Religious Experience and Its Transformational Power : Qualitative and Hermeneutic Approaches to a Practical Theological Foundational Concept / / Sabrina Müller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910733290303321
• Autore: Müller Sabrina
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2023]; De Gruyter, , [2023]; ©2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 243 p.)
• Disciplina: 248
• Soggetti: Experience (Religion); Pastoral theology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of figures -- 1 Introduction: religious experience as a practical theological challenge -- Part I Sensitizing Concepts -- Introduction -- 2 “Religious experience”: a conceptual approach -- 3 Human existence in late modernity -- Part II Methodological Interlude -- Introduction -- 4 Practical theology within the horizon of qualitative social research – Methodology -- Part III A Grounded Theory on the Change of the Frame of Reference through Religious Experience -- Introduction -- 5 Individual case presentation: the content of religious experience -- 6 Excursus: Inner aspects and basic observations on the religious experiences of the cross-case and cross-group evaluation -- 7 Processual aspects: Religious experience and the change of the personal frame of reference – cross-case and cross-group evaluation -- Part IV Discussion and Outlook -- Introduction -- 8 Interpretation of the results within the horizon of the initial questions -- 9 Experiencing the Christian perspectives of hope – a practical theological outlook -- 10 Bibliography -- Register
• Sommario/riassunto: The author approaches the phenomenon 'religious experience' through a qualitative study in which young, urban people from Europe and the USA are empirically examined. It becomes clear that individuals ; themselves are constructive agents of experience and theology. Religious experience manifests itself as a transformative perspective of hope in the lives of young people. The study ends with a plea for a theology from below, based on liberation theology and feminist theories, in which contextual perspectives are central to practical theological theorising.