Download PDF: Ethnography and Theology Roundtable In the spring of 2009, Practical Matters, with the assistance of the Initiative in Religious Practices & Practical Theology, held a consultation in Atlanta on the theme of “Ethnography and Theology.” This consultation illustrated the extent
A group of leading higher education instituions in the United Kingdom is pioneering a new kind of doctorate in Practical Theology. The Doctor of Practical Theology was initially launched by the University of Manchester and Anglia Ruskin University in September
Download PDF: Listening to Experience Introduction: Ethnography as Global Feminist Praxis Ivory towers are tempting. We know our way around the lecture rooms and libraries. Ivory towers keep us busy-there are classes to teach, articles to write, tenure applications to
Download PDF: RV Mahn, I Was and I am Dust By David Mellott Virgil Michel Series, ed. Don Saliers. Collegeville, MN: Pueblo/Liturgical Press, 2009. 174 pages. $29.95 When undergraduate students exploring a religion major come to my office, I find myself
Download PDF: RV Campbell, The Extended Case Method By Michael Burawoy Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009. 360 pages. $18.76. In this stimulating collection of essays, sociologist Michael Burawoy makes a strong case for the theory-driven, historically aware, and
This syllabus, designed by David Mellott for students at Lancaster Theological Seminary, is included here as a resource for those interested in the pedagogical issues involved in introducing theology students to ethnographic practices. Click to download Hearing the Faithful. Feature
Download PDF: Hardison-Moody, Getting This Off My Chest Abstract Through an examination of one woman’s narrative of intimate partner violence, this article argues for an understanding of healing as an emerging process in the lives of women affected by violence.
Download PDF: RV Kidd, American Muslim Women By Jamillah Karim New York: New York University Press, 2009. 292 pages. $23.00. Every author seeks to provide a new vantage point on her subject matter, but every so often, an author’s choice of
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Download PDF: Coleman, Annotated Bibliography This interactive annotated bibliography includes books and films relevant to religion and ethnography, with a particular focus on titles published and produced since 2000. Entries include suggestions about who is likely to benefit most from
Download PDF: Lassiter, Seeking Wisdom As this issue indicates, academics who traverse theological terrain increasingly wonder how to best use ethnographic methods for theological discourse. Ethnographic method is lauded for capturing knowledge produced by religious practitioners, a fact that anthropologists and
Download PDF: RV Jefferson, Black Religion By James A. Noel New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. 256 pages. $85.00. A foundational text in black religious studies, James A. Noel’s Black Religion and the Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World skillfully engages Charles Long’s
Download PDF: RV Fabisiak, The Manga Bible By Siku London: Doubleday, 2007. 224 pages. $12.95. A number of popular web- and print-based versions of the Bible have emerged recently. The Bible Illuminated, for example, is a glossy Bible designed to
Download PDF:Gottschalk and Schmalz, Better Left Unsaid Introduction Teaching about religion in South Asia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka has tended to depend on images of discreet “religions” Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Christianity, some of which appear
Download PDF: Senior, Stories Revisited Abstract This paper proposes a theological method that facilitates a constructive dialogue between Christian theological reflection and narrative ethnography. It argues that the complex construction of the self in the crafting of personal narratives is a
Download PDF: RV Snyder, Theological Reflection By Elaine Graham, Heather Wilson, and Frances Ward London: SCM Press, 2005. 247 pages. $34.99 What is theological reflection? How can I relate life to theology, and theology to life? What is practical theology? In
Download PDF: Whitmore, If They Kill Us Abstract Anthropologists have been addressing the issue of risk in the field since the early 1990s, but have yet to detail on what grounds and in what circumstances such risk is warranted. After
Download PDF: Hucks, Perspectives in Lived History Abstract For scholars trained in the discipline of religion and open to researching across disciplinary boundaries, the social science method of ethnography affords unique access to the lived dimensions of human experience and practice.