Ubuntu, Migration and Ministry; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; PART 1: Locating the Research Project; 2 Methodological Location; 3 Theoretical Location; 4 Social Location; 5 Introducing the Central Methodist Mission; PART 2: The Ubuntu Vision and Challenges in its Implementation; 6 Bishop Verryn's Theological Vision of Humanity; 7 The Impact of Power and Management Issues on the Actualization of Ubuntu; PART 3: Multiple Identities in the Construction of Boundaries and Bridges
8 The Role of Nationality, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the (Re)construction of Exclusionary Identities9 Dirt and Disrespect in the Creation of Exclusionary Boundaries; 10 "Thinking Again": The Presence of the Refugee as an Opportunity; 11 Negotiating Limits to Ubuntu in the Relationship between Dwellers and Members; 12 Concluding Remarks on Ubuntu in the Context of Migration and Ministry; Appendix 1: Recorded Interviews and Sermons; Appendix 2: Cited WWW-Pages; Bibliography; Index
Summary
In Ubuntu, Migration and Ministry Elina Hankela engages with the socio-moral meanings of ubuntu (Nguni: humanness/humanity) in contemporary Johannesburg drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at the Central Methodist Mission, a Johannesburg inner-city church that has been re-shaped in the face of international migration
