‘Take Up Your Cross’:

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" ‘Take Up Your Cross’: "
Ulrich Schmiedel

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1069299
Doc. No	:	LA112928
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15697320-12341569‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Ulrich Schmiedel
Title & Author	:	‘Take Up Your Cross’: [Article] : Public Theology between Populism and Pluralism in the Post-Migrant Context\ Ulrich Schmiedel
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	International Journal of Public Theology
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	13/2
Page No	:	140–162
Abstract	:	As of 1 June 2018, the symbol of the cross has to be shown in all state offices of Bavaria in Germany. In order to chart the churches’ reaction, I return to a conversation that Robert N. Bellah and Martin E. Marty had during the 1960s and the 1970s. Drawing on the core concepts of this conversation, I analyze and assess today’s cross controversy as a case of what I call the ‘populist predicament’. I argue that Marty’s programme of public theology provides a path out of the populist predicament because it combines the celebration and the critique of identity. Ultimately, I advocate for a pluralist position of public theology in the post-migrant context. As of 1 June 2018, the symbol of the cross has to be shown in all state offices of Bavaria in Germany. In order to chart the churches’ reaction, I return to a conversation that Robert N. Bellah and Martin E. Marty had during the 1960s and the 1970s. Drawing on the core concepts of this conversation, I analyze and assess today’s cross controversy as a case of what I call the ‘populist predicament’. I argue that Marty’s programme of public theology provides a path out of the populist predicament because it combines the celebration and the critique of identity. Ultimately, I advocate for a pluralist position of public theology in the post-migrant context.
Descriptor	:	Bedford-Strohm
Descriptor	:	Bellah
Descriptor	:	cross
Descriptor	:	Marty
Descriptor	:	Marx
Descriptor	:	migration
Descriptor	:	pluralism
Descriptor	:	populism
Descriptor	:	public theology
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15697320-12341569‬