The Ambiguity of (Religious) Practice, Part 3
Part one is here, and part two is here. I gave some examples of the ambiguity of (religious) practice in earlier posts, and a recent series of articles in the New York Times on abusive prison practices put me in mind of this as well. (See articles here, here, here, and here.) It is important […]
Last Week's NYC Rally/March for Racial Justice and Practical Theology, Part 1
In a recent post, I invited updates about how religious communities and other practical-theology-intensive places are making sense of and acting in relationship to the heightened public awareness of violence in/through law enforcement toward communities of color and disprivilege. I thought I would take my invitation as an occasion to post a note about a […]
The Ambiguity of (Religious) Practice, Part 2
Recent I wrote up Part 1 on this topic, introducing a little series on the ways that ambiguities of practice matter for practical theology. With the recent important debate about the USA’s drone warfare in the news, and the accompanying contrasts between public outcry about–and congressional oversight and criticism of–the USA’s detention/torture practices (little oversight, […]
The Ambiguity of (Religious) Practice, Part 1
In practical theology and related fields, when we write about practice we tend to write about the kinds of practices that build up (religious) communities, that correspond deeply, somehow, to what is taken to be essential to a religious/spiritual/faith/etc tradition–in a more or less strongly positive way. In some of my recent writings — from […]