Sarojini Nadar was born on 6 February 1976 and is a South African theologian and biblical scholar who is the Desmond Tutu Research Chair in Religion and Social Justice at the University of the Western Cape.
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Sarojini Nadar, whose first name means "lotus flower", was born on 6 February 1976.
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Sarojini Nadar is of Indian descent and grew up in the Indian township of Phoenix, KwaZulu-Natal.
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Sarojini Nadar's father died when she was eight years old and none of her siblings finished high school.
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Sarojini Nadar graduated from Effingham Secondary School in Durban in 1993.
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Sarojini Nadar has said that her career in gender and religion was shaped by reflections on how her mother's life was determined by cultural and religious norms, including being in an arranged marriage at 17, and the lack of opportunities she received.
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Sarojini Nadar received a Bachelor of Arts in English literature and religious studies from the University of Cape Town in 1996, and a Bachelor of Social Science in 1997 and Master of Arts in 2000 in biblical literature from the same university.
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Sarojini Nadar received her PhD in biblical hermeneutics and gender from the University of Natal in 2003 at the age of 27.
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Sarojini Nadar's rapist confessed before he died in 2010, leaving the trial unfinished.
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Sarojini Nadar was appointed Dean of Research for the College of Humanities in 2012 and promoted to Full Professor in 2014.
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Sarojini Nadar has said many of her students, who were mostly older men and leaders in the church, found it difficult to accept her as their teacher.
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In 2014, Sarojini Nadar was a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute For Advanced Study, working on a project on gender violence with Elisabeth Gerle.
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Sarojini Nadar is a member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians.
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In 2012, Sarojini Nadar received the KwaZulu-Natal's Distinguished Young Women in Science Award and in 2013, the university's Distinguished Teachers' Award.
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Sarojini Nadar has been married to Poovan Sarojini Nadar, a chemical engineer, since 1996 and they have two children.