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Christian A. Scharen and Aana Marie Vigen

Ethnography Audacious Enough to Witness

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Download PDF: Scharen and Vigen   The conversation in these pages is one marker of the growing interest in and practice of theological ethnography. Use of social science in theology and ethics is now a well-worn if contested path for academic

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Ethnography: A Gift to Theology and Ethics

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Download PDF: Fulkerson, Ethnography   I have already indicated in the forward what a huge fan I am of this book. By not only defending the theological and ethical ways in which ethnography can be deployed, but also providing compelling examples

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Doing Religious Studies Dialogically

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Download PDF: Bielo, Doing Religious Studies Dialogically * Editors’ Note: This essay is part of the Roundtable on Ethnography and Religion. As a die-hard ethnographer, I could not be more sympathetic with the kind of religious studies Robert Orsi articulates. The

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Hallucinations

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Download PDF: Bender, Hallucinations * Editors’ Note: This essay is part of the Roundtable on Ethnography and Religion. Are field methods good for every religious studies scholar? Robert Orsi argues that we all need to learn how to do fieldwork in

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Roundtable on Ethnography and Religion

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Download PDF: Seeman, Roundtable on Ethnography and Religion Convener: Don Seeman, Emory University Robert Orsi, Northwestern University, link Courtney Bender, Columbia University, link James Bielo, University of Miami, link Shlomo Fischer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, link Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Emory University, link Anna M. Gade, University

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Doing Religious Studies with Your Whole Body

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Download PDF: Orsi, Doing Religious Studies   * Editors’ Note: This essay is part of the Roundtable on Ethnography and Religion. This method does not satisfy us. It is a priori. It does not derive its concepts from experience—or at least

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