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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and notes. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Stumbling into urban liminality -- PART I: The University and the City -- 1. Absence, presence, remembrance : a theological essay on frailty, the university and the city -- 2. The univeristy, the city and the clown : a theological essay on solidarity, mutuality and prophecy -- 3. The university and the informal settlement : a liberationist perspective -- PART II: Disarming Knowledge -- 4. Whose knowledges shape our city? : advancing a community-based urban praxis -- 5. Jesus in the dumping sites : doing theology in the overlaps of human and material waste -- 6. Reading Psalms, and other urban poems, in a fractured city -- PART III: Movements of Justice -- 7. "Between life and death" : on land, silence and liberation in the capital city -- 8. Discerning a theological agenda for spatial justice : an imperative for sustained reconciliation -- 9. Urban social movements in South Africa today : their meaning for theological education and the church -- PART IV: Playful Protest -- 10. Clowning in the city : practising playful protest. |
| Summary |
At opening this book, everything one has learned or thought about "urban ministry" is challenged, and changed. Stephan de Beer offers a fresh, exciting and thoroughly engaging approach. The title is enticing and playful, but the book is a serious grappling with the daunting realities of a shadowed, marginalised, urban life. It does not theorise or pontificate about a concept. The author is not a distant, neutral observer. He is an engaged minister to the people, a struggler in their struggles, prophet to the powerful. This book invites the reader to join the people of the cities under siege by failed policies, empty promises, and disastrous politics, in their struggles for meaningful life, and it makes a powerful, persuasive case. Stephan de Beer has offered us a great gift and a wonderful opportunity to think and hope anew, and differently, about the life, reality, and future of the city.[Review]. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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City and town life -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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City and town life -- Religious aspects. |
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Christianity. |
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City and town life. |
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Church and social problems.
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Church and social problems. |
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City churches.
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City churches. |
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Urban ecology (Sociology) -- South Africa.
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Urban ecology (Sociology) |
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South Africa. |
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RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: De Beer, Stephan Clown of the City Stellenbosch : African Sun Media,c2021 9781928480846 |
| ISBN |
9781928480853 (ebook) |
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1928480853 (ebook) |
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9781928480846 (paperback) |
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1928480845 (paperback) |
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