Increasingly intense research on the topic of resilience is taking place but the fields of
theology and philosophy are now only gradually entering the debate. The constitutive
significance of religion and spirituality for the phenomenon of resilience is well recognized
but its theoretical clarification and practical usage are as yet unclear. The findings of the
Bonn project on Resilience and Spirituality thus close a gap in the research. Theoretical
literary and traditional practice findings are expanding previous lines of research and
represent an invitation to carry out interdisciplinary criticism amplification and further
development. The essays in this volume formulate well-founded specialist criteria for a
critique of a concept of resilience that has been commercially hollowed out: resilience is not
a harmless wellness concept but designates an ambivalent crisis phenomenon that needs to be
precisely comprehended. It is only in this way that the concept and phenomenon of resilience
will be able to develop their crisis-stabilizing effects.
