This biannual learning unit is being organized in 2024-2025
Teacher(s)
Language
French
Main themes
These objectives will be achieved after
- an introduction to current processes (secularism, individualism) with pastoral consequences and theological questions ;
- an introduction to characteristics of evangelization in the present Occident;
- an analysis of a specific pastoral question with current challenges to Churches.
- an introduction to current processes (secularism, individualism) with pastoral consequences and theological questions ;
- an introduction to characteristics of evangelization in the present Occident;
- an analysis of a specific pastoral question with current challenges to Churches.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
| 1 | - analyse theologicaly the secularism and individualism in religious field in the Occident ; |
| 2 | - understand the main theological challenges in current changes in social and religious life ; |
| 3 | - improve the mission of Churches as evangelization today in the post-modern life. |
Content
The concrete topic of this course changes every year. Please refer to the French version for uptodate information.
Other information
Notes will be supplied to the students as the support for their participation in the courses and for their personal research.
To support their work of appropriation and of research, the professor will supply an adequate bibliography, mainly but not exclusively in French language.
To support their work of appropriation and of research, the professor will supply an adequate bibliography, mainly but not exclusively in French language.
Bibliography
Anthony Egan, “Moral Theological approaches to Religious Engagement with the public square in the light of secularization,” St. Augustine Papers 12, no.2 (2011): 57-78.
Denis Villepelet, “Essai de problématisation de la nouvelle évangélisation,” Revue Lumen Vitae LXVII, no.2 (2012): 143-152.
Gert Pickel, “Secularization as a European Fate? Results from the Church and Religion in an Enlarged Europe Project 2006,” 89-122 in Gert Pickel and Olaf Müller, eds., Church and Religion in Contemporary Europe: Results from Empirical and Comparative Research (Wiesbaden: GWV Fachverlage GmbH, 2009).
Hugh McLeod, “Four Strategies for Resisting Secularization,” Usuteaduslik Ajakiri 63, no.1 (2013): 45- 61.
Jan Lauwers, “Les théories sociologiques concernant la sécularisation-Typologie et critique,” Social Compass 20, no.4 (1973): 523-533.
Jerry M. Ireland, “The Secularizing and Anti-Secularizing Potential of African Pentecostals,” Occasional Bulletin (2019): 38-54.
José Casanova, “Rethinking Secularization: A Global Comparative Perspective,” 101-120 Religion, Globalization and Culture Vol.6 (Brill, 2007)/ “Repenser la sécularisation: Une perspective comparative mondiale”
Karel Dobbelaere, “De la sécularisation,” Revue théologique de Louvain 39 (2008): 177-196.
Nathalie Becquart, “Évangéliser la génération CO,” Revue Lumen Vitae LXXIII, no.2 (2018): 151-159.
Piotr Musiewicz, Secularization, the New Phase of Evangelization and Pope Francis’ Idea of an Ecclesiastical University,” Roczniki Teologiczne 1 (2023): 7-25.
Extra bibliographie
Peter L. Berger, “Secularization and de-secularization,” 336-344 in Linda Woodhead, et al eds., Religions in the Modern World (London: Routledge, 2002)
Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007)
James K.A. Smith, How (Not) to be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014)
Loek Halman and Veerle Draulans, “How Secular is Europe?,” The British Journal of Sociology 57, no.2 (2006): 263-288.
Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart, Sacred and Secular, Second Edition: Religion and Politics Worldwide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Gabriel Ringlet, L’Evangile d’un libre penseur: Dieu serait-il laïque? (Paris: Albin Michel, 1998)
Jean-Gilles Lowies, et al, La laïcité à l’œuvre et à l’épreuve (Liège: Presses universtaires de Liège, 2021)
Denis Villepelet, “Essai de problématisation de la nouvelle évangélisation,” Revue Lumen Vitae LXVII, no.2 (2012): 143-152.
Gert Pickel, “Secularization as a European Fate? Results from the Church and Religion in an Enlarged Europe Project 2006,” 89-122 in Gert Pickel and Olaf Müller, eds., Church and Religion in Contemporary Europe: Results from Empirical and Comparative Research (Wiesbaden: GWV Fachverlage GmbH, 2009).
Hugh McLeod, “Four Strategies for Resisting Secularization,” Usuteaduslik Ajakiri 63, no.1 (2013): 45- 61.
Jan Lauwers, “Les théories sociologiques concernant la sécularisation-Typologie et critique,” Social Compass 20, no.4 (1973): 523-533.
Jerry M. Ireland, “The Secularizing and Anti-Secularizing Potential of African Pentecostals,” Occasional Bulletin (2019): 38-54.
José Casanova, “Rethinking Secularization: A Global Comparative Perspective,” 101-120 Religion, Globalization and Culture Vol.6 (Brill, 2007)/ “Repenser la sécularisation: Une perspective comparative mondiale”
Karel Dobbelaere, “De la sécularisation,” Revue théologique de Louvain 39 (2008): 177-196.
Nathalie Becquart, “Évangéliser la génération CO,” Revue Lumen Vitae LXXIII, no.2 (2018): 151-159.
Piotr Musiewicz, Secularization, the New Phase of Evangelization and Pope Francis’ Idea of an Ecclesiastical University,” Roczniki Teologiczne 1 (2023): 7-25.
Extra bibliographie
Peter L. Berger, “Secularization and de-secularization,” 336-344 in Linda Woodhead, et al eds., Religions in the Modern World (London: Routledge, 2002)
Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007)
James K.A. Smith, How (Not) to be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014)
Loek Halman and Veerle Draulans, “How Secular is Europe?,” The British Journal of Sociology 57, no.2 (2006): 263-288.
Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart, Sacred and Secular, Second Edition: Religion and Politics Worldwide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Gabriel Ringlet, L’Evangile d’un libre penseur: Dieu serait-il laïque? (Paris: Albin Michel, 1998)
Jean-Gilles Lowies, et al, La laïcité à l’œuvre et à l’épreuve (Liège: Presses universtaires de Liège, 2021)
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