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Schedule of Papers Sessions

Friday, June 13th

Papers Session 1

11:00 am to 12:30 pm

 

Room

Theme: Nostalgia

Presenters:

  1. Alfred Brundson - Negotiating nostalgia: A pastoral reflection on the notion of ‘home’ within the context of displacement on the African continent

  2. Anthony Jude - Double Belonging and Homecoming: Towards A True Homeland in God

  3. Valburga Schmiedt + Júlio Cézar Adam - Practical Theology and Climate Emergency: reflections from Latin America

  4. Kaia Ronsdal - Performing Home

 

Room:

Theme: Hospitality

Presenters:

  1. Blanches de Paula - Communities of Care: Places of Consolation, Hope, and Hospitality for People Grieving Due to Displacement

  2. Eliana AhRum Ku - Eliana Ah-Rum Ku: Becoming Home to a New Professional Identity - Spiritual Care in Healthcare Environments

  3. Elis Eichener - “Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers” (Dtn 10,19). Practical-Theological Reflections on the Public Role of the Protestant Church in Germany in Migration Debates

  4. Gideon Sam Simeon Pulraj - Breaking Bread, Building Bridges: Global Hunger and the Theology of Hospitality

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Room:

Theme: Community and Identity

Presenters:

  1. Danielle Hanson - The Emigrant: Reflections Dis-Located Home and Inheritance

  2. Patricia Santos -Experiencing community at-homeness in the ongoing transitions: Religious Life as an ever-evolving journey

  3. Marnie D. Racaza - Finding a “Home Place” Elsewhere: Encountering the “Syn-hodal God” in Faith-Based Centers of Care for Women Victim-Survivors of Family Violence

  4. Auli Vähäkangas - Afro-Catholics negotiating their identities in Finland

 

Room:

Theme: Home, Land and Covenant

Presenters:

  1. Christian Scharen -On being (un)settled as a white practical theologian

  2. Doug Gay - 'This land was made for you and me' - a theology of homeland

  3. Julian Paparella - Lessons from listening to Indigenous families: Unsettling settler colonialism and making theology hospitable

  4. Nancy Ramsay - Settler Colonialism: intersectional reflections on power


​Room:

Theme: Doing research in practical theology: how to learn and how to supervise?

Presenters:

  1. Jos de Kock

  2. Nevin Reda

  3. Wonjong Horace Lee

  4. Jaco Dreyer

  5. Mirella Klomp

 

Room:

Theme: Digital Worship

Presenters:

  1. Shaun Joynt - Online religious community homes: Sacred substitute, supplement, or symbiosis?

  2. Uta Pohl-Patalong - Digital church as a church home

  3. Simon Linder - Towards a 'theology of digitality'

  4. Ilonka Terlouw - The Digitalization of Christian Prayer Life in the Light of Secularization, the Decline of the Church and the Prayer Crisis

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Room:

Theme: Intergenerational discourses and practices

Presenters:

  1. Kevin Muriithi Ndereba - Leading Youth Homeward: Mental Health Resilience through an African Theology of Hospitality

  2. Aizaiah G. Yong - Exploring the Impacts of Self-Compassion on Self-Efficacy in BIPOC Parents

  3. Ann Gillian Chu - Left-Behind Elderly Parents: Psychology-informed Theology and the Recent Hong Kong Migration Wave (2020 onwards)

  4. Carlton Turner - Necessary Interdisciplinary Reflections? Psychological Research and the Church of England's Theology around Racism

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Room:

Theme: Identity, Home, and Religious Education

Presenters:

  1. Ana Thea Filipovic - The theological and anthropological significance of the symbolism of home in the process of building the identity of students in Catholic religious education

  2. Victor Aldrin - Fostering Hope in a Displaced World: The Role of Practical Theology and Religious Education in Addressing Climate Change

  3. Eunjin Jeon - Negotiating Belonging and Justice: The Bahb-Sang as a Cultural Nexus in Shaping Korean and Korean American Identities

  4. Hee Ann Choi - Transforming Displacement Experience In-Between Forming Korean Immigrant Identity and Reforming Asian Immigrant Positionality

Sunday, June 15th

Papers Session 2

10:00 am to 11:30 pm

 

Room:

Theme: At Home in Practical Theology

Presenters:

  1. Dara Straub - ​​Unspoken “homes” in theological knowledge production? – the role of hidden certainties within the theological knowledge hegemonies

  2. Edward Foley - The Homiletic Brain: Neuroscience meets Roman Catholic Preaching

  3. Jaco Dreyer - Practical theology and context: reflections on place and space as central notions in practical theological theory and research

  4. Manuel Stetter - Defamiliarizing Familiarities. Some Reflections on the Epistemology of Practical Theology

 

Room:

Theme: Youth

Presenters:

  1. Eser Kim - Youth Church Group is My Home or am I a Houseguest

  2. Jeane Stevenson Moesner - Transplanting the Bicultural Child: Portable Roots

  3. Almeda Wright + Sarah Bixler - Nurturing Secure Attachment at Home to Support Faith

  4. Bradley Steward - Home as a Locus of Christian Action among Young Urban Québécois

 

 

Room:

Theme: Sacred Places; Lived Faith

Presenters:

  1. Casten Schuerhoff - Reconciliation and universalism as basis of a We and Home?

  2. Jeane Peracullo - The Wandering Virgin of the Vanishing River: Home and Homelessness in Disaster and Recovery Discourse in the Devotion to Virgen de Caysasay

  3. Stefan Altmeyer + Henrik Simojoki - Empowering Voices in Ecumenical Engagement: An Empirical Exploration of Grassroots Practice as “Lived Theology” in Germany.

