ubl eng Preaching in times of the European ‘Refugee Crisis’ Scandinavian perspectives 2017 urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-159058 born digital aut Marlene Ringgaard Lorensen aut Tone Stangeland Kaufman aut Carina Sundberg aut Sivert Angel aut Pia Nordin Christensen aut Tron Fagermoen aut Elisabeth Tveito Johnsen aut Pernilla Myrelid aut Linn Sæbø Rystad pbl Universität Leipzig Universität Leipzig, Leipzig Institut für Praktische Theologie Toward the end of 2015, 65.3 million people were seeking refuge or were otherwise forcibly displaced globally. This is the largest number since the recordings began around World War II. In Europe more than 1 million people arrived by sea in 2015 – more than four times as many as the previous year.1 The crisis situation stirred public debate as well as church-based initiatives trying to deal with the situation. In order to understand the interaction between public discourse and local preaching a group of homileticians from seven European countries collaborated on an empirical study of how the refugee crisis impacted preaching. In what follows we present the initial results from the Scandinavian countries. Homiletik, predigen, Predigt, Homilie, ökumenisch, interreligiös, international Homiletics, preaching, sermon, homily, ecumenical, interreligious, international 204 2017 2 74 100 2017-07-19T16:28:17+0200 30026-3 prv Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Leipzig urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-158995 7 qucosa:15899The International Journal of Homiletics - 2.2017qucosa:14496urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-197486 Höppner hoeppner@ub.uni-leipzig.de article UBL-17-309