ABSTRACT
What struck us most as editors of this volume and in compiling the papers presented here was the sheer diversity of the field – and the ever increasing diversification. We do not expect this movement to change any time soon. Perhaps this is related to the break-up of enlightenment modernity and the consequent fragmentation of societal life – this was the theme of Nicola Slee’s inaugural lecture in 2017 as Professor of Feminist Practical Theology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. We can only expect to move further away from the settlements of Christendom, the hegemonies of a colonial world and the certainties of the Age of Reason in future years. We will need to pay increasing attention to the forces and factors at play in this fragmentation as many of them may not lead to human flourishing, rather entirely the opposite.
