Review to “What is a Text? Explanation and Understanding” (Ricoeur, 1971)
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Review to “What is a Text? Explanation and Understanding” (Ricoeur, 1971)

The French Philosopher Paul Ricoeur examines a few important issues in his thoughtful essay regarding our everyday use of the terms, speech, language, understanding, explanation, and interpretation. This essay brings a good understanding of a text in qualitative research. In most cases in textual analysis, there is the use of texts as data for description and interpretation. Most of the textual materials are written texts of oral speaking like interviews or observations. In understanding what has been said and observed, we use text to provide evidence of people’s thinking, acting or beliefs among others.

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Problem-based Learning in Higher Education: Implications for Theory-Practice-Transfer
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Problem-based Learning in Higher Education: Implications for Theory-Practice-Transfer

This talk not only presents initial findings of the qualitative-empirical social research process accompanying the crowdfunding course, but also leads a discussion and reflection of sustainable frameworks for good teaching practices, management didactics in higher education and the achievement of teaching and learning goals of service learning at the level of the learner, study program and university (micro, meso and macro levels).

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Development of a ­Diaconal Profile – A Workbook
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Development of a ­Diaconal Profile – A Workbook

This workbook aims at helping diaconal organisations to develop their own diaconal profile. The book is premised on the idea that the development of a diaconal profile is a process that takes place in a mutual dialogue.

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Missionary Self-Perception and Meaning-Making in Cross-Cultural Mission
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Missionary Self-Perception and Meaning-Making in Cross-Cultural Mission

The purpose of this article is to outline the missionary self-perception that is mediated in meaningful stories about activities and experiences of Protestants while serving as missionaries abroad.

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Missionary Self in Cross-Cultural Mission
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Missionary Self in Cross-Cultural Mission

exc-5a23fbb6343a9bd737479e06 Religiously motivated missions are part of a long historical tradition in vari­ous world religions. Missions are usually regarded as undertakings to prop­ agate, spread and communicate religious beliefs, values…

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Acculturation of Missionaries – How Religious Orientations Affect Cultural Adjustment?
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Acculturation of Missionaries – How Religious Orientations Affect Cultural Adjustment?

Although it is evident that religiously motivated missions are part of a long historical tradition in various ‘world religions’ (e.g. Smith, 1991) in the course of which experiences of ‘cultural…

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Religious Self-Transformation and Faith Development of Protestant Missionaries
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Religious Self-Transformation and Faith Development of Protestant Missionaries

According to the “Status of Global Mission” (Bonk, 2011, p.29), widely considered as serious statistics of missionary population, in the year 2011 approximately 4,800 mission societies (“foreign-mission sending agencies”; line…

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New Book Forthcoming: Europe and America in the Mirror – Culture, Economy, and History
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New Book Forthcoming: Europe and America in the Mirror – Culture, Economy, and History

A vivid and more or less stable partnership between European and American countries is generally regarded as a key issue and particularly serious challenge in terms of cultural, economic, historical,…

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Religion as Experience: On the Way to an Interpretive Psychology of Religion
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Religion as Experience: On the Way to an Interpretive Psychology of Religion

Another paper presenting an approach to interpretive cultural psychology of religion is finished. The underlying theoretical and methodological approach is located within a hermeneutical, interpretive framework of the psychology of…

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Dr. Maik Arnold is Professor for Non-Profit-Management and Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Transfer at University of Applied Science Dresden.