The insider/outsider debate : new perspectives in the study of religion / edited by George D. Chryssides and Stephen E. Gregg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chryssides, George D., 1945- editor.

Gregg, Stephen E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Study and teaching.

Religion.

Physical Description:

xi, 421 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2019.

Summary:

The distinction between insiders and outsiders in religious studies has become an area of fruitful discussion in recent years. This anthology aims to extend that discussion by gathering newly commissioned essays from a diverse range of scholars, spanning a variety of disciplines and approaches, including ethnography, anthropology, theology and education. The result is a book that is at once accessible and readable, while remaining scholarly. The Insider/Outsider Debate has implications for numerous methodological issues in the study of religion, such as the emic/etic distinction, the distinction between religion and spirituality, the notions of believing without belonging , the claim to be spiritual but not religious and the existence of multiple, complicated, contesting religious identities. A particular focus of the volume is providing critiques of these methodological issues within the most recent academic approaches to religion particularly models of lived and vernacular religion. --Book Cover.

Contents:

Preface (Page xi)

Part One: New Methodological Approaches in the Study of Religion

1. Relational Religious Lives: Beyond Insider / Outsider Binaries in the Study of Religion / Stephen E. Gregg and George D. Chryssides (Page 3)

2. The Emics and Etics of Religion: What we Know, How we Know it, and Why this Matters / Steven J. Sutcliffe (Page 30) 3. The Death Pangs of the Insider/Outsider Dichotomy in the Study of Religion / Ron Geaves (Page 53)

4. Research Ethics Beyond the Binaries of Right and Wrong / Marie W. Dallam (Page 70)

5. Taking the Body Seriously, Taking Relationalities Seriously: An Embodied and Relational Approach to Ethnographic Research in the Study of (Lived) Religion / Nina Hoel (Page 88)

6. Negotiating Blurred Boundaries: An Ethnographic and Methodological Consideration / Fiona Bowie (Page 110)

7. "On the Edge of the Inside": Contemplative Approaches to the Study of Religion / Lynne Scholefield (Page 130)

8. Taking sides: On the (Im)possibility of Participant-Observation / Rebecca Moore (Page 151)

9. Who Researches? Who Changes? Christian Autoethnography and Muslim Pupil Identity in a Church of England Primary School / Tom Wilson (Page 171)

10. Imported Insider / Outsider Boundaries: The Case of Contemporary Chinese Christianity Researchers / Naomi E. Thurston (Page 190)

Part Two: Contested Identities in the Study of Religion

11. Close Encounters of a Guru Kind: Ethnographic Research as Encounters with the Cognitive Worlds of Others / Stephen Jacobs (Page 213)

12. Who is a Jew? New Approaches to an Old Question / Dan Cohn-Sherbok (Page 236)

13. Between Institutional Oppression and Spiritual Liberation: The Female Ordination Movement in the Catholic Church and its Utilisation of Social Media / Lyndel Spence (Page 249)

14. Navigating Multiplicity in a Binary World: a Javenese example of complex religious identity / Katherine Rand (Page 270) 15. When it Gets Crowded under the Umbrella: An Examination of Scholarly Categorisation of Buddhist Communities in the United States / Claire Miller Skriletz (Page 291)

16. Being Catholic since Vatican II: Challenges and Opportunities in Post-secular Times / Andrew P. Lynch (Page 310) 17. Reflexive and Holistic Switchers: Older Women / Newer Commitments / Janet B. Eccles (Page 330)

18. Scientology Inside Out: Complex Religious Belonging in the Church of Scientology and the Free Zone / Stephen E. Gregg and Aled J. L. Thomas (Page 350) 19. Moving out: Disengagement and Ex-membership in New Religious Movements / George D. Chryssides (Page 371)

20. Both Outside and Inside: 'Ex-Members' of New Religions and Spiritualities and the Maintenance of Community and Identity on the Internet / Carole M. Cusack (Page 393) Index (page 417).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Insider-outsider debate

ISBN:

9781781793442

9781781793435

1781793433

1781793441

OCLC:

1096234523

Publisher Number:

99983470777