A Religious Garment for a Marksmen's Festival? On the Theological Compatibility of Local Festival Culture

A pastor and academic theologian is invited to perform a devotional service at a marksmen's festival in a small German village. Unaccustomed to this kind of festive culture, he also finds himself confronted with theological and ethical questions: Is it possible to provide a place of shooting with rifles and pistols with a prayer service and thus shape it liturgically as a place of God's blessings? One could also ask: is it not necessary for theology to engage with communal forms of festivity, not just theoretically, but performatively, if Christianity itself is fundamentally festive? According to practical-theological reasoning, occasional services, i.e., celebrations of life rites, accompanying liminal situations and transitionary events of human life are growing in variety and importance and "new occasional services" are being developed. Also, the church and (public) theology continuously search and find their role in civil society. After all, there are many life situations in which God's blessing should be clothed in a festive garment. But in which way is the marksmen's festival to be considered? Two theologians explore these questions-autoethnographically and theoretically-and thus shed light on the marksmen's festival as a theological topic

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