In this book Christian Scharen and several other contributors explore empirical and theological understandings of the church. Like the first volume in the Studies in Ecclesiology and Ethnography series (Perspectives on ecclesiology and ethnography, Pete Ward, ed.), this second volume seeks to bridge the great divide between theological research and ethnography (qualitative research).
... for that is an illusory goal, nor to celebrate those biases as the authorial voice of the ethnographer, but rather to discover and perhaps change our biases through interaction with others. ... Burawoy, Ethnography Unbound, p. 4.
... ethnography”hasaparticularhistoryinanthropology,butbecauseithasalreadygained some traction in the theological world ... Explorations in Ecclesiology and Ethnography (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012). There have been a number of other ...
Florian Opillard, “Resisting the Politics of Displacement in the San Francisco Bay Area: Anti-Gentrification Activism in ... Rachel Brahinsky, The Making and Unmaking of Southeast San Searching for Sanctuary in the City of St. Francis 33.
The second edition of Qualitative Research responds to the growing need in Doctor of Ministry programs for a textbook that guides students in Participatory Action Research, prospectus, and dissertation that reflect the recent trends in the ...
... Explorations of Ecclesiology and Ethnography as well as the articles published in the journal Ecclesial Practices,2 the ecclesiology and ethnography network ... Ecclesiology Ethnography—Contributions and Challenges | —Tone Stangeland Kaufman.
... Ethnography? Methodological Explorations, edited by Martyn Hammersley, – . London: Routledge, . Harder, Gerhard ... Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction. Grand Rapids: Brazos, . Harris, Newtonia V. “ e Church in China ...
But Omar McRoberts's work in Four Corners, a tough Boston neighborhood containing twenty-nine congregations, reveals a very different picture.
In Collaborative Practical Theology, Henk de Roest documents and analyses research on Christian practices as it can be conducted by academic practical theologians in collaboration with practitioners of different kinds in Christian practices ...
This book is a direct follow up to that significant work, authored by one of the original researchers, providing a systematic analysis of the impact of the "theological action research" methodology and its implications for a contemporary ...
... 2011), 151–168; Marion Grau on the changes in the meanings of gospel in Anglican missions among the Zulu in South Africa from “pre” to “post” evangelization, in Grau, Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony: Salvation, Society, ...