The Way of the Cross in the Ordinary: Ethnographic Attention to the Good as Invitational Ethics
Abstract This essay develops the idea of ‘invitational ethics,’ engagement with ethnographic description as normative praxis. I argue that by attending to ways in which people exercise practical wisdom in ordinary moments, the ethnographer and reader alike are invited to engage their own processes o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Ecclesial practices
Year: 2021, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 56-72 |
| Further subjects: | B
Liberation Theology
B Social Justice B Gentrification B Race B Liturgy B Christian Ethics |
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| Summary: | Abstract This essay develops the idea of ‘invitational ethics,’ engagement with ethnographic description as normative praxis. I argue that by attending to ways in which people exercise practical wisdom in ordinary moments, the ethnographer and reader alike are invited to engage their own processes of ethical self-making. I draw on ethnographic fieldwork with the Way of the Cross for Justice, an annual Good Friday public liturgy in Cincinnati, Ohio, as a site for invitational ethics in the frame of what anthropologist Joel Robbins has called an ‘anthropology of the good.’ I conclude by reflecting on how this invited me to engage my own ethical self-making. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-4471 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ecclesial practices
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22144471-bja10024 |