---
_id: '63722'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "This volume presents  insights from the 2025 ITS-Colloquium on Comparative
    Theology and So-cial Work, exploring how theological concepts and interreligious
    dialogue inform and critically engage  social practice. \r\nDrawing on insights
    \ from education, psychosocial support, military chaplaincy, and community-building,
    it reveals the transformative potential of comparative theology in addressing
    migration, marginalization, and social fragmentation. The contributions critically
    examine the ethical depth and practical challenges of integrating religious perspectives
    into social work, offering valuable insights for theory and praxis in pluralistic
    societies, while also showing the limits and challenges of theoretical models.\r\nOverall,
    when critically and contextually applied, impulses from comparative theology offer
    both conceptual depth and practical tools for ethical, inclusive, and transformative
    social engagement.\r\n\r\n"
citation:
  ama: 'Erdem G, Eroglu T, Lebock S, eds. <i>Comparative Theology and Social Work:
    Exploring Theory and Praxis in Pluralistic Societies</i>. Vol 6. DeGruyter'
  apa: 'Erdem, G., Eroglu, T., &#38; Lebock, S. (Eds.). (n.d.). <i>Comparative Theology
    and Social Work: Exploring Theory and Praxis in Pluralistic Societies</i> (Vol.
    6). DeGruyter.'
  bibtex: '@book{Erdem_Eroglu_Lebock, series={Comparative Theology, Islam, and Society},
    title={Comparative Theology and Social Work: Exploring Theory and Praxis in Pluralistic
    Societies}, volume={6}, publisher={DeGruyter}, collection={Comparative Theology,
    Islam, and Society} }'
  chicago: 'Erdem, Gülbahar, Tarik Eroglu, and Sarah Lebock, eds. <i>Comparative Theology
    and Social Work: Exploring Theory and Praxis in Pluralistic Societies</i>. Vol.
    6. Comparative Theology, Islam, and Society. DeGruyter, n.d.'
  ieee: 'G. Erdem, T. Eroglu, and S. Lebock, Eds., <i>Comparative Theology and Social
    Work: Exploring Theory and Praxis in Pluralistic Societies</i>, vol. 6. DeGruyter.'
  mla: 'Erdem, Gülbahar, et al., editors. <i>Comparative Theology and Social Work:
    Exploring Theory and Praxis in Pluralistic Societies</i>. DeGruyter.'
  short: 'G. Erdem, T. Eroglu, S. Lebock, eds., Comparative Theology and Social Work:
    Exploring Theory and Praxis in Pluralistic Societies, DeGruyter, n.d.'
conference:
  end_date: 2025-09-17
  location: Paderborn
  name: International Meeting on Comparative Theology 2026
  start_date: 2025-09-16
date_created: 2026-01-26T01:30:25Z
date_updated: 2026-01-26T01:37:23Z
department:
- _id: '550'
- _id: '469'
editor:
- first_name: Gülbahar
  full_name: Erdem, Gülbahar
  last_name: Erdem
- first_name: Tarik
  full_name: Eroglu, Tarik
  id: '113848'
  last_name: Eroglu
- first_name: Sarah
  full_name: Lebock, Sarah
  id: '53425'
  last_name: Lebock
  orcid: 0009-0005-7485-1902
intvolume: '         6'
language:
- iso: eng
publication_identifier:
  unknown:
  - 978-3-11-224-223-0
publication_status: unpublished
publisher: DeGruyter
quality_controlled: '1'
series_title: Comparative Theology, Islam, and Society
status: public
title: 'Comparative Theology and Social Work: Exploring Theory and Praxis in Pluralistic
  Societies'
type: book_editor
user_id: '53425'
volume: 6
year: '2026'
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