RT Article
T1 Martin Buber, Empathy and Research Practice$aA Response to Rachel Cope
JF Journal for the Study of Spirituality
VO 3
IS 1
SP 67
OP 72
A1 Stern, Julian
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
YR 2013
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1762022796
AB Researching religion and spirituality raises issues about the position of the researcher and the relationship between researcher and researched. These can be explored using Martin Buber’s idea of dialogue involving Realphantasie, ‘imagining the real’. Dialogue requires a strong form of empathy, which can take place notwithstanding profound disagreement, whereas a more dialectical progress to agreement is more associated with sympathy, feeling another person’s feelings. Sympathy cannot be required of researchers, but empathy, as described by Buber, is a reasonable expectation of us all.
K1 Martin Buber
K1 Dialogue
K1 Empathy
K1 Imagination
K1 Sympathy
DO 10.1179/2044024313Z.0000000006