Abstract Western ways of thinking about our ecological context have too often failed to nurture meaningful relationship with it. This failure is rooted in our assumptions about what it means to know. Approaches to environmental education (including environmental education in religious communities and beyond) that rely on rationalist and objectivist epistemologies fail to adequately address the emotional and relational aspects of forming ecological character and identity. Ecological encounter, as spiritual and pedagogical practice, grounds an integrated and comprehensive way of knowing, loving, and caring for a dynamic and mysterious world, and the place of human life within it.
{"title":"Recovering Mystery: Ecological Encounters and Practical Theological Ways of Knowing","authors":"J. Ayres","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2020-0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2020-0040","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Western ways of thinking about our ecological context have too often failed to nurture meaningful relationship with it. This failure is rooted in our assumptions about what it means to know. Approaches to environmental education (including environmental education in religious communities and beyond) that rely on rationalist and objectivist epistemologies fail to adequately address the emotional and relational aspects of forming ecological character and identity. Ecological encounter, as spiritual and pedagogical practice, grounds an integrated and comprehensive way of knowing, loving, and caring for a dynamic and mysterious world, and the place of human life within it.","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"25 1","pages":"75 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/ijpt-2020-0040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45585891","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 With the changes in the world we live in, the conditions for learning change. Children and adolescents have access to orientation opportunities in the media, which they can approach independently. Digital environments call for a rethinking of educational theory and teaching practice in terms of content and didactics. In the contexts of YouTube and Instagram, Influencing has developed as a new factor in market, opinion and personality formation. In order to understand peer learning on social media, two classical learning theories can be applied. In the context of communication science and media pedagogy, influencing is based on an update of the conception of parasocial relationship. Technological aspects have to be taken into account. The article concludes with a media pedagogical assessment and religious pedagogical perspectives for educational practice and research.
{"title":"‚Influencing‘ – ein Modell religionspädagogisch reflektierten Handelns?","authors":"Viera Pirker","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2019-0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2019-0043","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract With the changes in the world we live in, the conditions for learning change. Children and adolescents have access to orientation opportunities in the media, which they can approach independently. Digital environments call for a rethinking of educational theory and teaching practice in terms of content and didactics. In the contexts of YouTube and Instagram, Influencing has developed as a new factor in market, opinion and personality formation. In order to understand peer learning on social media, two classical learning theories can be applied. In the context of communication science and media pedagogy, influencing is based on an update of the conception of parasocial relationship. Technological aspects have to be taken into account. The article concludes with a media pedagogical assessment and religious pedagogical perspectives for educational practice and research.","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"25 1","pages":"40 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/ijpt-2019-0043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47265853","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}
L. J. Danbolt, Hetty Zock, Anne Austad, Anne Hege Grung, H. Stifoss-Hanssen
Abstract Data from a recent survey on pastoral care consultations (PCC) in Norway (N=408) is presented, showing that PCC is a service priests and deacons provide for people in the municipality, independent of faith affiliation. The most common PCC themes regarded mental and social distress, such as grief, conflicts, and loneliness. Furthermore, illness-related themes were prominent, and a specter of religious and moral issues. We discuss the results in the context of ongoing changes and reforms in both church and health care, and point at possible health promoting dimensions of PCC as existential assistance in the space between personal network support and public health care.
{"title":"Existential Care in a Modern Society: Pastoral Care Consultations in Local Communities in Norway","authors":"L. J. Danbolt, Hetty Zock, Anne Austad, Anne Hege Grung, H. Stifoss-Hanssen","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2020-0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2020-0027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Data from a recent survey on pastoral care consultations (PCC) in Norway (N=408) is presented, showing that PCC is a service priests and deacons provide for people in the municipality, independent of faith affiliation. The most common PCC themes regarded mental and social distress, such as grief, conflicts, and loneliness. Furthermore, illness-related themes were prominent, and a specter of religious and moral issues. We discuss the results in the context of ongoing changes and reforms in both church and health care, and point at possible health promoting dimensions of PCC as existential assistance in the space between personal network support and public health care.","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"25 1","pages":"20 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/ijpt-2020-0027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48569251","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}
Article Kimberly P. Johnson, The Womanist Preacher: Proclaiming Womanist Rhetoric from the Pulpit (Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield), 2017, 179 pp., ISBN 978-1-4985-4207-4, $ 39.99. Lisa L. Thompson, Ingenuity: Preaching as an Outsider (Nashville, TN: Abingdon), 2018, 193pp., ISBN 978-1-5018-3259-8, $ 29.99. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal International Journal of Practical Theology (volume 25, issue 1).
{"title":"Kimberly P. Johnson, The Womanist Preacher: Proclaiming Womanist Rhetoric from the Pulpit (Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield), 2017, 179 pp., ISBN 978-1-4985-4207-4, $ 39.99. Lisa L. Thompson, Ingenuity: Preaching as an Outsider (Nashville, TN: Abingdon), 2018, 193pp., ISBN 978-1-5018-3259-8, $ 29.99.","authors":"Debra J. Mumford","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2021-0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2021-0024","url":null,"abstract":"Article Kimberly P. Johnson, The Womanist Preacher: Proclaiming Womanist Rhetoric from the Pulpit (Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield), 2017, 179 pp., ISBN 978-1-4985-4207-4, $ 39.99. Lisa L. Thompson, Ingenuity: Preaching as an Outsider (Nashville, TN: Abingdon), 2018, 193pp., ISBN 978-1-5018-3259-8, $ 29.99. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal International Journal of Practical Theology (volume 25, issue 1).","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"4 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138512884","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 what the International Ecumenical Youth Meeting in Beirut 2019 meant for participants from the Middle East, particularly from Lebanon and how these meanings can be theologically evaluated. Embracing, a term we borrow from Miroslav Volf’s theory, became a crucial concept to describe one of the main meanings. This is further elaborated with the concept symbolic embracement. Furthermore we explain how exploration and commitment play a role in the participation of youth. The theological evaluation leads us to the God who transcends human particularity and plurality.
