Description
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What is the glue of society? Which forms of sociality help to overcome social needs and poverty? The role of religion and religious institutions is often expected to be relevant with regard to questions like these. But until today, these issues were seldom raised from a theological perspective. This volume wants to open the discourses on social cohesion, social capital formation and social development for the theological debate, presenting theoretical reflections and empirical research by scholars from different religion-related disciplines from the Netherlands, South Africa and Germany.
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Dr. Wilhelm Gräb studierte Evangelische Theologie in Bethel, Göttingen und Heidelberg. Seit 1999 hat er den Lehrstuhl für Praktische Theologie inne und ist Direktor des Instituts für Religionssoziologie und Gemeindeaufbau an der HUB. Seit 2001 ist er Universitätsprediger der Berliner Hochschulen.
