Erin Raffety
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6000592 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Erin Raffety |
| PRENOMES | Erin |
| SOBRENOME | Raffety |
| ASSINATURA | RAFFETY E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Princeton Theological Seminary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6543-6513 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Innovating Ecclesiology
This article draws on over two years of qualitative research conducted in tandem with the activities of the Isaiah Partnership, a Pathways for Tomorrow Lilly Endowment Inc. grant project (Grant ID: 2021 1156) that ran from 2021–2024 at Princeton Theological Seminary and aimed to move innovation to the heart of congregational and faculty leadership through concurrent faculty and church cohort tracks. The article provides a full description of the …
Theological Education with Neurodiversity in Mind
How might the neurodiversity paradigm and the stories of neurodivergent persons contribute to the work of theological education? Drawing on the insights of neurodivergent thinkers, worshipers, and ministry leaders, the authors outline a preliminary vision of theological education and Christian ministry that keeps neurodiversity in mind. The article begins by exploring the neurodiversity paradigm and discussing experiences of neurodivergence in co…
Introduction
We are pleased to offer the first special issue on “Neurodiversity and Theological Education” in the Journal of Disability & Religion, featuring eight original articles from neurodiverse scholars
Families We Need
Set in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need traces the movement of three Chinese foster children, Dengrong, Pei Pei, and Meili, from the state orphanage into the humble, foster homes of Auntie Li, Auntie Ma, and Auntie Huang. Traversing the geography of Guangxi, from the modern capital Nanning where Pei Pei and Meili reside, to the small farming village several hours away where De…
Give the Grant Money to the Youth’
This paper uses sociological theories of religious change to explain findings from action research on intergenerational relations at two ethnic churches in the U.S. At the outset of our study, immigrant adults felt threatened that younger congregants preferred non-ethnic churches. When these churches used research funds to support youth development and outreach programs, they experienced intergenerational congregational belonging. We ask, do exis…
Cultivating Digital Reflexivity as Resistance to Digital Dualism
This article reflexively reviews methods for training researchers developed during a national studying of thriving congregations in the United States during the covid -19 pandemic (2020-2022) as a case study on doing digital ethnography (ethnography that uses digital methods to study and engage critically with digital culture). The article outlines the importance of digital culture (expressions of identity offline are not separate from online for…
When the Margins Talk Back
Communication theory reminds us that listening is always interrogative, relational, and never without politics. The articles in this collection are the first attempt to witness as listeners to what young people have shared in this research, amplifying a “youth ecclesiology” (Benjamin Conner), the prophetic ministry of young people (Justin Forbes), the importance of aesthetics in confronting dehumanization (Katherine Douglass), the disruptive call…
From Charity to Classroom Co-Learning
Reflecting on our experience as educators in a semester long “Disability and Christian Ministry” mini-course with ministerial students from Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS) and Career and Community Studies (CCS) students with I/DD from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) in Spring 2020, we illuminate the critical role the Spirit and togetherness play in confronting covert ableism in the classroom, disrupting conventional values and power dynamic…
Christian Globalism at Home
Combing through missionary archives, periodicals, sponsorship cards found in church parlors, visits to the major organizational headquarters of ChildFund, World Vision, Compassion International, and Unbound, as well as a “roving variety” of ethnography (240) with US churches, families, and individuals who sponsor children abroad, Hillary Kaell takes readers on a thorough journey of how two centuries of child sponsorship conjure globalism within A…
Studying Christianity in China
Through in-depth interviews with nearly fifty leading scholars in Sino-Christian studies and theology inside the PRC and Hong Kong, Naomi Thurston charts the interdisciplinarity, marginality, and variable nature of what it means to study Christianity in China. Set against historical and cultural scholarship charting the growth of Christians and Christianity in recent decades, Thurston’s account is notable for its empirical, intellectual, and insu…
From Depression and Decline to Repentance and Transformation
From Inclusion to Leadership
Drawing on ethnographic research, Scripture, and theology, this article posits that Christian arguments for inclusion with people with disabilities often fail to undermine ideologies of normalcy lurking at the heart of redemption. By reading the healing of blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46–52) with the pitfalls of inclusion and current research in mind, I follow theologian Sharon V. Betcher in challenging readers to resist making disabled persons but …
The God of Difference
In their eagerness to love and care for young people with disabilities, youth ministers and lay people have often failed to appreciate the challenge of human difference. The author shows that studies in youth ministry struggle to hold in tension differences in culture, developmental categories, and disability among youths, often dismissing these differences as oppositional to Christian relationship or community. Drawing on cultural anthropology, …
Disruptive Youth
This article explores the problem of youth from the multidisciplinary viewpoints of Youth Ministry and Childhood Studies, arguing that while Youth Ministry has been limited by paradigms of developmentalism and hampered by theological essentialism, theories of childhood as a social construct and children as social actors in Childhood Studies have yet to penetrate Youth Ministry or influence society. Anticipating the potential for Youth Ministry to…
Minimizing social distance
This article reviews and critiques an ethical strategy of minimizing social difference between researcher and child in participatory research with children, and drawing on fieldwork, presents an alternative strategy of minimizing social distance. The author argues that an ethical strategy of minimizing social distance between researcher and research subject(s) (1) enables the constitution of difference in relationship, (2) lends research subjects…
Minimizing social distance
