Pop theology: forum discussions on religion in videogames

Lived religion The praxis of practical theology

Taking the case of ‘spiritual gardening’ as a starting point, this paper reflects on praxis as the object of practical theology. Praxis is understood as the domain of lived religion and focuses on what people do rather than on official institutionalized religious traditions. Praxis refers to fields of practices like care or community building and to the patterned configurations of action, exper...

Detecting Forum Authority Claims in Online Discussions

This paper explores the problem of detecting sentence-level forum authority claims in online discussions. Using a maximum entropy model, we explore a variety of strategies for extracting lexical features in a sparse training scenario, comparing knowledgeand datadriven methods (and combinations). The augmentation of lexical features with parse context is also investigated. We find that certain m...

Theology Master program of Religion in Peace and Conflict

Being in distance from religion; a survey on John Hick`s theology

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Fostering Discussions with Forum Tools Based on E-Learning Standards

The research described in this article argues that linking deeply communication to learning activities offers an interesting approach to develop the efficiency of systems in facilitating and increasing discussions between learners. In this way, we propose a forum model that is based on two special features: contextual view and structuring. The contextual view of the forum, always visible, allow...