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Produktbeschreibung
Religion takes different shapes in late-modern society. Pastoral care,
church and religion are also in transition. Practical theology explores
these new challenges. This book introduces the readers to the field of
this discipline in dialogue with the metaphor of ‘boundaries’.
Theoretical insights in practical theology and its methodology are
combined with discussions about specific topics and case studies from
the field of pastoral and spiritual care, with special attention for
Catholic contexts. Practical theologians are presented as cross-border
workers, whose work is to reflect on ambiguous places and borderlands
‘in between’ positions, disciplines, and fixed identities. Specific
attention goes to questions on hope and power in relation to pastoral
care, on chaplaincy in prisons and hospitals, on children and theology.
This book functions also as an introduction to empirical methodologies
and hermeneutical theological reflections.
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