Erica Meijers
I have always worked in places where different disciplines meet, like theology and politics, art and history or journalism and science. That is what interests me: crossing borders between people, disciplines and professions in a creative way. In my academic work I am interested in intersections between diakonia, missology, the history of slavery, contemporary racism, eucharist and mealsharing, food industry and urban theology.
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This paper first provides some basic background on the PCR and then describes three theological positions in relation to reconciliation that shaped the discussions around racism. Based on these historical insights, the article summarizes the experiences and insights of the PCR in three major points, and discusses their relevance for today’s conversation on church, diaconia, and racism. The paper argues that commitment, the transfer of power, and the value of discomfort provide important theological and practical insights for today’s debate.
Eerdere kerkelijke discussies over deze thematiek in de jaren zeventig van de twintigste eeuw vormen een goed aanknopingspunt om deze vragen na decennialange stilte opnieuw te doordenken voor de hedendaagse context. Daarbij gaat het om commitment, de overdracht van macht en de waarde van ongemak.
This paper first provides some basic background on the PCR and then describes three theological positions in relation to reconciliation that shaped the discussions around racism. Based on these historical insights, the article summarizes the experiences and insights of the PCR in three major points, and discusses their relevance for today’s conversation on church, diaconia, and racism. The paper argues that commitment, the transfer of power, and the value of discomfort provide important theological and practical insights for today’s debate.
Eerdere kerkelijke discussies over deze thematiek in de jaren zeventig van de twintigste eeuw vormen een goed aanknopingspunt om deze vragen na decennialange stilte opnieuw te doordenken voor de hedendaagse context. Daarbij gaat het om commitment, de overdracht van macht en de waarde van ongemak.
In deze lezing gaat het, in drie werkplaatsen, om vragen rond identiteit en diversiteit.
De eerste werkplaats zoekt naar de ongrijpbare, getormenteerde ziel van Europa. De tweede werkplaats onderzoekt vragen rondom het explosieve woord 'volk' in relatie tot de woorden demos en populus en ontwikkelt een bij de ziel van Europa passende opvatting van 'volk'. In de derde werkplaats gaat het om de omgang met de Europese geschiedenis als een balans tussen afstand en nabijheid.
In this collection of essays, politicians, scientists and journalists from different parts of Europe take up the urgent challenge of analysing what is going on in our societies today. The authors try to formulate the questions Green parties in particular have to answer when it comes to combating these ‘fantasts of simplification’, as Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Edouard Gaudot call the populists in their contribution.
Rightwing populism, this volume reveals, poses the great challenge to Green parties all over Europe to review their own political concepts and narratives. If they intend to be of significance for the future of Europe, they will have to offer a real alternative to populism in our pluralistic and unruly European reality.
This book is an exercise in transgressing our own national, political and intellectual borders, and is as such already a retort to populism.
As a consequence, there have been fierce debates on issues such as ritual slaughtering, homosexual teachers in schools, the wearing of the headscarf in public institutions and the relationship between Islam and terrorism.
In this publication, Green politicians from different European contexts reflect on the way their own religious or secular values influence their political attitude; the role of religion in the public forum; conflicts between fundamental rights, such as the freedom of religion and the principle of sexual and gender equality; the role of Islam in Europe and the question whether religion is a source of inspiration or an obstacle for Green politics.
lthough Green parties often have an uneasy relationship to religion, the debate about values, religious or secular, cannot be escaped within a Europe haunted by many different crises at the same time. This publication is an invitation to work towards a more coherent debate within the Greens on the changing role of religion in society.