RT Article
T1 Response: How Do We Know What We Know About the Amish and Other Minorities?
JF Journal for the scientific study of religion
VO 58
IS 3
SP 743
OP 752
A1 Kraybill, Donald B. 1945-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1681183218
AB The appraisal by Cory Anderson, Joseph Donnermeyer, Jeffrey Longhofer, and Steven Reschly (hereafter, appraisers) highlights a methodological divide that is important to the study of the Amish and other ethnic or religious minorities. In my reply, I discuss how my work is rooted in a cultural analytic paradigm that differs from the appraisers' methodological orientation. My reply includes a deconstruction of the appraisal and a discussion of its "shortcomings." I conclude by showing how the discourse surrounding this appraisal raises important epistemological questions of how we understand human societies.
K1 Amish
K1 Epistemology
K1 Ethnic minorities
K1 Religious Minorities
DO 10.1111/jssr.12619