Practices with Their Own Playlists
Recently, on the podcast Sound Opinions, I heard a news report about recent research into music listening practices that was funded by (and used streaming data from) Spotify. (You can hear it here at the front end of the podcast.) The hosts, Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot, interview Ajay Kalia of Spotify. The interesting findings […]
APT at AAR 2016: "Practical Theology for Politically Charged Situations"
The Association of Practical Theology is pleased to announce details for our session at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Atlanta, Georgia. Please share these details with all who would be interested. We look forward to a terrific program. Practical Theology for Politically Charged Situations Friday 20 November, 3:00-6:00, Marriott Marquis […]
Schleiermacher and "Religious Others"
Friedrich Schleiermacher has often been credited with being the most influential modern founder/articulator/theorist of practical theology. I do not wish to go into the strengths and limits of such a claim, but rather to call attention to a recent book that will be important for all whose theological work is heir to Schleiermacher’s prodigious and […]
Notice from De Gruyter about Open Theology journal
We received this notice recently from De Gruyter: OPEN THEOLOGY journal CALL FOR PAPERS Open Theology – an international Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journal, launched recenty by De Gruyter Open, welcomes contributions addressing religion in its various forms and aspects: historical, theological, sociological, psychological, and other. The journal encompasses all major disciplines of Theology and […]
Job Opening: Director of Field Education and Professor of Practical Theology, Louisville Seminary
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Was ist los, Stuttgart? Kirchentag! Part 2 of 2
Part 1 is here. Here are the pictures from Kirchentag in Stuttgart, Germany, last week, that I mentioned in my previous post. —Tom Beaudoin
Was ist los, Stuttgart? Kirchentag! Part 1 of 2
I didn’t know that my recent visit to Stuttgart, Germany, would coincide with Kirchentag – because I had never heard of Kirchentag. But as soon as I stepped out of the train station, I saw people, young and old, sporting red stoles featuring Psalm 90:12, “damit wir klug werden” (“that we may become wise“). For […]
Representing Practice: An Assist from Dwight Conquergood, Part 3 of 3
Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. What has been missing for me so far in Conquergood’s theory of the representation of practice through performance is a sufficiently subtle account of how the four traps that lay in wait for the performer (or read here: theologian) are not determinable in some objective way apart […]
A Note on Stew, "Notes of a Native Song"
Last night, I saw “Notes of a Native Song” at the Harlem Stage in Manhattan. It was written/composed by Stew and Heidi Rodewald, of “Passing Strange” (one of my favorite musicals) fame. As in “Passing Strange,” Stew sang lead and played electric guitar, Heidi Rodewald sang backup and played bass, and they were joined by […]
Representing Practice: An Assist from Dwight Conquergood, Part 2
Part 1 is here. Conquergood provides four different ways of representing the practice of others, drawn in the service of a “moral mapping of performative stances towards the other” (p. 5). First is “The Custodian’s Rip-Off.” When we characterize practice in this way, we are taking away from others rather than being curious about them. […]