Resilient religion, resilience and heartbreaking adversity / edited by Chris A.M. Hermans and Kobus Schoeman.

Berlin : Lit, [2023]

©2023

195 pages ; 24 cm.

Current Copyright Fee: GBP25.00 0.

"A resilience theory on religion needs to answer four questions. What defines the kind of adversity which is addressed in religion? What is characteristic for processes of resilience in religion? What defines resilient religion as outcome? Which logic of inference (epistemology) based on our beliefs and experiences about reality binds these three elements together? The book starts with mapping the field of resilience theory on religion by addressing all four questions. The need for thinking about Christian resilience and the God symbol is addressed, and the need to be "explicitly contextual" with regard to resilience in South Africa. Next three types practices of religious acting are related to experiences of resilience, namely preaching, narrating and discerning. In the last chapters the focus is on the way stories help to express feelings of experiences of crises, tragedy, and trauma. But also how stories can help heal the broken heart." -- Page 4 of cover.

German

December 14, 2023

Includes bibliographical references.