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Clown of the city /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: De Beer, Stéphan, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Stellenbosch] : Published by African Sun Media under the Sun Press imprint, 2020.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.