Ubuntu, Migration and Ministry: Being Human in a Johannesburg Church

by Elina Hankela

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004271864
• ISBN13: 9789004271869
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 433 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"