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Personal Knowledge and Beyond Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion

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ISBN-10: 0814798039

ISBN-13: 9780814798034

Edition: 2002

Authors: James V. Spickard, Shawn Landres, Meredith B. McGuire

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I would recommend this book to anyone contemplating the study of religion using interviews and/or participant observations.-Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion"This is a rich collection in every sense of the word. It is rich in ideas, in examples, and in approaches. . . . Beautifully written and impeccably edited."-Journal of Contemporary Religion"This is a timely book on the actualdoingof ethnography, and how doing ethnography of religion demands specific attentiveness, not least to the transformations undergone by the observer herself."-Journal of Religion"This is an excellent and courageous book. It makes an important contribution to the social sciences and the sociology of…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 2/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

J. Shawn Landres is a doctoral candidate in religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and in social anthropology at Oxford University.Meredith B. McGuire is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity University. She is the author o

Meredith B. McGuire is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity University. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including Religion: The Social Context and Ritual Healing in Suburban America .

Introduction: Whither Ethnography? Transforming the Social-Scientific Study of Religion
Being an Ethnographer
Truth, Subjectivity, and Ethnographic Research
From the Heart of My Laptop: Personal Passion and Research on Violence against Women
Walking between the Worlds: Permeable Boundaries, Ambiguous Identities
Dancing on the Fence: Researching Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Christians
Doing Ethnography
Between the Living and the Dead: Fieldwork, History, and the Interpreter's Position
"But Are They Really Christian?" Contesting Knowledge and Identity in and out of the Field
Transitional Identities: Self, Other, and the Ethnographic Process
Being (in) the Field: Defining Ethnography in Southern California and Central Slovakia
Encountering Latina Mobilization: Field Research on the U.S./Mexico Border
Writing and Reading Ethnography
Writing about "the Other," Revisited
"There's Power in the Blood": Writing Serpent Handling as Everyday Life
Voicing Spiritualities: Anchored Composites as an Approach to Understanding Religious Commitment
Against Univocality: Re-reading Ethnographies of Conservative Protestant Women
A Conscious Connection to All That Is: The Color Purple as Subversive and Critical Ethnography
Beyond Personal Knowledge
New-Old Directions in the Social Scientific Study of Religion: Ethnography, Phenomenology, and the Human Body
Greening Ethnography and the Study of Religion
As the Other Sees Us: On Reciprocity and Mutual Reflection in the Study of Native American Religions
On the Epistemology of Post-Colonial Ethnography
References
Contributors
Index