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Migrant Spirituality
Migrant Spirituality makes visible the migration stories of African-born migrants to the USA, analyzes their experiences, and appreciates them as a source for theological reflection. The correlation of these narratives with John of the Cross' narrative of The Dark Night reveals that the dynamic between the concepts of vulnerability, spiritual humility, and God's transformative agency is central to understanding the spiritual dimension of the process of transformation in both narratives. Dorris van Gaal studied theology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. She works in religious education and teaches at Loyola and Notre Dame of Maryland in Baltimore, MD. Her research interests are in Migration Theology, Spirituality, and World Christianity.
Christianity in Western and Northern Europe
Although the origins of Christianity lie in the Near East, Europe and Christianity have an exceptional relationship, since most Europeans perceive Christianity as a Western - more precisely, as a European - religion. The region has seen rapid social change in the 21st century, set off by factors including energy crisis and environmental awareness, poverty and exclusion, falling birthrates and increased migration, changing attitudes to sexuality, gender and family life, and challenges to Europe's idea of itself and place in the global order. Amidst all this flux, this volume focuses on one particular issue: the rapidly changing profile of the Christian faith that has shaped the life of the European continent for a millennium and more.At a time when patterns of Christian life and worship appear to be dying out, yet traces of new life are also appearing, this volume maps out the current reality of Christianity in Western and Northern Europe with all its questions and uncertainties.
Hope
In our times hope is called into question. The disintegration of economic systems, of states and societies, families, friendships, distrust in political structures, forces us to ask if hope has disappeared from the experience of today's men and women. In August 2019, up to 240 participants met at the international theological congress in Bratislava, Slovakia. The main lectures, congress sections and workshops aimed to provide a space for thinking about the central theme of hope in relation to philosophy, politics, pedagogy, social work, charity, interreligious dialogue and ecumenism.
Wir sind alle »andere«
Pluralität ist nicht mehr die Ausnahme an unseren Schulen, sondern Normalität. In den großen Städten ist die kulturelle Pluralität ein Faktum, auf das pädagogisch reagiert wird. Die religiöse Pluralität geht mit der kulturellen Pluralität keineswegs zwangsläufig parallel, ist mit ihr jedoch vielfältig verflochten. Gleichwohl wird dieser Zusammenhang im Raum der Schule kaum thematisiert bzw. an die ReligionslehrerInnen als die zuständigen ExpertInnen delegiert. Das ist nicht angemessen für ein Problemfeld, das zunehmend unsere Schulwirklichkeit prägt und dessen Ausblendung statt zur Bearbeitung des Konflikts zu seiner Verschärfung beiträgt.Der Tagungsband stellt zentrale Perspektiven und innovative Projekte vor.
Mission im Kontext Europas
This interdisciplinary conference volume examines the socioreligious and sociocultural European situation and discusses the current state of Mission science in European context from the perspective of religious Philosophy, religious studies, law as well as protestant and catholic Theology. Its aim is to contribute to a modern, pluralistic understanding of Mission. Mission is not being propagated as a covered or open proselytism but it should be understood as a wholistic devotion to mankind according to the Gospels in search for a successful life. Therefore the concept of Mission covers a wide perspective. It includes attentiveness for the spiritual search of people on one hand and for charity and political dedication for the poor and some fringe groups on the other. This scientific discourse tries to free Mission from restrictions of historical burdens and presents this taboo subject as being a socially prevailing phenomenon in today's Europe.
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Focus on Religion in Central and Eastern Europe
Different religious groups in Central and Eastern Europe influenced societies in the region after the fall of Communism and continue to play a crucial role in culture, politics, social networks and value transformations. As part of the REVACERN (Religion and Values in Central and Eastern Europe Research Network) project – supported by the EU Sixth Framework Program – more than 70 researchers from 15 countries in the region analyzed and discussed the most important trends in values, religions and religious communities and presented their findings in a comparative way. They tested well-known theories of secularization, nationalism, democracy and pluralism in the colorful region Central and Eastern Europe. This book summarizes their most important findings in seven chapters, addressing religion and its entanglements with geography, values, nationalism, Orthodoxy, education, legal regulation, civil society, social networks, new religious movements and new forms of religiosity. Each chapter also provides a regional overview.
Migrations- und Integrationsforschung - Multidisziplinäre Perspektiven
The first volume Migration and integration research - multidisciplinary perspectives is the opener for the Migration and Integration series and aims at a disciplinary reintegration of relevant research. Many disciplines are concerned with migration and integration processes from various perspectives, with different methods and theoretical concepts. There is a lack of transdisciplinary cooperation for clarification of concepts, theory development and empirical evidence. The present reader strives to settle these observable deficits and presents 13 contributions to migration and integration research from different disciplinary backgrounds. The constributions include the presentation of fundamental disciplinary approaches, questions and perspectives as well as concrete research questions in order to characterise the respective empirical or conceptual approaches. The reader serves as a source of information and introduction into the topic. It aims primarily at students interested in this subject matter, but also at a broader audience who wants to gain comprehensive and broad insight into the topic. German text.
Migration as a Sign of the Times
Migrations are contested sites of identity negotiations: they are not simply a process of border crossings but more so of border shiftings. Rather than allowing migrants to swiftly move across stable borders from one clearly defined identity to another, migrations question and renegotiate these very identities. Migrations undermine and re-establish borders along which the identity of migrants (and also that of the supposedly settled population) are constituted, and, as a discourse, migrations serve as a contested site of negotiating identities. Migrations reveal the negotiable character of identities - and representations of migration are themselves a hotspot in contemporary identity constru...
Mission als Suche des treuen Gottes nach den Menschen im Kontext der Reich-Gottes-Botschaft
Zeitgerecht missionieren: Wie ist das heute möglich? Und welche Kriterien müssen berücksichtigt werden? Der vorliegende Band nähert sich diesen Fragen aus biblischer, lehramtlicher, systematisch-theologischer und sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Ausgangspunkt des Missionsverständnisses ist die treue Suche Gottes nach den Menschen mit dem Ziel, das Reich Gottes im Leben des einzelnen Menschen und der Gesellschaft immer mehr zu realisieren. Das Zentrum der Publikation bildet eine pastoraltheologische Studie zum Alpha-Kurs, die die positiven Aspekte dieses Kurses hervorhebt und theologische Einwände thematisiert. Ein pastoraler Ausblick auf ein missionarisches Pfarrmodell und ein Überblick über Kriterien einer zeitgerechten Mission runden den Band ab und laden zum Diskutieren und Weiterdenken ein.
