminaries and gender statistics

Introduction: methodology

This chapter focuses on mostly quantitative data related to the twelve seminaries that form the NetACT network. Some remarks about the methodology followed to get the information. In March 2010 a letter was sent to the NetACT Board members explaining how the NetACT Executive planned the workshop. The letter stated:Each NetACT institution nominates two representatives, the principal / board member and a woman. The principal or his representative has the responsibility to create the institutional initiative, support and supervision that is needed for the research that has to be done by the female representative. At the first workshop in Aug 2011 each institution will present a report / evaluation of the gender equality situation at their institution, church and society indicating to which extent their curriculum deals with it (a structured questionnaire accompanies this letter). Our first academic publication will be a compilation of these reports. At the first workshop we will have papers on our research topic. A call for papers accompanies this letter and we encourage you to submit a proposal. We hope to get leading (women) theologians to give papers. However, our main objective will be to jointly decide on how to structure the research on “Teaching Gender Equality in Africa.Although all the institutions were represented at the workshop and all except ISTEL had a women representative present (she had a baby), the last questionnaires was returned in February 2012. Three schools are Portuguese speaking. They received and answered their questionnaires in Portuguese. This researcher communicated with institutions to clarify uncertainties and to get the data as trustworthy as possible.

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Oor | About Jurgens Hendriks

In 1974, Jurgens Hendriks completed his doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh and, in 1975, exchanged Scotland's chill for the heat of the Northern Cape. For ten years he worked as a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church at Upington where he was involved especially with the establishment of the new Synod of the Northern Cape and the development of the Uizip Conference Centre / Youth Development project. In 1982, the congregation and region were blessed with a revival, which led to the development of integral ministerial adaptations (congregational development). Partly as a result of this, he was called to the Faculty of Theology to establish the chair of Congregational Development / Ministerial Practice.

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