Abstract

Abstract In this contribution, the railway mission (Bahnhofsmission) is conceived of as an object of research in interdisciplinary diaconic science. To that end, several perspectives are employed: the analysis of the multiple logics/ rationalities of a social organisation; theological hermeneutics of diaconic practice and its religious rationality; and, finally, the question of the location of religion within modern society, for which the railway mission shows to have a paradigmatic meaning.

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