The Wiley Blackwell Reader in Practical Theology

Contains a general introduction to the discipline, featuring classic and pioneering essays that address the history, methods, issues, and exemplary illustrations of research, teaching, and practice  Presenting a diverse collection of landmark essays, The Wiley-Blackwell Reader in Practical Theology explores the turn-of-the-century renaissance of practical theology as an academic discipline and shows how the discipline has advanced a steady epistemological insurgency in theology throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first century. The text provides scholars, students, and ministerial professionals with easy access to original seminal sources that represent major milestones, growing edges, and useful classificatory rubrics. A handy, one-volume primer to practical theology, the book: Offers an excellent bird’s-eye-view of the discipline’s essential foundational contributions Provides significant introductory overview material helpful in guiding both new and experienced readers to practical theology Includes brief overview introductions before each essay to situate the reading and highlight key contributions and occasional limitations Features essay selections that consider race, gender, sexuality, age, and other differences as a critical subtheme The Wiley-Blackwell Reader in Practical Theology is an indispensable resource for students, faculty, and professionals in practical theology and colleagues in related cognate disciplines in theological education and religious studies.

Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments ix Bonnie J. Miller‐McLemore General Introduction 1 Bonnie J. Miller‐McLemore Part I Twenty‐First Century Practical Theology: Places, Bodies, Know‐How 19 Section I Places 21 1 Bridging Black Theology and Folk Religion (2002) 23 Dale Andrews 2 Mapping Latino/a Practical Theology (2004) 37 Allan Figueroa Deck 3 Immigrant Faith Communities as Interpreters (2008) 55 Faustino M. Cruz 4 My GPS Does Not Work in Puerto Rico (2011) 65 Loida I. Martell 5 Performative Theologies (2014) 79 Carmen Nanko‐Fernandez Section II Bodies 91 6 Ecclesiology as if Bodies Mattered (2007) 93 Mary McClintock Fulkerson 7 A Hermeneutics of the Knees (2008) 105 Claudio Carvalhaes 8 Desiring Things (2013) 117 Heather Walton 9 The Bodies We Teach By (2014) 127 Mai‐Anh Le Tran 10 Raced Bodies (2016) 141 Phillis Isabella Sheppard 11 Knowing Through Moving (2016) 157 Emmanuel Y. Lartey Section III Practical Know‐How 169 12 A ChicanaFeminist Epistemology (2002) 171 Nancy Pineda‐Madrid 13 Black Phronesis as Theological Resource (2008) 187 Robert L. Smith, Jr 14 An Intercultural, De‐colonial Epistemic Perspective (2012) 197 Michel Elias Andraos 15 Mis‐Education: A Recurring Theme? (2017) 209 Almeda M. Wright 16 Ventriloquism and Epistemic Violence (2017) 223 Courtney T. Goto Part II Twentieth‐Century Foreshadowing: Reimaging Theological Knowledge 239 Section I 1950–1980s: New Claims for Knowledge in Practice 241 17 Operation‐Centered Theology (1958) 243 Seward Hiltner 18 Practical Theology within the Theological Disciplines (1972) 257 Karl Rahner 19 The Hermeneutic Circle as Epistemology (1976) 269 Juan Luis Segundo 20 Pastoral Theology as Practical Knowledge (1980) 287 Rodney J. Hunter 21 Practical Theology as Critical Praxis Correlation (1987) 297 Rebecca S. Chopp Section II The 1990s: Redefining Practice, Reimaging Knowledge 311 22 Reconceiving Practice (1991) 313 Craig Dykstra 23 Phronesis and the Rebirth of Practical Theology (1991) 331 Don S. Browning 24 Learning from Our Sisters in the Trenches (1997) 349 Teresa L. Fry Brown 25 Wisdom and the Fear of Knowing (1997) 363 Mary Elizabeth Mullino Moore 26 Words Made Flesh (1999) 375 Elaine Graham Index 383

About the Author :
Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture at the Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion of Vanderbilt University. A national and international leader in pastoral and practical theologies, widely recognized for work on families, women, and children, and recipient of a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology award (2000), she is author, editor, and co-editor of numerous publications, including the original edition of The Wiley Blackwell Reader in Practical Theology.