  4. Sini Hulmi - Sacred places as home of the community

 

Room:

Theme: Home and Practical Theology

Presenters:

  1. Kent Annan - Finding Home in Embodied Humanitarian Theology: Life Writing about God at the Intersection of Displacement, Suffering, and Giving and Receiving Aid

  2. Olehile A. Buffel - A Practical theological investigation of the inextricable link of Africans, their land, their spirituality, and sense of belonging: A Practical Theological Perspective

  3. Rober Mager - Is a Christian-inspired practical theology well-equipped to deal with dwelling and displacement?

  4. ​Mirjam Schambeck + Fahimah Ulfat - "Home" as a social space and religion as a potential code to construct it

 

Room:

Theme: Migration

Presenters:

  1. Christopher Magezi -Transience, temporariness and permanence of home: A practical theological reflection to migration

  2. Elvir Ciceklic - "At Home" in the Trinity: Toward a Trinitarian Logic for Migration and Hospitality

  3. Felix Roleder - Who is less afraid of refugees? Exploring Religious, Cultural, and Economic Predictors of Attitudes Toward Immigration in the Face of Rising Populism in Germany

  4. Joyce Ann Mercer - At Home In a World on Fire: Children, Climate Migration, and Practical Theology

 

Room:

Theme: Being at home in the everyday: Resisting Theologies and the Everyday

Presenters: PANEL

  1. Wren Radford

  2. Heather Walton

  3. Néstor Medina

 

Room:

Theme: Ecology

Presenters:

  1. Hee-Kyu Heidi Park - My Home is Sacrifice Zone: Practical Theological Eschatology on the Climate Justice Protest Site

  2. Mai-Ahn Le Tran - Practical Theology on the Edge of Heaven and Earth: Geocolonial Places for Homo Viator

  3. Yara González-Justiniano - Facing Evil: Fostering virtues of communal autonomy and ecological justice

 

Room:

Theme: Spirituality

Presenters:

  1. Jinsook Kwon -Leaving Home; (Re)Finding Spiritual Home: Narratives About the Pastoral Experience of Korean Trainee Pastors.

  2. Júlio César Adam + Clairton Puntel - Buen vivir as a path to (be) coming home in Brazil: a dialog with Practical Theology, Spirituality and Psychology

  3. Nevin Reda - Christian Practical Theology and Islam: Disciplinary Intersections and Opportunities for Growth

  4. Sabrina Müller - Home is Where the Smartphone Is? Redefining Spirituality in the Digital Age

Sunday, June 15th

Papers Session 3

1:30 - 3:00 pm

 

Room:

Theme: Home and Denomination

Presenters:

  1. Annemie Dillen - Feeling at home in Catholic communities. Practical theological reflections on balancing acts, split loyalties and hospitality

  2. Dave Csinos + Becca Whitla - Dual Citizenship, Ecclesial Polyamory, or an Open Marriage? Making Sense of Ecumenism, Denominationality, and Belonging

  3. Clementine Nishimwe + Auli Vähäkangas - “This is the challenge for us Africans”: Reproducing a Sense of Home for African Catholics in Finland

  4. Ross Lockhart - Home Alone?

 

Room:

Theme: Migration

Presenters:

  1. Vhumani Magezi - Science and art of being at home among migrants: a practical theological perspective of existing and coping at an in-between space

  2. Mahmoud Abdallah - Between Religious and Social Rootlessness and Hope. Islamic Spiritual Care for Refugee

  3. Trygve Wyller - A theology for, and with, irregularized (undocumented) people

 

Room:

Theme: Resistance, Reconciliation, & Restoration

Presenters:

  1. Oholiabs Tuduks - COMMUNAL CRISES IN GOMBE SOUTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT, GOMBE STATE NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING FROM THE AFTERMATH

  2. Joel Agpalo + Carolyn Soliven Tejedo - Megachurches and Public Life: How Megachurch Congregants See Life as a Whole and How Do they Live Out their Faith in Public Life?

