Download PDF: Howard, Beyond Belief Abstract Cultural anthropologists often disagree on the ethnographic method that researchers are supposed to employ. Ethnographers are caught between contravening methodologies that either entirely immerse the researcher within the culture being studied, leading to limited objectivity,
Download PDF: Wigg-Stevenson, Reflexive Theology Abstract The ethnographic theologian’s subject position in relation to the Christian communities she studies is fundamentally different from that of an anthropologist or sociologist in relation to his fields of study. Therefore, social science understandings
Download PDF: Browning, Epistemological Privilege Abstract Ethnographic researchers often work outside of the boundaries of their own social location and lived experience. Yet when we cross the borders of our own lived knowledge, we are faced with the question of who
Download PDF: Anderson, Gender Differences By Teresa Berger Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Press, 2011. 220 pages. $39.95. Two key questions shape the goal of this book: First, how do we “write gender back into the ‘facts’ of liturgical history?” (28) Second,
Download PDF: Hoesley, What Matters Edited by Courtney Bender and Ann Taves New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 296 pages. $29.50. Recent research on the category of the “secular” has demonstrated that secularism is a discursive project embedded in relations of
Download PDF: Ramsay, On Being Included By Sara Ahmed Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 256 pages. $22.95 Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, American employers have written and posted Equal Opportunity statements. Colleges and Universities
Download PDF: McCullough, Her Preaching Body Abstract This article reflects upon one ethnographic study of contemporary female preachers and the decisions they made about their bodies. The study itself focused upon the meaning preachers created from their embodied choices and
“Dance and Embodied Knowledge in the Indian Context” is a unique theory-practice undergraduate course at Emory University cross-listed between the Departments of Dance and Religion. The course, now having been taught four times, includes a lecture component on Indian aesthetics
Download PDF: Ammermann, Observing the Church When I accepted a new position at Boston University in 2003, I was told that there was a place in the curriculum they would like me to fill. Since I was their new sociologist, they
Download PDF: Posadas, Ethnographic Possibilities There are two predominant approaches to structuring an introductory course in Christian theology. More frequently, the course is organized into a series of major areas of substantive theological claims, such as the Trinity, revelation, creation, the
Download PDF: Gerber, Telling Contested Stories In August 2011, NPR ran a story about sexual orientation and psychotherapy, depicting what they described as an ongoing controversy regarding the possibility of changing sexual orientation.1 The story profiled Peterson Toscano, a performance
Introduction By Susannah Laramee Kidd and Rebecca Spurrier One of our hopes for this issue was to explore the possibilities and limits of ethnography as theological method. When we discovered that Mary McClintock Fulkerson and Marcia Mount Shoop are writing
Download PDF: Reimer-Barry, Reflecting on Fieldwork I’ve been at this Tijuana migrant safe house for about five hours, and I start to pack up my things. Jimena stops me. “Stay for lunch. You have to stay for lunch.” “I was
Download PDF: Scharen and Vigen, Roundtable on Ethnography Conveners: Christian A. Scharen, Luther Seminary and Aana Marie Vigen, Loyola University Chicago Emily Reimer-Barry, University of San Diego, link Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke Divinity School, link Ted A. Smith, Candler School of Theology, link Christian
Download PDF: Whitmore, Sequela Comboni Abstract In the last half-dozen years or so, the idea and practice of borrowing ethnographic methods in the doing of theology has grown. Some contributors to this discussion, including myself, draw upon ethnographic methods in order
Download PDF: Jordan, Writing The Truth * Editors’ Note: This essay is part of the Roundtable on Ethnography and Religion. Robert Orsi makes the proposal-at once extravagant and astute-that all graduate students of religion be required to enter into “a
Download PDF: Seeman, Ethnography of the Hard Edge Editors’ Note: This essay is part of the Roundtable on Ethnography and Religion. Robert Orsi has me thinking about the hard edges of things. What ethnographer has never felt the uncompromising urgency
Download PDF: Biehl, Nonprojected Future There is a wonderful invitational quality to Christian Scharen and Aana Marie Vigen’s Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics. I admire the tone and the kinds of conversations that the book has unleashed and that are so