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1 online resource (433 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in Systematic Theology
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Studies in Systematic Theology.
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| Contents |
Ubuntu, Migration and Ministry; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; PART 1: Locating the Research Project; 2 Methodological Location; 3 Theoretical Location; 4 Social Location; 5 Introducing the Central Methodist Mission; PART 2: The Ubuntu Vision and Challenges in its Implementation; 6 Bishop Verryn's Theological Vision of Humanity; 7 The Impact of Power and Management Issues on the Actualization of Ubuntu; PART 3: Multiple Identities in the Construction of Boundaries and Bridges. |
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8 The Role of Nationality, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the (Re)construction of Exclusionary Identities9 Dirt and Disrespect in the Creation of Exclusionary Boundaries; 10 "Thinking Again": The Presence of the Refugee as an Opportunity; 11 Negotiating Limits to Ubuntu in the Relationship between Dwellers and Members; 12 Concluding Remarks on Ubuntu in the Context of Migration and Ministry; Appendix 1: Recorded Interviews and Sermons; Appendix 2: Cited WWW-Pages; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
In Ubuntu, Migration and Ministry Elina Hankela engages with the socio-moral meanings of ubuntu (Nguni: humanness/humanity) in contemporary Johannesburg drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at the Central Methodist Mission, a Johannesburg inner-city church that has been re-shaped in the face of international migration. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Central Methodist Mission (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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Central Methodist Mission (Johannesburg, South Africa) |
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Central Methodist Mission (Johannesburg, South Africa) |
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Ubuntu (Philosophy)
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Ubuntu (Philosophy) |
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Church work with immigrants -- Methodist Church.
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Church work with immigrants -- Methodist Church. |
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Church work with immigrants -- South Africa -- Johannesburg.
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Church work with immigrants. |
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South Africa -- Johannesburg. |
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Church work with immigrants.
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Church work with refugees -- South Africa -- Johannesburg.
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Church work with refugees. |
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Church work with refugees.
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Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hankela, Elina. Ubuntu, Migration and Ministry. Leiden : BRILL, 2014 9789004271869 |
| ISBN |
9789004274136 (electronic book) |
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9004274138 (electronic book) |
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130685833X (e-book) |
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9781306858335 (e-book) |
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