RT Article
T1 An Ethics of Response: Protestant Christians' Relation with God and Elsewheres
JF Religion and society
VO 11
IS 1
SP 120
OP 132
A1 Hovland, Ingie
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1751610470
AB 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.
K1 Christianity
K1 crafts
K1 God
K1 Listening
K1 mission meetings
K1 sound and silence
K1 women's groups
DO 10.3167/arrs.2020.110109