Refuge in Crestone

In Refuge in Crestone: A Sanctuary for Interreligious Dialogue Aaron Thomas Raverty elucidates how the praxis of interreligious dialogue as outlined in key Vatican documents in the Catholic Church could be better served by attending to the qualitative ethnographic methods of sociocultural anthropology. Using the unique multi-religious Colorado site of Crestone and its environs as a fieldwork “laboratory” and self-described “Refuge for World Truths” the ethnographic data gleaned from this project exemplifies the creative interdisciplinary contributions of anthropology to theology.<br/><br/>