Empirical Research and Normativity in Theology.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART ONE: EXPLANATION ABOUT NORMATIVITY -- Theological Normativity: Ideology or Utopia?: Reflections on the Possible Contribution of Empirical Research -- What You See is What You Get. Social Construction and Normativity in Practical Theology -- Normative Explanation in Practical Theology -- Given through the Senses. A Phenomenological Model of Empirical Theology -- Which Normativity and what Kind of Empirical Research?: From Dualism to Multiple Interplays -- An Empirical or A Normative Approach to Practical-theological Research?: A False Dilemma -- Personality Theory, Empirical Theology and Normativity -- PART TWO: NORMATIVE IMPLICATIONS OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH -- How "Adult" is the Religiosity of Adults?: Normative Implications of Empirical Theological Research into Religious Development in the Second Half of Life -- Normative Implications of Designing Empirical Research: Family Research and Reflective Theological Normativity -- The Position of God Images in the Theoretical Research Model -- Normative Claims in Pastoral Ministry Research -- Empirical Research in Practical Theology as a Strategy of Intervention -- Freedom of Religion as a Meta-norm. Relating Theological and Pedagogical Normativeness in Empirical Research into Religious Education -- Empirical Methodology and Normativity -- List of Authors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.

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