This article reviews and critiques an ethical strategy of minimizing social difference between researcher and child in participatory research with children, and drawing on fieldwork, presents an alternative strategy of minimizing social distance. The author argues that an ethical strategy of minimizing social distance between researcher and research subject(s) (1) enables the constitution of difference in relationship, (2) lends research subjects…
Minimizing social distance
This article reviews and critiques an ethical strategy of minimizing social difference between researcher and child in participatory research with children, and drawing on fieldwork, presents an alternative strategy of minimizing social distance. The author argues that an ethical strategy of minimizing social distance between researcher and research subject(s) (1) enables the constitution of difference in relationship, (2) lends research subjects…
Disruptive Youth
This article explores the problem of youth from the multidisciplinary viewpoints of Youth Ministry and Childhood Studies, arguing that while Youth Ministry has been limited by paradigms of developmentalism and hampered by theological essentialism, theories of childhood as a social construct and children as social actors in Childhood Studies have yet to penetrate Youth Ministry or influence society. Anticipating the potential for Youth Ministry to…
The God of Difference
In their eagerness to love and care for young people with disabilities, youth ministers and lay people have often failed to appreciate the challenge of human difference. The author shows that studies in youth ministry struggle to hold in tension differences in culture, developmental categories, and disability among youths, often dismissing these differences as oppositional to Christian relationship or community. Drawing on cultural anthropology, …
Studying Christianity in China
Through in-depth interviews with nearly fifty leading scholars in Sino-Christian studies and theology inside the PRC and Hong Kong, Naomi Thurston charts the interdisciplinarity, marginality, and variable nature of what it means to study Christianity in China. Set against historical and cultural scholarship charting the growth of Christians and Christianity in recent decades, Thurston’s account is notable for its empirical, intellectual, and insu…
From Depression and Decline to Repentance and Transformation
From Inclusion to Leadership
Drawing on ethnographic research, Scripture, and theology, this article posits that Christian arguments for inclusion with people with disabilities often fail to undermine ideologies of normalcy lurking at the heart of redemption. By reading the healing of blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46–52) with the pitfalls of inclusion and current research in mind, I follow theologian Sharon V. Betcher in challenging readers to resist making disabled persons but …
From Charity to Classroom Co-Learning
Reflecting on our experience as educators in a semester long “Disability and Christian Ministry” mini-course with ministerial students from Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS) and Career and Community Studies (CCS) students with I/DD from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) in Spring 2020, we illuminate the critical role the Spirit and togetherness play in confronting covert ableism in the classroom, disrupting conventional values and power dynamic…
Christian Globalism at Home
Combing through missionary archives, periodicals, sponsorship cards found in church parlors, visits to the major organizational headquarters of ChildFund, World Vision, Compassion International, and Unbound, as well as a “roving variety” of ethnography (240) with US churches, families, and individuals who sponsor children abroad, Hillary Kaell takes readers on a thorough journey of how two centuries of child sponsorship conjure globalism within A…
When the Margins Talk Back
Communication theory reminds us that listening is always interrogative, relational, and never without politics. The articles in this collection are the first attempt to witness as listeners to what young people have shared in this research, amplifying a “youth ecclesiology” (Benjamin Conner), the prophetic ministry of young people (Justin Forbes), the importance of aesthetics in confronting dehumanization (Katherine Douglass), the disruptive call…
Theological Education with Neurodiversity in Mind
How might the neurodiversity paradigm and the stories of neurodivergent persons contribute to the work of theological education? Drawing on the insights of neurodivergent thinkers, worshipers, and ministry leaders, the authors outline a preliminary vision of theological education and Christian ministry that keeps neurodiversity in mind. The article begins by exploring the neurodiversity paradigm and discussing experiences of neurodivergence in co…
Introduction
We are pleased to offer the first special issue on “Neurodiversity and Theological Education” in the Journal of Disability & Religion, featuring eight original articles from neurodiverse scholars
Families We Need
Set in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need traces the movement of three Chinese foster children, Dengrong, Pei Pei, and Meili, from the state orphanage into the humble, foster homes of Auntie Li, Auntie Ma, and Auntie Huang. Traversing the geography of Guangxi, from the modern capital Nanning where Pei Pei and Meili reside, to the small farming village several hours away where De…
Give the Grant Money to the Youth’
This paper uses sociological theories of religious change to explain findings from action research on intergenerational relations at two ethnic churches in the U.S. At the outset of our study, immigrant adults felt threatened that younger congregants preferred non-ethnic churches. When these churches used research funds to support youth development and outreach programs, they experienced intergenerational congregational belonging. We ask, do exis…
Cultivating Digital Reflexivity as Resistance to Digital Dualism
This article reflexively reviews methods for training researchers developed during a national studying of thriving congregations in the United States during the covid -19 pandemic (2020-2022) as a case study on doing digital ethnography (ethnography that uses digital methods to study and engage critically with digital culture). The article outlines the importance of digital culture (expressions of identity offline are not separate from online for…
Innovating Ecclesiology
This article draws on over two years of qualitative research conducted in tandem with the activities of the Isaiah Partnership, a Pathways for Tomorrow Lilly Endowment Inc. grant project (Grant ID: 2021 1156) that ran from 2021–2024 at Princeton Theological Seminary and aimed to move innovation to the heart of congregational and faculty leadership through concurrent faculty and church cohort tracks. The article provides a full description of the …
Sociology (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Philosophy (10 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Theology (6 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Anthropology (4 obras) · Epistemology (4 obras)