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This book investigates the substantial and growing contribution
which African Independent and Pentecostal Churches are making to
sustainable development in all its manifold forms. Moreover, this
volume seeks to elucidate how these churches reshape the very
notion of sustainable development and contribute to the
decolonisation of development. Fostering both overarching and
comparative perspectives, the book includes chapters on West Africa
(Nigeria, Ghana, and Burkina Faso) and Southern Africa (Zimbabwe
and South Africa). It aims to open up a subfield focused on African
Initiated Christianity within the religion and development
discourse, substantially broadening the scope of the existing
literature. Written predominantly by scholars from the African
continent, the chapters in this volume illuminate potentials and
perspectives of African Initiated Christianity, combining
theoretical contributions, essays by renowned church leaders, and
case studies focusing on particular churches or regional contexts.
While the contributions in this book focus on the African
continent, the notion of development underlying the concept of the
volume is deliberately wide and multidimensional, covering
economic, social, ecological, political, and cultural dimensions.
Therefore, the book will be useful for the community of scholars
interested in religion and development as well as researchers
within African studies, anthropology, development studies,
political science, religious studies, sociology of religion, and
theology. It will also be a key resource for development
policymakers and practitioners. The Open Access version of this
book, available at
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367823825, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license
Practical theology has outgrown its traditional pastoral paradigm.
The articles in this handbook recognize that faith, spirituality,
and lived religion, within and beyond institutional communities,
refer to realms of cultures, ritual practices, and symbolic orders,
whose boundaries are not clearly defined and whose contents are
shifting. The International Handbook of Practical Theology offers
insightful transcultural conceptions of religion and religious
matters gathered from various cultures and traditions of faith. The
first section presents 'concepts of religion'. Chapters have to do
with considerations of the conceptualizing of religion in the
fields of 'anthropology', 'community', 'family', 'institution',
'law', 'media', and 'politics' among others. The second section is
dedicated to case studies of 'religious practices' from the
perspective of their actors. The third section presents major
theoretical discourses that explore the globally significant
diversity and multiplicity of religion. Altogether, sixty-one
authors from different parts of the world encourage a rethinking of
religious practice in an expanded, transcultural, globalized, and
postcolonial world.
Current processes of globalization are challenging Human Rights and
the attempts to institutionalize them in many ways. The question of
the connection between religion and human rights is a crucial point
here. The genealogy of the Human Rights is still a point of
controversies in the academic discussion. Nevertheless, there is
consensus that the Christian tradition - especially the doctrine
that each human being is an image of God - played an important role
within the emergence of the codification of the Human Rights in the
period of enlightenment. It is also obvious that the struggle
against the politics of apartheid in South Africa was strongly
supported by initiatives of churchy and other religious groups
referring to the Human Rights. Christian churches and other
religious groups do still play an important role in the
post-apartheid South Africa. They have a public voice concerning
all the challenges with which the multiethnic and economically
still deeply divided South African society is faced with. The
reflections on these questions in the collected lectures and essays
of this volume derive from an academic discourse between German and
South African scholars that took place within the German-South
African Year of Science 2012/13.
The past three decades have witnessed a significant transatlantic
and trans-disciplinary resurgence of interest in the early
nineteenth-century Protestant theologian and philosopher, Friedrich
Schleiermacher (1768-1834). As the first major Christian thinker to
theorize religion in a post-Enlightenment context and re-conceive
the task of theology accordingly, Schleiermacher holds a seminal
place in the histories of modern Christian thought and the modern
academic study of religion alike. Whereas his "liberalism" and
humanism have always made him a controversial figure among
theological traditionalists, it is only recently that
Schleiermacher's understanding of religion has become the target of
polemics from Religious Studies scholars keen to disassociate their
discipline from its partial origins in liberal Protestantism.
Schleiermacher, the Study of Religion, and the Future of Theology
documents an important meeting in the history of Schleiermacher
studies at which leading scholars from Europe and North America
gathered to probe the viability of key features of Schleiermacher's
theological and philosophical program in light of its contested
place in the study of religion.
The past three decades have witnessed a significant transatlantic
and trans-disciplinary resurgence of interest in the early
nineteenth-century Protestant theologian and philosopher, Friedrich
Schleiermacher (1768-1834). As the first major Christian thinker to
theorize religion in a post-Enlightenment context and re-conceive
the task of theology accordingly, Schleiermacher holds a seminal
place in the histories of modern Christian thought and the modern
academic study of religion alike. Whereas his "liberalism" and
humanism have always made him a controversial figure among
theological traditionalists, it is only recently that
Schleiermacher's understanding of religion has become the target of
polemics from Religious Studies scholars keen to disassociate their
discipline from its partial origins in liberal Protestantism.
Schleiermacher, the Study of Religion, and the Future of Theology
documents an important meeting in the history of Schleiermacher
studiesat which leading scholars from Europe and North America
gathered to probe the viability of key features of Schleiermacher's
theological and philosophical program in light of its contested
place in the study of religion.
This book investigates the substantial and growing contribution
which African Independent and Pentecostal Churches are making to
sustainable development in all its manifold forms. Moreover, this
volume seeks to elucidate how these churches reshape the very
notion of sustainable development and contribute to the
decolonisation of development. Fostering both overarching and
comparative perspectives, the book includes chapters on West Africa
(Nigeria, Ghana, and Burkina Faso) and Southern Africa (Zimbabwe
and South Africa). It aims to open up a subfield focused on African
Initiated Christianity within the religion and development
discourse, substantially broadening the scope of the existing
literature. Written predominantly by scholars from the African
continent, the chapters in this volume illuminate potentials and
perspectives of African Initiated Christianity, combining
theoretical contributions, essays by renowned church leaders, and
case studies focusing on particular churches or regional contexts.
