Abstract Religion plays a major part in the changes that have taken place with regard to the recognition of rights of Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Bisexual and Intersex (LGBTI) people. In today’s world, growing activism around sexual and gender diversity meets increased hostility towards LGBTI people. This research article presents the design of a collaborative research project to explore and investigate the empirical situation of European churches towards inclusivity of LGBTI people.
{"title":"RICE 2020: Exploring the Inclusivity of European Churches towards LGBTI People","authors":"Rein Brouwer, H. Zorgdrager, Pilar M. d’Alò","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2021-0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2021-0038","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Religion plays a major part in the changes that have taken place with regard to the recognition of rights of Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Bisexual and Intersex (LGBTI) people. In today’s world, growing activism around sexual and gender diversity meets increased hostility towards LGBTI people. This research article presents the design of a collaborative research project to explore and investigate the empirical situation of European churches towards inclusivity of LGBTI people.","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"130 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41468935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Friedrich Schweitzer, M. Moore, W. Gräb, S. Lefebvre
{"title":"Remarks and Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of the IJPT","authors":"Friedrich Schweitzer, M. Moore, W. Gräb, S. Lefebvre","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2022-0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2022-0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"8 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42643692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract In a qualitative study in 2012, Michael Ebertz and colleagues constructed characteristic types of processes of leaving the Roman Catholic Church in the Freiburg area of southern Germany. This article aims to replicate and supplement Ebertz’ findings through the analysis of problem-centered interviews of former Roman-Catholics in the north-western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. With one exception, the types of processes could be replicated, and four additional types were added. The results show that processes of leaving the church are diverse and in many cases result from a long and complex process.
{"title":"The Process of Leaving the Church Revisited. A Replication of Ebertz’ Study on Types of Church Leavers","authors":"T. Faix, Ulrich Riegel, M. Jäckel","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2021-0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2021-0041","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In a qualitative study in 2012, Michael Ebertz and colleagues constructed characteristic types of processes of leaving the Roman Catholic Church in the Freiburg area of southern Germany. This article aims to replicate and supplement Ebertz’ findings through the analysis of problem-centered interviews of former Roman-Catholics in the north-western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. With one exception, the types of processes could be replicated, and four additional types were added. The results show that processes of leaving the church are diverse and in many cases result from a long and complex process.","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"75 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45191794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article focuses on the growing, yet under-researched, phenomenon of co-leadership in which spouses lead congregations together as pastor couples. The study addresses the topic from the perspective of organizational leadership, probing the experiences of leading together among pastor couples in the Norwegian Pentecostal movement. Systematic text condensation of in-depth interviews showed that the participants described co-leadership as all-encompassing and tension-filled, constantly having to balance private and professional concerns in addition to managing expectations from congregants and global church culture. Amidst these challenges, they described unity in diversity and a sense of being called to lead the church together.
{"title":"Coloring Things Together: Experiences of Leading Together as Pastor Couples in the Norwegian Pentecostal Movement","authors":"Truls Åkerlund, Åse-Miriam Smidsrød","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2020-0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2020-0052","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article focuses on the growing, yet under-researched, phenomenon of co-leadership in which spouses lead congregations together as pastor couples. The study addresses the topic from the perspective of organizational leadership, probing the experiences of leading together among pastor couples in the Norwegian Pentecostal movement. Systematic text condensation of in-depth interviews showed that the participants described co-leadership as all-encompassing and tension-filled, constantly having to balance private and professional concerns in addition to managing expectations from congregants and global church culture. Amidst these challenges, they described unity in diversity and a sense of being called to lead the church together.","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"93 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42538456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Andreas Kubik, Theologische Kulturhermeneutik impliziter Religion. Ein praktisch-theologisches Paradigma der Spätmoderne, Berlin / Boston (Walter de Gruyter), 2018, 405 S., ISBN 978-3-11-057612-2, € 99,95 (Praktische Theologie im Wissenschaftsdiskurs 23).","authors":"B. Schröder","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2022-0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2022-0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"186 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43892859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract In this article, I investigate search for meaning in life and transcendence in spouses of people with mental illness. Research related to the topic is scant. I interviewed 16 Finnish spouses and partners in narrative, semi-structured interviews, and analyzed the data narratively. The interviewees perceived mental illness as a threat to meaning. In the search for meaning, transcendence referred to hope, humor, wishing, and imagining. The search for meaning and transcendence were connected through the fragile “sense of something else for me” as detachment from the spouse’s illness reality. Implications for pastoral theology can be found above all in Christian hope.
{"title":"A Sense of Something Else for Me: Search for Meaning in Life and Transcendence in Spouses of People with Mental Illness","authors":"J. Ojalammi","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2020-0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2020-0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article, I investigate search for meaning in life and transcendence in spouses of people with mental illness. Research related to the topic is scant. I interviewed 16 Finnish spouses and partners in narrative, semi-structured interviews, and analyzed the data narratively. The interviewees perceived mental illness as a threat to meaning. In the search for meaning, transcendence referred to hope, humor, wishing, and imagining. The search for meaning and transcendence were connected through the fragile “sense of something else for me” as detachment from the spouse’s illness reality. Implications for pastoral theology can be found above all in Christian hope.","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"39 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49423765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article describes the long-term research project on confirmation work in Europe which is carried out in ten countries, and discusses it as an example of international cooperative and comparative research in practical theology. Against the background of an increasing demand for international research in practical theology on the one hand and the far-reaching lack of respective studies which is demonstrated by an analysis of the articles published in IJPT on the other, major results and methodological questions from the project on confirmation work are presented. In a final section, the advantages as well as the challenges of international cooperative and comparative research are discussed.
{"title":"International Cooperative Research: Experiences and Insights from the Project on Confirmation Work in Europe","authors":"W. Ilg, Friedrich Schweitzer, Henrik Simojoki","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2022-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2022-0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article describes the long-term research project on confirmation work in Europe which is carried out in ten countries, and discusses it as an example of international cooperative and comparative research in practical theology. Against the background of an increasing demand for international research in practical theology on the one hand and the far-reaching lack of respective studies which is demonstrated by an analysis of the articles published in IJPT on the other, major results and methodological questions from the project on confirmation work are presented. In a final section, the advantages as well as the challenges of international cooperative and comparative research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"155 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45423572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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