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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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