Project Details
Projekt
Hermeneutics of Resilience. Theoretical documentation, supervision and comments on resesarch problems and results
Applicant
Professorin Dr. Cornelia Richter
Subject Area
Protestant Theology
Term
from 2019 to 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 348851031
Task and objective of the project is to support the theoretical interaction within the planned research group by providing theoretical documentation, metatheoretical supervision and accompanying comments on our research problems and results. It's task is to communicate differences and similiarites between our disciplinary approaches for our common interdisciplinary research. The topics therefore emerge from the process of reserach within the group. Topics which have already been identified to be essential for the whole group are (1) the definition of the notion of hermeneutics which will be used for our concept of "hermeneutics of resilience" and of "Resilience-Narratives", including theoretical approaches on narrativity, metaphors and symbolic language as well as on the relation of narration and identity; (2) the definition of the notion of exerpience as an interdisciplinary concept, including both empirical and subjective issues of experience by integrating (a) a wide variety of subjective modes such as rationality, affectivity/emotion, intuition, embodied perception, (b) negotiating the adversive character of experience and its consequences for inter- and intrapersonal responsivity, and (c) the aim for a performative notion of experience. Further topics of investigation will be (3) to explore the notion of medio-passive responsivity, and (4) the relation of a-functional, functional and dysfunctional types of religious and spiritual imaginations, convictions, habits or practice. The topics described above will be dealt with (a) in several shortpapers, papers, statements and internal communiqués providing information on terminology, premises , approaches and theoretical issues wich are state of the art in our various disciplines and need our interdisciplinary discussion and understanding; this task is carried out in constant interaction with all research partners; (b) the material collected during the continous interaction will contribute to the overall objective of a monograph on "Hermeneutics of Resilience".
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