Pub Date : 2021-12-24DOI: 10.1163/22144471-08020002
S. Hill, Henk de Roest
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Pub Date : 2021-06-03DOI: 10.1163/22144471-08010001
C. Scharen
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Pub Date : 2021-06-03DOI: 10.1163/22144471-BJA10009
Kyle B. T. Lambelet, J. Shields
Where is God? What locations should we turn to in order to identify God’s activity in the world? What methods would be appropriate to attend to the presence (or absence) of God? And then, once we identify God’s presence, what should we do in response? This special issue of Ecclesial Practices, compiled by the Fieldwork in Ethics interest group of the Society of Christian Ethics, highlights a dual post-liberal and liberationist inheritance, before arguing in the essays that follow, that Christian ethicists emerging from both orientations are unable to evade normative questions by turning to qualitative research. However, such an evasion was never true to our task. Instead, immersing ourselves in normative lifeworlds marked by brokenness and grace prompts us engage the grounds for ethical judgement anew: to reflect on God’s presence, the presence of God’s absence, and the persistent hope of liberation. Over the past fifteen years, field work has become an established method for such attention in Christian ethics. Book series such as the T&T Clark Studies in Social Ethics, Ethnography and Theology; distilling volumes like Anna Vigen and Christian Scharen’s Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics; and this journal Ecclesial Practice all testify to the new emergence of ethnography as an accepted method of Christian ethics.1 Ethicists no longer argue about whether ethnographic methods of participant observation,
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Pub Date : 2021-06-03DOI: 10.1163/22144471-BJA10022
Emily Z. Dubie
This article considers the complicated nature of self-reporting within the in-depth interview. Despite the adoption of ethnographic methods in Christian ethics and related disciplines, the accuracy of interview data has received relatively little attention. Drawing upon my fieldwork with Christian social workers in the American southeast, as well as sociological and anthropological sources, I argue that research participants frequently endeavor to present an admirable portrait of themselves. Through selecting, omitting, and revising their stories, they undertake a kind of moral work, assessing their actions and attitudes according to available ethical criteria. Broader cultural norms, their own moral ideals, and anticipations of the interviewer’s judgments all supply resources for self-evaluation. Rather than presenting a methodological problem, understanding this possible dynamic within the interview supplies the Christian ethicist with firsthand insights into the moral labors of naming a good life.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-03DOI: 10.1163/22144471-08010003
John Wolford
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Pub Date : 2020-12-16DOI: 10.1163/22144471-bja10019
Deborah L. Berhó
While a majority of the fast-growing U.S. Latino population is Roman Catholic, a significant and growing percentage is Protestant – some calculate that they now number 10 million in the U.S. Despite this significant growth, Latino Protestant churches remain understudied, particularly the music in worship services. Several Latino theologians criticize the music as being of foreign extraction, a form of neocolonialism in the church, not an autochthonous expression of worship. However, these claims do not align with music actually being used in these congregations. This carefully documented study of 25 Spanish language Protestant churches in Oregon reveals that, while music used in worship at one time may have been created and imposed by non-Latinos, this is no longer the case, and bi-musicality is the norm, reflecting the diaspora and agency of the Latino Protestant church.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-16DOI: 10.1163/22144471-07020002
S. Hill, Henk de Roest
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Pub Date : 2020-12-16DOI: 10.1163/22144471-bja10017
L. Hopkins, E. Wort
Photo elicitation and photovoice are valuable tools for researchers of churches and congregations. Photo elicitation and photovoice empower participants, turning them from passive objects of study into emancipated co-creators of research and empowered co-creators of data. We used photo elicitation and photovoice in our separate studies of understandings of communion among young Baptists and understandings of culture among church leaders in Hull. Although our research areas were very different, we found similarities in the way that images can empower participants and in doing so, enable them to be both articulate and dis-articulate, arguing that this dis-articulation is valuable in discussions of belief and experience.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-16DOI: 10.1163/22144471-bja10016
Steve Taylor, Shannon E. Taylor
Craftivism combines craft and activism. This paper contributes to the field of contemporary culture, mission, and creative making by examining the Christmas Angels project, in which local churches yarn-bomb hand-knitted angels, as an ecclesial expression of craftivism. Recipient responses to this fresh expression of Christian witness are analysed by examination of over 1,100 ‘#xmasangel’ tweets. Analysis reveals a found theology, in which angels are received with joy and surprise, understood in the context of love, experienced as a place-based gift and embody a participative making. A missiology of making is developed, reading the yarn-bombed Christmas angels as an ecclesial practice of witness in continuity with a theology of making in the Wisdom literature and ‘craft-egesis’ of mission in Acts. The research has relevance in exploring the potential of digital data in empirical ecclesial research and challenging missiology to be practical in ‘making’ a domestic turn.
{"title":"When ‘#xmasangels’ Tweet: a Reception Study of Craftivism as Christian Witness","authors":"Steve Taylor, Shannon E. Taylor","doi":"10.1163/22144471-bja10016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22144471-bja10016","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Craftivism combines craft and activism. This paper contributes to the field of contemporary culture, mission, and creative making by examining the Christmas Angels project, in which local churches yarn-bomb hand-knitted angels, as an ecclesial expression of craftivism. Recipient responses to this fresh expression of Christian witness are analysed by examination of over 1,100 ‘#xmasangel’ tweets. Analysis reveals a found theology, in which angels are received with joy and surprise, understood in the context of love, experienced as a place-based gift and embody a participative making. A missiology of making is developed, reading the yarn-bombed Christmas angels as an ecclesial practice of witness in continuity with a theology of making in the Wisdom literature and ‘craft-egesis’ of mission in Acts. The research has relevance in exploring the potential of digital data in empirical ecclesial research and challenging missiology to be practical in ‘making’ a domestic turn.","PeriodicalId":37169,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesial Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45798944","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 : 2020-12-16DOI: 10.1163/22144471-07020001
Rein Brouwer
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