Conundrums in practical theology / edited by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, Joyce Ann Mercer.
2016
230 C765 2016
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Title
Conundrums in practical theology / edited by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, Joyce Ann Mercer.
ISBN
9789004324237 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9004324232 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9004324232 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Language
English
Description
ix, 320 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
230 C765 2016
System Control No.
(OCoLC)951955752
(OCoLC)951955752
(OCoLC)951955752
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.
Note
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Series
Theology in Practice ; 2352-9288, Volume 2
Available in Other Form
Online version: Conundrums in practical theology Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016
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