Exciting developments in research among, with and by Indigenous scholars and communities are enriching a wide range of disciplines, methodologies and trans-disciplinary conversations. This growing field offers important insights and provocations about methods and approaches. Key issues such as relationality, decolonisation, research ethics, pedagogy and collaboration necessarily require improvements both in scholarly description and in scholarly practice. Similarly, critical themes for Indigenous people intersect strongly both with recent scholarly “turns”, such as embodiment, gender, performance, place, ontology, and materiality. The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Indigenous Religions reflects on appropriate approaches and methods with over 28 chapters by a team of international contributors. The Handbook is divided into three parts:
Core themes and critical issues in research and debate about Indigenous Religions
Disciplines and methods, focusing on ways in which researchers gain and share understanding about Indigenous religions
Recent scholarship about broad regions of the world
Within these sections, central issues, debates and problems are examined, including cosmology, diaspora, bodies and materiality, witchcraft and divination, ritual studies, ethnography and fieldwork, heritage studies, ecology, feminist methodologies, decolonial methods and Indigenist methods, research ethics, activism, health, and peoplehood, kinship and relations. The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Indigenous Religions is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and Indigenous studies, and the handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields such as sociology, anthropology, history and politics.
Introduction Part 1: Critical Issues 1. Cosmologies 2. Cosmologies and Land 3. Indigenous Religions, Diaspora and Reverse Diaspora 4. Personhood, Kinship, and Relations 5. Bodies and Materiality 6. Genders 7. Trance and Possession Practices 8. Decolonial and Indigenist Approaches Part 2: Disciplines and Methods 9. Religious Studies 10. Ethnography 11. Ritual Studies 12. History 13. Material Culture 14. Museum Studies 15. Literature 16. Ethnomusicology 17. Film Studies 18. Māori Philosophy 19. Research Ethics 20. Indigenous Methodologies and Pedagogical Challenges Part 3: Regions 21. Africa 22. Australia 23. The Arctic, Sub-Arctic, and North Asia 24. India 25. Mesoamerica/Central America 26. North America 27. Oceania 28. South America
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