Stephan de Beer (South Africa University of Pretoria)

Christians in the Cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria

Becoming in an African Megacity
Herausgeber: Daughrity, Dyron B

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Produktbeschreibung

Looks at Christianity in the megacity of Johannesburgâ Pretoria - exploring how it has shaped the city and its society.

Produktdetails

• Christians in the City: Studies in Contemporary Global Christianity
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9781350329904
• ISBN-10: 1350329908
• Artikelnr.: 73242542

Autorenporträt

Stéphan de Beer

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
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Index