Introduction (Heinz Streib)

THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES: ACCOUNT FOR RELIGIOUS PRAXIS AND DE-INSTITUTIONALIZED RELIGION IN EMPIRICAL THEOLOGY

Three Paradigms for the Study of Religion (Johannes A. van der Ven)

Empirical Theology: Defining the Task and Selecting the Tools (Leslie J. Francis)

From Action to Lived Experience: Considering Methodological Problems of Modern Practical Theology (Hans-Günter Heimbrock)

Empirical Theology and Brain Research (Tobias Kläden)

Practical Theology Theory-Building Based on a Pragmatic Notion of Weak Rationality (Chris Hermans)

Ritual Praxis. Defining Passage Rites from an Action Perspective (Hans Schilderman)

Religious Praxis—De-Institutionalized. Theoretical and Empirical Considerations (Heinz Streib)

Rethinking Church in Liquid Modernity (Kees de Groot)

Empirical Considerations in Religious Praxis and Reflection in the Teaching Situation: A Conceptual Map (Don Browning)

EMPIRICAL RESULTS ON RELIGIOUS PRAXIS AND DE-INSTITUTIONALIZED RELIGION

Are Religious Beliefs Relevant in Daily Life? (Stefan Huber)

Religious Development in a Lifespan Perspective (Ulrich Feeser-Lichterfeld, Tobias Kläden & Anke Terörde)

Religiosity and Gender Identity of Female Adolescents. Narrative Religious Identity of Young Catholic Women (Angela Kaupp)

Adolescents and Computer-Based New Media. Paradigmatic Insights of an Empirical Field Study on the Structure of Empirical Theology (Astrid Dinter)

Predicting Trust in the Pastor—A German Study (Carsten Gennerich)

Authors' Biographies

Index