Ubuntu, migration, and ministry : being human in a Johannesburg church /
Ubuntu, Migration and Ministry invites the reader to rethink ubuntu (Nguni: humanness/humanity) as a moral notion in the context of local communities. The socio-moral patterns that emerge at the crossroads between ethnography and social ethics offer a fresh perspective to what it means to be human i...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
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Boston :
Brill,
2014.
Series:
Studies in Systematic Theology
15.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262492.
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Call Number: BV2695.E4 H36 2014
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Methodological Location
- Theoretical Location
- Social Location
- Introducing the Central Methodist Mission
- Bishop Verryn's Theological Vision of Humanity
- The Impact of Power and Management Issues on the Actualization of Ubuntu
- The Role of Nationality, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the (Re)construction of Exclusionary Identities
- Dirt and Disrespect in the Creation of Exclusionary Boundaries
- "Thinking Again": The Presence of the Refugee as an Opportunity
- Negotiating Limits to Ubuntu in the Relationship between Dwellers and Members
- Concluding Remarks on Ubuntu in the Context of Migration and Ministry
- Recorded Interviews and Sermons
- Cited WWW-Pages
- Bibliography
- Index.