Stéphan de Beer

Christians in the Cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria

Becoming in an African Megacity
Herausgeber: Daughrity, Dyron B

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Produktbeschreibung

Glimpsing into the impact of Christianity in one of Africa's largest and fastest-growing megacities, located in the Gauteng City-Region, this book explores how faith shaped the city and its society. Addressing a scarcity of religious scholarship in the field of urban studies, this book focuses on the Johannesburg-Pretoria corridor and Christian faith expressions in the evolving African megacity. Stéphan de Beer highlights how city and faith are in conversation and explores various expressions of Christian faith in this ever-changing urban landscape. Connecting socio-spatial change in post-apartheid South African cities with the changing Christian landscape, this book interrogates the connections and disconnections between Christianity and urban change. Chapters feature wide coverage across both cities, including the areas of Sandton, Tshwane, Woodlane Village and Soshang. Examining the contexts where global migration and Christian faith increasingly co-exist, this book provides valuable insights to students of religion, sociology and urban studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350329898
• ISBN-10: 1350329894
• Artikelnr.: 73243037

Autorenporträt

Stephan de Beer is Director of the Centre for Faith and Community at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Becoming in an African megacity: tracing change
Part I: Johannesburg: city of rushing hearts
2. Contested space in inner city Johannesburg: where Africa arrives
3. Sandton - Alexandra: life and death, divided by a highway
4. Soweto: the unmapped heart of urbanity
5. The new north: yearning, being, becoming
6. Holding on, letting go: Joburg's old eastern suburbs
7. Morphing cities: Midrand-Centurion's 'un-urban' urbanity
Part II: From Pretoria to Tshwane - shedding its apartheid clothes
8. (Un)imaginative becoming: Tshwane's inner city and old east
9. Separated by the dead: the tales of Mamelodi and Eersterust
10. Facing each other: Woodlane Village, Woodhill Estate & Moreleta Church
11. An exploding north: from Sefako Makgatho to Soshang
12. All-pervasive urban tentacles: loving in a city that knows no end
Bibliography
Index