RT Article
T1 Introduction: Critical Terms for the Ethnography of Religion
JF Fieldwork in religion
VO 17
IS 1
SP 5
OP 12
A1 Thornton, Brendan Jamal
A1 Del Pinal, Eric Hoenes
LA English
PB Equinox
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1820502155
AB Religious studies is an interdisciplinary field encompassing a range of research methods and theoretical areas of analysis. Interest in ethnographic methodology has grown of late as scholars of religion with varying specialties and backgrounds have turned towards anthropology for inspiration on how best to analyze and interpret people’s variegated religious lives in the contemporary world. The special issue "Critical Terms for the Ethnography of Religion" considers eight key terms that are central to the conceptual grammar of the ethnographic method in order to highlight the opportunities and challenges this form of research offers the study of "lived religion". By bringing together established scholars of religion who take ethnographic methodology seriously in their work, this special issue offers readers an opportunity to think with colleagues from across the discipline about what is at stake in their approach to studying, analyzing and writing about religion from an ethnographic perspective.
K1 Data
K1 Ethics
K1 Ethnographic Methods
K1 Fieldwork
K1 interlocutors
K1 Participant Observation
K1 positionality
K1 Religious Studies
K1 Subjectivity
K1 Writing
DO 10.1558/firn.22578