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{"title":"Special themed issue: Majority world epistemologies","authors":"A. Brunsdon, Calida Chu","doi":"10.1080/1756073X.2023.2204256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2023.2204256","url":null,"abstract":"We are very happy to co-author the editorial for this special issue on majority world epistemologies. Apart from having the pleasure of working with colleagues researching and writing in Practical Theology from around the world, we also enjoyed collaborating with the wider group of guest editors working on and introducing this special issue. Practical theologians are situated in all corners of the globe embodying the quest to make sense of their own lived experiences and of those around them from a faith perspective. A significant number of these theologians find themselves in the so-called ‘majority world’. While we would like to employ the term majority world in a neutral and practical sense to denote the countries where the majority of the world population reside, it is not that simple, as all designations applied to people are tainted in some way or another. Mindful of the fact that the term majority world was partially born as replacement for the now, derogatory term ‘third world’, it is not above reproach. Many still associate the majority world with the ‘third world’ and the later designation of ‘developing countries’. In the postcolonial era, this is however regarded as problematic because these designations are suspected of perpetuating stereotypes and sustaining historical divides among people. And maybe, herein lies the challenge, that we sometimes need designations to denote groups of people or nations, without attributing stereotypical characteristics. It might be helpful to view terms like the majority and minority worlds through a less tainted lens, namely that of the global village. This term organically grew from the sense of connectedness that resulted from our interconnectedness via the world wide web (Anderson 2006). The notion of the global village recognises two important aspects of our current existence in the world. One is that the globe has indeed shrunk to a ‘village’ of shared experiences as a result of web-based interconnectedness as seen in news networks and social media. In African thinking, the notion of a village conjures up a pleasant sense of belonging based on shared experiences and the embodiment of Ubuntu, which is a constant reminder that we can only truly be human with and through others. In this sense, the notion of the global village encourages us to constantly find ways to deepen global communal sharing and living. The notion of the global village, however, also recognises another important aspect of our current being, which is the fact that the communal village remains scattered around a vast globe. The lived experiences of global villagers thus inadvertently play out in different geospatial, social, political and economic realities. Each of these contexts represent unique histories, cultures and belief systems which result in distinctive ways of knowing and living. One of the historic downsides of geographical divides is the ignorance of other ways of knowing and living – often contravening the sentimen","PeriodicalId":43627,"journal":{"name":"Practical Theology","volume":"16 1","pages":"133 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44726598","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":"Undisciplined! A womanist ethnography for an Africana practical theology","authors":"Christina Taïna Désert","doi":"10.1080/1756073X.2023.2179001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2023.2179001","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay addresses the question of epistemology within Africana religious traditions, most particularly Haitian Vodou. It ponders, what lies within as well as beyond the human that gives us a glimpse of the Unseen? Stressing the need for a new methodology, I enter into conversation with Dianne Stewart and Tracey Hucks’ transdisciplinary method and join Christina Sharpe to argue for the undisciplinary. Going beyond material culture and rituals, the undisciplinary emphasises knowledge that is embodied and situated. It privileges the body-in-relation. In addition to ethnography and archival research, the undisciplinary makes room for the poetic: the whispers of the sea, the secrets of the tree, the messages that birds bring. Anchored in the Crossing, the undisciplinary does not write about Spirit; it writes with Spirit. Deeply concerned with the point of conjunction between the space of excess and the space of nothingness, the undisciplinary highlights the need for the ‘I’ within scholarship: a historical, political, and spiritual self. This methodology guides the ethics of an Africana practical theology that centers practices as a form of reparation and regards scholarship itself as an act of spiritual care.","PeriodicalId":43627,"journal":{"name":"Practical Theology","volume":"16 1","pages":"139 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42890437","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":"Remorse: a Christian perspective","authors":"Stewart Rapley","doi":"10.1080/1756073x.2023.2204278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073x.2023.2204278","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43627,"journal":{"name":"Practical Theology","volume":"16 1","pages":"310 - 311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42493675","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":"Fihavanana and Raiamandreny as the basis to construct a hybrid practical theology in the Malagasy context","authors":"Alfred Randriamampionona","doi":"10.1080/1756073X.2023.2188519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2023.2188519","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article aims to put into perspective the contours of the Malagasy practical theology through the analysis of conflicts within the hybrid nature of the Church and society. From the application of the bureaucracy through Christianity and colonisation, the hybridity of the Malagasy society revolves around the three aspects of power and authority: political, traditional and ecclesial. The difference that