E-Book, Englisch, 835 Seiten
Reihe: De Gruyter Reference
E-Book, Englisch, 835 Seiten
Reihe: De Gruyter Reference
ISBN: 978-3-11-061815-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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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’, ‘community’, ‘family’, ‘institution’, ‘law’, ‘media’, and ‘politics’ among others. The second section is dedicated to case studies of ‘religious practices’ from the perspective of their actors. The third section presents major theoretical discourses that explore the globally significant diversity and multiplicity of religion. Altogether, sixty-one authors from different parts of the world encourage a rethinking of religious practice in an expanded, transcultural, globalized, and postcolonial world.