Normativity as Pitfall or Ally?

Kaufman, Tone Stangeland

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“…Such an approach of reflexivity and reciprocity assists the researcher to acknowledge the power differential and promotes the exchange of knowledge in an empowering fashion while also promoting credibility, and trustworthiness in the study. (Kaufman, 2015;Enosh and Ben-Ari, 2016).…”

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Methodological and ethical challenges while conducting qualitative research on spirituality and end of life in a Muslim context: a guide to novice researchers

Lalani

Ali

2020

Int J Palliat Nurs

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Spirituality could be understood as a personal belief, a relation with sacred, divine experience, a sense of purpose and meaning towards life, authenticity and connectedness. It is a continually evolving, highly complex, contextual, subjective, and sensitive construct. A continuous development is seen around understanding about spirituality and spiritual concepts, such as spiritual experiences, spiritual pain and spiritual distress, especially among patients and families at the end of life. The concepts, values, attitudes, and beliefs around spirituality, spiritual needs and expressions vary among different individuals, cultures, and religions. There is a dearth of literature around spirituality, especially among Muslim patients and families at the end of life. The complexities around the concept of spirituality in the literature raise several ethical and methodological concerns for a novice researcher while planning and conducting a study on spirituality during end-of-life care in a hospice setting, especially among a Muslim population. This paper aims to share some of the methodological and ethical challenges that can be faced by qualitative researchers while conducting research around spirituality and end-of-life care in an Islamic/Muslim context. Major challenges include defining the term spirituality, spirituality and culture, communication, power relations, language and translation, recruitment and selection of the participants, emotional distress, and reflexivity and reciprocity. Having an in-depth understanding of these challenges can guide researchers to address these issues adequately in their spirituality research in a Muslim context.

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Methodological and ethical challenges while conducting qualitative research on spirituality and end of life in a Muslim context: a guide to novice researchers

Lalani

Ali

2020

Int J Palliat Nurs

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“…3 Harald Hegstad's The Real Church: An Ecclesiology of the Visible published in 2013 is an extended argument for the necessity of social scientific study of the Church within ecclesiology and Tone Stangeland Kaufman has published on issues of normativity in ecclesial ethnographic methods. 4 The turn towards the ethnographic ecclesiology among these scholars has taken place while recognising that empirical work is a contested method in the systematic and doctrinal theology. This article acknowledges the theological problems around empirical work in the construction of doctrine.…”

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Ecclesiology and ethnography with humility

Ward

2016

Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology

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Ward, Pete (2018) 'Ecclesiology and ethnography with humility : going through Barth.', Studia theologica., 72(1). pp. 51-67. Further information on publisher's website: Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Ecclesiology and Ethnography with Humility: Going Through Barth AbstractDrawing on the notion that future Ecclesiologies would be wise to go through Karl Barth rather than to attempt to go around him. This article proposes a cautious humility for ethnographic approaches to ecclesiology. The article builds on the move towards ethnographic forms of ecclesiology in a Scandinavian context. From this starting point it argues that Barth's ecclesiology suggests a series of theological checks and balances in ecclesiology and ethnography. These are explored through the notion of humility in method and approach.

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“…Even so, some theologians express unease with concepts from disability theory, such as ableism(Brock, 2022; Swinton, 2011). 22 This is in the context of an "empirical turn" towards theological ethnography(Kaufman, 2015;Marti, 2016).…”

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Speaking with Us, Not for Us: Neurodiversity, Theology and Justice

Jacobs

2023

Journal of Disability & Religion

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To belong in the Christian tradition, we must be able to contribute to it. Yet neurodivergent Christians have rarely been enabled to tell our own stories about ourselves as a vital part of God's (neuro)diverse creation. In common with other autism research, academic theology is framed by pathologizing clinical paradigms of autism; neurodivergent people's situated knowledge about ourselves has not always been valued in the field. In this aut-ethnography, I use reflections from a decade of engaging with autism theology -often a painful experience of Othering -to frame a response informed by critical autism and neurodiversity studies. Drawing on lived theology from autistic research participants, I consider what our neurodiversity theologies have to offer to academic theology. Finally, I ask how theologians can do justly by speaking with, not for, neurodivergent people.

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Normativity as Pitfall or Ally?

Cited by 11 publications

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Methodological and ethical challenges while conducting qualitative research on spirituality and end of life in a Muslim context: a guide to novice researchers

Methodological and ethical challenges while conducting qualitative research on spirituality and end of life in a Muslim context: a guide to novice researchers

Ecclesiology and ethnography with humility

Speaking with Us, Not for Us: Neurodiversity, Theology and Justice

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