Resilient Religion, Resilience and Heartbreaking Adversity
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Resilient Religion, Resilience and Heartbreaking Adversity

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Resilient Religion, Resilience and Heartbreaking Adversity

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About this book

A resilience theory on religion needs to answer four
questions. What defines the kind of adversity which is
addressed in religion? What is characteristic for processes
of resilience in religion? What defines resilient religion
as outcome? Which logic of inference (epistemology) based on
our beliefs and experiences about reality binds these three
elements together? The book starts with mapping the field of
resilience theory on religion by addressing all four
questions. The need for thinking about Christian resilience
and the God symbol is addressed, and the need to be
"explicitly contextual" with regard to resilience in South
Africa. Next three types practices of religious acting are
related to experiences of resilience, namely preaching,
narrating and discerning. In the last chapters the focus is
on the way stories help to express feelings of experiences
of crises, tragedy, and trauma. But also how stories can
help heal the broken heart. Prof Chris A.M. Hermans is extraordinary
professor in
practical theology and missiology at the University of the
Free State (South Africa). He is emeritus professor in
pastoral theology at Radboud University (the
Netherlands).and emeritus professor in empirical study of
religion as Radboud University (the Netherlands). Prof. Kobus (W.J.) Schoeman is professor of practical
theology at the University of the Free State (South
Africa).

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Information

Publisher
LIT Verlag
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9783643915009
eBook ISBN
9783643965004
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Religion
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1 Human experiences of heartbreaking adversity
  5. Chapter 2 Processes of Resilience
  6. Chapter 3 Resilient religion
  7. Chapter 4 Christian resilience, role of intellectuals, and the centrality of the god symbol: interaction and changing shape
  8. Chapter 5 African realities and resilient religion An invitation to Africanize the conversation
  9. Chapter 6 Resilient preaching A critical appraisal of Johan Cilliers’ trilogy on “grace”
  10. Chapter 7 Becoming a Resilient Christian Community: A narrative approach
  11. Chapter 8 The congregation as a community of discernment and practice – enhancing resilient religion
  12. Chapter 9 Resilience and resistance in the Book of Job: An African socio-economic hermeneutical reading in a pandemic context
  13. Chapter 10 “Surviving my story of trauma”: A pastoral theology of resilience
  14. List of contributors