Keeping Living Realities Alive in Descriptions
Following McClintock Fulkerson’s Good Samaritan Church Forward
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15711751 |
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| Authors | Lieve Orye (KU Leuven, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 231-250 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ecclesial Practices (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2214-4463 • E-ISSN: 2214-4471 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22144471-00302007 |
| OpenAlex | W2570171231 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Theology and ethnography discussions aim to reconnect abstract theology with concrete life. Within these ongoing debates the concern can sometimes be heard that living realities need to be kept alive in description. This article aims to contribute to these reflections by emphasizing with anthropologists João Biehl and Tim Ingold the importance of respecting the temporal orientation of life and recognizing the unfinishedness and ongoing nature of life. Ingold’s reflections on lifeless ethnographicness, participant observation and the unity of movement, observation and description are introduced and their relevance explored in relation to McClintock Fulkerson’s study of Good Samaritan umc in her book Places of Redemption (2007). A deeper diagnosis of both the obliviousness in church and bias in theology is suggested and a brief exploration of how Good Samaritan umc can be heard as an ongoing story is undertaken
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| Highly cited | No |
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