Ethnography as a Pastoral Practice
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Ethnography as a Pastoral Practice

An Introduction

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eBook - ePub

Ethnography as a Pastoral Practice

An Introduction

About this book

Ethnography as a Pastoral Practice invites you to open your eyes, ears and hearts to your congregation. By listening to their stories you will not only find out who they are but help them to better claim whose they are. By studying the "texts" of your community, Mary Clark Moschella helps you to understand their "contexts."

Moschella will inspire you through actual cases to be more prophetic and priestly in ministry. Ethnography as a Pastoral Practice will, in a step-by-step fashion, help you and your congregation to embrace change and celebrate transformation.

This revised second edition incorporates new scholarship on qualitative methods in ethnographic research and their spreading application in seminaries, universities, and divinity schools. As Moschella writes in her reflection on the book fourteen years after the publication of the first edition: "The teaching and practice of qualitative research methods help shape new generations of religious professionals in respectful modes of disciplined inquiry, enabling practitioners to learn about and from the communities they serve."

The revised edition includes two appendices by Steve Taylor and Ryan Juskus, respectively, that travel the trail of research blazed by the first edition of this book.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface to the Second Edition
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Getting Started: Understanding Ethnography
  8. 2. Religious Practice: Clarifying the Questions
  9. 3. Research Design: Sketching Out a Path
  10. 4. Caring for Relationships: The Ethics of Pastoral Research
  11. 5. Keeping Track of Findings: Notes from the Field
  12. 6. Ears to Hear: Pastoral Listening in the Field
  13. 7. Organizing Data: Methods for Analysis
  14. 8. Writing It Up: Composing the Story
  15. 9. Sharing Results: Weaving a Theological Narrative
  16. 10. Ethnography and Transformation
  17. Appendix 1. When Christmas Angels Tweet
  18. Appendix 2. The Ecopolitics of Truth-Telling
  19. Selected Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. Back Cover