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Auli Vähäkangas, Sivert Angel, Kirstine Helboe Johansen (Eds.) Reforming practical theology The politics of body and space IAPT – 01/2019 typoscript [AK] – 06.03.2019 – Seite I – 2. SL Auli Vähäkangas, Sivert Angel, Kirstine Helboe Johansen (Eds.) Reforming practical theology The politics of body and space IAPT – 01/2019 typoscript [AK] – 06.03.2019 – Seite II – 2. SL Cover image: Lars Danbolt The cover picture is taken outside Oslo Cathedral in a ritual event that commemorated the victims of the Norwegian terrorist at- tacks on July 22, 2011. Eight people died in a bombing in Oslo and 69 young people died on nearby Utøya island. These events left their mark on the IAPT conference, too. International Academy of Practical Theology. Conference Series Volume 1 (2019) Website: https://iapt-cs.org ISSN: 2628-0000 Herausgeber: International Academy of Practical Theology Prof. Dr. Trygve Wyller (President) Faculty of Theology University of Oslo Blindernveien 9 Domus Theologica 0371 Oslo [email protected] Prof. Dr. Birgit Weyel (Executive Committee) Faculty of Protestant Theology Liebermeisterstr. 12 72076 Tübingen [email protected] Published Free Open Access Hosted and indexed by Index Theologicus (University Library Tübingen) https://ixtheo.de Book Print On Demand by WiesingerMedia GmbH Stuttgarter Str. 10 70736 Fellbach [email protected] IAPT – 01/2019 typoscript [AK] – 05.03.2019 – Seite III – 2. SL Preface For the first time the Conference Proceedings of the On behalf of the Executive Committee of the International Academy of Practical Theology are be- IAPT, Birgit Weyel (Tuebingen) was responsible for ing published in Open Access. For this purpose the the website. Without the unfailing and competent new series International Academy of Practical Theol- assistance of Johannes van Oorschot and Manuel ogy. Conference Series (IAPT.CS) was founded after Stetter (both Tuebingen) the development of the the conference, which took place in Oslo, 20–24 website would not have materialised. We are very April 2017. The contents and results of the confer- thankful for their contribution to our good work. ence are documented in this series and we are happy The logo of the IAPT.CS was designed by the to present the first issue. company grafik.design.werbung. Bernd Rudek In the IAPT.CS we will also document the scien- (Balingen/Germany). The typesetting was done by tific work of the biannual meetings of the IAPT. We Francesco Punzo, from the company typoscript are thankful and proud that we have succeeded in GmbH (Waldorfhäslach/Germany). We appreciate presenting the contents of academic research for a his extraordinary professional and precise work general and international readership free of charge very much. and in the public domain, and also available inde- Open Access Publishing means publishing with- pendently from local resources, including access to out a publisher. The Executive Committee of the libraries or by purchasing the books. In this way the IAPT consequently deliberated upon the question Open Access strategy implements the explicit wish of reviewing and made the decision to establish a of the members of the Academy to make the results double peer-review system that will guarantee the of research accessible and to increase the visibility of quality of the publication in terms relevance to the the International Academy of Practical Theology as conference topic, coherence of the volume, fair rep- an organization and communication platform for resentation of the society as well as originality, sci- mutual academic exchange and international dis- entific reliability and academic standards. We are course in Practical Theology. convinced that it is the academic community which This has been made possible through the merito- has to negotiate the criteria of academic standards rious support of the Tuebingen University Library and to review the results of research in a coopera- (Germany) within the framework of the Specialised tive, helpful communication process. The Open Information Services (Fachinformationsdienste) for Journal System provides an excellent framework for Theology and Religious Studies, funded by the Ger- that. man Research Foundation (DFG). The Tuebingen Last but not least, we would like to thank the ed- University Library owns a repository of data and itors of this first issue for their openness and work provides the Open Access infrastructure (Open with regard to the challenges of publishing this first Journal Systems) according to established standards volume in OA. for long-term access to publications and the ex- change of metadata with national and international On behalf of the Executive Committee of the Inter- servers and library registries. Specifically, we want national Academy of Practical