{"title":"A Pilgrim’s Performance: Practical Theology as Convening","authors":"Dustin D. Benac","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2022-0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2022-0035","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Convening is a mode of practical theology inquiry that stages a counter-performance to the spectacle of prominent logics that order ecclesial life: brand Christianity, silos, and competition. Three parts organize this argument: Part I sets the stage with a preliminary portrait of convening, noting the contextual features of this inquiry. Part II introduces Augustine’s City of God as an interpretive lens to understand convening as a counter-performance to prominent spectacles on display. Part III redescribes convening by combining Augustine’s theological vision of spectacle, performance, latreia , and pilgrimage with the introductory portrait in order to perform what is possible when people of faith gather for collective inquiry.","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"50 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135615522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Section of <i>Booknotes Online</i> Launched: Tell the Community about New, Exciting Publications!","authors":"Kristin Merle","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2023-0073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2023-0073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"86 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135614240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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{"title":"Malan Nel, Youth Ministry: An Inclusive Missional Approach, Cape Town (AOSIS) 2018, 420 pp., ISBN 9781928396413, R 1,226","authors":"N. Chiroma","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2023-0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2023-0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43117608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kirstine Helboe Johansen and Ulla Schmidt (eds.), Practice, Practice Theory and Theology. Scandinavian and German Perspectives, Practical Theology in the Discourse of the Humanities, Vol. 28, Berlin/Boston (DeGruyter) 2022, 286 pp., ISBN 9783110743760, €99.95","authors":"Manuel Stetter","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2022-0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2022-0050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"136 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44539346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Darren J. Dias, Jaroslav Z. Skira, Michael S. Attridge, Gerard Mannion (eds.), The Church, Migration, and Global (In)Difference, Cham, Switzerland (Palgrave Macmillan) 2021, 419pp., ISBN 978-3-030-54225-2, $132.82","authors":"D. Schipani","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2023-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2023-0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"138 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44766787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wendy Cadge and Shelly Rambo (eds.), Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-first Century: An Introduction (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press), 2022, 320pp., ISBN 978-1-4696-6760-7, $24.95.","authors":"Nancy J. Ramsay","doi":"10.1515/ijpt-2023-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2023-0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42892,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Practical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"144 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44348717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}