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Over the last decade the sociology of religion and religious studies have experienced a surge of ethnographic research. Scholars now use ethnography, as anthropologists have long done, as a valued source of knowledge from which they draw their pictures of the religious world. Yet, many researchers of religion have yet to grapple with the issues that are changing anthropologists' use of the method. Personal Knowledge and Beyond seeks to foster a cross-disciplinary rethinking of ethnography's possibilities and limits for the study of religions. It provides an overview of recent debates while also pushing them in new directions. In addition, it offers critiques of some of anthropology's reigning conceptualizations. The volume brings together many of the best-known ethnographic researchers of religion, including Karen McCarthy Brown, Lynn Davidman, Armin Geertz, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Mary Jo Neitz, and Thomas Tweed. Together, they share substantively from their fieldwork and consider the consequences for the study of religion of rejecting old ethnographic myths, as well as the risks of replacing them with new ones. The volume will be of interest to students as well as to experienced scholars in the field.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Personal Knowledge and Beyond
• Subtitle: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion
• Author: James V Spickard
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284
• EAN: 9780814798034
• ISBN: 0814798039
• ID: 04166595
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Weight: 470 g
• Dimensions: 155 × 231 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2002

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