Transcultural Entanglements
Description
This volume presents emerging scholarly perspectives on transcultural entanglements from the fields of Intercultural Theology, Religious Studies, and related disciplines. The anthology offers novel insights for the young discipline of Intercultural Theology, introducing innovative historiographical, methodological, theoretical, and empirical approaches that accentuate its transdisciplinary and global-local dynamics. The authors, all early career researchers, provide critical evaluations of the current state of the discipline, highlight unresolved issues, and identify areas that have been under-researched. By emphasizing power dynamics, marginalization, and decolonization, their contributions address central debates in the fields of the historiography of missions, global entanglements, eco-religion, lived religion, and transcultural encounters.
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Persons
Dr. Diana Lunkwitz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology (Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Sandra Langhop is a research assistant at the Chair of Church History at the Institute of Protestant Theology and Religious Education (School of Humanities and Social Sciences) at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.
Content
Foreword.- Introduction.- Section I - New Perspectives on Global Christianity and Concepts of Mission.- Diana Lunkwitz: 'Haunted Global(ized) Christianity': Connecting Poltergeist Narratives on the Mission Field with the New Materialism and Global Christianity.- Sandra Langhop: Rethinking Mission Practices: Bible Women in (South) India and a New Praxeological Approach to Intercultural Theologies.- K. Francis Adebayo: Decolonization, Migration, and Dialogue in Intercultural Theology: On the Mission of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Amsterdam.- Section II - New Perspectives on Areas in Intercultural Theology.- Doris Günther-Kriegel: 'Victigenizations' and the Devision of the 'One World': Representations as Intersectional Genderings in German Protestant Development Work.- Rahel Weber: Follow the People, follow the Biography: Constructing "the Field" in the Field Research for the Discipline of Intercultural Theology.- Juliane Stork: Doing Eco-theologies in African Initiated Churches as Driven by Practice: A New Perspective on Lived Religion.- Section III - New Perspectives for Examining Transcultural Encounters.- Marcus Grohmann: Reframing Reconciliation as Mission: Correcting Power Asymmetries in Transcultural Encounters in South Africa and Beyond.- Hanyi Zhang: Negotiating Tradition and Ecology: Humanistic Buddhist Eco-Engagement in Berlin's Urban Space.- Roundtable: A Discussion of Early Career Researchers Regarding Future Issues in the Transdisciplinary Field (Daniel A. Jara Jhayya, Anna Kirchner, Dominika Hadrysiewicz, Kristina Göthling-Zimpel).- Epilogues.- Epilogue 1: Judith Bachmann.- Epilogue 2: Andreas Heuser.