Product Description: In the western world, there is a change in religion. Some researchers speak of a general secularisation in the sense of a decline of religion in general. Other researchers claim that religion, represented by the dominant churches in particular, are losing importance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The picture that pastors have of themselves and of their experiences in the ministry is ambivalent. On the one hand they find the pastoral work which they perform meaningful, important and relevant. On the other hand pastors suffer from chronic stress of some sort, caused by different factors on the micro, meso and macro level of religion, church and society...read more

Product Description: Everywhere in the western world the process of secularization leads to the decline of faith in God. The concept of secularization itself, however, has come under attack by critics who believe that it does not adequately account for processes which may be part of a certain renascence, as marginal and unrecognized as it may be, of belief in God...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The inaugural volume in the Studies In Practical Theology series, Formation of the Moral Self provides a foundational understanding of the process of moral development and the structures of education that help initiate it.Johannes van der Ven here distinguishes between two modes of informal moral education (discipline and socialization) and fives modes of formal education (transmission, development, clarification, emotional formation, and character formation)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This important volume for students of ecclesiology, professors, ministers, and church staff members applies theological and social-scientific approaches to the development of practical models and stragegies for the church's interaction with modern society.