Vroue-ervaring en spritualiteit

Abstract

Women's experience and sprituality. Sprituality concerns one's orientation to life. It therefore inluences one's identity. This article recognises a plurality of spritualities. It focuses on the relaionship between women's expeience and sprituality within the framework of Christian faith. The concept partiarchaler Entremdung is illuminated. This is the alienation women experience when they exist as women in male-defined, male-structured and male-dominated ecclesiastical cultures. As far as "identity" is concerned, the problem of women's spritual development and matuity as pre-requisite for an authentic life before God is discussed.