Changing "Diffuse" to "Profiled" Positions by Facing Religious Truth-Claims? Contexts of Belonging as Conditions of Religious "Matching-Processes".

Lorenzen, Stefanie (2017). Changing "Diffuse" to "Profiled" Positions by Facing Religious Truth-Claims? Contexts of Belonging as Conditions of Religious "Matching-Processes". In: Gearon, Liam; Kuusisto, Arniika (eds.) Value Learning Trajectories. Theory, Method, Context (pp. 81-95). Münster: Waxmann Verlag

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This paper presents some results of a research dedicated to the problem of religious “decision-making” as a questionable part of Religious Education. In this article, I analyse what kind of situational conditions are suited to stimulate changing young adults’ (mostly distanced) positions of “religion” and religious commitment. This empirically-based research is situated within a German theoretical discussion about the aims of Religious Education in pluralistic contexts. I start with a brief overview of “undecided” or “diffuse” religiosity as a widespread phenomenon. Second, I give two prominent examples that I consider as representative of the German way of treating this phenomenon of a “diffuse” or “soft” pluralistic stance in didactical theory. Diagnosing a lack of empirical evidence concerning the processes of existential engagement and transformation of attitudes, I give one example of my research that focuses on the concept of social “density” as a condition of further “matching-processes” concerning religion. The analysis also shows that the concept of “belief” as a condition of partaking in “religious” groups can be a severe obstacle for enabling young adults to identify with religious traditions.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	01 Faculty of Theology > Department of Protestant Theology [discontinued] > Institute of Practical Theology [discontinued] > Pastoral Care, Psychology of Religion and Religious Education [discontinued]
UniBE Contributor:	Lorenzen, Stefanie
Subjects:	200 Religion 200 Religion > 240 Christian practice & observance
ISBN:	978-3-8309-3658-9
Publisher:	Waxmann Verlag
Language:	English
Submitter:	Stefanie Lorenzen
Date Deposited:	03 May 2018 10:43
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:11
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/112328