Christians in the Cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria

Stephan de Beer is Director of the Centre for Faith and Community at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

• 1. Becoming in an African megacity: tracing changePart I: Johannesburg: city of rushing hearts2. Contested space in inner city Johannesburg: where Africa arrives3. Sandton – Alexandra: life and death, divided by a highway4. Soweto: the unmapped heart of urbanity5. The new north: yearning, being, becoming6. Holding on, letting go: Joburg’s old eastern suburbs7. Morphing cities: Midrand-Centurion’s ‘un-urban’ urbanityPart II: From Pretoria to Tshwane – shedding its apartheid clothes8. (Un)imaginative becoming: Tshwane’s inner city and old east9. Separated by the dead: the tales of Mamelodi and Eersterust10. Facing each other: Woodlane Village, Woodhill Estate & Moreleta Church11. An exploding north: from Sefako Makgatho to Soshanguve12. All-pervasive urban tentacles: loving in a city that knows no endBibliographyIndex

'Stéphan de Beer has shown with this gallery of ten portraits of Christians in a South African megacity corridor between Johannesburg and Pretoria, that he is one of the most original and insightful urban theologians in the world today. This compelling work of local research on the dynamic convergence of African urban space and Christian faith deserves a global readership.'