"Die CONTOC-Studie hat in ökumenischer und internationaler Ausrichtung die digitale kirchliche Praxis unter den Bedingungen der Corona-Pandemie im Frühsommer 2020 erforscht. Dieser Band dokumentiert die Rahmenbedingungen und Umfrageergebnisse in den beteiligten Ländern. Daran schließen sich Pers
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pektiven zu den zukünftigen Herausforderungen für die digitale Angebotspraxis und das Selbstverständnis der kirchlichen Akteur*innen an." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This exploratory study uses the Design Thinking framework and starts by mapping elements related to church growth from different works of literature and local successful churches’ experiences. Using this list of elements, a survey was designed to provide an overview of the existing internal resou
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rces (including the availability of time, talents, etc.) and willingness for change within Mountainside Lutheran Church. Using this mapping, a list of projects was then proposed to enable Mountainside Lutheran Church to implement with the aim of producing future growth. These findings were also presented to the Parish Council, and Elders group using the Design Thinking framework. Several ministry focus areas were found including: 1. The youth group ministry as the focus to change the church’s worship experience. 2. The need to reactivate cell groups and welcoming team to enhance support to families, couples and newcomers. 3. A focus on online ministry to strengthen spiritual support to members and outreach to new generations and different ethnic groups. 4. The development of new creative community services, including childcare and other language classes. 5. The organisation of more fellowship events for friendship among new immigrants. From here it is suggested that actions should be formulated with the help of the Congregation Life Committee of the church. With the implementation of Design Thinking and the development of continual Design Thinking skills within the church, it is expected that reviews and improvement will help these projects." (Abstract)
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"Die Homiletik ist ein Schlüsselfach der Theologie. Im Dialog mit allen anderen theologischen Disziplinen sowie mit den benachbarten Human- und Geisteswissenschaften entwickelt sie Kriterien für eine zeitgenössische Kultur der Predigt. Unter Einbeziehung aktueller Forschungsergebnisse legt Wilfri
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ed Engemann in dieser Neuauflage seines Standardwerks die Voraussetzungen, Argumente, Modelle und Perspektiven der Homiletik leichtverständlich dar. Darüber hinaus werden klassische und neuere Formen der Predigtanalyse vorgestellt. Empirische Problemskizzen, zahlreiche Abbildungen und praktische Anleitungen sorgen für hohe Anschaulichkeit." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"In focusing on the twin processes of marketization and mediatization, the intention is by no means to argue that markets and media constitute the only factors shaping religion today. Nor is the intention to argue that a focus on marketization and mediatization would provide the “best” way to st
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udy contemporary processes of institutional religious change. Having said that, the approach of this book is nevertheless grounded in the firm contention that a serious and systematic consideration of the impact of processes of marketization and mediatization as key vectors of social and cultural change in the post–World War II era has great potential to nuance and enrich already existing theoretical thinking on contemporary institutional religious change. This potential is, however, crucially dependent on the capacity of researchers to provide firmly empirically grounded arguments about exactly how processes of marketization and mediatization work to effect social, cultural, and institutional religious change. This book directs particular attention to the ways in which processes of marketization and mediatization have been accompanied by the spread of a set of powerful discourses and discursive formations that have proliferated throughout ever more social and cultural domains and increasingly come to underpin contemporary criteria of eff ective institutional and organizational life, agency, practice, and communication. The focus of this book thus lies firmly on the ideational and discursive dimensions of processes of marketization and mediatization. The book is further based on the premise that the ideational and discursive dimensions of marketization and mediatization have had the strongest and most clearly observable effect on long-established institutional Christian Protestant churches that have retained close structural relationships to states and core social establishments, and for which the gradual general transition from a previous vertical national-statist model of social organization toward a horizontal, deregulated, and market- inspired network model has been most challenging." (Introduction, page 8-9)
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"Ao analisar, neste artigo, alguns dos documentos oficiais sobre comunicação produzidos no âmbito das igrejas brasileiras Metodista e Evangélica de Confissão Luterana, busca se observar como o habitus midiático comparece no pensamento comunicacional dessas igrejas, operando sobre os modos como
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intentam difundir valores, obter visibilidade e estabelecer vínculos. Observa se que as igrejas reconhecem no midiático um lugar estratégico para realização de seus objetivos, mas procuram subordiná lo ao habitus reli gioso. Nesse processo de acomodações, negociações e resistências, que se dá em operações auto e heterorreferentes e que envolve instituições não midiáticas, midiáticas e atores individuais, as igrejas acabam implicadas na midiatização mais ampla de toda a sociedade." (Resumo)
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"The purpose of this book is primarily to provide a comprehensive reference and source of information for those who labour daily in the churches and organizations that make up the ecumenical movement. It is hoped that, beyond that circle, the book will also serve all who have a passion for, or an in
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terest in the movement. A Handbook of Churches and Councils – Profiles of Ecumenical Relationships replaces two earlier publications: the Handbook of WCC Member Churches, and the Directory of Christian Councils, both dating back to 1985." (Introduction)
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"Historisch stand die evangelische Kirche den im Entstehen begriffenen Massenmedien - zunächst der säkularen Presse, später dem Film und noch in den 20er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts dem Rundfunk - distanziert gegenüber. Da die Medien ihr aber auch Möglichkeiten zu einer medialen Verkündigung e
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röffneten und der Popularisierung kirchlicher Themen in der Öffentlichkeit dienten, hat die evangelische Publizistik stark in die weltlichen Massenmedien hineingewirkt und ihre eigene Medienarbeit ausgebaut. Die Studie beschreibt und interpretiert die Grundzüge der evangelischen Publizistik von der Reformation bis in die jüngste Vergangenheit." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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