Marc Loustau - Studying Theology Ethnographically

Centre for Catholic Studies Podcast

Marc Roscoe Loustau is an anthropologist and scholar of religion, specialising in studying religion and nationalism in Eastern Europe. Having spent three years in Hungary and Romania researching the history of Catholic pilgrimage, he now works at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, as Managing Editor of the Journal of Global Catholicism. His paper for this seminar is entitled: "Studying Theology Ethnographically: Reflections on Fieldwork with Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Contemporary Romania". This seminar forms part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series (CTRS). The CTRS is a regular forum for scholarly discussion of pertinent issues in the Catholic traditions of theology and Church. The seminar series ranges across the traditional theological disciplines (scriptural, historical, philosophical, systematic, liturgical, ethical and practical/pastoral), Catholic social thought and practice, and social-scientific approaches to Catholicism.