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Title Ethnography as Christian theology and ethics / edited by Christian Scharen and Aana Marie Vigen.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Continuum, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 261 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index.
Contents pt. 1. Prolegomena. What is ethnography? -- The ethnographic turn in theology and ethics -- Critiques of the use of social science in theology and ethics -- Theological justifications for turning to ethnography -- pt. 2. Exemplars. Ethnographic research on African American pastoral leadership and congregations / Jeffery L. Tribble, Sr -- The listening church : how ethnography can transform Catholic ethics / Emily Reimer-Barry -- Ethnography as revelation : witnessing in history, faith, and sin / Robert P. Jones -- Theology and morality on the streets : an examination of the beliefs and moral formation of street children in light of Christianity and African traditional religions / Melissa Browning -- Living with indigenous communities in Chiapas, Mexico : the transformative power of poverty and suffering / Andrea Vicini -- Whiteness made visible : a theo-critical ethnography in Acoliland / Todd Whitmore -- The cost of virtue : what power in the Open Door Community might speak to virtue ethics / Peter R. Gathje -- pt. 3. Method. Benedictions : for those willing to give ethnography a try.
Summary 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 traditionGÇöthat God is known most fully in Jesus of Nazareth.€ Echoing th.
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Subject Christianity and culture.
Christianity and culture.
Ethnology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Ethnology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Christian ethics.
Christian ethics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Scharen, Christian, 1966-
Vigen, Aana Marie.
Other Form: Print version: Ethnography as Christian theology and ethics. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2011 9781441130921 (OCoLC)535494792
ISBN 9781441130921 (electronic book)
1441130926 (electronic book)
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9781283205320
9781441193254
1441193251
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