TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crane,Hillary K.
AU  - Weibel,Deana L.
TI  - Missionary impositions: conversion, resistance, and other challenges to objectivity in religious ethnography 
SN  - 9781283993463
AV  - GN470 .M57 2012eb
U1  - 306.6 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Lanham, MD
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Anthropology of religion
KW  - Research
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Fieldwork
KW  - Anthropologie religieuse
KW  - Recherche
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - Recherche sur le terrain
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Sociology of Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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 anthropologist's own religious identity, objectivity versus subjectivity, the issue of reflexivity in ethnography, and the multi-positionality of the researcher
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