Destructive and violent conflicts in Tanzanian Christian families motivated to do this research. As part of a conceptual study of conflict and Conflict Transformation the author conducted interviews with lay and clergy leaders of the ELCT and supplemented these data with statistical material collected from a few selected congregations. The study reveals the contextual theological, social, and cultural dynamics of conflicts within these families and shows that there is a need for an pastoral care and counselling approach that includes work on systemic causes of conflict in the family and that empowers people for transformation.

Elieshi Ayo Mungure was born in 1965 in the Arumeru District in the Northern Tanzania. Theological studies at Lutheran Theological College Makumira (1994 Bachelor of divinity); Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa/USA (2000 Master of Sacred Thology (Hons)); Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota/USA (2007 PhD) in Pastoral care and counselling. 19942002 various pastoral responsibilities in the ELCTDiocese of Meru. 20072011 lecturer and Dean of Students at the faculty of Theology at Tumaini University Makumira. Since 2011 Area Secretary for Africa in the Department for Mission and Development of the Lutheran World Federation in Geneva, Switzerland. She is married and has three children.

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