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Thy will be done. DOING Theology THROUGH Diffractive Methodology (last edited: 2024)

Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano
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The overall purpose of this thesis is to perform and propose diffractive methodology as a means for exploring, reading, learning, and understanding systematic theological discourses beyond binary and oppositional thinking. This methodology is based on performative strategies and feminist new materialist theory, with a specific focus on Karen Barad’s ethico-onto-epistemological agential realism theory; it can also be considered an alternative to a more traditional academic reflexive methodological approach, thus allowing for an infinite number of explorative methods to be developed within its umbrella definition of diffractive methodology. The diffractive analysis in this study is shaped as an intra-active entangled reading of Graham Ward’s Engaged Theology, through Erika Fischer-Lichte’s Performance Aesthetics, and the method I call Voicing-as-Performative-Theology. This thesis is divided into three parts. Part I unfolds relevant terminology. Part II performs the actual diffractive reading analysis. Part III consists of a concluding essay summarizing the outcome of this study’s diffractive reading, as well as opening up suggestions for how diffractive methodology can be applied for developing more performative and diffractive methods as part of future theological research. The thesis will be presented at University College Stockholm (EHS), in January 8 2024.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsTheology, Systematic theology, Voicing, Diffractive Methodology, Liturgy, Artistic Research, Radical Theology, Curatorial praxis, performativity, Fischer-Lichte, aesthetics, engaged listening, engagement
date26/11/2023
last modified03/01/2024
statusin progress
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affiliationUniversity College Stockholm (EHS)
copyrightELB2023
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2405854/2405855


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