ISLAMSKO DUŠEBRIŽNIŠTVO U NJEMAČKOJ: STANJE, IZAZOVI I PERSPEKTIVE
ISLAMIC SOUL-CARE IN GERMANY: CONDITION, CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES

Summary/Abstract: Despite much emphasised social aspect of the message of Islam, soul-care as religiously inspired way of helping people in difficult and stressing existential circumstances, in Islamic context, remains quite unobserved. In intellectual sense, within systematised classical Islamic theology, as well as in practical, organisational and structural sense it has never been developed and it does not have, for example, a role such as it has in the context of Christianity or in societies where Christianity is a prevailing religion. However, in Germany, one such society with developed sole-caring in overall social context, lately we are witnessing for various different reasons including growing number of Muslims and presence of Islam in that society, rise in Islamic sole-caring and its increasing significance there. Its foundation within the sources of Islam and within Islamic theological tradition, establishing structures for practical training for Muslim soul-carers and organisational frameworks for practical soul-caring are in the main focus here. Principles for institutionalising Islamic soul-caring on academic, practical and organisational level are also discussed.

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