Pastoral Care with Traveling Showmen. Life-World and Religious Interpretation of the Reality of 'People on the Move'

这个项目的目的是创造一个实用的神学与旅游表演者的牧灵关怀。与表演者的牧灵关怀是一个实践神学的领域，几乎没有被研究过。生活世界的特殊条件和表演者的宗教需要既没有在方法论上得到观察，也没有在牧灵关怀理论中得到考虑。科学主义，一个基于坚实研究的与表演者的牧灵关怀理论是迫切需要的，因为只有经验基础才能创建一种方法，其概念适合于表演者的特定生活世界，而不必依赖直觉和传承的零碎实践知识。该研究项目的核心和新奇是对生活世界和表演者“生活宗教”的感知、描述和解释，这些都是基于对宗教解释的定性实证调查，这些宗教解释与生活世界和表演者典型的仪式有着密切的联系。我们将调查和解释教会及其代表（牧师照顾者/精神顾问）对机构关系的描述的期望，态度（等级的相关性）和动机。我们希望我们的研究结果也能激励其他领域的研究。一方面，以表演者的生活世界为特征的示范性的实践性的牧灵关怀神学将为牧灵关怀理论提供重要的推动力：该研究项目有助于将社会学视角融入到牧灵学中。另一方面，研究结果将与其他社会群体的生活宗教相关，这些社会群体也具有特定的宗教流动生活方式。除了获得对牧灵关怀重要的见解外，我们还希望获得对教会理论有价值的知识，即关于生活在可移动结构中的社会群体的宗教社会性。这很有趣，因为据观察，参加教区组织的会众对那些生活方式需要流动性的人造成了困难。因此，我们希望我们的研究也提供了关于流动性和教会组织之间的关系的问题的前景。这个社会群体的生活世界的实证调查是有趣的实用神学，以及超出我们的具体研究项目的范围的文化研究;这个特殊的群体提供了探索宗教态度和实践，流动性，教会承诺的相关性的关系的可能性。

The aim of this project is to create a practical theology for the pastoral care with traveling showmen. Pastoral care with showmen is an area of practical theology that has barely been researched yet. The particular conditions of the life-world and the religious needs of showmen has neither been observed methodologically nor have they been considered in the theory of pastoral care. Scientifically, a theory of pastoral care with showmen based on solid research is urgently needed since only an empirical foundation can create an approach whose concept is appropriate to the particular life-world of showmen without having to rely on intuition and handed down fragmentary practical knowledge. Centerpiece and novelty of the research project are the perceptions, descriptions and interpretations of the life-world and 'lived religion' of showmen based upon qualitative empirical surveys of religious interpretations with an affinity to life-world and rites of passage typical to showmen. We will survey and interpret expectations, attitudes (relevance of hierarchy) and motives in characterizations of the relationship to institutions by the church and their representatives (pastoral caregivers/spiritual counselors).We expect our findings to motivate research in other areas, as well. On the one hand, the theory of pastoral care will gain significant impulses by an exemplary practical theology of pastoral care with showmen characterized by their life-world: The research project contributes to integrating sociological perspectives into poimenics. On the other hand, the research results will be exemplarily relevant to lived religion of other social groups that are also characterized by a specific religiously ambulatory lifestyle. Besides getting insights important to pastoral care, we also expect to gain knowledge valuable to church theory, i.e. about the religious sociality of social groups who live in movable structures. This is interesting because it has been observed that participating in a parochial organized congregation poses difficulties for people whose lifestyle requires mobility from them. Thus, we expect our research to also offer prospects concerning the question on the relationship between mobility and church organization. An empirical survey of the life-world of this social group is interesting for practical theology as well as cultural studies beyond the scope of our specific research project; this special group offers the possibility to explore the relationship of religious attitude and practices, mobility, and the relevance of church commitment.