Refuge in Crestone - A Sanctuary for Interreligious Dialogue

In Refuge in Crestone: A Sanctuary for Interreligious Dialogue, Aaron Thomas Raverty elucidates how the praxis of interreligious dialogue, as outlined in key Vatican documents in the Catholic Church, could be better served by attending to the qualitative ethnographic methods of sociocultural anthropology. Using the unique, multi-religious Colorado site of Crestone and its environs as a fieldwork "laboratory" and self-described "Refuge for World Truths," the ethnographic data gleaned from this project exemplifies the creative interdisciplinary contributions of anthropology to theology.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Interreligious Dialogue as Praxis
Chapter 2: Ethnographic Method and Interreligious Dialogue
Chapter 3: Refuge Place as Sacred Space
Chapter 4: Spiritual Monuments within the Refuge
Chapter 5: Ritual Interface and Dialogue Opportunity
Conclusion
References

About the author

By Aaron Thomas Raverty

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Thomas Raverty, Raverty Aaron Thomas
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.2014
• EAN: 9780739183755
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8375-5
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology