Contextual Theology
Skills and Practices of Liberating Faith
1st Edition
Published on 30. December 2020
Book
Hardback
242 pages
978-0-367-36530-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book advances that history by exploring stories, images and discourses across a worldwide range of geographical, cultural and confessional contexts. Its twelve authors not only enrich our understanding of the significance of the contextual method, but also produce a new range of original ways of doing theology in contemporary situations.
The authors discuss some prioritised thematic perspectives with an emphasis on liberating paths, and expand the ongoing discussion on the methodology of theology into new areas. Themes such as interreligious plurality, global capitalism, ecumenical liberation theology, eco-anxiety and the anthropocene, postcolonialism, gender, neo-pentecostalism, world theology, and reconciliation are examined in situated depth. Additionally, voices from Indigenous lands, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe and North America enter into a dialogue on what it means to contextualise theology in an increasingly globalised and ever-changing world.
Such a comprehensive discussion of new ways of thinking about and doing contextual theology will be of great use to scholars in Theology, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Gender Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Global Studies.
The authors discuss some prioritised thematic perspectives with an emphasis on liberating paths, and expand the ongoing discussion on the methodology of theology into new areas. Themes such as interreligious plurality, global capitalism, ecumenical liberation theology, eco-anxiety and the anthropocene, postcolonialism, gender, neo-pentecostalism, world theology, and reconciliation are examined in situated depth. Additionally, voices from Indigenous lands, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe and North America enter into a dialogue on what it means to contextualise theology in an increasingly globalised and ever-changing world.
Such a comprehensive discussion of new ways of thinking about and doing contextual theology will be of great use to scholars in Theology, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Gender Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Global Studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
558 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-36530-1 (9780367365301)
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Persons
Sigurd Bergmann is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Visiting Researcher at the Faculty of Theology, Uppsala University, and Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center at Munich University. His research covers religion and the environment, and religion, arts and architecture, and among his multiple books and articles are Weather, Religion and Climate Change (2020), Religion, Space and the Environment (2014), In the Beginning Is the Icon (2009), and God in Context (2003).
Mika Vaehaekangas is Professor of Mission Studies and Ecumenics at Lund University, Sweden. His research covers Christianity in Africa, intercultural and interreligious relations in World Christianity, and bridging empirical studies with systematic theology. He is the author of multiple publications in Theology and Religious Studies including Context, Plurality, and Truth (2020), and Between Ghambageu and Jesus (2008).
Mika Vaehaekangas is Professor of Mission Studies and Ecumenics at Lund University, Sweden. His research covers Christianity in Africa, intercultural and interreligious relations in World Christianity, and bridging empirical studies with systematic theology. He is the author of multiple publications in Theology and Religious Studies including Context, Plurality, and Truth (2020), and Between Ghambageu and Jesus (2008).
Content
List of contributors; Foreword-Robert J. Schreiter; Acknowledgements; Doing Situated Theology,Introductory Remarks about the History, Method and Diversity of Contextual Theology-Sigurd Bergmann & Mika Vaehaekangas; Can Contextual Theology Bridge the Divide?; South Africa's Politics of Forgiveness as an Example of a Contextual Public Theology-Dion Forster; Contextual Theology on Trial; African Pentecostalism, Sacred Authority, and Sexual and Gender Based Violence-Chammah Kaunda; Gender, Ethnicity and Lived Religion: Challenges to Contextual and Liberation Theologies-Elina Vuola; Ecumenical Liberation Theology:How I Experienced its Arrival in Germany and Europe after 1968-Ulrich Duchrow; Economy, Greed and Liberation Theology:A Critique from a Border Location in India-Atola Longkumer;The DissemiNation of Vikings: Postcolonial Contexts and Economic Meltdown-Sigri?ur Gu?marsdottir;Reclaiming Tradition as Critique of Oppression-Teresa Callewaert;Speaking from Experience: Comparing Mahdawi-Pentecostal Approaches to Equipment for Mission and its Theological Justification-David Emmanuel Singh; Theology in the Anthropocene - and Beyond?-Sigurd Bergmann; Theology of "Eco-Anxiety" as Liberating Contextual Theology-Panu Pihkala; Contextualization through the Arts-Volker Kuester; World Christianity as Post-Colonializing of Theology-Mika Vaehaekangas