Missionary impositions [ conversion, resistance, and other challenges to objectivity in religious ethnography
In this collection of essays, anthropologists of religion examine the special challenges they face when studying populations that proselytize. Conducting fieldwork among these groups may involve attending services, meditating, praying, and making pilgrimages. Anthropologists participating in such re...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books ,
c2012
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| Online Access: | IG Publishing |
Table of Contents:
- 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 pilgrimage