Pluralisation and social change : : Dynamics of lived religion in South Africa and in Germany / / ed. by Lars Charbonnier, Johan Cilliers, Matthias Mader, Birgit Weyel, Cas Wepener.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• HerausgeberIn: Charbonnier, Lars,; Cilliers, Johan,; Mader, Matthias,; Wepener, Cas,; Weyel, Birgit,
• MitwirkendeR: Cloete, Anita,; Dreyer, Jaco,; Dreyer, Yolanda,; Du Toit, Nadine Bowers,; Gräb-Schmidt, Elisabeth,; Grözinger, Albrecht,; Heimbrock, Hans-Günter,; Kenneth-Nagel, Alexander,; Koopman, Nico,; Kumalo, R. Simangaliso,; Kumlehn, Martina,; Louw, Daniël,; Merle, Kristin,; Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht,; Nell, Ian,; Peng-Keller, Simon,; Polke, Christian,; Schlag, Thomas,; Simon, D. Xolile,; Steinmeier, Anne,; Vosloo, Robert,; Wagner, Gert G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Praktische Theologie im Wissenschaftsdiskurs : Practical Theology in the Discourse of the Humanities , 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VII, 256 p.)

Die Pluralisierung des Religiösen, die ein besonders prägnantes Kennzeichen gegenwärtig stattfindender gesellschaftlicher Wandlungsprozesse ist, stellt eine enorme Herausforderung für viele Akteure in Kirche, Zivilgesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik dar. Das Ziel dieses Buches ist es, den Begriff der religiösen Pluralisierung zu schärfen, indem er am Beispiel konkreter religiöser Phänomene und Praktiken entfaltet wird. Der Band umfasst Beiträge zu zwölf Themenfeldern, die für die praktisch-theologischen Diskurse in Südafrika und in Deutschland prägend und gegenwärtig von hoher Relevanz sind (Armut und Reichtum, Bildung, Schwellenriten und Passagen, Gesundheit, Religiöse Vergemeinschaftungen und die Zukunft der Kirche, Lebensanfang und Lebensende, Medienwandel, Migration und Interkulturalität, Populismus und Radikalisierung Religion und Wissen, Umgang mit Vergangenheit, Zusammenleben). Mit diesem dialogischen Verfahren wird ein Beitrag zu einer kontextuellen Theologie geleistet, die Theologie wesentlich als Gespräch versteht. Die Pluralisierungsthematik hält Impulse für eine kreativ-konstruktive Gestaltung von Pluralität im Sinne eines theologisch reflektierten Pluralismus bereit, die für Kirche und Gesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert wegweisend sein kann.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Health and Gender: key intersections in African ‘Faith and Development’ discourse -- Response: Income, poverty and well-being in Germany -- Resources for Theological Education in Africa -- Response: From awareness of plurality to conscious dealing with heterogeneity: Religious Education as hermeneutics of religious communication in East Germany -- ‘Verbing God’ within the dynamics of ‘Lived Religion’. ‘Sympathetic Rites of Passage’ in a Practical Theological approach to the complexity of everyday life -- Response: Verbing the infiniscience of the creatio Dei: “We truly live in figures” -- Material poverty and the poverty of excess: Meaning-making as healing in an era of supermodernism -- Response: The Christian vocation to healing and models of spiritual care -- Life’s beginning and life’s end: An essay on natality and mortality -- Death as new birth: A response to Christian Polke’s essay: “Life’s beginning and life’s end: An essay on natality and mortality” -- Medienwandel / Transformations of media -- Response: Medienwandel / Transformation of media -- Migration and interculturality -- Response: Ubuntu as an asset for the church in the context of migration and interculturality: a response to Alexander-Kenneth Nagel’s paper -- Religious communities and transforming witnesses in the future of Christian communities -- Response: Dealing theologically with plurality: Contextual and global challenges for a public Practical Theology -- Religion and knowledge -- Response: Theological knowledge and the quest for healthy religious beliefs and practices -- Time, memory and the search for a responsible engagement with the past -- Response: Remembrance cultures in the plural -- Society and community – On the relationship between politics and religion serving our shared life in society -- Response: Religion, politics and the desire to live together in diverse societies and communities: reflections from South Africa -- Authors and editors