PRAKTIČNA-EMPIRIJSKA TEOLOGIJA KAO TEORIJA RELIGIJSKE PRAKSE: PREDLOG ZA UPOTREBU NARATIVNOG INTERVJUA U ISPITIVANJU GLOSOLALIJE
PRACTICAL-EMPIRICAL THEOLOGY AS A THEORY OF RELIGIOUS PRACTICE: A PROPOSAL FOR THE USE OF NARRATIVE INTERVIEW IN STUDY OF GLOSSOLALIA

Summary/Abstract: In this pioneering work for our country, the phenomenon of „speaking in tongues“ is treated theologically for the first time, which has until recently been investigated only from the viewpoint of linguistics and psychopathology. In the first part of the work the authors think about practical-empirical theology as a theory of religious practice with a particular accent on the phenomenon of glossalalia. Citing prior to this the theoreticalpractical background of Ganzevoort, Habermas, Riceour and Weber, the authors argue that glossalalia gained a phenomenological and theological note in field research. In the second part of the work, the authors suggest the use of the narrative interview as an instrument of theological methodology, but with ever more thorough explanations which theologians and scientists have derived from a socio-humanistic/sociological humanistic background. In this way, theology is no longer reserved for salon contemplation. It makes glossalia concrete so it can be „grasped“ and reinvestigated. The purpose of the work is indeed to „locate“ glossalalia in a future scientific framework, for it has been a part of social reality much longer than we think.

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