Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics

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This book is a primary resource in the new and growing field of Christian Ethnography. In response to a variety of critical intellectual currents (post-colonial, post-modern, and post-liberal), scholars in Christian theology and ethics are increasingly taking up the tools of ethnography as a means to ask fundamental moral questions and to make more compelling and credible moral claims. Privileging particularity, rather than the more traditional effort to achieve universal or at least generalizable norms in making claims regarding the Christian life, echoes the most fundamental insight of the Christian tradition - that God is known most fully in Jesus of Nazareth. Echoing this 'scandal of particularity' at the heart of the Christian tradition, theologians and ethicists involved in ethnographic research draw on the particular to seek out answers to core questions of their discipline: who God is and how we become the people we are, how to conceptualize moral agency in relation to God and the world, and how to flesh out the content of conceptual categories such as justice that help direct us in our daily decisions and guiding institutions.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2011-06-30
Mått: 153 x 228 x 22 mm
Vikt: 474 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 304
Förlag: Continuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9781441155450

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Dr. Christian Scharen is Assistant Professor of Worship and Practical Theology at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN. He is an international leader working at the intersection of ethnography and theology, he is the author of five books and several scholarly articles, a number of which directly draw on ethnographic work and Christian Ethics. Dr. Aana Marie Vigen is Assistant Professor of Ethics at Loyola University, Chicago. She is author of a highly-regarded book on healthcare inequality that draws on ethnographic research and Christian theology and ethics, as well as several articles.

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‘This engaging collection is a helpful foundation for exploring the use of ethnography in Christian ethics and theology. The authors provide thoughtful and probing challenges to how social scientists and theologians do our work-encouraging us to question and alter some of the basic assumptions of our work so that we do it with genuine rigor rather than with unexamined normative commitments or using the social sciences as lax sources for theological reflection. The challenge is genuine and I encourage us to read and learn from this fine collection.' - Emilie M. Townes, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology Yale Divinity School, USA.

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