The article reports about an international conference in Frankfurt (Germany) with presentations by Nancy Ammerman, Marc Chaves (both USA), Jörg Stolz (Switzerland), Henk de Roest (Netherlands) and Aiming Wang (China). The important contributions by quantitative empirical comparative congregational studies and by qualitative empirical case studies are highlighted. A global study is to be desired. The path of a first study by the "Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut der EKD" on the perception of elders in the parishes of this nationwide Protestant church in Germany is to be further pursued. The importance of case studies should be realised as a field of research and also a tool of church development. The older literature relevant to this field of research, which was often published in somewhat hidden publications, also needs to be identified.
Enthalten in:
Pastoraltheologie; 2016/6 Monatsschrift für Wissenschaft und Praxis in Kirche und Gesellschaft
(2016)
Serie / Reihe: Pastoraltheologie
Personen: Hauschildt, Eberhard
Hauschildt, Eberhard:
Kirchengemeindeforschung - Congregational Studies : Ergebnisse und Herausforderungen in einem neu entdeckten Feld religionssoziologischer und praktisch-theologischer Aufmerksamkeit / Eberhard Hauschildt, 2016. - S.246-261 - (Pastoraltheologie) Kirche und Gemeinde - Herkunft und Gestalten der Zukunft
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