Pluralisation and social change

Pluralisation and social change

Dynamics of lived religion in South Africa and in Germany

In: Praktische Theologie im Wissenschaftsdiskurs, 21

Edited by: Lars Charbonnier, Johan Cilliers, Matthias Mader, Cas Wepener and Birgit Weyel

De Gruyter | 2018

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110569810

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How can one describe the pluralisation of the religious realm, which is of such significance for processes of social change? How can it be done from an international perspective? The book sharpens the idea of religious pluralisation by elucidating it against the backdrop of specific religious phenomena and practices. Concepts and interpretations of religious praxis are correlated here in a way that has proven most fruitful in the field of Practical Theology.

We take a closer look at twelve highly relevant topics that are formative for the practical-theological discourses in South Africa and Germany: poverty and wealth, education, transitional rites and passages, health, religious community formation and the future of the Church, beginning and end of life, transformation of the media, migration and interculturality, populism and radicalisation in religion and knowledge, processing of the past, communal living.

Each topic will be introduced by one scholar from a certain country and commented on by another. The conversational procedure contributes to a contextual theology that understands theology essentially as dialogue. In all contributions pluralisation is the overarching topic. It shall be developed as a conception and theory respectively, both of which are not self-evident their theoretical implications must be explicitly unfolded.

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Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	I
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Introduction Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
Health and Gender: key intersections in African ‘Faith and Development’ discourse Nadine Bowers Du Toit Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	7
Response: Income, poverty and well-being in Germany Gert G. Wagner Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	25
Resources for Theological Education in Africa Anita Cloete Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	31
Response: From awareness of plurality to conscious dealing with heterogeneity: Religious Education as hermeneutics of religious communication in East Germany Martina Kumlehn Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	45
‘Verbing God’ within the dynamics of ‘Lived Religion’. ‘Sympathetic Rites of Passage’ in a Practical Theological approach to the complexity of everyday life Daniël Louw Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	51
Response: Verbing the infiniscience of the creatio Dei: “We truly live in figures” Anne Steinmeier Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	67
Material poverty and the poverty of excess: Meaning-making as healing in an era of supermodernism Yolanda Dreyer Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	75
Response: The Christian vocation to healing and models of spiritual care Simon Peng-Keller Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	89
Life’s beginning and life’s end: An essay on natality and mortality Christian Polke Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	97
Death as new birth: A response to Christian Polke’s essay: “Life’s beginning and life’s end: An essay on natality and mortality” Ian Nell Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	111
Medienwandel / Transformations of media Johann-Albrecht Meylahn Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	117
Response: Medienwandel / Transformation of media Kristin Merle Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	131
Migration and interculturality Alexander Kenneth-Nagel Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	139
Response: Ubuntu as an asset for the church in the context of migration and interculturality: a response to Alexander-Kenneth Nagel’s paper R. Simangaliso Kumalo Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	157
Religious communities and transforming witnesses in the future of Christian communities D. Xolile Simon Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	173
Response: Dealing theologically with plurality: Contextual and global challenges for a public Practical Theology Thomas Schlag Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	185
Religion and knowledge Hans-Günter Heimbrock Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	193
Response: Theological knowledge and the quest for healthy religious beliefs and practices Nico Koopman Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	209
Time, memory and the search for a responsible engagement with the past Robert Vosloo Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	215
Response: Remembrance cultures in the plural Albrecht Grözinger Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	227
Society and community – On the relationship between politics and religion serving our shared life in society Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	233
Response: Religion, politics and the desire to live together in diverse societies and communities: reflections from South Africa Jaco Dreyer Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	249
Authors and editors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	255

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Pluralisation and social change

Dynamics of lived religion in South Africa and in Germany

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