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"Faith Is Like Dancing - and you determine the way and the rhythm!"
Faith does not mean blindly following rules, but rather engaging with your heart, hands and mind: with yourself, with other people and with the world.
This training guide for developing religious competencies for Christians as well as teachers and learners in religious education and in child and youth welfare invites reflection: It encourages and accompanies on the way to decisive personal and social skills that everyone needs to be able to live faith and charity authentically.
Twelve concrete learning areas show: The ability to engage in dialog, empathy, critical thinking and reflection, gender sensitivity, self-acceptance, ethical action and others can and must be learned - in religious education classes, in self-study, in theology internships, in the community and in everyday life.
A book for all those who not only want to learn their faith, but want to live it: flexibly, courageously and with joy in love for others. Because those who truly live their faith do not just dance according to foreign, dogmatic rules, but also move in tune and self-confidently in harmony with the rhythm of their own life: faith is like the joy of dancing! - and this "coordination work" can be learned.
About the author
Eureka Circe:
Eureka Circe is the editor and curator of the book series "DEUS EX MACHINA" and the present volume "Faith Is Like Dancing - Moved by faith to grow as a Christian. Training Guide for Developing Religious Competencies. Deus Ex Machina - Part III."
Also published are: "DEUS EX MACHINA - Or: On questioning life" (Part I), "Homecoming from the Pope - A Quintessence of Charity" (Part II), "I will be a female bishop! - The Basics of Sermons on Happiness and other religious policy field analyses" (Part IV).
With the work "DEUS EX MACHINA", the curator is committed to documenting and, if necessary, discussing the texts of artificial intelligence in a religious and theological context. Her thesis: "Artificial intelligence (AI) represents a profound turning point because it fundamentally changes the relationship between humans, knowledge and access to the world - not only technically, but also culturally, epistemologically and socially. It opens up new access to knowledge and leads to its multiplication and democratization: AI systems make information available at a low threshold - often without traditional reading or in-depth prior knowledge. This fundamentally changes how we think, learn and understand, and at the same time promotes a new form of individualization of thought - which can also be exemplified by spiritual belief. What's more, machines are now generating meaning - texts, images, arguments - where previously only human expertise was required. This has long-term consequences for education, science, politics and religion."
