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Practical theology has outgrown its traditional pastoral paradigm. The articles in this handbook recognize that faith, spirituality, and lived religion, within and beyond institutional communities, refer to realms of cultures, ritual practices, and symbolic orders, whose boundaries are not clearly defined and whose contents are shifting. The International Handbook of Practical Theology offers insightful transcultural conceptions of religion and religious matters gathered from various cultures and traditions of faith. The first section presents ‘concepts of religion’. Chapters have to do with considerations of the conceptualizing of religion in the fields of ‘anthropology’, ‘community’, ‘family’, ‘institution’, ‘law’, ‘media’, and ‘politics’ among others. The second section is dedicated to case studies of ‘religious practices’ from the perspective of their actors. The third section presents major theoretical discourses that explore the globally significant diversity and multiplicity of religion. Altogether, sixty-one authors from different parts of the world encourage a rethinking of religious practice in an expanded, transcultural, globalized, and postcolonial world.

RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources. --- Interculturality. --- globalization. --- religion. --- ritual practice.

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First Published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Colonies --- United States --- Great Britain --- History --- stamp --- act --- salutary --- neglect --- royal --- african --- company --- crisis --- rockinghams --- ministry

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An kaum einem anderen Ort waren im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert so viele verschiedene katholische Missionsorden tätig wie in Isfahan, der Hauptstadt des Safavidenreiches. Die Studie untersucht die sozialen Rollen, welche die europäischen Missionare in dieser multikulturellen Metropole spielten. Angezogen von der Hoffnung auf die Konversion des Schahs, betätigten sie sich auch als Diplomaten katholischer Herrscher, Gastgeber protestantischer Kaufleute und Heiler von Armeniern und Muslimen. Solche Nischentätigkeiten sicherten den Geistlichen soziale Akzeptanz vor Ort und ökonomische Unabhängigkeit von Rom. Die Flexibilität, die sie im Umgang mit kultureller Diversität bewiesen, ist ein Grundmerkmal missionarischer Tätigkeit im entstehenden globalen Katholizismus.

Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions --- Religion --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology

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Since the central centuries of the Middle Ages the sacrament of penance became one of the central aspects of religious life and Christian practice. To help the clergy tasked with pastoral care in listening penitents’ confessions manuals were penned, which are to this day not much studied. The analysis of one of these texts, the De modo audiendi confessiones of Heinrich Lur, canon in the cathedral of Trento around the half of the fifteenth century, is the occasion to reflect on what in the late Middle Ages revolved around the administration of sacramental penance, in regards to theology and canon law as well as pastoral care.

Christian sacraments --- Christian ministry & pastoral activity --- Penance --- Sacraments --- Pastoral Care --- Confession --- Confessors’ Manual --- Absolution