• Urban Africa 2050 : imagining theological education/formation for flourishing African cities 

  De Beer, Stephan F. (Sage, 2022-04)

  Africa’s staggering rate of urbanization and the silence of religion or theology in response form the backdrop of this article. Africa’s urban futures, up through 2050, are considered through the lenses of fifteen African ...
• Young people at the margins in Pretoria central : are the faith-based organisations making a difference? 

  Swart, Ignatius; Rabe, Marlize; De Beer, Stephan F. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-12-13)

  The authors’ recent case study work in Pretoria Central as part of the international research project ‘Youth at the margins’ (YOMA) constitutes the focus of this article. From this vantage point, the authors offer a ...
• Doing theology with children : exploring emancipatory methodologies 

  De Beer, Stephan F.; Yates, Hannelie (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-12-12)

  This article serves as an introduction to a collection of articles that explores emancipatory methodologies for doing theology and research with children. We focus on both the agency and the participation of children as ...
• Faith-based agency and theological education : a failed opportunity? 

  De Beer, Stephan F. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-12-13)

  After attending to shifts in the landscape of theological education at a public university in South Africa, this article explores the re-imagination of theological education as fostering faithbased agency. With reference ...
• Change-making in a (post)apartheid city : an auto-ethnographical essay 

  De Beer, Stephan F.; De Beer, Wilna (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-11)

  We reflect on living and doing ministry in a (post)apartheid South African city, negotiating ongoing demographic and sociopolitical transitions and discerning appropriate faith responses. We speak about the inevitability ...
• Born from below : urban regeneration through incarnational theological formation in Guatemala City and beyond 

  Ribbens, Michael; Van Dyke, Joel (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-09-06)

  This article sets out to describe the development of and engagement with a global training collaborative around the formation of urban ministry leadership committed to the act of loving cities and working for peace. The ...
• Urban social movements in South Africa today : its meaning for theological education and the church 

  De Beer, Stephan F. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-27)

  In the past decade, significant social movements emerged in South Africa, in response to specific urban challenges of injustice or exclusion. This article will interrogate the meaning of such urban social movements for ...
• Trans-disciplinary research on religious formations in urban Africa : towards liberative methodological approaches 

  De Beer, Stephan F.; Smith, R.D. (Drew); Manyaka, Semape Jacob (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-27)

  In this article, we are exploring a methodological approach to research on faith and religious expressions in urban Africa. We are committed to trans-disciplinary work that pursues research methods mutually liberating ...
• Precarious housing in the Salvokop neighbourhood : a challenge to churches in the inner City of Tshwane 

  Ntakirutimana, Ezekiel (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-23)

  This article describes the daunting challenge of precarious housing in Salvokop located in the southern part of inner City of Tshwane, Gauteng Province. Insecure tenure, unmaintained dwellings, overcrowding, mushrooming ...
• Churches claiming a right to the city? Lived urbanisms in the City of Tshwane 

  Ribbens, Michael; De Beer, Stephan F. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-27)

  This article sets out to describe how churches have responded and continue to respond to fastchanging urban environments in Pretoria Central and Mamelodi East, animating Henri Lefebvre’s sociological perspective of ...
• Transforming curricula into the next century : doing theology collaboratively with local communities 

  De Beer, Stephan F.; Van Niekerk, Attie (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2017)

  The FT at the UP celebrates its first century of existence in 2017. This chapter is an attempt to draw from the emerging approach in both the CCM and the CSC, asking whether it perhaps offers clues for transforming curricula ...
• Responses to migration : tensions and ambiguities of churches in Pretoria Central and Mamelodi East 

  Renkin, Wayne (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-09-29)

  This article is a result of research being conducted to explore how churches in two regions of the City of Tshwane – Pretoria Central and Mamelodi East – respond to urban change and vulnerability. Both regions are deeply ...
• The ‘good city’ or ‘post-colonial catch-basins of violent empire’? A contextual theological appraisal of South Africa’s Integrated Urban Development Framework 

  De Beer, Stephan F. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-22)

  The Integrated Urban Development Framework (IUDF) was constructed as a ‘new deal’ for South African cities and towns. It outlines a vision with four overarching goals and eight priorities or policy levers meant to overcome ...
• Theology disrupted : doing theology with children in African contexts 

  Mahlangu, Elijah (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-12-01)

  The thrust of this article is an attempt to respond to the question whether we can read and interpret the bible in Africa from the child theology vantage point. The author’s answer is in the affirmative in two ways: ...
• Reading Psalms, and other urban poems, in a fractured city 

  De Beer, Stephan F. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-12-09)

  This article was an attempt to (re-)read Psalms in the context of fractured cities, marked by socio-economic inequalities, woundedness, migration and exclusion. It explored urban motifs in selected psalms and considered ...
• Ubuntu is homeless : an urban theological reflection 

  De Beer, Stephan F. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-06-26)

  This article is reading ubuntu in the light of homelessness in the cities and towns of South Africa. It suggests that ubuntu itself is homeless and displaced as a way of being human together. Instead of the mediation of ...
• The university, the city and the clown : a theological essay on solidarity, mutuality and prophecy 

  De Beer, Stephan F. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-09-30)

  This essay is informed by five different but interrelated conversations all focusing on the relationship between the city and the university. Suggesting the clown as metaphor, I explore the particular role of the activist ...
• Doing urban public theology in South Africa : introducing a new agenda 

  Swart, Ignatius; De Beer, Stephan F. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)

  This article serves as the introductory, first contribution to a special collection of articles on the theme, ‘Doing urban public theology in South Africa: Visions, approaches, themes and practices towards a new agenda’. ...
• Whose knowledges shape our city? Advancing a community-based urban praxis 

  De Beer, Stephan F. (Pretoria University Law Press, 2014)

  Wie se Kennis(se) Vorm ons Stad? Op Soek na ’n Gemeenskapsgedrewe Stedelike Praxis In die artikel word verskillende plekke van kontestasie en hoop in die middestad van Pretoria/Tshwane geidentifiseer, en die moontlike ...
• Informal community-based early childhood development as a focus for urban public theology in South Africa 

  Van der Walt, J.P. (Hannes); Swart, Ignatius; De Beer, Stephan F. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)

  This article highlights important dimensions of public theology and shows how the identified dimensions are relevant to the specific situation of informal early childhood development (ECD) facilities in a South African ...

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