Practical Matters, Spring 2013, Issue 6, pp. 1-3. © The Author 2013. Published by Emory University. All rights
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Roundtable on Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics
Conveners: Christian A. Scharen and Anna Marie Vigen
Emily Reimer-Barry, University of San Diego
Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke University
Ted A. Smith, Emory University
Christian A. Scharen, Luther Seminary
Aana Marie Vigen, Loyola University of Chicago
João Biehl, Princeton University
Beyond “Use” of Social Science in Theology
Christian A. Scharen and Aana Marie Vigen
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ver the past decade, the “use” of ethnography in theology and ethics has grown signif-
cantly. When Scharen and two colleagues planned a panel on “Ethnography and Norma-
tive Ethics” at the Society of Christian Ethics meeting in 2003, it was still an unusual