The Berlin Religious Discussion Mourning and Consolation deals thematically with the following questions:
Never before has mass death been so present in the media as it is today: Corona, earthquakes, war, heat and drought. Soldiers killed, kindergartens shot at, houses collapsing. But it can also affect us all individually - and it does affect us: illness and death in the family, among friends. What and who comforts us in our grief? Which sources of millennia of experience have not run dry? Or does it mean to endure a disenchanted world without consolation, because religious offers are no longer communicable in society? In a multi-religious and secular world, can there ever be common mourning that offers comfort and sympathy? Do spontaneous, individually or state-organized mourning rituals offer more robust comfort than traditional forms of saying goodbye?
With:
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Michel Friedman, jurist, publicist and philosopher, Frankfurt am Main.
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Felix Körner SJ, Nikolaus Cusanus Chair for Theology of Religions, Humboldt University Berlin
- Dr. Jane Redlin, Cultural Scientist, Museum of European Cultures Berlin
- Prof. Dr Maike Schult, Chair of Practical Theology at the Philipps University Marburg
Language: German