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Finally, a personal word about our motivation as editors. We would like the conceptual work of the Handbook to contribute to the debate on the decolonization of practical theology. With the global approach this Handbook pursues, our hope is to be able to show how much the culturally situated religious practices and discourses which are subject of the book’s chapters are shaped by international, intercultural, and interreligious processes of exchange.