The Faith and Organizations Project: Findings and Process
When: Tuesday, February 1st, 7:00 pm
Where: Charles Sumner School
2101 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Presenters: Jo Anne Schneider, Isaac Morrison, Laura Polk
The Faith and Organizations Project is a trans-disciplinary, multi-methods ethnographic project looking at the relationship between faith based organizations and their founding communities (see faithandorganizations.umd.edu). The project just completed a Lilly Endowment-funded project comparing 81 faith communities and organizations from Catholic, Mainline Protestant, Jewish, Evangelical, Quaker and African American Christian traditions. The project model involves agency hosts and practitioners as active participants in all aspects of the project, creating products for a variety of audiences. This presentation will briefly outline key findings, talk about project process, and discuss experience working on anthropologist-led, trans-disciplinary projects in the career paths of project researchers.
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