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Missionary impositions : conversion, resistance, and other challenges to objectivity in religious ethnography / edited by Hillary K. Crane, Deana L. Weibel.

Contributor(s): Crane, Hillary K, 1969- [editor.] | Weibel, Deana L, 1969- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2014Edition: First paperback editionDescription: vii, 112 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780739198025; 0739198025Subject(s): Anthropology of religion -- Research | Ethnology -- FieldworkBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: writing religion / James Bielo -- Flirting with conversion: negotiating researcher non-belief with missionaries / Hillary K. Crane -- Chasing the wind: the challenges of studying spirit possession / Susan M. Kenyon -- How "they" construct "us": reflections on the politics of identity in the field / Jennifer A. Selby -- Revisiting The inner life: self-reflexive ethnography and emotional enculturation / Daniel Washburn -- I'm just a soul whose intentions are good: observations from the back pew / Lisa DiCarlo -- On being a participant and an observer in religious ethnography: silence, betrayal, and becoming / Katharine L. Wiegele -- Blind in a land of visionaries: when a non-pilgrim studies pilgrimage / Deana L. Weibel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: writing religion / James Bielo -- Flirting with conversion: negotiating researcher non-belief with missionaries / Hillary K. Crane -- Chasing the wind: the challenges of studying spirit possession / Susan M. Kenyon -- How "they" construct "us": reflections on the politics of identity in the field / Jennifer A. Selby -- Revisiting The inner life: self-reflexive ethnography and emotional enculturation / Daniel Washburn -- I'm just a soul whose intentions are good: observations from the back pew / Lisa DiCarlo -- On being a participant and an observer in religious ethnography: silence, betrayal, and becoming / Katharine L. Wiegele -- Blind in a land of visionaries: when a non-pilgrim studies pilgrimage / Deana L. Weibel.

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