Keeping Living Realities Alive in Descriptions: Following McClintock Fulkerson’s Good Samaritan Church Forward

Theology and ethnography discussions aim to reconnect abstract theology with concrete life. Within these ongoing debates the concern can sometimes be heard that living realities need to be kept alive in description. This article aims to contribute to these reflections by emphasizing with anthropolog...

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Auteur principal: Orye, Lieve 1968- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2016
Dans: Ecclesial practices
Année: 2016, Volume: 3, Numéro: 2, Pages: 231-250
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
CF Christianisme et science
FA Théologie
Sujets non-standardisés:B life as ongoing description ethnographicness participant observation Tim Ingold Mary McClintock Fulkerson Good Samaritan umc
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Résumé:Theology and ethnography discussions aim to reconnect abstract theology with concrete life. Within these ongoing debates the concern can sometimes be heard that living realities need to be kept alive in description. This article aims to contribute to these reflections by emphasizing with anthropologists João Biehl and Tim Ingold the importance of respecting the temporal orientation of life and recognizing the unfinishedness and ongoing nature of life. Ingold’s reflections on lifeless ethnographicness, participant observation and the unity of movement, observation and description are introduced and their relevance explored in relation to McClintock Fulkerson’s study of Good Samaritan umc in her book Places of Redemption (2007). A deeper diagnosis of both the obliviousness in church and bias in theology is suggested and a brief exploration of how Good Samaritan umc can be heard as an ongoing story is undertaken.
ISSN:2214-4471
Contient:In: Ecclesial practices
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22144471-00302007