Church Participation in Post-Catastrophic Funeral and Memorial Liturgies in a Secular Society. A Liturgical Study (

在发生巨大灾难之后(例如，埃斯赫德的火车失事或埃尔福特和温嫩登的校园枪击事件)，举行了共同的葬礼和追悼会。教会参加这些仪式已经变得很常见。尽管这些礼拜仪式对社会和教会具有重要的意义，但在德国几乎没有人从神学的角度对它们进行研究，在罗马天主教的礼拜仪式研究中更是如此。这项研究试图通过对埃尔福特校园枪击案后的追悼会以及此后的年度追悼会的实例的批判性分析来理解这种类型的仪式表达(灾难仪式)。这项研究的核心是四个问题：以下元素看起来像什么？-结构-中央标志/象征行为-文本-庆祝活动发生的空间考虑此外，还将分析庆祝活动谈判和准备的社会过程。哪一种神学是有效的，无论是明确的还是含蓄的？在这些礼拜仪式中它是如何表达的？同时，这项研究也对社会和教会赋予这些仪式的意义感兴趣。这是一种什么样的仪式庆祝？将提出一个类型学，通过它将为这些庆祝形式创造机会，以更好地在礼仪研究的研究中找到自己的位置。这项研究的结果将与其他类似灾难仪式(即温嫩登校园枪击案后的仪式庆祝活动)的研究结果进行比较。

In the wake of immense catastrophies (e.g. the train wreck in Eschede or the school shooting in Erfurt and Winnenden), there have been common funeral and memorial services. It has become common for the churches to participate in these rituals. Even though these liturgies have a significant meaning for society and church, they have hardly been studied in Germany from a theological perspective and not at all in Roman Catholic liturgical studies. This study seeks to understand this type of ritual expression (Disaster Ritual) through a critical analysis of the examples of the memorial service after the school shooting in Erfurt and the annual memorial serivces that have followed since then. Central in this study are four questions: What do the following elements look like? - Structures - Central Sign/Symbolic Acts - Texts - Spatial considerations where the celebrations take placeIn addition, the societal processes, in which the celebrations are negotiated and prepared, will also be analyzed. Which theology is in effect, either explicitly or implicitly? How is it expressed in these liturgies? At the same time, this study is also interested in the meaning society and the churches assign to these rituals.What kind of ritual celebration is this? A typology will be presented, through which opportunities will be created for these celebratory forms to better find its place within research in liturgical studies. The results of this study will be compared with the results of other similar studies of Disaster Rituals (i.e. the ritual celebrations after the school shooting in Winnenden.)