Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1163/22144417-bja10046
Heidi A. Campbell
During the pandemic, many church leaders had to learn to manage a digital divide present within their congregations, which they were not aware of. This article explores the nature and traits of the digital divide many American churches encountered during this pandemic, based on a study of focus groups involving 478 church leaders from Indiana. This study identifies four specific challenges they faced in adopting digital media and adapting their services to the online environment, revealed by this digital divide. Specifically, this article explores the lack of internet accessibility digital literacy, generational gaps in digital knowledge, and dealing with in and dividuals who were resistant to change digital media, who could be described as exhibiting technological hesitancy or digital reluctance. These challenges are looked at through the lens of digital justice and argue the digital divide realized within churches during the Covid-19 pandemic has theological implications.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1163/22144417-bja10049
P. Blankenship
This article aims to crack open the structure of ethnographic theology. It challenges our Christian faith to nurture our love for the world, Christian and otherwise. This article is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork with young adults experiencing homelessness in Seattle who claim to be Luciferians and hate Christianity. I query what difference an ethnographic theologian’s personal faith makes from field to text and then back to field. What really matters about ethnographic theology, I propose, is participation in the transformative power of divine love through contemplative action that necessitates apophatic practice. I demonstrate how my own apophatic ethnographic practice(s) helped me understand what is at stake with Luciferians on the streets of Seattle and take contemplative action. I also disclose a fruit of my apophatic practice: a transformed perspective on Luciferianism where I came to experience Christ in Lucifer’s wounds and the Luciferian rejection of and disgust for Christianity.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1163/22144417-bja10045
Erin Raffety
This article reflexively reviews methods for training researchers developed during a national studying of thriving congregations in the United States during the covid-19 pandemic (2020-2022) as a case study on doing digital ethnography (ethnography that uses digital methods to study and engage critically with digital culture). The article outlines the importance of digital culture (expressions of identity offline are not separate from online formation; see Campbell 2012) and digital dualism (outmoded assumptions about binaries between online/offline spaces; see Jurgenson 2011) for doing digital ethnography, and argues that as long as digital dualism lurks not only among congregations, but also within researchers and their methodologies, it undermines knowledge of congregations. Therefore, the article develops the concept of digital reflexivity (the interrogation of one’s own digital cultural experiences, identities, and power, in tension with one’s relationships), arguing for its usefulness for ethnographic studies of congregations, practices of congregational ministry, and theological education.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1163/22144471-10010001
J. Gelderloos
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1163/22144417-bja10047
Clementine Nishimwe
This paper explores the effect of intercessory prayers as experienced by Black African migrant women in the context of xenophobia. Drawing on an ethnographic study of the experiences of Black African migrant women at St Aidan’s Anglican Church (saac), located in a migrant-dominated area in Johannesburg, I discuss the transformative experiences of health, wealth and relationships resulting from intercessory prayers that challenged the context of xenophobia in which saac functioned. While the transformation observed in the study was limited in time and space, I argue that certain church practices can be transformative if intentionally designed in ways that are sensitive to the specific context in which that church functions.
{"title":"Transformative Experiences of Intercessory Prayers in a South African Context of Xenophobia","authors":"Clementine Nishimwe","doi":"10.1163/22144417-bja10047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22144417-bja10047","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper explores the effect of intercessory prayers as experienced by Black African migrant women in the context of xenophobia. Drawing on an ethnographic study of the experiences of Black African migrant women at St Aidan’s Anglican Church (saac), located in a migrant-dominated area in Johannesburg, I discuss the transformative experiences of health, wealth and relationships resulting from intercessory prayers that challenged the context of xenophobia in which saac functioned. While the transformation observed in the study was limited in time and space, I argue that certain church practices can be transformative if intentionally designed in ways that are sensitive to the specific context in which that church functions.","PeriodicalId":37169,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesial Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44838304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1163/22144471-10010004
A. Dunlop
{"title":"Dustin D Benac, Adaptive Church: Collaboration and Community in a Changing World","authors":"A. Dunlop","doi":"10.1163/22144471-10010004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22144471-10010004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37169,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesial Practices","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42159846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1163/22144471-10010003
K. Tamminga
{"title":"Johannes Riphagen, Church-in-the-Neighbourhood: A Spatio-Theological Ethnography of Protestant Christian Place-making in the Suburban Context of Lunetten-Utrecht","authors":"K. Tamminga","doi":"10.1163/22144471-10010003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22144471-10010003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37169,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesial Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46929090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1163/22144471-10010002
Hans Riphagen
{"title":"Jacobine Gelderloos-Commandeur, Meaningful in the Margins: Churches and Quality of Life in the Dutch Countryside","authors":"Hans Riphagen","doi":"10.1163/22144471-10010002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22144471-10010002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37169,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesial Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45571809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1163/22144417-bja10044
S. Müller, Nicole Bruderer-Traber
Based on an interdisciplinary study of practical theology, pedagogy, and business education, this article elaborates on aspects of social competence, digitality, engagement, and lived theology. The article further describes in which areas and how often young adults completing vocational training are involved in society and the church and how they use their smartphones. In addition, the young people’s assessment of the opportunities and risks of digital possibilities is discussed as aspects of etiquette regarding manners with the smartphone. Furthermore, it is worked out how young adults perceive themselves as socially competent and what implications this has for social learning. Finally, the authors describe the significance of these findings for hybrid-liquid church life and the extent to which practical action promotes the theological productivity of young adults and supports their development.
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