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Sanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals
Sanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals: Encounters in Liturgical Studies explores the dynamics of Christian ritual practices in their relation to a broader cultural framework. The nineteen essays, written in honour of the liturgist Gerard A.M. Rouwhorst (Tilburg University), study liturgical developments in times of transition, in which religious and cultural changes set the development of worship practices in motion. The chapters in the first part (Texts) concentrate on the close connection between narrative texts and liturgical practice. In part two (Rituals), the focus shifts to the significance of liturgy as it expresses itself in rituals, and to the understanding of ritual acting. This...
Everyday Life and the Sacred
An interdisciplinary gender-sensitive approach toward perspectives on the everyday and the sacred are the hallmark of this volume. Looking beyond the dualistic status-quo, the authors probe the categories, textures, powers, and practices that define how we experience, embody, and understand religion and the sacred, their interconnection, but also disassociation with the secular. Contributions by an international group of feminist theologians and religious studies scholars aim to re-configure the study of both religion and gender: Angela Berlis, Anne-Marie Korte, Kune Biezeveld †, Helga Kuhlmann, Maaike de Haardt, Akke van der Kooi, Dorothea Erbele-Küster, Willien van Wieringen, Magda Misset-van de Weg, Gé Speelman, Mathilde van Dijk, Jacqueline Borsje, Hedwig Meyer-Wilmes, Goedroen Juchtmans, Alma Lanser and Riet Bons-Storm.
International Handbook of Practical Theology
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’, ‘communi...
Places of the Imagination
Recent years have seen an explosive growth in the phenomenon of people visiting locations from popular novels, films or television series. Places of the Imagination presents a timely and insightful analysis of this form of media tourism, exploring the question of how best to explain the increasing popularity of media tourism within contemporary culture. Drawing on extensive empirical and interview material, this book examines the representation of landscapes in popular narratives that have inspired media tourism, whilst also investigating the effects over time of such tourism on local landscapes, and the processes by which tourists appropriate the landscape, experiencing and accommodating them into their imagination. Oriented around three central case studies of popular television detective shows, famous films and classic literature, Places of the Imagination develops a new theoretical understanding of media tourism. As such, it will appeal to sociologists and cultural geographers, as well as those working in the fields of media and cultural studies, popular and fan culture, tourism and the sociology of leisure.
A Sense of Belonging
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to a societal challenge that both affects and is affected by the church in multi-racial, multi-cultural, and otherwise pluralistic communities. In certain contexts, around the world there are pertinent examples of the struggles that come with learning to live together in the midst of diversity and plurality, such as the post-apartheid Republic of South Africa. However, these (more often than not racial and cultural) struggles could be eased by developing worship services that are more relevant and inclusive. This, in turn, should instil a sense of belief and a way of inclusive thinking, culminating in more inclusive living. The approach developed in this book stems from the aphorism lex orandi, lex credendi, lex (con)vivendi--or "as we pray, so we believe, so we live (together)."
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Van het padje
De eerste christenen werden volgens het Bijbelboek Handelingen 'mensen van de weg' genoemd. Annemiek Schrijver ziet zichzelf wel als iemand van de weg, maar niet van de uitgestippelde route. Gaandeweg leerde ze dat die er ook niet is. Wie kijkt tijdens zijn unieke en vaak eenzame levensreis niet om in verwondering? 'Als kind voelde ik al nattigheid. We werden als een kudde dezelfde richting opgejaagd, die van de enige juiste weg. Maar ik had geen idee wie dat verzonnen had en welk doel dat gejakker dienen moest. Gaandeweg mijn eigen slinger- en struikelpad durfde ik me te laten bewegwijzeren door dwaallichten als Roodkapje, zwerver Swiebertje, door Dante in zijn Goddelijke Komedie. En door het eigenzinnige schaapje uit het Thomasevangelie. Dat wordt niet teruggefloten nadat het de kudde heeft verlaten, maar liefdevol nagewuifd door de goede herder.'
Vragen staat vrij
Het stellen van vragen is een van de belangrijkste vormen in de menselijke communicatie. Het gemeenschappelijke aan alle vragen is dat zij bedoeld zijn om iets in beweging te brengen. In situaties van onderwijs en onderricht zetten vragen van oudsher zowel leerlingen als docenten aan tot denken. In deze bundel zijn artikelen samengebracht die het thema, benaderen vanuit een veelheid aan religieuze en filosofische tradities. Zo wordt stilgestaan bij leraren als Socrates, Jezus van Nazaret, Thomas van Aquino, Martin Heidegger en Charles Taylor en hun gebruik van vragen stellen. Naast het christendom krijgen ook jodendom en islam aandacht, naast de klassieke Griekse filosofie ook de moderne filosofische stromingen. De meewerkende auteurs zijn allen specialisten op hun vakgebied. De meesten van hen zijn verbonden aan de Tilburg School of Catholic Theology.
Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity
In Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity it is demonstrated how sacrificial themes remain an essential element in our post-modern society.
