Lived Theology as Method, Style and Pedagogy
May 25-26, 2011
Charlottesville, Virginia
The 2011 Spring Institute for Lived Theology was framed by recent considerations of theological ethnography and the ethnographic study of religion. A small group of theologians, religion scholars and practitioners brought papers in progress and convened to talk specifically about lived theology as method, style and pedagogy.
Spring Institute 2011 Proceedings
Session I – A Journey without Maps: Does Lived Theology Need a Method? – Charles Marsh, University of Virginia
Session II – More than Belief: A Material Theory of Religion – Manuel Vasquez, University of Florida
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Session III – A Theology of Religious Pluralism: Lived Theology and Civic Wholeness – Sarah Azaransky, University of San Diego
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Session IV – Thinking about Lived Theology from the Context of the Congo – John Kiess, Loyola University, Baltimore
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Session V – Places of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church – Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke Divinity School
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Session VI – Lived Theology and the Ethnographic Sensibility in Historical Scholarship – Matthew Hedstrom, University of Virginia
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Session VII – Lived Theology 101: Exploring the Claim “What We Believe Matters” with Undergraduates – Lori Brandt Hale, Augsburg College
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Session VIII – Making Gravy as Lived Theology: Constructive Theology and Grassroots Activism – Jenny McBride, Wartburg College
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Session IX – Everyday Apocalypse: Writing Lived Theology – David Dark, Vanderbilt University
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Session X – Social Problems as Scenes of Theological Creativity – Willis Jenkins, Yale Divinity School
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Session XI – Part of the Body: Reflections on Risks and Responsibilities in the Discipline of Lived Theology – Peter Slade, Ashland University
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2011 Spring Institute for Lived Theology Speakers
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Sarah Azaransky, Union Theological Seminary
David Dark, Belmont University
Matthew Hedstrom, University of Virginia
Peter Slade, Graduate Research Assistant
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Manuel A. Vásquez, University of Florida, Gainesville
Lori Brandt Hale, Augsburg College
Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke Divinity School
Willis Jenkins, University of Virginia
John Kiess, Loyola University Maryland
Jennifer McBride, McCormick Theological Seminary