Interment in Natural Spaces - Ecclesiastical Reactions and Theological Processing

在过去的几十年里，葬礼的做法发生了明显的变化。葬礼空间不再局限于墓地的封闭区域。在树根的网络中埋葬是墓地外最有名的埋葬形式，也是增长最快的形式。FriedWald GmbH和RuheForst GmbH等公司以及众多社区提供商在指定的林地区域提供埋葬服务。在弗里德瓦尔德森林安葬的决定显然不仅仅是出于实用的原因。它还结合了个人对死亡的解释，基于对自然的历史文化观点。我们的项目是要确定的态度，新教神职人员对这种类型的葬礼在一个定性的实证研究，以及反思它的实际神学。这将是与专业人士的访谈和他们的重建性评价方面的意义的形成结构。在分析受访者的布道在弗里德瓦尔德/树葬的态度和他们的翻译成公共神学演讲之间的关系将得到反映。其目的是阐述这种类型的葬礼是如何在神学上处理和塑造在新教教会的牧灵实践。因此，该项目，在特殊服务的实践领域的基础上，处理整个现代性后期的宗教文化变革的实践神学思想和教会行为的挑战。这一变化对当前宗教实践中的实践-神学反思具有范式意义。

Throughout the last decades funeral practices have been changing noticeably. Funeral space is no longer confined to the enclosed area of the cemetery. Burial in the network of the roots of a tree is the most well known form of burial outside the cemetery and the form that is increasing most rapidly. Companies like FriedWald GmbH and RuheForst GmbH, as well as numerous communal providers, offer burials in designated woodland areas. The decision for a burial in a FriedWald Forest is evidently not only motivated by pragmatic reasons. It also combines with individual interpretations of death, based on historico-cultural perspectives on nature. Our project is supposed to identify the attitude of Protestant clergy towards this type of funeral in a qualitative empirical study, as well as reflect on it practical-theologically. The means for this will be interviews with the professionals and their reconstructive evaluation with regard to their formative structures of meaning. In an analysis of the interviewee's sermons at Friedwald/tree-burials the relation between the attitudes and their translation into public theological speech will be reflected. The aim is to elaborate how this type of funeral is theologically dealt with and shaped in the pastoral practice of the Protestant churches. Therefore, the project, based in the practical field of Special Services, deals with the challenges of practical-theological thought and ecclesiastical acting throughout the religio-cultural change of late modernity. This change is of paradigmatic significance for practical-theological reflexion in the present religious practice.