Conversations at the Well

Emerging Religious Life in the 21st-Century Global World: Collaboration, Networking, and Intercultural Living

Jung Eun Sophia Park, Tere Maya

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781532649776, 9781532649783
• eBook ISBN: 9781532649790
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christianity

Are religious women in the United States disappearing and finally dying out? Or is there any new way of religious life emerging?Conversations at the Welltries to respond to this question. In the twenty-first century of the global world, newly emerging religious life would be rooted with the Jesus Movement and develop in the spirit of collaboration, networking, and intercultural living. As the liminal space, religious life is located at the margins, subverting the existing social order and creating a new vision for the world. This book explores an alternative meaning of religious life within the context of the apostolic mission. In this new religious life, the concept of community is not limited to living as a community in the convent, but extended into collaborating friendship. Primarily, the apostolic religious life is deeply related to social justice, delinking the global capitalism in which many people suffer from human trafficking, immigration, and exile. The new leader of religious women would require skill in handling uncertainty, amplifying resources, and opening to the new reality. In this new religious life, spirituality would be articulated as freedom and liberation to let go of the old frame, as well as letting the new life become reality. In this way, as radical disciples, religious women in the twenty-first century embody the Jesus Movement, building bridges between different cultures and people.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 2: Remapping the World
• Chapter 3: The Jesus Movement
• Chapter 4: Vows: Living in the Liminal Space
• Chapter 5: Spirituality of the Liminal Community
• Chapter 6: Border-Crossing Leadership
• Chapter 7: Encounters in Today’s Reality: The Art of Bridge Building and Bridge Crossing
• Conclusion