Narratives of relationships/marriages

Religious and cultural discourses shape relationships/marriages. The constructed nature of relationships/marriages opens the possibility for alternative relational realities. Positioning relationships/marriages in alternative discourses assisted the couples to construct a preferred relationship n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Niehaus, Elonya
Other Authors: Kotzé, Elmarie, 1954-
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10500/641
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Summary:Religious and cultural discourses shape relationships/marriages. The constructed nature of relationships/marriages opens the possibility for alternative relational realities. Positioning relationships/marriages in alternative discourses assisted the couples to construct a preferred relationship narrative. Three couples embarked on this feminist participatory action research journey - a couple from the Jehovah's Witnesses tradition,' a couple from the Dutch Reformed Church and a couple from a Gay Refonned Church. Conversations with the participating couples deconstructed their relationships. It also enabled the couples to co-author alternative, preferred realities of their relationships/marriages and to provide rich descriptions of these. === Practical Theology === M. Th. (Pastoral Therapy)