Raath, A. W. G.2017-01-102017-01-102016Raath, A.W.G. (2016). The spiritual mentality profile of femaile pietists on the South African frontier, 1750-1860. Acta Theologica, 36(1), 170-192.1015-8758 (print)2309-9089 (online)http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/actat.v36i1.10http://hdl.handle.net/11660/5266The reading of female religious literature on the South African frontier allows us to reconstruct important elements of a shared religious mentality profile of these pioneer female believers. Such a reconstruction of the religious mentality profile of pietistic women on the frontier reveals a number of important aspects for understanding their spiritual life: self-awakenings and conversions; self-purification; self-illumination and mystically tainted experiences; recollection and the experience of quiet; meditation, contemplation, ecstasy and rapture; spiritual desertion, and abandonment of the soul and the unitive life with God in Christ.enSpiritual mentalityFemale pietistsSouth AfricaArticleFaculty of Theology, University of the Free State