Robinson Crusoe Tries Again

Missiology and European Constructions of 'Self' and 'Other' in a Global World 1789-2010

by Werner Ustorf, edited by Roland Loffler

Book cover: Robinson Crusoe Tries Again

Extent: 271 pages

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Research in Contemporary Religion

Series volume number: 9

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(October 2010)

ISBN: 9783525604441

Price: $99.00

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Due to the critical thinking of the Enlightment and to political changes, Christianity in Europe has lost its central position in society. Werner Ustorf, for nearly thrirty years one of the leading missiologists world-wide, not only analyses the interaction of mission and individual, the construction of Self and Other in the context of mission. He also proves the analytic strength of theology in order to conceptualise the future of the Christian experience in Europe. Ustorf shows that apart from the primal dimension of faith even in a traditional way, the validity of non-religious interpretation, and critical trust in transcendence will be the core-elements of the new interculturation of Christianity in Europe.

  • By (author) Werner Ustorf
  • Edited by Roland Loffler