constitutes this hybridity is the source of the current conflict within society. Using conflict theory and hybridity as the theoretical framework, critical correlation as theological reflection, and auto-ethnography as a research method, I will discuss the following hypothesis: apart from being a hermeneutical reflection on the ecclesial praxis, practical theology is a strategy to handle conflicts to maintain the essence of the Church. The Malagasy Church needs to create a hybrid practical theology to transform destructive conflict into the ferment of change.","PeriodicalId":43627,"journal":{"name":"Practical Theology","volume":"16 1","pages":"151 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44414093","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":"What is it like to be unable to gather physically for Sunday church services? Phenomenological reflections on three church leaders’ experiences of community during COVID-19","authors":"B. Hyde, Dawn Joseph","doi":"10.1080/1756073x.2023.2175766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073x.2023.2175766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43627,"journal":{"name":"Practical Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46563166","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":"Football as an instrument of evangelisation: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and the Church in Africa","authors":"Adolphus Ekedimma Amaefule","doi":"10.1080/1756073x.2023.2175129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073x.2023.2175129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43627,"journal":{"name":"Practical Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41564379","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":"Toward a grounded theology: reflections on a grounded theory study of faith and athletic coaching","authors":"Sean M. Strehlow","doi":"10.1080/1756073x.2023.2171943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073x.2023.2171943","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43627,"journal":{"name":"Practical Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46476922","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":"A theology of chaplaincy from below: changing the locus of theological agency","authors":"Graeme Smith","doi":"10.1080/1756073X.2023.2168230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2023.2168230","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article argues that a theology of chaplaincy needs to identify, analyse, and evaluate the theological reflection undertaken by their chaplaincy clients. Chaplains, when questioned about their theological ideas, usually speak briefly about notions such as a ‘ministry of presence’ or ‘incarnational ministry or theology’ to explain and justify their commitment to the welfare and pastoral care of their clients. In our research project, we interviewed chaplaincy clients discussing with them their theological ideas. And what became apparent was that in the seafaring context, it is not only chaplains who are theological agents; theology is also being produced by the seafarers. Previously seafarers have been a neglected presence in any discussion of a theology of chaplaincy, as, in fact, have other clients be they patients in hospitals, prisoners, school pupils, or university students. We identified and vocalised this client theology and in the second half of the article, we explore the implications for a ‘theology of chaplaincy’ of listening to and dialoguing with the theology produced by chaplaincy clients. This includes a discussion of how we conceive of the chaplaincy space and what ethical questions are raised when the clients’ theology is taken seriously.","PeriodicalId":43627,"journal":{"name":"Practical Theology","volume":"16 1","pages":"501 - 512"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49658487","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":"‘More than merry-making’: Tribal-Indigenous Baptists and their lifeworlds of festivities","authors":"Rathiulung Elias KC","doi":"10.1080/1756073X.2023.2167262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2023.2167262","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores how knowledge, ‘beliefs’, and ‘ways of being’ are embedded in the praxes of festivals among upland Rongmei Baptists of Manipur, India. The method used is qualitative ethnographic, coupled with theological analysis. The paper begins with a survey of festivals (Ngai) in traditional narratives and practices, to demonstrate the interconnectedness between narratives, practices, values, and their lifeworlds. With this theoretical insight, the paper analyses ongoing debates among Christians regarding the discontinuity of traditional Gaan Ngai, that results in the loss of epistemological praxes and traditional knowledge embedded in these festivals. Then, it looks at the practice of Christmas Ngai, presenting this as an indigenisation of Christianity, while noting that Ngai as epistemological and pedagogic praxis, becomes significantly modified in this Christian re-articulation. This indicates the generative capacity of Christian Ngai in animating new ‘Christian’ lifeworlds, characterised in part, by disruptions from land and indigenous lifeworlds. Drawing from ethnographic snippets, the paper prioritises vernacular concepts to visibilise indigenous lifeworlds in their own terms, and to unmask the potential violent encounters between lifeworlds. Finally, it proposes that the indigenous sensibilities of interconnectedness and their visions of reconciliation can contribute constructively to enrich global Christianity.","PeriodicalId":43627,"journal":{"name":"Practical Theology","volume":"16 1","pages":"205 - 218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42401742","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":"Sexual misconduct amongst evangelical leaders: a practical theological reflection","authors":"I. Hussey","doi":"10.1080/1756073x.2023.2168228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073x.2023.2168228","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43627,"journal":{"name":"Practical Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42728360","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}