  3. Sarah Kernan (remotely) - ‘This Train is Bound for Glory’: A Practical Theological Exploration of Community-Organized Meal Trains in the Era of Food Delivery

  4. Stephy Joseph -

 

Room:

Theme: Spiritual and Pastoral Care

Presenters:

  1. Antonia Elisa Lüdtke - Digitality - a "home" for pastoral care

  2. Elaine Champagne - Becoming Home to a New Professional Identity - Spiritual Care in Healthcare Environments

  3. Marko Jesse - “I go and prepare a place for you” - Home in current German funeral speeches

  4. Suvi-Maria Saarelainen + Jonna Ojalammi - The Evolving Concept of Home in Later Life: Security, Identity, and Existential Challenges Among Finnish Older People

 

Room:

Theme: Fostering Community Flourishing through Engaging with Indigenous Understandings of Home and Treaty

Presenters:

  1. Adrian Jacobs

  2. Ray Aldred

  3. Rangi Nicholson

  4. Anne-Marie Ellithorpe

 

Room:

Theme: Mental Health & Disability

Presenters:

  1. Collins Ikeokwo Nwafor - Restoring Belonging: The Role of Faith Communities in Addressing Thwarted Belongingness and Suicide Prevention

  2. Corey Parish - “I am Corey, and I am here”:  Finding My Place with Autism

  3. Ma. Karen Papellero - “(Not) at home in my body”: Exploring a theo-poetics of post-traumatic recovery

  4. Talitha Cooreman-Guittin

 

Room:

Theme: Empirical Methods in Practical Theology in Postcolonial Perspective

Presenters:

  1. Sabrina Müller

  2. Ulrich Riegel

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Room:

Theme: Homiletics, Liturgy, and Song

Presenters:

  1. Andrew Rogers - "Welcome Home": theological reflections on singing the creeds

  2. Chia-An Tung - Harmony in Displacement: Rebuilding a Spiritual and Cultural Home through the Better Homeland Worship Choir.

  3. Ferdi Kruger - A homiletical-liturgical perspective on the phenomenon of memoricide alluding to the graveness of re-membered memories.

  4. Hye Lim Yoon - Finding Home in Cross-Cultural Ministry: Analysis of Trauma-informed Preaching that Brings Solidarity and Homeliness

Monday, June 16th

Papers Session 4

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

 

Room:

Theme: Trauma and Ecology

Presenters:

  1. Pam McCarroll - Seeking home amid climate change: dislocation, eco-grief and practices toward "homing"

  2. Calista Onubuogu - (Re)building Home through Igwebuike Eco-theological Framework: A Practical Theology Response to Growing Forced Displacement/Migration Crises

  3. Rudy Denton - (Re)building ‘home’ in the face of evil: How can we dare to forgive the existential threats of eco-anxiety and socio-political conflicts?

  4. Gordon E. Dames - Homecoming in and through life and death: A Practical Theology of a realized eschatological praxis

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Room:

Theme: Returning home after ecological self-displacement: Exploring soil as a place for homecoming (4*) PANEL

Presenters:

  1. Mirella Klomp

  2. Marileen Steyn

  3. Thijs Tromop (remotely)

  4. Mariëlle van Es

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Room:

Theme: Pedagogy

Presenters:

  1. Eunjoo Kim - Teaching on Migration: A Practical Theological Approach

  2. Julius Anthony Porqueriño - Home Away from Home? Evaluating and Reimagining Religious Education in Philippine Catholic Schools

  3. Michael Schroth + Kerstin Menzel - Theological education for religious communities in a post-migrant society

  4. Katherine Douglass - Parenting for Faithful Racial, Cultural, and Ethnic Identities

 

Room:

Theme: Displacement

Presenters:

  1. Becky Powell - Home as an Elusive Ethereal Concept

  2. Ebenezer Tettech Kpalam - Practicing caring presence through a relational view of the Trinity: implications for pastoral caregiving in displaced communities of Ghana

  3. Katie Cross - When Church is no longer Home: Navigating ecclesial displacement with church leavers.

  4. John Mohan Razu Indukuri - "Towards Affirming Koinonia in Faith, Life and Witness" In the Context of Displacement ('Second Nakba'--October 7th, 2023} of the Palestinians

 

Room:

Theme: Homelessness, LGBTQAI2+

Presenters:

  1. Dawid Mouton - Finding home: perspectives from the homeless in Stellenbosch, South Africa

  2. Jacques Beukes - “Awê  Homie!” Recognising the homeless! From myself to the current - In conversation with the church and practical theology

  3. Jade Willaert - From Special Treatment to Integrated Church Communities: Catholic Lgbtq+ Ministry Through the Eyes of Flemish Lgbtq+ Individuals

  4. Peter Nickson White - Reimagining Resilience: Community-Led Approaches to Empower Abandoned Women and Children Experiencing Poverty in the Church Communities in Malawi

 

Room:

Theme: Rebuilding Home in the Face of Evil

Presenters:

  1. Amy Casteel - Unsettling ‘Home’: belonging, oppression and migration in communities of worship

  2. Gift Baloyi - A Practical theological reflection on the challenge of poverty and its implications on socio-economic development in South Africa

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