TY - JOUR A1 - Keul, Hildegund T1 - Vulnerability, vulnerance and resilience — spiritual abuse and sexual violence in new spiritual communities JF - Religions N2 - In February 2017, Braz de Aviz, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, acknowledged in an interview that some 70 “new spiritual movements” were under investigation for abusive behavior committed by their founders. The number of cases that remain undetected is probably large. This article uses the example of these communities to analyze the precarious tension between vulnerability, vulnerance, and resilience. It draws on Céline Hoyeau's excellent study of those founders of new spiritual movements in France who were later exposed as abusers. It also presents my research on the sacred in its dangerous connection to the victimizing sacrifice. My basic thesis is that exploring the link between vulnerability and resilience is not enough. Rather, vulnerance needs to be systematically included in the analyses. This new approach opens up a more complex understanding of abuse, cover-ups, and disclosure. It can tackle both the vulnerant resilience of the perpetrators and the voluntary vulnerability of survivors in disclosing abuse. KW - vulnerability KW - vulnerance KW - resilience KW - sexual and spiritual abuse KW - sacrifice KW - the sacred KW - non-survivors KW - spiritual communities KW - “other-power” KW - vulnerability paradox KW - expenditure paradox Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-275264 SN - 2077-1444 VL - 13 IS - 5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klug, Florian T1 - The Theologian’s Socratic Role in today’s Scientific World JF - Doctrine & Life N2 - In the scientific search for truth, the correspondence theory is predominant to decipher what counts as true. In this approach, scientific knowledge becomes empirically demonstrable and thus enclosed to the sphere of immanence. However, in theology’s approach to question the given status of being human and the world’s development as creation, theology does not adhere to answers that are contained within the sphere of demonstrable knowledge or mundanity, and thereby theology presents a fundamentally different conception of truth, Jesus Christ the living truth. In opposition to drawing on empirical proof, I want to reread Christian theology in a Socratic manner that employs irony to question overly simple methodologies and seek further insights what it means to be human and be engaged in the scientific search for truth if the authority of knowledge does not lie within humanity’s grasp. In doing so, theology’s role is an annoying, yet necessary irritation within the field of today’s academia. KW - catholicism KW - irony KW - theory of science KW - Socrates KW - truth Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-303554 SN - 0012-4664 VL - 73 IS - 2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Unser, Alexander A1 - Ziebertz, Hans-Georg T1 - The impact of religion and national origin on attitudes towards refugee rights: an international comparative empirical study JF - Religions N2 - This paper is concerned with the rights of refugees. The refugee issue has been an acutely charged item on the political agenda for several years. Although the great waves of influx have flattened out, people are continually venturing into Europe. Europe’s handling of refugees has been subject to strong criticism, and the accusation that various actions contradict internationally agreed law is particularly serious. It remains a question of how to respond appropriately to the influx of people fearing for their lives. This paper examines empirically how young people from different denominations in Germany (n = 2022) and how Roman Catholics from 10 countries (n = 5363) evaluate refugee rights. It also investigates whether individual religiosity moderates the influence of denomination or national context. The results show that there are no significant differences between respondents from different denominations, but there are significant differences between respondents from different countries. However, religiosity was not found to moderate the influence of denomination or national context. These findings suggest that attitudes towards refugee rights depend more on the national context in which people live rather than on their religious affiliation or individual religiosity. KW - refugees KW - human rights KW - religion KW - comparative empirical research KW - youth Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-207923 SN - 2077-1444 VL - 11 IS - 6 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kalbheim, Boris A1 - Ziebertz, Hans-Georg T1 - Säkular – mehr als „nichtreligiös“? JF - International Journal of Practical Theology N2 - There is hardly an autonomous description of those who do not belong to a religious denomination and who don't regard themselves as religious in a traditional way. The terms “non-denominational” and “non-religious” implicate a dissociation from the historically traditional concept of religion, but they do not offer any alternative ideological communalities. This article discusses the option of a “secular worldview” and investigates whether religious and non-religious respondents differ in their attitudes on selected human rights – and if so, to what extent. The empirical study (N=2244) shows that human rights are supported by all young people, athough in some cases with differing emphases. In basic terms, we can discern a common worldview or ‘Weltanschauung’ of secular respondents. This is recognizable as an approval of the intrinsic value of the Other as well as a recognition of norms set by public society. N2 - Für Menschen ohne Religionszugehörigkeit und religiöses Selbstverständnis liegt kaum eine Beschreibung jenseits negativer Abgrenzungen von traditioneller Religion vor, wie sie in den Begriffen „nichtreligiös“ und „konfessionslos“ zum Ausdruck kommen. Der Aufsatz untersucht die Option eines säkularen „worldview“ und fragt, ob und in welchem Maß religiöse und nichtreligiöse Studienteilnehmer sich in ihrer Haltung zu Menschenrechten unterscheiden. Die empirische Studie (N=2244) zeigt, dass Menschenrechte bei jungen Menschen bei unterschiedlichen Akzentsetzungen durchweg auf Zustimmung stoßen. In Umrissen tritt dabei ein gemeinsamer „worldview“ oder eine „Weltanschauung“ der säkularen Befragten hervor, die in der Anerkennung des intrinsischen Wertes des Anderen und gesellschaftlich gesetzter Normen besteht. KW - Secularity KW - worldview KW - human rights KW - Säkularität KW - Weltanschauung KW - Menschenrechte Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-194408 SN - 1612-9768 SN - 1430-6921 N1 - Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. VL - 21 IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ziebertz, Hans-Georg T1 - Introduction to the special issue: Religion and human rights: complementary or contrary JF - Religions N2 - No abstract available KW - human rights Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-228798 SN - 2077-1444 VL - 12 IS - 2 ER -