09/07/2025 08:30
- 12:00
HALL: Elise Richter Hall
Proponent:
Kirschner M.,
Riedenauer M.
Chair:
Kirschner M.,
Riedenauer M.
Speaker:
Bruckner I.,
Ciriello C.,
Dohna Schlobitten Y.,
Howell C.,
Kirschner M.,
Riedenauer M.,
Worley T.
Religious communities hold no exclusive rights to spirituality, consequently the concept has been enlarged: from specific Christian spiritualities (like marianic, franciscan, ignatian...) to non-Christian and even atheist spiritualities. The transformation of the concept itself, the unfolding of its different dimensions, is one research question, to be discussed in relation to the phenomena. On the other hand, spirituality is a key resource to confront the crisis, ruptures and transformation processes we are experiencing. Which form of spirituality can nurture hope, resilience, resistance and the capacity to act in a time of disaster and war? A third focus will be how spirituality is itself a performance of transformation of the self and of the world, in which responsiveness and receptivity, the experience of grace and the exercise of human freedom, contemplative and political praxis go hand in hand. The plurality of forms of spirituality demands philosophical and theological investigation, from anthropological, epistemological, cultural or metaphysical perspectives.