Download PDF: RV Kelly, Religion in the Anthropocene Edited by Celia E. Deane-Drummond, Sigurd Bergmann, and Markus Vogt Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017. 338 pages. $33.60. Paul Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer popularized the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch marked
Download PDF: Reyes, Practical Theology as Knowledge of Origin and Migration Abstract In an exploration of immigration and faith, this essay argues for a practical theology that privileges narrative and storytelling. The essay responds to the political landscape in the
Download PDF: Helsel, Definitional Ceremonies Abstract Therapeutic case conferences often take place without clients’ full knowledge and thus disempower them. By contrast, narrative therapy’s definitional ceremonies-drawn from the work of anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff-heighten transparency. The article offers an example of 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
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: 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: RV Neville, Finding God By Frank Rogers, Jr. Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 2011. 212 pages. $24.00. The fourth title in the Youth Ministry Alternatives series from Pilgrim Press, this new book from Frank Rogers, Jr., professor of Spiritual Formation and
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.
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