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
Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics
Download PDF: RV Douglas, Ethnography Edited By Christian Scharen and Aana Marie Vigen New York: Continuum, 2011. 304 pages. $29.95. Methods in Christian theology and ethics have been undergoing dramatic changes over the past several decades, perhaps most noticeably in their
Fieldnotes Excerpt: Faith and Loss in a Northern Pakistani Labour Room
Download PDF: Varley, Fieldnotes Excerpt Introduction To an increasing degree, ethnographic accounts of childbirth in South Asia examine how clinical facilities, and Labor Rooms in particular, operate at the interstices of mutually exclusive belief sets: one grounded in modes of
Ethnography and Theology: A Critical Roundtable Discussion
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
Listening to Experience, Looking Towards Flourishing: Ethnography as a Global Feminist Theo/Ethical Praxis
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
I Was and I am Dust: Penitente Practices as a Way of Knowing
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
The Extended Case Method: Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformations, and One Theoretical Tradition
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
Hearing the Faithful: A Classroom Syllabus
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
Getting This Off My Chest: Ethnography as a Disruptive Theological Practice
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.
Spotlight on the Global Feminist Theologies Symposium in Nairobi, Kenya: Ethnography as Feminist Praxis, A Documentary Film
Director: Melissa D. Browning Producer: Sema Films. Executive Producer: Practical Matters
Annotated Bibliography of Work in Ethnography and Theology
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
Seeking Wisdom, Naming Puzzles: Pastoral Hopes for Theological Ethnography
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
Better Left Unsaid: Ethnographic Representation and Discernment in “A Virtual Village”
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
Stories Revisited: Revelation, Narrative Ethnography, and the Story of Our Lives
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
“If They Kill Us, At Least Others Will Have More Time to Get Away”: The Ethics of Risk in Ethnographic Practice
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
Perspectives in Lived History: Religion, Ethnography, and the Study of African Diasporic Religions
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.