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Pluralisation and social change
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© 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

© 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

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  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Table of Contents V
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Health and Gender: key intersections in African ‘Faith and Development’ discourse 7
  5. Response: Income, poverty and well-being in Germany 25
  6. Resources for Theological Education in Africa 31
  7. Response: From awareness of plurality to conscious dealing with heterogeneity: Religious Education as hermeneutics of religious communication in East Germany 45
  8. ‘Verbing God’ within the dynamics of ‘Lived Religion’. ‘Sympathetic Rites of Passage’ in a Practical Theological approach to the complexity of everyday life 51
  9. Response: Verbing the infiniscience of the creatio Dei: “We truly live in figures” 67
  10. Material poverty and the poverty of excess: Meaning-making as healing in an era of supermodernism 75
  11. Response: The Christian vocation to healing and models of spiritual care 89
  12. Life’s beginning and life’s end: An essay on natality and mortality 97
  13. Death as new birth: A response to Christian Polke’s essay: “Life’s beginning and life’s end: An essay on natality and mortality” 111
  14. Medienwandel / Transformations of media 117
  15. Response: Medienwandel / Transformation of media 131
  16. Migration and interculturality 139
  17. Response: Ubuntu as an asset for the church in the context of migration and interculturality: a response to Alexander-Kenneth Nagel’s paper 157
  18. Religious communities and transforming witnesses in the future of Christian communities 173
  19. Response: Dealing theologically with plurality: Contextual and global challenges for a public Practical Theology 185
  20. Religion and knowledge 193
  21. Response: Theological knowledge and the quest for healthy religious beliefs and practices 209
  22. Time, memory and the search for a responsible engagement with the past 215
  23. Response: Remembrance cultures in the plural 227
  24. Society and community – On the relationship between politics and religion serving our shared life in society 233
  25. Response: Religion, politics and the desire to live together in diverse societies and communities: reflections from South Africa 249
  26. Authors and editors 255
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