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
Troeltschian Questions for “Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics”
Download PDF: Smith, Troeltschian Questions Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics marks a milestone in the engagements of Christian theologians and ethicists with ethnography.1 As the book’s introductory chapters note, these engagements have been developing over a long time and in
Ethnography: A Gift to Theology and Ethics
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
Response to Orsi: “Doing Religious Studies with Your Whole Body”
Download PDF: Gade, Response to Orsi * Editors’ Note: This essay is part of the Roundtable on Ethnography and Religion. Robert Orsi makes a suggestion for powerful intersubjective understanding of the religious lifeworlds that bind “heaven and earth” and we humans
Writing with Fragments and Silences: An Ethnographer’s Anxiety and Responsibility
Download PDF: Flueckiger, Writing with Fragments and Silences * Editors’ Note: This essay is part of the Roundtable on Ethnography and Religion. Robert Orsi articulates two anxieties that I have often experienced in the writing of ethnography: the pressure to articulate a
Does Orthodox Judaism Contain Direct, Personalized Experience of the Divine?
Download PDF: Fischer, Orthodox Judaism Experience of the Divine * Editors’ Note: This essay is part of the Roundtable on Ethnography and Religion. Robert Orsi, in his opening essay, writes, “Jesus and the Blessed Mother, the angels and the saints
Doing Religious Studies Dialogically
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
Hallucinations
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
Roundtable on Ethnography and Religion
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
Doing Religious Studies with Your Whole Body
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