Ecclesiology & Ethnography Conference   8-10 September 2026 | St John’s College, Durham   This conference is part of The Network for Ecclesiology & Ethnography, which seeks to draw together scholars working with theological approaches to qualitative research on the Christian Church. We welcome papers that explore the dynamic relationship between the theological and […]

Network founder and senior scholar Dr. Pete Ward of Durham University has published his new book: Bluegrass and Religion, an historical and ethnographic study of meaning-making, religion, and bluegrass music. If you’ve ever been to the Durham EE conference and belted out the song “I’ll Fly Away” while Pete and friends play along, you will […]

Ecclesiology & Ethnography North American Conference   March 19-21, 2026 | Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois   Update: One week extension for proposal submissions The Ecclesiology and Ethnography Network is a global community of scholars working at the intersections of theology and ethnography. Together with Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in […]

Aimed at doctoral students and researchers, the training is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to embark on your own theological action research project.  The training will be interactive and conversational and take place over Zoom. The timings are chosen to enable participation in Asia and Australia and New Zealand. The training […]

From March 24 until March 26, 2023, the first annual Ecclesiology & Ethnography North American (EENA) conference took place in cooperation with the Overseas Ministries Study Center at Princeton Theological Seminary (OMSC@PTS). The Ecclesiology & Ethnography North American Conference aims at creative conversations across diverse specialisms and learning at the intersection of qualitative research, theology, […]

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Theology and Qualitative Research outlines the challenges and possibilities for theological research that engages with qualitative methods. It reflects more than 15 years of academic research within the Ecclesiology and Ethnography Network, and features an international group of scholars committed to the empirical and theological study of the Christian church. […]

On October 29, 2021, more than 175 attendees gathered online and in-person at St. John’s University in Queens, NY for the One-day Conference on Theology and Qualitative Research for Doctoral Advisers & Students. The conference was inspired by the growing move towards doctoral research that combines Theology and Qualitative Research in recent years. These kinds […]

Rev. Dr. Eileen R. Campbell-Reed, Visiting Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology & Care at Union Theological Seminary (NYC), has interviewed Dr. Pete Ward on a variety of subjects and is posting them to her “Three Minute Ministry Mentor” series on her website. Because ministry cannot be learned all at once, or even in three years […]

Theology in Practice extends the horizons of the discipline and scholarship of practical theology. It promises to enrich the academic discourse and supply material of interest to scholars and professional graduate students. Books in the series will be in conversation with scholarship in the discipline and reflect engagement with diverse voices in the field (e.g., […]

The Preacher as ‘First Listener: ‘Calling’ as a Source of Authority within the Flemish Evangelical Preaching Tradition About the book The preacher’s weekly assignment is brutally repetitive: Fill the blank page by Sunday, at least twice a month, if not even more. This book offers a biblical, theological and empirical grounding to support the preacher’s […]