{"id":1011,"date":"2022-09-07T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/projekte\/pfarrpersonen-sind-in-asien-wichtige-akteure-auf-dem-weg-zu-mehr-frieden-und-gerechtigkeit-sie-sind-vertrauenspersonen-die-in-den-gemeinden-oft-mehr-anerkennung-geniessen-als-repraesentanten-des-sta\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T14:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:57:42","slug":"education-for-social-change","status":"publish","type":"projekte","link":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/news\/projekte\/bildung-fuer-den-sozialen-wandel\/","title":{"rendered":"Education for social change in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"hintergrundinformationen\">Background information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the state guarantees religious freedom, ethnic and religious minorities in Indonesia repeatedly experience restrictions, which leads to conflicts in everyday life. In Malaysia, Islam enjoys political priority as the state religion, although the society is religiously and ethnically heterogeneous. In the state of Sabah, 69.6% of the population are Muslim and 24.7% are Christian. In the project area in Sabah, the indigenous Christian minority feels disadvantaged. Political opportunism and a lack of rule of law prevent disadvantaged people in both countries from gaining their rights. In Hong Kong, the People's Republic of China has massively restricted democratic rights such as freedom of assembly, freedom of expression and freedom of choice in recent years. Countless democracy activists and critical journalists have been physically threatened and imprisoned. State control over all areas of life, including church work, is steadily increasing and has led to an atmosphere of fear and self-censorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die wichtigsten Kirchen und kirchennahen Vereinigungen in Indonesien propagieren eine kontextuelle Theologie (auch Transformations- oder Befreiungstheologie): Sie betonen die Herausforderungen des Hier und Jetzt im Gegensatz zu Versprechungen des Jenseits, die aktuelle brennende Probleme in der Gesellschaft ausblenden. Alle Partnerorganisationen von Mission 21 sind an transformativen Prozessen beteiligt, die das Bewusstsein f\u00fcr die aktuellen sozialen Realit\u00e4ten f\u00f6rdern, neue kontextbezogene theologische Perspektiven entwickeln und zum Handeln in ihren Gemeinschaften aufrufen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Viele der heutigen sogenannten &#8222;Agents of Change\u00bb, darunter viele Frauen, sind ehemalige Projektteilnehmer*innen der Programmarbeit von Mission 21 und haben inzwischen F\u00fchrungspositionen in Kirchen, Bildungsinstituten und kirchlichen Verb\u00e4nden \u00fcbernommen. Theologisch ausgebildete Fachpersonen sind in der Lage, neue Perspektiven f\u00fcr eine geschlechtergerechte Kirchenpolitik und neue theologische Lehrpl\u00e4ne zu entwickeln, die sich mit brennenden, aber lange \u00fcbersehenen Problemen in der Gesellschaft befassen. Kontextuelle Theologie bildet dabei die Basis f\u00fcr den interreligi\u00f6sen Dialog und die konkrete, praktische Zusammenarbeit \u00fcber die Religionsgrenzen hinweg zur gemeinsamen Behandlung von Herausforderungen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die gutbesuchten Seminare und Vortr\u00e4ge umfassten spezifische brennende Themen wie Klimawandel, gesellschaftliche Gewalt und Trauma, sowie Geschlechterrollen und Machtverh\u00e4ltnisse. Ebenso wurde \u00fcber Tradition und LGBQTIA+, Ekklesiologie sowie interreligi\u00f6se Beziehungen und Meinungsfreiheit vertieft informiert. Zahlreiche Teilnehmende best\u00e4tigten, dass eine nachhaltige Diskussion in Kirche und Gesellschaft noch weitere Anstrengungen erfordert, welche die Ebenen Diskurs, Lehre und Praxis umfassen. Denn die Themen der Seminare und Vortr\u00e4ge sind in der Gesellschaft nach wie vor umstritten und k\u00f6nnen daher potenziell zu Konflikten f\u00fchren. Die theologische Bildung im Sinne einer Ausbildung von zuk\u00fcnftigen gesellschaftlichen F\u00fchrungskr\u00e4ften, kann hierbei eine wichtige Rolle einnehmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"projektziele\">Project goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Grassroots communities and groups in civil society are strengthened to be able to shape their lives in a self-determined and independent way and to actively contribute to social processes. The church and other civil society contact persons have a key function in this: By teaching a contextual theology that reflects current social and ecological challenges and relates them to practice, the students and future pastors are enabled to more effectively enter pressing social problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Engaging church leaders, students of theological subjects and lay people in critical reflection on issues of faith and society on an ecumenical basis and empowering them to be agents of change for justice, peace, integrity of creation and diversity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Access to education and hands-on experiences for marginalized and vulnerable groups to gain knowledge, skills, and confidence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pastoral care for marginalized and vulnerable persons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Promote the advancement of theological curricula and church doctrine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Promoting short- and long-term encounters and learning exchanges<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Support research on contextual theological issues and evidence of program outcomes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"zielgruppe\">Target group<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary target groups of this project are the students as well as the leaders and teachers of theological training institutes. As prospective pastors or other active people, the students will later become important \"agents of change\" and leaders in the church and society who work for peace, social justice and the integrity of creation in their environment. The attitude they learn during their studies has a decisive influence on the impact of church and social development programs. In this way, the training centers, the theological associations and the publishing house make a concrete contribution to a peaceful society based on solidarity. Indirect participants are church congregations, academic communities and political decision-makers in churches, science and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Direct project participants: 2,429<br>Indirect project participants: Around 8,300<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"aktivitTen\">Activities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Long-time international collaborators Tobias Brandner (CUHK) and Daniel Gloor (STS) from Switzerland, as well as the Indonesian Elizabeth Mesdila (LS-PCS), are important intercultural bridge builders as lecturers in theology and broaden the horizons of students as well as interested persons in Switzerland.