Theology to thank Axel Braun and Martin Faßnacht, who supported this project in terms of both technical Trygve Wyller (President) and library-oriented aspects. Birgit Weyel (Member at large) Auli Vähäkangas, Sivert Angel and Kirstine Helboe Johansen, eds. 2019. Reforming Practical Theology: III DOI: 10.25785/iapt.cs.v1i0.74 The Politics of Body and Space. IAPT.CS 1: III–IV ORCID-ID: 0000-0002-9654-4728, 0000-0002-4817-0653 IAPT – 01/2019 typoscript [AK] – 05.03.2019 – Seite IV – 2. SL IAPT – 01/2019 typoscript [AK] – 05.03.2019 – Seite V – 2. SL Table of Contents Preface.................................................................................. III Introduction (Auli Vähäkangas, Sivert Angel and Kirstine Helboe Johansen)..................... 1 Reforming, revisionist, refounding: Practical theology as disciplined seeing (John Swinton) ....................................... 5 Can “God” be reformed? Musings on a Faithful and Responsible Practical Theology (Robert Mager)....................... 13 The politics of meaning: societal discourses on the sexual abuse of children and their influence on the Catholic Church (Karlijn Demasure) ....................................................................... 20 Reforming pastoral care: masculinity, male pathologies and gender-specific pastoral care (Armin Kummer) ........................................................................ 29 Reforming a theology of the body: Susanna Wesley in dialogue with Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel (Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner) .............................................................. 37 Denying the Binary – A Non-Boolean Approach to Queer Bodies in Theology (Finley Lawson) ..... 45 Addressing structural violence: Reforming our perspectives (Raymond J. Webb).................. 53 Reforming Theology Inside and Out: Mass Incarceration in the US (Mary Clark Moschella)......................................... 61 Writing transformation: Using addiction recovery memoirs toward personal and social change (Joyce Ann Mercer)....................................................................... 69 Relationality as the basis of hope: embodied experiences during life-threatening illness (Auli Vähäkangas and Suvi-Maria Saarelainen)................................................................... 76 Moving theology: perspectives of practical theology as hermeneutics of lived religion in Brazil (Júlio Cézar Adam)....................................................................... 83 Doing theology with and amongst living bodies in contested spaces (Johann-Albrecht Meylahn) ... 91 Reforming space: migrant agency and reimagining community and belonging (Federico Settler) ... 97 Space as an instrument to interpret the role of religion and churches in Central and Eastern European societies (Ana Thea Filipović and Tibor Reimer)..................................... 105 Political leadership transformation through churches as civic democratic spaces in Africa: a public practical theological approach (Vhumani Magezi) . 113 V IAPT – 01/2019 typoscript [AK] – 05.03.2019 – Seite VI – 2. SL Table of Contents Reforming preaching: refugees in European sermons from the perspectives of space, body and politics (Theo Pleizier and Tone Stangeland Kaufman) ............................................... 121 Challenging ecclesiological traditions (Hans-Günter Heimbrock and Trygve Wyller).............. 129 Trust and successful integration—historical and psychoanalytical perspectives on French Protestant migration in the 18th century (Constanze Thierfelder) ........................................ 137 Making space for the religious other in practical theology: The need for broadening the discipline beyond traditional paradigms (Friedrich Schweitzer).......................................... 145 The Ooze of God’s Spirit: Liquid Sacramentality for a Liquid Age (Edward Foley) ................. 153 Shifting, reforming, transforming spaces for a postcolonial, interreligious pedagogy (Pamela Couture, Pamela McCarroll and Nevin Reda) ........................................ 160 Racism, whiteness and transformation: reforming the space of theological education in South Africa (Marilyn Naidoo) ........................................................................ 168 Reforming bodies under surveillance: an urgent task for theological education (Eric Stoddart) ..... 176 The space of practical theology at Faculdades EST in Brazil and its contribution to Latin American theological practices (Valburga Schmiedt Streck, Júlio Cézar Adam and Nilton Eliseu Herbes) ..... 184 VI IAPT – 01/2019 typoscript [AK] – 05.03.2019 – Seite 1 – 2. SL Introduction Auli Vähäkangas, Sivert Angel and Kirstine Helboe Johansen The 2017 IAPT conference took place in Oslo, which