South African fantasy: Identity and spirituality

Apostolides, Anastasia

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“…(Joseph 2005) However, David Levey in his 2007 article entitled 'Religion, literature and identity in South Africa: The case of Alan Paton' contends that insufficient research has been conducted on the religious inference offered by South African English writers. Perhaps in answer to this assertion, more scholarly attention has been given to the discussion of religious faith expressed by South African writers (Apostolides 2016;Cruywagen 2016;Marais & Stobie 2014;Shober 2014Shober , 2017. This article seeks to explore the dual elements of Christian and African traditional religion that South African writer Sindiwe Magona incorporates into her autobiographies, poetry and fictional works as metaphoric realities of her identity formation, cultural expression and liberation theology.…”

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An African’s faith: Discourse and disclosure in selected works by Sindiwe Magona

Shober

2019

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An African’s faith: Discourse and disclosure in selected works by Sindiwe Magona

Shober

2019

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Spiritual care practices in hospices in the Western cape, South Africa: the challenge of diversity

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Swartz

2021

BMC Palliat Care

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Background South Africa is a very diverse middle-income country, still deeply divided by the legacy of its colonial and apartheid past. As part of a larger study, this article explored the experiences and views of representatives of hospices in the Western Cape province of South Africa on the provision of appropriate spiritual care, given local issues and constraints. Methods Two sets of focus group discussions, with 23 hospice participants, were conducted with 11 of the 12 Hospice Palliative Care Association registered hospices in the Western Cape, South Africa, to understand what spiritual care practices existed in their hospices against the backdrop of multifaceted diversities. The discussions were analysed using thematic analysis. Results Two prominent themes emerged: the challenges of providing relevant spiritual care services in a religiously, culturally, linguistically and racially diverse setting, and the organisational context impacting such a spiritual care service. Participants agreed that spiritual care is an important service and that it plays a significant role within the inter-disciplinary team. Participants recognised the need for spiritual care training and skills development, alongside the financial costs of employing dedicated spiritual care workers. In spite of the diversities and resource constraints, the approach of individual hospices to providing spiritual care remained robust. Discussion Given the diversities that are largely unique to South Africa, shaped essentially by past injustices, the hospices have to navigate considerable hurdles such as cultural differences, religious diversity, and language barriers to provide spiritual care services, within significant resource constraints. Conclusions While each of the hospices have established spiritual care services to varying degrees, there was an expressed need for training in spiritual care to develop a baseline guide that was bespoke to the complexities of the South African context. Part of this training needs to focus on the complexity of providing culturally appropriate services.

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Empathy and imagination: Nurturing children’s and adolescent’s spiritual well-being in the digital environment

Apostolides

2018

STJ

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Recently, there has been a flurry of publications on children and adolescents turning into “digital junkies”, those addicted are said to be using “electronic cocaine”, or being diagnosed with Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) or Pathological Internet Use. This article discusses the emerging disorders in children and adolescents who spend too many hours online and how it may affect their spiritual well-being. This article makes a contribution by making a start on specifically looking at how the spiritual well-being of children and adolescents may be affected by too much screen time. Apart from the clinical side effects described by the recent research, it is imperative that the spiritual lives of “digital junkies” be carefully examined.

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South African fantasy: Identity and spirituality

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

An African’s faith: Discourse and disclosure in selected works by Sindiwe Magona

An African’s faith: Discourse and disclosure in selected works by Sindiwe Magona

Spiritual care practices in hospices in the Western cape, South Africa: the challenge of diversity

Empathy and imagination: Nurturing children’s and adolescent’s spiritual well-being in the digital environment

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