The Wiley Blackwell companion to theology and qualitative research /

"The adoption of qualitative empirical methods within theological research is one of the fastest growing and significant developments in recent years. It is not simply the fact that this approach is being used by significant numbers of young, emerging, and established scholars or that qualitati...

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Other Authors: Ward, Pete, 1959- (Editor), Tveitereid, Knut (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2022.
Series:Wiley-Blackwell companions to religion.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Pete Ward, Knut Tveitereid
  • Part I. Naming the Field
  • Theology and qualitative research: an uneasy relationship / Pete Ward
  • Qualitative research in theology : a spiritual turn? / Clare Watkins
  • The craft of theology and qualitative research / Dustin D. Benac
  • Ethnography as critical pedagogy : prisons, pedagogy, and theological education / Rachelle R. Green
  • Luring the divine : affect, esthetics, and future directions for ethnographic theology's contribution to the Christian traditions / Natalie Wigg-Stevenson
  • Practical theology rooted in and from Africa : the tide is turning / Shantelle Weber
  • Lived theology and theology in the lived / Knut Tveitereid.
  • Part II. Theology and Qualitative Research as Forms of Knowledge
  • Empirical research, theological limits, and possibilities / John Swinton
  • Fieldwork in white theology / Christian Scharen
  • On the nature of ordering / Tanya Riches
  • Practicing reflexivity : becoming aware of one's default mode and developing an epistemic advantage / Tone Stangeland Kaufman
  • Revelation and normativity / Paul S. Fiddes
  • Empathy and immersion as theological values / Nicola Slee
  • Representation and intersectionality / Janna L. Hunter-Bowman
  • Concrete church : qualitative research and ecclesial practices / Hans Schaeffer
  • Qualitative research and young adult faith / Ruth Perrin.
  • Part III. Theology and Qualitative Research: Continuities and Discontinuities
  • Christian ethics, experience, and qualitative research / Lap Yan Kung
  • Contextual theology / Yara Gonzélez-Justiniano
  • Postcolonial theology : naming coloniality and the problem of definitions / Christine J. Hong
  • Ecclesiology : the study of the formal church / Rein Brouwer
  • Ecclesiology in ecclesial movements such as fresh expressions of church / Sabrina Müller
  • Digital theology and qualitative research / Stephen Garner
  • Queer theology / Ninna Edgardh
  • Political theology and qualitative research / Luke Bretherton
  • Biblical studies / Andrew P. Rogers
  • Theology, qualitative research, and world Christianity / Easten Law.
  • Part IV. The Empirical Turn in Practical Theology
  • Anglo-American practical theology / Christopher Craig Brittain
  • Continental practical theology / Ulla Schmidt
  • Preaching / Marianne Gaarden - Worship / Glenn Packiam
  • Pastoral care / Mary Clark Moschella
  • Christian education as a community of strangers / Elisabeth Tveito Johnsen
  • Church organization / Helen Cameron
  • Youth ministry and the empirical turn / P. M. (Ronelle) Sonnenberg
  • Part V. The Practice of Theology and Qualitative Research
  • Fieldwork and the person of the theologian / Kirsten Donskov Felter
  • Interviews and observation / Harriet Mowat
  • Analytical strategies / Kirstine Helboe Johansen
  • Writing qualitative research and theology : thoughts for beginners / Eileen R. Campbell-Reed
  • Visual ethnography / Sarah Dunlop
  • Action research and theology / Jonas Ideström
  • Collaborative research / Henk de Roest
  • Ethnography as community action / Angela Cowser.
  • Part VI. Responses and Dissent
  • Understanding lived theology : is qualitative research the best or only way? / Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore
  • Ethnography as a tool for genuine surprise : found theologies versus imposed theologies1 / Gerardo Martí
  • Receiving the gift of women's voices : the place of qualitative research in ecumenical theology and practice / Gabrielle Thomas
  • Theology and qualitative research : limits and new directions / Swee Sum Lam
  • Congregations in changing times : challenges facing Romanian churches after the fall of Communism / Otniel Ioan Bunaciu
  • The presence of Christ in qualitative research : four models and an epilogue / Bård Norheim.