Lived Experiences and Social Transformations

CL Wren Radford, Ph.D. (2019), University of Glasgow, is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester. Wren develops collaborative research projects with community groups around socio-economic inequalities, and publishes and teaches on research methodologies, liberative theologies, and literature and theology.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction1 Sharing Lived Experiences as a Political Practice2 Practical Theologies and Lived Experiences3 Locating This Research4 The Structure of This BookPart 1: Developing an Approach for Working with Lived Experiences1 The Dynamics of Sharing Lived Experiences1 ‘The Difficulties of Telling and Listening’2 Social Relations3 Critical Interpretations and Creative Work4 Concluding2 Passionate Ambivalence1 Theological Knowledge Making and Disciplinary Desires2 Engaging Lived Experiences3 Practical Theology as a Process of Making4 Risking Transformation5 ConcludingPart 2: Creative Interventions into Austerity3 Tracing the Labyrinth1 One2 Two3 Three4 Four5 Five6 Six4 Disrupting Austerity Cultures of Judgement and Disbelief1 Austerity Cultures of Judgement and Disbelief2 Testimonial Spaces3 Judgement and Disbelief as Social and Material4 Art-Activism as Creative Interventions5 Creative Interventions in Cultures of Judgement and Disbelief6 ConcludingPart 3: Theological and Political Disruptions5 Transformations in the Everyday1 Troubling ‘Transformation’2 Poetic Modes of Transformation3 Putting Cultures of Judgement on Trial4 Incarnational and Performative Interventions5 Cultural Transformations in the Everyday6 Everyday Transformations as Social, Material, and Spiritual6 Enacting Disruptive Encounters1 ‘Face-to-Face’ Sharing2 Collaborative Practices3 Creative Arts-Based Research Practices4 Fragile, Ongoing, Responsive PracticesConcludingBibliographyIndex