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The Samaritan woman in John 4 as leader

dc.contributor.authorMautsa, Laura Maleya
dc.contributor.authorJanse van Rensburg, Johan Jacob (Fika)
dc.contributor.researchID10059296 - Janse van Rensburg, Johan Jacob
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-03T06:27:39Z
dc.date.available2012-10-03T06:27:39Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionEkklesiastikos Pharos is also a mouthpiece of the South African Association for Patristic and Byzantine Studies and of ETALEM (Thessaloniki, Greece)en_US
dc.descriptionPublished by the Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies (under the patronage of His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros B) in collaboration with the Department of Greek and Latin Studies (University of Johannesburg)
dc.description.abstractThis article examines how the Samaritan woman exemplifiesleadership in the account in which the Samaritan woman has anencounter with Jesus (John 4:1-42). From this encounter one canglean qualities in the Samaritan woman that make her stand out as a leader. The paper applies Kouzes & Posner's (1995) definition and model of leadership practices as a basis of analysis. Kouzes &Posner assert that leadership is not necessarily a position;leadership is the art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations. The Samaritan woman in this encounter overcomes several drawbacks in order to be the model witness that she is to the townspeople of Sychar. These drawbacks include:gender, nationality, cultural convention, her low moral ground and religious bias. This analysis of the Samaritan woman's leadership practice in the John 4 account opens discussion and seeks to answer the question: "Was the Samaritan woman a leader?"en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityPublished by the Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies (under the patronage of His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros B) in collaboration with the Department of Greek and Latin Studies (University of Johannesburg)
dc.identifier.citationMautsa, L.M. & Janse van Rensburg, J.J. 2010. The Samaritan woman in John 4 as leader. Ekklesiastikos Pharos, 92:1-18. [http://www.uj.ac.za/EN/Faculties/humanities/departments/greeklatin/research]en_US
dc.identifier.issn1018-9556
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/7424
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Johannesburgen_US
dc.titleThe Samaritan woman in John 4 as leaderen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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