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Mellott, David M.

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Ethnography as theology: Encountering the Penitentes of Arroyo Seco, New Mexico.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ethnography as theology: Encountering the Penitentes of Arroyo Seco, New Mexico./
Author:	Mellott, David M.
Description:	200 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1821.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-05A.
Subject:	Theology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3176045
ISBN:	9780542153914

Ethnography as theology: Encountering the Penitentes of Arroyo Seco, New Mexico.
Mellott, David M.

Ethnography as theology: Encountering the Penitentes of Arroyo Seco, New Mexico. - 200 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1821.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emory University, 2005.

This dissertation proposes to exemplify how ethnographic research is particularly relevant to an emerging form of liturgical theology. The dissertation addresses the question, is there anything theologians and pastoral ministers can learn by asking our Christian companions about what they consider to be their spiritual practices and about the ways in which they understand and interpret those practices in their contexts? We can learn from studying the lived experience of practicing Christians. One of the main arguments of this paper is that ethnographic research should be an essential component of theological studies. Another argument, which comes from what I have learned in the process of this research, is that doing ethnographic research can also be a theological act. Through extended interviewing, participant observation, and a life history, I explore the practices of the Penitente Brotherhood performed in the northern New Mexican village of Arroyo Seco and how those practices are interpreted by one of their most senior members. The official name of the Brotherhood in Arroyo Seco is La Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno. More commonly, they are known as the Penitentes (the penitent ones) or los Hermanos Penitentes (the penitential brothers). Over the years, the Penitente practices in Arroyo Seco have evolved into a unique combination of private and public performances, which are interwoven with the official rituals of the local Roman Catholic community. They also compose a portion of the local parish's annual repertoire of performed sacred dramas. Participants in these performances include, the Hermanos, the Auxiliadores (women's auxiliary), the Veronicas (young girls), other members of the parish and village, and some visitors. The Penitente Brotherhood has often had contentious relations with the Roman Catholic Church, including condemnation by the Vatican in 1854. The reconciliation came only in 1947. The rich juxtaposition of these Penitente practices with official Roman Catholic ones---an important site of primary theology---provides a fertile opportunity for investigating how ethnographic research can both reshape theological studies, and deepen the study of religion in America.

ISBN: 9780542153914Subjects--Topical Terms:

516533
Theology.

Ethnography as theology: Encountering the Penitentes of Arroyo Seco, New Mexico.
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