Faith, Race and Inequality amongst Young Adults in South Africa Contested and contesting discourses for a better future
For many young South African adults (often called ‘born frees’), who were born just before or just after the demise of political apartheid, the ongoing realities of poverty and inequality bring to light the question of whether they truly are ‘free’ in contemporary South Africa? Their lived experienc...
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African Sun Media
04.07.2022
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- Front Matter Table of Contents SERIES FOREWORD FOREWORD INTRODUCTION 1.: OVERCOMING WALLS: 2.: INTERGENERATIONAL “WHITE WORK” WITHIN THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH: 3.: ENGAGING ‘DIE GIF IN VERGIFNIS’ [THE POISON IN FORGIVENESS]? 4.: TRANSGENDER, TRANSCENDED AND ‘BORN FREE’: 5.: INEQUALITY AND RACISM: 6.: PHAMBILI? 7.: YOUTH AND THE CONTESTATION OF INEQUALITY WITH #RHODESMUSTFALL: 8.: HOLY GROUND? 9.: DARE YOUNG ADULTS HOPE IN PSEUDO PROMISES AND SPIRITUALITIES OF DEMOCRACY? 10.: “HERE AM I, SEND ME!” THE YOUTH AS CO-PARTICIPANTS AND AGENTS OF CHANGE 11.: YOUNG ADULTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: 12.: THE PLACE OF FAITH-BASED ORGANISATIONS IN TACKLING INEQUALITY AMONGST THE YOUTH IN NIGERIA CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS Back Matter
- PART III: Dare We Hope? Agency and Means to Engage -- 9. Dare young adults hope in pseudo promises and spiritualities of democracy? -- Introduction -- Setting the scene -- A hoping against hope of democracy -- Democracy - an epoch of promises of hope for South Africa -- A liberal democratic ideology -- Pseudo promises of democracy as producers of a pseudo spirituality -- Towards a liberation of hope: Liberation Theology -- Conclusion -- Reference List -- 10. "Here am I, send me!" The youth as co-participants and agents of change -- Introduction -- A [very] brief state of the South African youth -- State of the youth ministry (church) -- Thuma Mina / Here am I, send me! -- Youth as agents of change -- Research methodology -- Analysis of data -- Reference List -- 11. Young adults and social justice: Empowering young adults as change agents through theological education -- Introduction -- Young adults and the need for social justice dialogue -- Theological and experiential education: engaging youth, church and social justice -- Practical implications and learning: the development of a short course -- Conclusion -- Reference List -- 12. The place of Faith-Based Organisations in tackling inequality amongst the youth in Nigeria -- Introduction -- Definition of key concepts -- Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs) -- Inequality -- Youth -- The scope of inequality amongst youth in Nigeria -- The role of Faith-Based Organisations -- The role of FBOs in fighting youth inequality in Nigeria -- Implications for youth ministry -- Conclusion -- Reference List -- Contributing Authors -- Back Cover
- Front Cover -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- CONTENTS -- Series Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Introduction -- Contested and contesting notions within this book -- Looking back / moving forward: intergenerational reflections -- At unequal intersections: race, place, gender -- Dare we hope? Agency and means to engage -- Conclusion -- Reference List -- PART I: Looking Back / Moving Forward: Intergenerational Reflections -- 1. Overcoming walls: A Southern African theological reflection on youth ministry in Stellenbosch, 1980-2000 -- Introduction -- Walls -- Maintaining walls -- Getting down, off the wall -- Building bridges instead of walls -- A closing reflection -- Reference List -- 2. Intergenerational "white work" within the Dutch Reformed Church: Setting conflict, unsettling continuity -- Introduction -- Emerging "white work" in the DRC -- Unsettling continuities -- Settling conflict -- Shared "re‑formation" of intergenerational perpetuation -- Reference List -- 3. Engaging 'die gif in vergifnis' [the poison in forgiveness]? Considering Peter Storey's four ecclesiological tasks for the coming generations -- Introduction: 'Do you have children? Well, so do I' -- For God's sake, and for the sake of God's children: why our witness matters -- Die gif in vergifnis [a poisonous forgiveness] -- History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme - 'a place where we nail ourselves to God's passion - and where God nails us to our neighbour' -- The four tasks for faithful ministry amid the teargas? -- Conclusion -- Reference List -- PART II: At Unequal Intersections: Race, Place, Gender -- 4. Transgender, transcended and 'born free': Theological and intersectional discourse about the body of Lee Mokobe -- Introduction -- A methodology for the transgendered born-free body -- The body in prayer -- Hope -- Reference List
- 5. Inequality and racism: The ongoing struggle for the Churches and its impact on the youth in South Africa today -- Introduction -- The churches and the ongoing struggle of inequality and racism -- Inconceivable reality of inequality and racism: a case study of the DR family of churches -- Dealing with racism and inequality today -- Conclusion -- Reference List -- 6. Phambili? Inequality, #FeesMustFall and Black Theology -- Introduction -- Inequality, global and local discourses -- #FeesMustFall, history and ideological orientation -- Black Theology, present potential -- Conclusion -- Reference List -- 7. Youth and the contestation of inquality with #RhodesMustFall: Challenging the status quo and an emergence of a theology of spatial justice from below -- Introduction -- Emerging theories of space and spatial justice -- Emerging formation of a theology of spatial justice within South Africa -- #RhodesMustFall as a case study for spatial justice -- Youth action and a theology of spatial justice -- Conclusion -- Reference List -- 8. Holy ground? Reflections on race, place and research in practical theology in the Stellenbosch young adults and inequality project -- Introduction -- Practical theology: researching the intersection of race and class -- Practical theology: why study place and what does it have to do with race? -- More than a backdrop: Stellenbosch as 'raced' within a place -- Spatial apartheid in Stellenbosch -- Race-based research at Stellenbosch University -- Background to the project and emerging findings -- Researching race within a specific space: the youth and inequality project: critical reflections -- "Nothing about us, without us" -- The two "P"s: positionality and process -- "Troubling" power and race dynamics within research -- Place and "the elephant in the room" -- Conclusion -- Reference List