Ubuntu, Migration and Ministry

Being Human in a Johannesburg Church
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27186-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 421 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Studies in Systematic Theology

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 in contemporary Johannesburg. The Central Methodist Mission is known for sheltering thousands of migrants and homeless people in the inner city. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, primarily conducted in 2009, Elina Hankela unpacks the church leader’s liberationist vision of humanity and analyses the tension between the congregation and the migrants, linked to the refugee ministry. While relational virtues mark the community’s moral code, various regulating rules and structures shape the actual relationships at the church. Here ubuntu challenges and is challenged.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hankela, Elina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Ethik, Moraltheologie, Sozialethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Elina Hankela, Th.D. (2013, University of Helsinki), is a postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the University of Helsinki and the University of South Africa. She is currently working as part of an international team on a comparative research project focusing on faith-based organisations, social cohesion and marginalised youth.