Theological Empowerment of Lay Leaders: A Citizen Science Project in Switzerland and Austria
The present research project addresses the question of how the theological literacy and agency of volunteer church leaders can be fostered so that cooperative church leadership can be achieved. The Protestant Churches of the Canton of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and Austria, together with the Centre fo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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| In: |
Ecclesial practices
Year: 2021, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 185-198 |
| Further subjects: | B
participatory citizen science
B church development B Lay leaders B theological literacy B Qualitative Research B theological empowerment B collaborative theology B citizen science approach as methods of theological empowerment |
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| Summary: | The present research project addresses the question of how the theological literacy and agency of volunteer church leaders can be fostered so that cooperative church leadership can be achieved. The Protestant Churches of the Canton of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and Austria, together with the Centre for Church Development of the University of Zurich, designed a participatory research process. The aim was to increase the communicative and participative competence of volunteers. Together, through a creative and discursive process, the foundations, educational processes and tools necessary for theological empowerment were developed with the volunteer church leaders. The cooperative project combines research and practice in the sense that practitioners were actively involved in generating, evaluating and discussing the data. In addition, in this project we found ways to continue participatory research – for example through online discourse formats – and thus not lose the essence of such research in times of covid-19. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-4471 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ecclesial practices
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22144471-bja10028 |