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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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[Stellenbosch] :
Published by African Sun Media under the Sun Press imprint,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.