An Ethics of Response: Protestant Christians' Relation with God and Elsewheres
How do Protestants engage with Elsewheres, such as God and other parts of the world? While anthropologists of Christianity have focused on the problems of presence and "mediating" God, this article considers instead the concept of "responding" to God/Elsewheres. In examining Luth...
| Published in: | Religion and society |
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| Subtitles: | "Special Section: Elsewhere Affects" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Berghahn
[2020]
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| In: |
Religion and society
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 120-132 |
| Further subjects: | B
crafts
B sound and silence B mission meetings B women's groups B Listening B Christianity B God |
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| Summary: | How do Protestants engage with Elsewheres, such as God and other parts of the world? While anthropologists of Christianity have focused on the problems of presence and "mediating" God, this article considers instead the concept of "responding" to God/Elsewheres. In examining Lutheran women in early-twentieth-century Norway who held monthly mission meetings, I begin with their decision to remove crafts from their meetings, which created a different blend of sound and silence. I argue that, in their view, quiet listening was the most proper response to calls from Elsewhere and thus allowed them to have the most far-reaching effects. In other words, their right affect would affect Elsewheres. We gain a fuller anthropological description of this complex engagement with God/Elsewheres if we include their understanding of the responsibility to respond. |
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| ISSN: | 2150-9301 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion and society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2020.110109 |