{"title":"Embrace at the International Ecumenical Youth Meeting in Beirut 2019","authors":"Ronelle Sonnenberg, Rima Nasrallah","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2021-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2021-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article describes what the International Ecumenical Youth Meeting in Beirut 2019 meant for participants from the Middle East, particularly from Lebanon and how these meanings can be theologically evaluated. Embracing, a term we borrow from Miroslav Volf’s theory, became a crucial concept to describe one of the main meanings. This is further elaborated with the concept symbolic embracement. Furthermore we explain how exploration and commitment play a role in the participation of youth. The theological evaluation leads us to the God who transcends human particularity and plurality.","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"25 1","pages":"280 - 298"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43198067","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 essay argues that the popular global decluttering movement epitomized in Marie Kondo is a new spiritual discipline tailored to a particular cultural moment in which members of affluent societies, especially women, are caught between the shame of displaying too much “stuff” at home and the guilt of discarding it. After suggesting reasons for the movement’s neglect by theologians, the essay offers a brief history of the “invention of clutter.” Through this history, the essay frames decluttering as an expression of “makeover culture” that posits a timeless aesthetic self. Decluttering functions as a spiritual practice of late consumer capitalism that converts its followers to a disposition of detachment through procedures that mirror Christian conversion. While appreciating the attention the movement shows to women’s domestic lives and to material things, the essay offers a theological critique of the movement’s construction of an aesthetic self who is absolved of guilt by escaping time and the ecological web into private, timeless space. The essay commends instead a narrative, ecological self whose engagement with material things reflects a sacramental vision that issues in virtues like frugality.
{"title":"The Invention of Clutter and the New Spiritual Discipline of Decluttering","authors":"Christy Lang Hearlson","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2020-0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2020-0062","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This essay argues that the popular global decluttering movement epitomized in Marie Kondo is a new spiritual discipline tailored to a particular cultural moment in which members of affluent societies, especially women, are caught between the shame of displaying too much “stuff” at home and the guilt of discarding it. After suggesting reasons for the movement’s neglect by theologians, the essay offers a brief history of the “invention of clutter.” Through this history, the essay frames decluttering as an expression of “makeover culture” that posits a timeless aesthetic self. Decluttering functions as a spiritual practice of late consumer capitalism that converts its followers to a disposition of detachment through procedures that mirror Christian conversion. While appreciating the attention the movement shows to women’s domestic lives and to material things, the essay offers a theological critique of the movement’s construction of an aesthetic self who is absolved of guilt by escaping time and the ecological web into private, timeless space. The essay commends instead a narrative, ecological self whose engagement with material things reflects a sacramental vision that issues in virtues like frugality.","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"25 1","pages":"224 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42523196","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":"John Swinton, Finding Jesus in the Storm: The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges, Grand Rapids (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company) 2020, 245 pp. ISBN 9780802873729, $25.00","authors":"J. Snodgrass","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2021-0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2021-0043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"25 1","pages":"332 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49047709","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 Ordinary theology is often described as unrefined and imprecise in comparison to academic theology. A recent ethnographic study of vital youth ministries discovered a similar pattern, which the study coined “theological wiggle room.” This article discusses how a lack of precision may serve as a possible resource for theology in the ordinary, and thereby why theological wiggle room may be of significance. The article argues that a certain theological wiggle room engages centripetal and centrifugal dynamics. In other words, the lack of precision should not be interpreted as a shortage or deficiency alone, but as a significant quality of theology in the ordinary – in particular with regard to ecclesiology, leadership and personal development.
{"title":"Theological Wiggle Room as a Resource in Ordinary Theology: Significance for Ecclesiology, Leadership, and Personal Development","authors":"Knut Tveitereid, B. Norheim","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2020-0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2020-0033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Ordinary theology is often described as unrefined and imprecise in comparison to academic theology. A recent ethnographic study of vital youth ministries discovered a similar pattern, which the study coined “theological wiggle room.” This article discusses how a lack of precision may serve as a possible resource for theology in the ordinary, and thereby why theological wiggle room may be of significance. The article argues that a certain theological wiggle room engages centripetal and centrifugal dynamics. In other words, the lack of precision should not be interpreted as a shortage or deficiency alone, but as a significant quality of theology in the ordinary – in particular with regard to ecclesiology, leadership and personal development.","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"25 1","pages":"206 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42819142","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 clarifies essential concepts and describes what the actual ecological crisis is about, based on the model of planetary boundaries from Stockholm University. Thereupon it is explained to what an extent the perception of this crisis has increased in statements by the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches. How the ecological crisis is mirrored in substantial practical theological publications is demonstrated in an overview on the basis of three pertinent monographs on religious education. Then the focus lies on the resulting task of Education for Sustainable Development and on the question of its potential religious contours. Furthermore, relevant empirical studies on ecological awareness and education are presented.
{"title":"Praktische Theologie angesichts der ökologischen Krise","authors":"C. Höger","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2021-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2021-0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article clarifies essential concepts and describes what the actual ecological crisis is about, based on the model of planetary boundaries from Stockholm University. Thereupon it is explained to what an extent the perception of this crisis has increased in statements by the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches. How the ecological crisis is mirrored in substantial practical theological publications is demonstrated in an overview on the basis of three pertinent monographs on religious education. Then the focus lies on the resulting task of Education for Sustainable Development and on the question of its potential religious contours. Furthermore, relevant empirical studies on ecological awareness and education are presented.","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"25 1","pages":"299 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48646360","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}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：