Translation, Description, and the Value of Ethnography: A Response to Lindy Backues

Abstract

Responding to Lindy Backues' review of The Service of Faith, Fountain discusses the value and service of ethnographic analyses of Christian development. Rather than being preoccupied with fixing Mennonite deficiencies, he invites a consideration of ethnography as a mirror that can facilitate new self-understandings and as an act of meditation on a world infused with grace.