Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics

Christian Scharen is Vice-President of Applied Research at Auburn Theological Seminary, USA.Aana Marie Vigen is Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Loyola University Chicago, USA.

This 2nd edition of the volume is no less important than the first one. Then, it was an inspiration for many of us who looked for ways of integrating theology, ethics, and ethnography. Now, by including contemporary examples and adding new and relevant research to the arguments, it offers stimulating reading for anyone who wants to read and do embodied modes of theology. In a culture obsessed by separation, this volume does the important work of suggesting how we might do theology in ways that hold together reflection and ethics as well as research and discipleship.

• Foreword - Traci West (Drew University, USA)Reflections on the Life, Works, and Legacy of Rev. Dr Melissa Brown Browning Damaris S. Parsitau (Egerton University, Kenya) and Emily Reimer-Barry (University of San Diego, USA)Part I – Revised Versions from Vol. 1Chapter 1: What is Ethnography?Aana Marie Vigen (Loyola University, USA)Chapter 2: The Ethnographic Turn in Theology and EthicsChristian Scharen (PThU, the Netherlands)Chapter 3: Critiques of the Use of Social Science in Theology and Ethics,Christian Scharen (PThU, the Netherlands)Chapter 4: Theological Justifications for Turning to EthnographyAana Marie Vigen (Loyola University, USA)Part II - New ExemplarsChapter 5:A Conversation Between the Researcher and the Research Assistant on Ethnographic PraxisElina Hankela & Clementine Nishimwe (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)Chapter 6: Ethnography and Crucified Bodies: A Liberationist-Incarnational ApproachSunder John Boopalan (Canadian Mennonite University, Canada) and RC Jongte (Princeton Theological Seminary, USA)Chapter 7: A Trauma-Ridden Body Lifted High: Eschatological Imagination in a Public SquareHee-Kyu Heidi Park, Ewha Women’s University, South Korea)Chapter 8: Theodicies at the Border: Grasping with Evil in the Lives of Indonesian Female Migrant Workers in SingaporeLailatul Fitriyah (Claremont School of Theology, USA)Chapter 9: Fieldnotes from the Garden: Methods, Ethics, and RantsNikki Hoskins (University of Scranton, USA)Chapter 10: The Curious Case of the Swedish Woman: Ethnographic Reflexivity and Accountability in Transnational FeminismSara A. Williams (Fairfield University, USA)Chapter 11: Qualitatively Studying Evangelical WhitenessNicole Symmonds (Columbia Theological Seminary, USA)Chapter 12: Inhabiting the Aftermath of Violence: Guns and the Practice of Vigil KeepingMichael Grigoni (Wake Forest University, USA)Chapter 13: Making Lemonade with Substitute Sugar: Towards an Ethics of ReceptivityAnneMarie Mingo (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, USA)Part III - MethodChapter 14: Benedictions: For Those Willing to Give Ethnography a TryBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex