23/05/2024 10:30 - 15:00

HALL: FATESI - D'ACQUISTO

Proponent: Van Den Toren B.

Chair: Van Den Toren B.

Speaker: Alberts E., Colijn J., Febus Paris J.R., J.C. Blok M., Joziasse H., Nikanne I., Van Den Toren B.

The growing interest in 'lived religion', 'lived theologies' and 'lived faith' in Religious Studies and Theology in recent decades has presented an important renewal in theological studies as an expression of a broader paradigm shift. In Religious Studies, it reflects an awareness of place and embodiment. In Intercultural theology, it permits close attention to how beliefs and practices are contextualized and appropriated at grassroots level. In systematic and practical theology, it reflects the awareness that theology is not only a reflection on a rich tradition of witness to the God of Israel and Jesus of Nazareth, but that this tradition is embodied in the life of a community guided by the Holy Spirit. This panel is triggered by an intuition that models developed for the study of lived religion in the North Atlantic world deeply shaped by the social sciences developed in a secular context may miss crucial dimensions of the way lived theologies function in contexts in the Global South (but not exclusively in the Global South), particularly with respect to the place of God, authority and the source of meaning in such lived theologies. In this panel, we want to test this intuition by looking at case studies of lived theologies from a theological perspective, exploring the place of God and authority and the source of meaning in these theologies and how these insights might test, challenge and deepen existing North-Atlantic frameworks for the study of lived faith.