While the contributions in this book focus on the African
continent, the notion of development underlying the concept of the
volume is deliberately wide and multidimensional, covering
economic, social, ecological, political, and cultural dimensions.
Therefore, the book will be useful for the community of scholars
interested in religion and development as well as researchers
within African studies, anthropology, development studies,
political science, religious studies, sociology of religion, and
theology. It will also be a key resource for development
policymakers and practitioners. The Open Access version of this
book, available at
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367823825, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license
What is the glue of society? Which forms of sociability help to
overcome social needs and poverty? The role of religion and
religious institutions are often expected to be relevant to
questions like these. But until today, these issues were seldom
raised from a theological perspective. This volume opens the
discourses on social cohesion, social capital formation, and social
development for the theological debate, presenting theoretical
reflections and empirical research by scholars from different
religion-related disciplines. (Series: Studies of Religion and
Culture / Studien zu Religion und Kultur - Vol. 4)
This volume examines the complex intersections between religion and
enlightenment from a historical and systematic perspective, and for
the first time, shows the profound implications of the works of
Schleiermacher, Troeltsch, and Tillich for understanding
religious-cultural pluralism in our times. The authors use these
sources to discuss the difficulties and challenges facing
contemporary enlightened religion as well as the limitations of
religious enlightenment.
The volume contains the papers presented to the Schleiermacher
Congress held in Berlin from 26thto 29th March 2006. The theme of
the congress wasa ^a oeChristianity a " State a " Culturea , and it
was organized by the International Schleiermacher Society in
association with the Berlin Humboldt University Faculty of Theology
and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The
appendix contains the first edition of a reconstruction of the
confirmation instruction given by Schleiermacher in 1831/32.
Die religionstheologische Hermeneutik der Gegenwartskultur ist zu
einem grundlegenden Forschungsfeld einer sich als Theorie der
Religionspraxis verstehenden Praktischen Theologie geworden. Das
AEsthetische ist als eine zentrale Dimension des Kulturellen
deshalb neu in den Mittelpunkt der Aufmerksamkeit geruckt. Die
Erforschung der Zusammenhange von AEsthetik und Religion steht
jedoch erst am Anfang. Mit dem Band kann ein teilweiser UEberblick
uber den Stand der Diskussion zum Thema Identitat und Differenz von
asthetischer und religioeser Erfahrung gegeben werden. Er bietet
eine Zusammenschau unterschiedlicher Zugange zu den Phanomenen bzw.
differenter Theoriestrategien und weist Perspektiven fur den
interdisziplinaren Diskurs auf, in denen die theoretischen
Voraussetzungen und methodischen Massgaben fur die
Verhaltnisbestimmung von religioeser und asthetischer Erfahrung zu
klaren sind.
Ziel des Handbuches fA"r Kirchen- und Gemeindeentwicklung ist es,
von evangelischer (lutherischer und reformierter) Seite aus
zentrale Fragestellungen von Kirchen- und Gemeindeentwicklung zu
identifi zieren, den gegenwArtigen wissenschaftlichen Stand zu
prAsentieren und von dort aus Perspektiven fA"r eine innovative
Praxis an den verschiedenen Orten und in unterschiedlichen Formen
aufzuzeigen. Die einzelnen Darstellungen der renommierten Autor-
Innen fassen nicht nur das bisher schon Publizierte zusammen,
sondern beziehen es dezidiert auf die konkretenHerausforderungen
zukA"nftiger Kirchen- und Gemeindeentwicklung. Jeder Artikel ist
wie folgt gegliedert: zentrale Fragestellungen (Information) -
Forschungsstand - Innovative Perspektiven und
UmsetzungsmAglichkeiten - Literatur. Themen: 1.
Entwicklungsherausforderungen fA"r Kirche und Gemeinde unter
gegenwArtigen Bedingungen 2. Entwicklung von Kirche und Gemeinde:
DisziplinAre Perspektiven 3. Aktuelle Erkenntnisse der Gemeinde-
und Kirchenentwicklung 4. Grundfragen und Zielsetzungen der
Kirchenentwicklung 5. Grundfragen und Zielsetzungen der
Gemeindeentwicklung 6. Orte und RAume innovativer Kirchen- und
Gemeindeentwicklung 7. Formen innovativer Kirchen- und
Gemeindeentwicklung
Medienreligion ist ein Massenphanomen. Jeder Mensch in der modernen
Mediengesellschaft partizipiert in der einen oder anderen Weise an
diesem Prozess der Verstandigung des Subjektes uber sich selbst und
die Welt. Medienreligion versteht sich so als Vollzug der
subjektiv-persoenlichen Anverwandlung medialer Sinnmuster. Was aber
haben Kinofilme wie Der Herr der Ringe - Die Gefahrten, Lola rennt
und Fight Club mit Religion zu tun? Und wie werden die religioesen
Sinngehalte von Kinofilmen individuell angeeignet? Die Studie geht
diesen Fragen in der Kombination von Werk- und Rezeptionsanalysen
popularer Kinofilme nach und legt damit die erste empirische
Untersuchung zur These der Medienreligion vor.
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