Missionary impositions : conversion, resistance, and other challenges to objectivity in religious ethnography /

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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 anthropolog...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Crane, Hillary K., 1969-, Weibel, Deana L., 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, Ã2012.
Subjects:
Anthropology of religion > Research.
Ethnology > Fieldwork.
Anthropologie religieuse > Recherche.
Ethnologie > Recherche sur le terrain.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
Ethnology > Fieldwork
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.
  • 7. Blind in a Land of Visionaries: When a Non-Pilgrim Studies PilgrimageIndex; About the Contributors.

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