Positive Loss and Tragic Memory: On the Preservation of Community
Theologies of disaster have to recognize exceptional disasters in the framework of a general human exposure to vulnerability, while engaging in the formation of human and religious resilience. Resilience is about “bouncing back and forward” in and through precautionary and self-adaptive responses to...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2017]
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Dialog
Year: 2017, Volume: 56, Issue: 4, Pages: 361-372 |
| IxTheo Classification: | NBC Doctrine of God NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
religious resilience
B community of living and dead B disaster studies B Tragedy |
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| Summary: | Theologies of disaster have to recognize exceptional disasters in the framework of a general human exposure to vulnerability, while engaging in the formation of human and religious resilience. Resilience is about “bouncing back and forward” in and through precautionary and self-adaptive responses to disasters. Drawing up a distinction between personal tragedies and socially shared disasters, the basic argument is that the reconnection of disrupted communities lies at the center of both tragedy and disaster. This article describes a post-secular theology of tragedy and disaster that mainly stays in a vernacular language, referring to basic assumptions of the gospel while refraining from using the heavier repertoires of Christian doctrine. |
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| ISSN: | 1540-6385 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dialog
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/dial.12356 |