"I recommend this book to theologians attracted to ethnography, and vice versa, as a varied and thorough exploration of the gifts and challenges that dwell at the intersection of those endeavors. Theological educators may take an interest as well; the theme of integrating community engagement into theological study runs throughout the book. Many of the questions of scholarly subjectivity and research ethics raised herein are familiar for those
trained in ethnography. However, the project is clearly breaking new ground in raising these questions in the context of theological scholarship, a development to be celebrated."-Miranda Hassett,
Anglican Theological Review"[T]his diverse work should prove engaging for any theologian interested in practices. It coheres through shared conviction that the lived realities of faith constitute a rich and primary focal point for theological inquiry. Together, the authors illustrate and explore this conviction well. I sensed an implicit camaraderie in their loosely united contributions. Their diversity provides a broad and engaging introduction to the work of lived theology while gesturing toward a much larger conversation."--
Reading Religion"
Lived Theology is a book that is more than the sum of its parts. It is more because under the insightful direction of Charles Marsh, Peter Slade, and Sarah Azaransky these essays offer a theological alternative we have so desperately needed. In the very least, this book should end the unhappy tension between academic and popular theology." --Stanley Hauerwas, author of
The Work of Theology "
Lived Theology is essential reading for students, activists, pastors, and scholars who are attentive to present and future opportunities for theological engagement and witness in the public square. These essays establish the importance of lived theology as a rationale and methodology for analysis of the primary source data of social change, such as field reports, position papers and oral histories, in order to discover vital theological conversations, convictions and commitments." --Cheryl J. Sanders, author of
Saints in Exile "Lived theology has been among the most vivifying and necessary scholarly movements of the last decade and a half. In illustrating how to read the texts of people's lives for clues about God, this book inspires, tempts, informs, and provokes." --Lauren F. Winner, Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke Divinity School
