Personal knowledge and beyond : reshaping the ethnography of religion /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Spickard, James V., Landres, J. Shawn, McGuire, Meredith B.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2002]
Subjects:	Religion > Methodology. Ethnology > Methodology. Ethnology > Religious aspects. Religion > Méthodologie. Ethnologie > Aspect religieux. Ethnologie > Méthodologie. Etnografie. Godsdienstwetenschap. Ethnologie. Religion.
Online Access:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Whither ethnography? Transforming the social-scientific study of religion / James V. Spickard and J. Shawn Landres
Truth, subjectivity, and ethnographic research / Lynn Davidman
From the heart of my laptop : personal passion and research on violence against women / Nancy Nason-Clark
Walking between the worlds : permeable boundaries, ambiguous identities / Mary Jo Neitz
Dancing on the fence : researching lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Christians / Melissa M. Wilcox
Between the living and the dead : fieldwork, history, and the interpreter's position / Thomas A. Tweed
"But are they really Christian?" Contesting knowledge and identity in and out of the field / Simon Coleman
Transitional identities : self, other, and the ethnographic process / Janet L. Jacobs
Being (in) the field : defining ethnography in Southern California and central Slovakia / J. Shawn Landres
Encountering Latina mobilization : field research on the U.S./Mexico border / Milagros Peña
Writing about "the other," revisited / Karen McCarthy Brown
"There's power in the blood" : writing serpent handling as everyday life / Jim Birckhead
Voicing spiritualities : anchored composites as an approach to understanding religious commitment / Marion S. Goldman
Against univocality : re-reading ethnographies of conservative Protestant women / Julie Ingersoll
A conscious connection to all that is : The color purple as subversive and critical ethnography / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
New-old directions in the social scientific study of religion : ethnography, phenomenology, and the human body / Meredith B. McGuire
Greening ethnography and the study of religion / Laurel Kearns
As the other sees us : on reciprocity and mutual reflection in the study of native American religions / Armin W. Geertz
On the epistemology of post-colonial ethnography / James V. Spickard.