The Routledge handbook of research methods in the study of religion / edited by Steven Engler and Michael Stausberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Engler, Steven, editor.

Stausberg, Michael, editor.

Series:

Routledge Handbooks in Religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Methodology.

Religion.

Religion--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (670 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxon, UK ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2022]

Summary:

"This substantially revised second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion remains the only comprehensive survey in English of methods and methodology in the discipline. Designed for non-specialists and upper undergraduate-/graduate-level students, it discusses the range of methods currently available, to stimulate interest in unfamiliar methods and to enable students and scholars to evaluate methodological issues in research. The Handbook comprises 39 chapters - 21 of which are new, and the rest revised for this edition. 56 contributors from ten countries cover a broad range of topics divided into three clear parts: Methodology Methods Techniques. The first section addresses general methodological issues: including comparison, research design, research ethics, intersectionality, and theorizing/analysis. The second addresses specific methods: including advanced computational methods, autoethnography, computational text analysis, digital ethnography, discourse analysis, experiments, field research, grounded theory, interviewing, reading images, surveys, and videography. The final section addresses specific techniques: including coding, focus groups, photo elicitation, and survey experiments. Each chapter covers practical issues and challenges, theoretical bases, and their use in the study of religion/s, illustrated by case studies. The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion is essential reading for students and researchers in the study of religion/s, as well as for those in related disciplines"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsements

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of boxes

Contributors

PART I: Methodology

1.1. Introduction: Methods, methodology and method in the study of religion/s

1.2. Comparison

1.3. Designing research

1.4. Feminist methodologies: Feminist standpoint analysis

1.5. Intersectionality

1.6. Research ethics

1.7. Theorizing and analysis

PART II: Methods

2.1. Advanced computational methods

2.2. Autoethnography

2.3. Computational text analysis

2.4. Content analysis

2.5. Conversation analysis

2.6. Diary studies

2.7. Digital ethnography

2.8. Discourse analysis

2.9. Document analysis

2.10. Experimental methods

2.11. Field research and participant observation

2.12. Grounded theory

2.13. Hermeneutics

2.14. History

2.15. Interview methods

2.16. Microhistory

2.17. Network analysis

2.18. Phenomenology

2.19. Philology

2.20. Reading Images

2.21. Semiotics

2.22. Sequence analysis

2.23. Surveys and questionnaires

2.24. Translation

2.25. Videography

PART III: Techniques

3.1. Coding

3.2. Event model analysis

3.3. Focus groups

3.4. Free-listing

3.5. Photo elicitation

3.6. Semantic differential

3.7. Survey experiments

3.8. Survey item validation

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-322249-8

1-000-47263-9

1-000-47267-1

1-003-22249-8

9781003222491

OCLC:

1286432199