Christian Scharen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3481352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Scharen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Scharen |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAREN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pastoral Imagination
Courtney T. Goto, Taking On Practical Theology
Theological Ethnography and World Christianity
Over the past decade, the use of ethnography in theology has grown significantly, as this special issue of the Journal of World Christianity shows. Then, weaving these threads together, I comment on how theological ethnography’s disruptive potential for theology and church doctrine, for decentering authority structures, and for displaying the way theology and ethics are entailed as integral to fieldwork, and not as an appendage or mere entailment…
Interviewing Interpreted as a Spiritual Exercise and Social Protest
In The Weight of the World , sociologist Pierre Bourdieu describes his work as a spiritual exercise. Not known for his religious convictions, his admission is worthy of exploration. In this paper, I build on the conclusion of my book, ‘Fieldwork in Theology’, by drawing on my own interviews with clergy in spaces of social marginality in the usa as a means for evaluating Bourdieu’s claims. I draw upon theologian Kathryn Tanner to claim how God mig…
Eschatology and Justice
Judicious narratives', or ethnography as ecclesiology
Ethnography ought to be a means of doing theology. Following debates over John Milbank's influential work Theology and Social Theory , the paper responds to criticism that Milbank's church is too idealised, a critique that Milbank accepts, saying that his work requires 'supplementation by judicious narratives'. The thesis of the paper proposes that ethnography provides the most robust corrective to the problem of too formal an ecclesiology, thus …
Subject to Discipline
Subject to Discipline: Authority, Sexuality, and the Production of Candidates for Ordained Ministry Get access Christian Batalden Scharen Christian Batalden Scharen Christian Batalden Scharen is a doctoral student in the Department of Ethics and Society, Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 66,…
Judicious narratives', or ethnography as ecclesiology
Ethnography ought to be a means of doing theology. Following debates over John Milbank's influential work Theology and Social Theory , the paper responds to criticism that Milbank's church is too idealised, a critique that Milbank accepts, saying that his work requires 'supplementation by judicious narratives'. The thesis of the paper proposes that ethnography provides the most robust corrective to the problem of too formal an ecclesiology, thus …
Subject to Discipline
Subject to Discipline: Authority, Sexuality, and the Production of Candidates for Ordained Ministry Get access Christian Batalden Scharen Christian Batalden Scharen Christian Batalden Scharen is a doctoral student in the Department of Ethics and Society, Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 66,…
Judicious narratives', or ethnography as ecclesiology
Ethnography ought to be a means of doing theology. Following debates over John Milbank's influential work Theology and Social Theory , the paper responds to criticism that Milbank's church is too idealised, a critique that Milbank accepts, saying that his work requires 'supplementation by judicious narratives'. The thesis of the paper proposes that ethnography provides the most robust corrective to the problem of too formal an ecclesiology, thus …
Eschatology and Justice
Interviewing Interpreted as a Spiritual Exercise and Social Protest
In The Weight of the World , sociologist Pierre Bourdieu describes his work as a spiritual exercise. Not known for his religious convictions, his admission is worthy of exploration. In this paper, I build on the conclusion of my book, ‘Fieldwork in Theology’, by drawing on my own interviews with clergy in spaces of social marginality in the usa as a means for evaluating Bourdieu’s claims. I draw upon theologian Kathryn Tanner to claim how God mig…
Theological Ethnography and World Christianity
Over the past decade, the use of ethnography in theology has grown significantly, as this special issue of the Journal of World Christianity shows. Then, weaving these threads together, I comment on how theological ethnography’s disruptive potential for theology and church doctrine, for decentering authority structures, and for displaying the way theology and ethics are entailed as integral to fieldwork, and not as an appendage or mere entailment…
Pastoral Imagination
Courtney T. Goto, Taking On Practical Theology
Philosophy (6 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies (3 works) · Theological Perspectives and Practices (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works)