• ‘Housing’ as Christian social practice in African cities : centering the urban majority theologically 

  De Beer, Stephan F. (MDPI, 2023-08-07)

  Decent, affordable housing and secure housing tenure remain elusive for Africa’s urban majority. The urban majority is expected to live in self-help housing, reflected in the fact that 62% of African urban dwellers live ...
• Urban Africa 2050 : imagining theological education/formation for flourishing African cities 

  De Beer, Stephanus Francois (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 ...
• African cities by 2063 : fostering theologies of urban citizenship 

  De Beer, Stephanus Francois (AOSIS, 2022-12-21)

  Grounded in a postcolonial, liberationist urban vision, this article lamented the theological and political paralysis of urban denialism that fails African cities and African urban populations. Considering different possible ...
• Change agency and urban vulnerability : theological-ecclesial paralysis or deep solidarity 

  De Beer, Stephanus Francois (AOSIS, 2021-08-31)

  Globally, cities respond differently to their most vulnerable urban populations, notably so during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In the City of Tshwane, there seems to be a general paralysis of the ...
• Churches and poverty alleviation : focusing on the greater springs area 

  Mokgotho, Mbonane Samuel (University of Pretoria, 2014)

  Poverty is a condition where people's basic needs for food, clothing and shelter are not being met. Poverty is generally of two types: absolute and relative poverty. Some of the causes of poverty include changing trends ...
• Theological education and African cities : an imperative for action 

  De Beer, Stephanus Francois (Southern African Missiological Society, 2020)

  Africa’s urban explosion presents a clear challenge to the way theological education in Africa is done today. The backdrop of this article is a collaborative research project that involved 15 theological institutions ...
• A reflection on Vuyani Vellem's longing for liberation : a spirituality of life and freedom 

  De Beer, Stephanus Francois (AOSIS, 2020-11)

  Vuyani Vellem was insistent on fostering a spirituality that could ground and sustain resistance of death as expressed in multiple unfreedoms, and the quest for life and freedom in abundance. After naming a number of themes ...
• Young people at the margins in Pretoria central : are the faith-based organisations making a difference? 

  Swart, Ignatius; Rabe, Marlize; De Beer, Stephanus Francois (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, Stephanus Francois; 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, Stephanus Francois (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 ...
• Faith-based action and urban regeneration 

  De Beer, Stephanus Francois (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-11-19)

  After describing the challenges, myths, exclusions and opportunities of urban regeneration, this article explores the potential interface between faith-based action and different forms of urban regeneration. Focusing on ...
• Change-making in a (post)apartheid city : an auto-ethnographical essay 

  De Beer, Stephanus Francois; 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, Stephanus Francois (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, Stephanus Francois; 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, Stephanus Francois (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, Stephanus Francois; 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 Tshwane Homeless Summit as dramaturgy : a contextual, trans-disciplinary epistemology from below 

  Renkin, Wayne; De Beer, Stephanus Francois (Routledge, 2017-06)

  In this article we propose a contextual, trans-disciplinary epistemology from below, as explored through the lenses of the Tshwane Homeless Summit and the broader policy-making process of which it formed a part. The article ...

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