Externalizing Faith: Countering Individualism Through an Embodied Emphasis
While the importance of an embodied theology has been recognized, in light of recent literature that sees a growing modern-day shift from emancipated individuality to ideological individualism, the aim of this article is to deepen the theological reflection on the urgent need for a more intentional...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publishing
[2021]
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Studia liturgica
Year: 2021, Volume: 51, Issue: 1, Pages: 86-102 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Faith
/ Individualism
/ Religious experience
/ Embodiment
/ Community
/ Religious pedagogy
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality NBN Ecclesiology RB Church office; congregation RF Christian education; catechetics |
| Further subjects: | B
Experience
B Worship B Pedagogy B Religious Knowledge B Individualism B Embodiment B Body B Community |
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| Summary: | While the importance of an embodied theology has been recognized, in light of recent literature that sees a growing modern-day shift from emancipated individuality to ideological individualism, the aim of this article is to deepen the theological reflection on the urgent need for a more intentional embodied emphasis. This strategic approach is particularly significant, since in spite of the current challenge there remains a tendency toward a disembodied, anti-liturgical orientation that prioritizes words and cognition, locating theological truth on the inside of the autonomous individual thinking subject, who remains free to either accept or reject its propositional content. Drawing from relevant literature that provides a conceptual framework, this article argues that especially in today’s context, an overt emphasis on the externalization of faith and the embodiment of theological normatives performed together in community offers more promising pedagogical effectiveness. A bodily focus is principally important since it provides an experiential platform for the communal enactment and consequent appropriation of religious knowledge, thus potentially circumventing the present challenge of increasingly rigid individualism. |
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| ISSN: | 2517-4797 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studia liturgica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0039320720981172 |