The Wiley Blackwell companion to theology and qualitative research / edited by Knut Tveitereid, Pete Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tveitereid, Knut, editor.

Ward, Pete, 1959- editor.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to religion

Wiley Blackwell companions to religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology--Research.

Theology.

Qualitative research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (558 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley-Blackwell, [2022]

Summary:

"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 qualitative methods are being used across a range of theological subdisciplines that makes this development significant -- it is the growing realisation that adopting qualitative empirical methods changes what it means to do theology and indeed to be a theologian. The Companion to Theology and Qualitative Research is timely and necessary. It will pick up on these recent developments and consolidate and map knowledge and findings. It will act as an introduction for those who wish to understand the methodological challenges and complexities of this emerging field and it will set the agenda for future developments in this field."-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Tveitereid, Knut Wiley Blackwell Companion to Theology and Qualitative Research

ISBN:

9781119756910

111975691X

9781119756927

1119756928

9781119756934

1119756936

OCLC:

1316703281