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Encountering the Sacred in the Everydayness of Existence: Oral History and the Phenomenology of Practice

Scala, Geraldo A.

Encountering the Sacred in the Everydayness of Existence Oral History and the Phenomenology of Practice is an interdisciplinary endeavor combining personal narrative, oral history research methods and theory, and the philosophical discipline of phenomenology. It is based on a series of interviews conducted between 2015 and 2016 in New York City and Durham, North Carolina.

The narrators featured are three unrelated individuals: Vic Ruggiero, lead singer of the punk ska band, The Slackers; Ed Shevlin, a New York City sanitation worker; and Wesley Hogan, the director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Their stories are the thread that binds them in that their oral accounts work to illustrate the existential encounter, i.e. everyday encounters with the sacred—lived truth.

Keywords: phenomenology, ontology, Social justice, ethics, existentialism, social exclusion, social inclusion, patriotism, the sacred, art, music, punk rock, 'truth'

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Academic Units
Oral History Master of Arts
Thesis Advisors
Starecheski, Amy A.
Degree
M.A., Columbia University
Published Here
September 27, 2023