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Keeping the Tensions. The Path to an Open, Inviting, Communicative, and Responsible Practice of Baptism in a Secular Soc...

Published in International Journal of Practical Theology

The study deals with the difficulties and challenges being faced by the practice of baptism in contemporary secular society. Based on empirical research on the practice of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, the author argues for an open, inviting, communicative, and responsible practice of baptism that does not erase present tensions but dea...

Kristin Merle, Ilona Nord (eds.), Mediatisierung religiöser Kultur. Praktisch-theologische Standortbestimmungen im inter...

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Anthropologische Wende in der katholischen Religionspädagogik?

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In the following article, I address the question of whether an anthropological shift has taken place in Catholic religious education after the Second Vatican Council. Based on the special case of political religious education/catechesis of liberation I exemplify such a shift by means of three exemplary “crystallization points”: The International Ca...

Editorial: A Look Back and Ahead after 12 Years with the IJPT

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Andrew Linzey, Clair Linzey (eds.), Animal Theologians, New York (Oxford University Press) 2023, 452 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-...

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HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Postcolonial Preaching: Creating a Ripple Effect, Lanham / Boulder / New York / London (Lexington Book...

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Non-Speaking Autistic Participation in Liturgy and Church Life: (Non-)Speech Acts

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Many liturgies depend on speech. But how do those autistic people who do not speak, or speak only minimally, participate in liturgy? This article addresses how eight non- or minimally-speaking autistic people experience liturgy. Having used a range of methods for data collection, we identified two key themes in the data: the desire for (1) liturgic...

Unravelling the Experience of Grace: Antecedents, Consequences and Circular Dynamics in the Experience of Grace

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This study consists of seven in-depth-interviews about antecedents and consequences of grace experiences analyzed by CQR. Results indicated that situations of difficulty can provide fertile ground for experiencing grace. Opening up in being and doing were considered to be helpful to recognize and actively receive grace. Participants reported growin...

Yonah Hisbon Matemba, Bruce A. Collet (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religious Education in the Global South, London...

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Ecclesiastical Policies on Education: A Democratic Game of Winners and Losers?

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In the post-secular societies of Scandinavia and Great Britain, Christian denominations have had to reconstruct their identities as educational agents. This article focuses on the Church of England and the Church of Sweden, and their changed self-identification as expressed in their educational policy documents. Whereas the Church of England’s disc...