Complex identities in a shifting world
Subtitle: practical theological perspectives
By: edited by Pamela Couture, Robert Mager, Pamela McCarroll, Natalie Wigg-Stevenson
Series: International practical theology -- volume 17; International practical theology -- v. 17.
Publisher: Lit
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9783643905093
Subjects: Christian sociology; Identification (Religion); Religious aspects; Religion and sociology; Social change
Description: Clear and well-defined identities are hard to sustain in a rapidly shifting world. Peoples, goods, and cultures are on the move. The internet and other technologies increase the amount, the speed, and the intensity of cultural exchanges. Individuals, organizations, and nations develop complex identities out of many traditions, different ideals, various ways of life, and many models of organization. Religious traditions both collide and interact, with spiritual journeys crossing religious boundaries. In this book, more than 20 contributors from different backgrounds and academic disciplines offer an array of practical theological perspectives to help understand these complex identities and negotiate this shifting world.
Notes: Introduction: "While these essays do not represent "conference proceedings", they, along with the visual art and musical pieces, were originally presented at the April, 2013 conference of the International Academy of Practical Theology at the Toronto School of Theology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada."

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: I. Narrativity and identity.; title: Narrative identity and the challenge of multiculturalism  -- Romin W. Tafarodi; title: Complex identities in ministry formation : processes of reflection, refraction, and diffraction in the context of difference in theological field education  -- Mary C. Froehle, -- Diane Maloney, -- Kate Lassiter; title: Transforming identities in African faith communities and leadership : one continent, many stories  -- Ian Nell, -- Elzette Nell; title: Complex identities : complex patterns of belonging  -- Riet Bons-Storm; title: When religion and spirituality converge in ritual : weddings within the Church of Denmark  -- Kirstine Helboe Johansen; title: Youth navigating identities : charting the waters through narrative  -- Mary Elizabeth Moore; title: With God's help I'll beat this disease : the role of narrative identity in the religious therapeutic outcomes of recovering drug addicts  -- Srdjan Sremac; title: Complex identities in a shifting world : one God, switching stories  -- Eric Stoddart; title: Doing theology in contexts of complex and shifting identities : a South African story  -- Johann-Albrecht Meylahn -- II. Postcolonialism.; title: Changing identities and narrativities: postcolonial theologies  -- Kowk Pui-lan; title: Turning to the other : interdenominational, interethnic, interreligious activism and a new ecclesia  -- HyeRan Kim-Cragg, -- Mai-Anh Le Tran; title: Sacred song for all God's children : a perspective on post-colonial Asian congregational song  -- Swee Hong Lim; title: Imaging the other : neuroscientific insights into human experiences of culture and race  -- David Hogue -- III. Plural voices and encounters.; title: Focus on Canadian First Nations : re-asserting, re-claiming, re-shaping and re-creating First Nation's identity in a shifting world  -- Priscilla Solomon, -- Eva Solomon, -- Harry Lafond; title: Exploring changes in identity and narrative through the South African Truth and Reconciliation and some indigenous texts  -- Antjie Krog; title: Praxeological challenges in formulating an Interreligious Curriculum for Peace Education (ICPE) in Nigeria  -- Isaiah Ekundayo Dada; title: The Christian-Muslim relationship : manifestation and interpretation  -- Raymond J. Webb; title: A practical theological idea of social justice : a study of inequality envisaged in Gangnam style  -- Jaesung Ha; title: The role of reconciliation in the search for identity in post-apartheid South Africa  -- Johan Cilliers; title: Immigration, identity renegotiation, and anonymous faith  -- Neil Pembroke; title: Art as a medium of theological imagining and spiritual transformation  -- Christina Labriola and Michael Stoeber; title: Complex identities in a shifting world: musical expressions -- Thomas E. Reynolds,-- Becca Whitla.