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Promoting pastoral care services for marginalized and vulnerable people, including prison chaplaincy by Tobias Brandner in Hong Kong, where his clients include well-known actors in the democracy movement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Develop interdisciplinary and practical theological education programs incorporating contextual social science methods to address current challenges facing the church, such as social diaconal responsibility, politicization of religion, democracy in the age of postmodernism, and public theology.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provide scholarships for theological education programs to prepare students, especially women, from disadvantaged backgrounds, for their role as \"agents of change\" in society<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Educational activities for the students' partners, who will also traditionally play an important role in community outreach later in life<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-funding of salaries of lecturers from marginalized and vulnerable social groups.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Summer schools and study trips<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Promoting publications and equipping libraries on contextual theological topics, including feminist theology.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Initiatives to raise public awareness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"projektfortschritt\">Project progress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Im Jahr 2025 vertieften die Partnerorganisationen die kontextuelle theologische Bildung weiter und setzten den mehrj\u00e4hrigen Prozess fort, akademisches Lernen st\u00e4rker mit praktischem Engagement in den Gemeinden zu verbinden. Unterst\u00fctzt von Mission 21 produzierten sie Brosch\u00fcren, organisierten Kurse und \u00f6ffentliche Gespr\u00e4che und ermutigten dadurch Studierende, Lehrende und engagierte Gemeindemitglieder, theologische Reflexion in gesellschaftliches Handeln zu \u00fcbersetzen \u2013 zum Beispiel in interreligi\u00f6se Zusammenarbeit oder in dem Kontext angepasstes kirchliches Engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Im Projekt-Monitoring wird sichtbar, dass mehr Personen teilnahmen. Diese berichteten, dass sie sich auch aktiver in sozialen und politischen Prozessen einbrachten. Befragungen zeigen zudem, dass Lerninhalte zunehmend in lokale Foren, Gemeindedialoge und thematische Initiativen weitervermittelt werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mehrere Institutionen nahmen strukturelle Verbesserungen vor, darunter Anpassungen der Lehrpl\u00e4ne, Schritte zur Akkreditierung der Institution und die Ausweitung kontextueller Publikationen. Viele theologische Schulen entwickelten oder implementierten zudem Richtlinien f\u00fcr die Pr\u00e4vention von sexuellem Missbrauch, sexueller Ausbeutung und Bel\u00e4stigung (PSEAH). Sie richteten auch entsprechende Taskforces ein, wodurch sie die Schutzstandards st\u00e4rker institutionell verankern konnten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unsere Partnerorganisationen brachten Zug\u00e4nge zur Bildung zu den Menschen vor Ort: Sie boten gemeindebezogene theologische Weiterbildung und andere flexible Lernformate an f\u00fcr Frauen, berufst\u00e4tige Erwachsene und andere Menschen in abgelegenen Regionen. So konnten diese an Lernangeboten teilnehmen, ohne ihr Umfeld zu verlassen \u2013 ein zentraler Baustein bei der F\u00f6rderung von \u201eAgents of Change\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>R\u00fcckmeldungen zeigen<ins>, dass die Teilnehmenden \u00a0mehr an <\/ins>Selbstvertrauen, analytische<ins>r<\/ins> St\u00e4rke <ins>gewannen <\/ins>and <ins>a <\/ins>h\u00f6here<ins> <\/ins>Bereitschaft<ins> zeigten<\/ins>, Themen wie Umweltgerechtigkeit, Geschlechtergerechtigkeit und Religionsfreiheit anzugehen. Mehrere Lerngruppen initiierten <ins>zudem erste Elemente kollektiver Teilhabe und organisierten <\/ins>\u00f6ffentliche Gespr\u00e4che oder gemeinschaftliche Aktionen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Podcast on the topic of Christians in China<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of Christians in China is growing rapidly. The officially registered churches are flourishing, and there are also congregations that are beyond the control of the state. The state is trying to control the churches and at the same time is afraid that the loyalty of Christians will shift away from the party and towards religion. Brandner also explains how the Bible gains relevance when it speaks into a world characterized by repression, and he explains why Christianity is not a Western religion, but a global one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stammtisch.podigee.io\/158-tobias-brandner-wer-hat-angst-vor-dem-christentum\">\u25b6 Listen to the following RefLab podcast \"Who is afraid of Christianity?\" with Tobias Brandner, professor of theology, prison chaplain and Mission 21 employee<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":19570,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_searchwp_excluded":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"land":[64,36,37,38],"wirkungsbereich":[475],"class_list":{"0":"post-1011","1":"projekte","2":"type-projekte","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"land-asien","7":"land-hongkong","8":"land-indonesien","9":"land-malaysia","10":"wirkungsbereich-bildung-fuer-den-sozialen-wandel"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projekte\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projekte"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projekte"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projekte\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20702,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projekte\/1011\/revisions\/20702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"land","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/land?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"wirkungsbereich","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wirkungsbereich?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}