Download PDF: RV Senior, Christian Moderns By Webb Keane University of California Press, 2007. 336 pages. $55.00 In his weighty and much discussed volume A Secular Age (2007), Charles Taylor argues that the West has produced a modern self that is both “buffered”
Download PDF: RV Devarajan, Poetics of Conduct By Leela Prasad New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 291 pages. $28.00 Set in the town of Sringeri, in Northwest Karnataka, South India, Leela Prasad’s book Poetics of Conduct describes the intersection of authoritative institutional and
Download PDF: RV Smith, A Problem of Presence By Michael Engelke Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. 321 pages. $22.95 Matthew Engelke’s book A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church is an ethnographic masterpiece. It represents a
Download PDF: McBride, Bestowing Meaning In my work thus far, I have explored the relationship between theology and ethnography intuitively, rather than following a formal methodology. Therefore, I would like to contribute to the conversation in this journal simply by sharing
Download PDF: RV McDonald, Ethnography as a Pastoral Practice By Mary Clark Moschella Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2008. 270 pages. $19.80. Designed to complement a ten-week long semester course on “pastoral research” in either a master of divinity program or doctorate
Download PDF: Mote, Trip to the Spring Since 1830, families have gathered almost every year at Shingleroof Campground in Henry County, Georgia to keep camp meeting together. Shingleroof, like other extant camp meetings across the US, is the offspring of the
Download PDF: Beste, Second-Grade Children Speak Abstract Despite a long-standing historical debate in Catholicism about whether second grade is an age-appropriate time to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation, there has been a virtual absence of Catholic children’s own voices and
Download PDF: Whitmore, Genocide or Just Another Editor’s Note (December 22, 2010): Dr. Todd Whitmore of the University of Notre Dame published his peer-reviewed article “‘If They Kill Us, At Least Others Will Have More Time to Get Away’: The Ethics
Download PDF: Whitmore, Genocide or Just Another Editor’s Note (December 22, 2010): Dr. Todd Whitmore of the University of Notre Dame published his peer-reviewed article “‘If They Kill Us, At Least Others Will Have More Time to Get Away’: The Ethics of
Download PDF: Whitmore, Genocide or Just Another Editor’s Note (December 22, 2010): Dr. Todd Whitmore of the University of Notre Dame published his peer-reviewed article “‘If They Kill Us, At Least Others Will Have More Time to Get Away’: The Ethics of
Download PDF: Whitmore, Genocide or Just Another Editor’s Note (December 22, 2010): Dr. Todd Whitmore of the University of Notre Dame published his peer-reviewed article “‘If They Kill Us, At Least Others Will Have More Time to Get Away’: The Ethics of
Download PDF: Whitmore, Genocide or Just Another Editor’s Note (December 22, 2010): Dr. Todd Whitmore of the University of Notre Dame published his peer-reviewed article “‘If They Kill Us, At Least Others Will Have More Time to Get Away’: The
Download PDF: Martin and Whitmore, Reflections on Intersections Welcome to the third issue of Practical Matters. In this issue, we highlight Ethnography and Theology. In the “doing” of theology, a turn to ethnography is gaining momentum. Many scholars of religion who did
Download PDF: Occhpinti, Religious Idealism Abstract For some college students on spring break, cement floors and bowls of rice have taken the place of beaches and beer, becoming an opportunity to serve others in the name of religious faith. Although
Download PDF: Hulsether, Princesses and Soldiers Abstract Princesses and Soldiers grew out of an undergraduate ethnography assignment. It explores the constructions of gender and sexuality in a Baptist youth group examining the motifs of fairytale and war games with which the
Download PDF: RV Long, Places of Redemption By Mary McClintock Fulkerson New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 257 pages. $38.95. In July 1988, ten people, the remnant of a dying white congregation languishing in a racially transitional neighborhood near Durham,