Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1163/22144417-bja10048
C. Tam
Researching with persons using limited speech for communication can be challenging. This paper describes methodological considerations in the research process from recruitment to data collection. A case study is included to illustrate the considerations involved in selecting appropriate qualitative research methods to support people with profound autism to be involved in research. Involving people with profound autism in ecclesial studies is essential as it allows them to speak directly into the place of faith in their lives and their needs for a faith community. Recognizing that people with profound autism are competent informants in research, combined with using suitable tools, will also allow us to understand the gifts and indispensability of this group of people to the church.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1163/22144471-bja10041
E. Meijers
This paper elucidates the understanding of the bond between Liturgy and Diaconia. Liturgy and Diaconia are often considered two distinct practices in the daily life of the Church; one a set of rituals confined to the inner circle of Christians, the other a service to people in need, both in- and outside the Church. This contribution explores an encounter between the two by investigating experiences of Eucharist Celebrations during the Sanctuary in the Bethel Chapel, The Hague (Netherlands) in 2018/2019. The article briefly introduces the case of the Sanctuary, then describes and analyzes the results of interviews with pastors and finally formulate conclusions on the relation between Diaconia and Liturgy.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1163/22144471-bja10043
F. Porter, Ian Jones
Based upon the experience of an empirical pilot project, this article considers methodological challenges and opportunities involved in researching the faith of people not attached to church congregations, but participating in a church-based initiative. Is it possible to find out what ‘faith’ is for these people, without imposing overtly religious – or non-religious – understandings of ‘faith’? Having situated our work within the research landscape concerning faith, belief and non-belief, we introduce our definition of ‘faith’, drawing upon (but also in places critiquing) Abby Day’s work on investigating ‘belief’ and David Gortner’s research on worldview and ‘personal theology’. Supported by the project’s process and findings, we argue that our approach offers a framework which takes seriously Day’s concern to understand interviewees’ ‘belief’ on its own terms whilst also offering a way of inviting them to evaluate the Christianity they encountered through contact with a local church.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1163/22144471-09020002
Hannes Knoetze
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1163/22144471-bja10023
Jette Bendixen Rønkilde, K. Johansen
Drawing on empirical data from a study of Sunday Services in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark (elcd) and using a theoretical framework from ritual theory, this article analyses and interprets regular churchgoers’ participation in the Lord´s Supper. The empirical material consists of participant observations combined with focus group workshops. The article puts forward the argument that participants experience the Lord´s Supper as a ritual in the Sunday Services that enables and embodies an intensified space in which they come to terms with the other churchgoers, themselves and God. The article thoroughly explores how the Lord´s Supper as a ritual seems to consist of different parts or movements marked by collective and individual practices that significantly affect the churchgoers’ ways of participating in and experiencing the Eucharist. It thus reveals that insights from ritual theory can provide an opportunity to rethink the theological and ritual dynamic of worship and in particular the Lord’s Supper.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1163/22144471-bja10042
Katharina Krause
Based on ethnographic research on worship with people living with dementia, this contribution raises the issue of agency in pastoral practice as well as in its empirical investigation. Both empirical research and professional literature on worship tend to position people living with dementia as vulnerable, frail and in need of protection and care, thereby fostering an image of passive fragility. Research experience however tells a different story. People take an active part in what is going on, sometimes even claiming liturgical leadership. The paper discusses how such discrepancies could be reflected in actual research. With its focus on methodology, it makes a case for a deeper understanding of agency both in contexts of liturgical studies and pastoral care.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1163/22144471-bja10029
Fredrik Wenell, G. Andersson
Swedish Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal churches have, since the 1990s, started elementary schools. In this study, we examine theological issues that this new ‘practice’ brings about or makes visible. We have performed semi-structured interviews with church and school leaders, as well as focus group interviews with staff at three schools. In our analysis, we note that the aim of the schools is not to convert pupils but to create a certain culture and thereby to develop good people. These schools do not have other core values or different aims than public schools but describe these values and aims as Christian. However, the informants believe that they have better tools with which to accomplish these values and aims. We suggest that the informants assume an ethics that focus on values such as individual freedom, tolerance, and love, that conversion is not regarded as a requisite to a good life, and that explicit religious activities are placed in the private sector. These assumptions are not, we argue, seen as new, or caused by the engagement in elementary schools; rather they are regarded as ongoing ‘changes’ in the churches under consideration here that become visible in this praxis.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1163/22144471-09020001
Andrew Zirschky
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1163/22144471-09020004
Claire Williams
{"title":"Steve Bruce, British Gods: Religion in Modern Britain","authors":"Claire Williams","doi":"10.1163/22144471-09020004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22144471-09020004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37169,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesial Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41754855","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}
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