Browsing by Author "Pillay, Miranda. N"
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Item Women, priests and patriarchal ecclesial spaces in the Anglican church of Southern Africa: On �interruption� asa transformative rhetorical strategy(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020) Pillay, Miranda. NIn spite of the presence of women in previously male-dominated ecclesial spaces, patriarchal normativity continues to be re-inscribed through the reproduction of knowledge, which sustains skewed gender power relations amongst the clergy. This was a case in point when a newly ordained woman priest in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa was recently addressed as, and given the official title, �mother� during the vestment ritual at a church service where she was to celebrate the Eucharist for the first time.