Ubuntu is homeless: An urban theological reflection
Verbum et Ecclesia
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Ubuntu is homeless: An urban theological reflection | |
| Creator | de Beer, Stephanus F. | |
| Description | 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 dignity and justice through an ubuntu-solidarity, street homeless people and others living vulnerably and in precarious circumstances are violated and excluded through a displacement of ubuntu-values. It also suggests a growing disconnect between the philosophy of ubuntu and its actual embodiment in the local urban political economy, local faith communities and local universities. Acknowledging the aspirational edge of ubuntu, the article then concludes to envision going beyond mere abstractions in the said spheres – the political economy, faith communities and local universities – in order to seek for concrete expressions of ubuntu-solidarity, asserting and mediating respect, dignity and justice. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2015-09-28 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/ve.v36i2.1471 | |
| Source | Verbum et Ecclesia; Vol 36, No 2 (2015); 12 pages 2074-7705 1609-9982 | |
| Language | eng | |
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https://verbumetecclesia.org.za/index.php/ve/article/view/1471/2570
https://verbumetecclesia.org.za/index.php/ve/article/view/1471/2571
https://verbumetecclesia.org.za/index.php/ve/article/view/1471/2572
https://verbumetecclesia.org.za/index.php/ve/article/view/1471/2552
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