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Changes in the religious landscape present challenges to conceptualization, methodology and empirical research of religion. The volume, Religion inside and outside Traditional Institutions , which includes contributions to the 2nd conference of the International Society for Empirical Research in Theology (ISERT) in Bielefeld, Germany, responds to these contemporary challenges. While the concept of religious praxis is their common theme, they include a focus on deinstitutionalized religion. The contributions in the first part present and discuss a variety of innovative conceptual, paradigmatic and methodological approaches. Distinguished reports from quantitative and qualitative empirical research make up the second part of this volume. Taken together, they may inspire conceptual and methodological discussion and encourage further research in empirical theology. Contributors include: Johannes A. van der Ven, Leslie J. Francis, Hans-Günter Heimbrock, Tobias Kläden, Chris Hermans, Hans Schilderman, Kees de Groot, Don S. Browning, Stefan Huber, Ulrich Feeser-Lichterfeld, Anke Terörde, Angela Kaupp, Astrid Dinter, Carsten Gennerich.

Empirical theology --- Theology, Practical --- Practical theology --- Theology, Empirical --- Communication --- Theology --- Empiricism --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- 24 <063> --- Praktische theologie--Congressen --- Freedom of religion --- Théologie de l'expérience --- Liberté religieuse --- Religious studies --- Empirical theology - Congresses. --- Theology, Practical - Congresses.

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Hauptbeschreibung This book presents case studies and empirical data of a phenomenon which increasingly gains popularity in Western societies: deconversion. There is, the authors argue, no better word than deconversion to describe processes of disengagement from religious orientations because these have much in common with conversion. Termination of membership may eventually be the final step of deconversion, but it involves biographical and psychological dynamics which can and need to be reconstructed by qualitative approaches and analyzed by quantitative instruments.In the B

Ex-church members --- Psychology. --- Apostates --- Church dropouts --- Church members, Fallen-away --- Church members, Lapsed --- Fallen-away church members --- Inactive church members --- Lapsed church members --- Non-church-affiliated people

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Faith development --- Hermeneutics --- Fowler, James W., --- Ricœur, Paul.

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This book documents the current polarization in Germany regarding the issue of refugee immigration. It presents quantitative estimates for both xenophobia and xenophilia in the German population, including short-time changes. The book suggests a conceptual change of perspectives. It focuses not only on the pathogenic model that accounts for outcomes such as xenophobia, Islamophobia and other forms of (inter-religious) prejudice, but on a salutogenic model. In the book’s view, the salutogenic model entails xenosophia: the wisdom, creativity and inspiration that emerges from the encounter with the strange and the strange religion. The book addresses individual dispositions, which may lead to xenophobia or xenosophia, and takes into account predictors such as religiosity, religious schemata, value preferences, tolerance of complexity, and violence legitimizing norms of masculinity. A selection of case studies present typical biographical trajectories toward xenosophia.

Social sciences. --- Religion and sociology. --- Personality. --- Social psychology. --- Psychology and religion. --- Social Sciences. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Religion and Psychology. --- Religion and Society. --- Personality and Social Psychology. --- Religion and psychology --- Religion --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Psychology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Personal identity --- Personality psychology --- Personality theory --- Personality traits --- Personology --- Traits, Personality --- Individuality --- Persons --- Self --- Temperament --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Wisdom. --- Experience --- Intellect --- Learning and scholarship --- Reason --- Consciousness. --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Philosophy --- Spirit

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