#interfaith Network. A Study of Interreligious Relations on Twitter (en Inglés) - Lea Stolz

Although there has been substantial interest in interreligious and online phenomena in religion-related research in recent years, their intersection has rarely been addressed. One important reason seems to be that online interreligiosity has been assessed with the dialogue paradigm, leading to results that are too volatile or even too conflictual to meet its elaborate standards. In contrast, this study opts for an empirical approach that is more closely tailored to the data. Focusing on Twitter, it has gathered all 25,000 English tweets from 2020 that included the #interfaith hashtag, and analyses them by means of a network analysis. This allows to appreciate the variety of users and map their complex relational structures within the architecture of the platform all while accounting for their different modes of use. Hence, this book not only adds new findings to an under-researched field. It also offers a methodological framework that makes visible those interreligious relations which would otherwise remain unnoticed.

Practical Theology reflects in its sub-disciplines the conditions of how Christianity constitutes itself in the modern age. It is increasingly perceived in a dual hermeneutic of culture and religion. The series Practical Theology in the Discourse of the Humanities aims to make a significant contribution to the fundamental research and critical reflexivity of the discipline by pursuing an encyclopaedic dialogue with systematic theology, including theological ethics, and at the same time engaging in interdisciplinary conversations with philosophical and theoretical cultural approaches.

Die Praktische Theologie bildet die neuzeitlichen Konstitutionsbedingungen des Christentums in sich ab. Ihre Handlungsfelder werden zunehmend in einer kultur- und religionshermeneutischen Perspektive wahrgenommen. Die Reihe Praktische Theologie im Wissenschaftsdiskurs will einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Grundlagenforschung und zur kritischen Selbstreflexion des Faches leisten, indem sie zugleich das enzyklopädische Gespräch mit der Systematischen Theologie inklusive der theologischen Ethik und das interdisziplinäre Gespräch mit philosophischen und kulturtheoretischen Ansätzen verfolgt.