| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 112 pages) |
| Contents |
Missionary Impositions; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Writing Religion; 1. Flirting with Conversion: Negotiating Researcher Non-Belief with Missionaries; 2. Chasing the Wind: The Challenges of Studying Spirit Possession; 3. How "They" Construct "Us": Reflections on the Politics of Identity in the Field; 4. Revisiting The Inner Life: Self-Reflexive Ethnography and Emotional Enculturation; 5. I'm Just a Soul Whose Intentions are Good: Observations from the Back Pew; 6. On Being a Participant and an Observer in Religious Ethnography: Silence, Betrayal, and Becoming |
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7. Blind in a Land of Visionaries: When a Non-Pilgrim Studies PilgrimageIndex; About the Contributors |
| Summary |
This book explores some of the less understood research considerations involved in studying religious populations with a missionary imperative. The essays encompass ethnographic fieldwork in Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, and other populations, addressing such topics as the fluidity of the anthropologist's own religious identity, objectivity versus subjectivity, the issue of reflexivity in ethnography, and the multi-positionality of the researcher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
PDF |
| Subject |
Anthropology of religion -- Research
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Crane, Hillary K., 1969-
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Weibel, Deana L., 1969-
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| ISBN |
9781283993463 |
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1283993465 |
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9780739177891 |
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0739177893 |
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