Pluralisation and social change: Dynamics of lived religion in South Africa and in Germany

Published by De Gruyter 2018

Pluralisation and social change

Dynamics of lived religion in South Africa and in Germany

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

Volume 21 in the series Praktische Theologie im Wissenschaftsdiskurs

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110569810

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Lars Charbonnier, Führungsakademie für Kirche und Diakonie, Berlin, Germany; Johan Cilliers, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa; Matthias Mader, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Cas Wepener, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; Birgit Weyel, Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany.

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

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Lived Religion; Pluralization; Social Change; Theology

eBook

Published: September 24, 2018
ISBN: 9783110569810

Hardcover

Published: September 24, 2018
ISBN: 9783110568394