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The Impact of Religion on Social Cohesion, Social Capital Formation and Social Development in Different Cultural Contexts
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 on Religion and Culture / Studien zu Religion und Kultur - Vol. 4)
Religion and Human Rights
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 o...
Pluralisation and social change
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 f...
Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa
This volume examines religiosity on university campuses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on both individuals and organized groups, the contributions open a window onto how religion becomes a factor, affects social interactions, is experienced and mobilized by various actors. It brings together case studies from various disciplinary backgrounds (anthropology, sociology, history, religious studies, literature) and theoretical orientations to illustrate the significance of religiosity in recent developments on university campuses. It pays a particular attention to religion-informed activism and contributes a fresh analysis of processes that are shaping both the experience of being student and the university campus as a moral space. Last but not least, it sheds light onto the ways in which the campus becomes a site of a reformulation of both religiosity and sociality.
[Call] - Responding and the Worlds Inbetween
The book is a reading of numerous contemporary continental philosophers (Badiou, Deleuze and Guattari, Laruelle and Derrida amongst others) and bringing them into conversation with each other around various ethical and political challenges of living in capitalist worlds. What can contemporary continental philosophy offer with regards to the questions of decolonial thinking, the challenges of identity politics, the formation of political identities in response to the dominant norms in the context of the struggles of victims of these norms?
Preaching the Fear of God in a Fear-Filled World
Fear runs rampant in the world today, including fears related to the rise of nationalism, refugees, political corruption, violence, religious extremism, and climate crises. Amid these existential realities, the biblical idea of "the fear of God" poses theological opportunities and challenges for those who address these themes in their preaching and public ministry. This collection of conference presentations from the 2018 meeting of Societas Homiletica focuses on how preaching and homiletical studies around the world address the rhetorical, biblical, political, and spiritual dimensions of fear as it has emerged in recent decades in church and society.
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Wie wird Gemeindepädagogik in zehn Jahren gestaltet? Wie sehen Arbeitszusammenhänge aus? Welche Angebote stehen im Mittelpunkt? Fragen wie diese haben wir, die Redaktion der PGP, angehenden Gemeindepädagoginnen und -pädagogen in Gruppeninterviews gestellt. Denn natürlich fragt auch die Gemeindepädagogik in einer sich wandelnden Kirche nach ihrer Aufgabe in der Zukunft. Spannende Antworten haben wir erhalten und aus diesen, sozusagen induktiv, das Portfolio unserer Beiträge und damit unseren Beitrag zur Reflektion der Zukunft der Gemeindepädagogik entworfen. Unsere Autorinnen und Autoren fragen nach neuen Wegen der Personalentwicklung oder reflektieren Dimensionen der Macht in kollegialen Zusammenhängen. Handlungsfelder der Arbeit wie Interkulturelles Lernen und Nachhaltigkeit werden reflektiert oder ganz praktisch angeregt. Die Frage nach dem Verhältnis von beruflichen und freiwilligen Mitarbeitenden ist natürlich wichtig und der Blick auf die Relevanz der christlichen Inhalte zentral. Ein spannendes Heft erwartet Sie!
Who wants to be a Millionaire?
Prosperity Teaching is fast becoming a standard part of contemporary African Christianity. This teaching is best understood in the Charismatic and Pentecostal churches in Africa. The varied expressions and nuances call for a critical analysis of the phenomenon. Prosperity Teaching affirms wealth, divine healing, good health and long-life as manifestations of God's blessing. Conspicuous consumption is often seen as a sign of a successful life and suffering has no place in the divine order of God's sovereignty. This book, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? seeks to bring some understanding to this teaching and shows the extent of its impact in the wider society.
Secularization Theories, Religious Identity and Practical Theology
This volume represents the proceedings of the 2007 meeting of the International Academy of Practical Theology, which was held in Berlin (GER) on the theme of "secularization theories, religious identity and practical theology". This volume offers a wide variety of perspectives on the relationship between (practical) theology and sociology, psychology, education and culture, featuring papers from some of the world's leading practical theologians. They include subjects as "creating space within the dynamics of interculturality: the impact of religious and cultural transformations in post-apartheid South Africa", "redefining children's spirituality", "educating for religious identity in a secularizing world" and "Europe - a post-secular society". In this diversity of subjects, the common trend in international practical theological research regarding theories on secularization and religious identity in the globalized world is represented in this volume. Therefore, this book will be of interest not only to theological educators and students, but also to all those interested in the analysis of religion in its various phenomena at the beginning of the 21st century.
Practicing Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a dynamic and celebrated concept in Africa. In the great Sutu-nguni family of Southern Africa, being humane is regarded as the supreme virtue. The essence of this philosophy of life, called ubuntu or botho, is human relatedness and dignity. The Shona from Zimbabwe articulate it as: I am because we are; I exist because the community exists. This volume offers twenty-two such reflections on practicing ubuntu as it relates to justice, personhood, and human dignity, both in Southern Africa, as well as in a wider international context. It highlights the potential of ubuntu for enriching our understanding of justice, personhood, and human dignity in a globalizing world. (Series: International Practical Theology, Vol. 20) [Subject: African Studies, Religious Studies]
