Conundrums in practical theology / edited by Joyce Ann Mercer and Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mercer, Joyce, editor.

Miller-McLemore, Bonnie J., editor.

Series:

Theology in practice ; volume 2.

Theology in practice, 2352-9288 ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology, Practical.

Physical Description:

ix, 320 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Summary:

In this landmark volume, internationally recognized scholars address key intellectual and practical conundrums that not only trouble practical theology but also reflect biases and breakdowns in the construction of theological knowledge in academy and religious communities at large. With critical facility and unheralded honesty that includes reflexivity about their own lives in the academy, the authors tackle complex issues that refuse easy solutions--racism, hierarchy of theory over practice, devaluation of small case studies, risks of interdisciplinarity to scholarly identity, inequities between Christian traditions, unreflective Christian-centrism, and tensions between the production of scholarship and public service. Outcomes of these issues will have serious implications for the discipline and the study of theology for years to come.

Contents:

Why does practice matter theologically?

The power and danger of a single case study in practical theological research

The tension between scholarship and service

Knowledge, subjectivity, (de)coloniality, and the conundrum of reflecivity

Writing in compliance with the racialized "zoo" of practical theology

From the outside, within, or in between? Normativity at work in empirical practical theological research

interdisciplinarity as a practical theological conundrum

The theory-practice binary and the politics of practical knowledge

Race bodies: portraying bodies, reifying racism

The complexity of local knowledge

Reframing practical theology: Catholic contributions and conundrums.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Conundrums in practical theology

ISBN:

9789004324237

9004324232

OCLC:

951955752

Publisher Number:

99969920611