Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics

Christian Scharen is Associate Professor and the Gordon Braatz Chair of Worship at The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, USA. Aana Marie Vigen is Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Loyola University Chicago, USA.

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. 1

Chapter 1:
What is Ethnography?
Aana Marie Vigen (Loyola University, USA)

Chapter 2:
The Ethnographic Turn in Theology and Ethics
Christian 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 Ethnography
Aana Marie Vigen (Loyola University, USA)

Part II - New Exemplars

Chapter 5:
A Conversation Between the Researcher and the Research Assistant on Ethnographic Praxis
Elina Hankela & Clementine Nishimwe (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

Chapter 6:
Ethnography and Crucified Bodies: A Liberationist-Incarnational Approach
Sunder 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 Square
Hee-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 Singapore
Lailatul Fitriyah (Claremont School of Theology, USA)

Chapter 9:
Fieldnotes from the Garden: Methods, Ethics, and Rants
Nikki Hoskins (University of Scranton, USA)

Chapter 10:
The Curious Case of the Swedish Woman: Ethnographic Reflexivity and Accountability in Transnational Feminism
Sara A. Williams (Fairfield University, USA)

Chapter 11:
Qualitatively Studying Evangelical Whiteness
Nicole Symmonds (Columbia Theological Seminary, USA)

Chapter 12:
Inhabiting the Aftermath of Violence: Guns and the Practice of Vigil Keeping
Michael Grigoni (Wake Forest University, USA)

Chapter 13:
Making Lemonade with Substitute Sugar: Towards an Ethics of Receptivity
AnneMarie Mingo (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, USA)

Part III - Method

Chapter 14:
Benedictions: For Those Willing to Give Ethnography a Try

Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index