This unique book investigates the real-world complexities, challenges, and mistakes that are often encountered when researching religion, values, and culture. Featuring the reflections of researchers from across the social sciences and humanities, it offers vivid accounts of designing and executing both small-scale and much larger projects.
Some chapters describe in detail the process and rationale behind methodological decisions, including challenges, adaptations, and revisions. Others reveal how things went wrong in the research process, even past the point of recovery, and what was learned. There is reflection on wider conceptual, theoretical, and ethical debates about 'religion' and what they mean in practice.
In acknowledging the messiness of researching religion, the volume seeks to humanize and improve it. The honest reflections it contains will help researchers avoid some common mistakes and face others openly without losing heart.
Louisa Cadman, Nicole Graham, and Linda Woodhead: TEN COMMON MESSES IN RESEARCHING RELIGION
1: Lori G. Beaman: RESEARCH METHODS BETWEEN LAW, SOCIOLOGY, AND RELIGION
2: Marion Bowman: LONG-TERM ETHNOLOGY AND THE SHADOWY IMPACT OF THE RESEARCHER
3: Louisa Cadman, Jennifer Lea, and Chris Philo: USING TIME-SPACE DIARIES AND INTERVIEWS TO RESEARCH EVERYDAY SPIRITUALITIES
4: Helen Cameron: THEOLOGICAL ACTION RESEARCH
5: Jeremy Carrette: POWER AND THE STUDY OF RELIGION
6: Rahmanara Chowdhury: INSIDER RESEARCH INTO ABUSE IN MUSLIM COMMUNITIES
7: Angela Connelly and Michael Hebbert: LEARNING FROM BUILDINGS
8: James C. Conroy and David Lundie: METHODOLOGICAL SYNERGIES IN RESEARCHING NESTED IDENTITY AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
9: Abby Day: RE-INTERVIEWING, AND THE RESEARCHER-PARTICIPANT RELATIONSHIP
10: Rosemary Dixon, Simon Dixon, Inga Jones, Kyle Roberts, and Richard Gartner: DIGITIZATION AND COLLABORATION IN THE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY
11: Sophie Gilliat-Ray: ENCOUNTERING ETHICAL AND OTHER ISSUES WHEN SHADOWING MUSLIM CHAPLAINS
12: Ian N. Gregory, Niall A. Cunningham, and Ian Shuttleworth: USING GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS TO UNDERSTAND RELIGIOUS CHANGE AND SECTARIAN CONFLICT IN NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRELAND
13: John Harper: INVESTIGATING MEDIEVAL RITUAL THROUGH LITURGICAL ENACTMENT
14: Adrian Harris: USING FOCUSING TECHNIQUES TO RESEARCH THE EMBODIED KNOWING OF ECO-PAGANS
15: Colette Harris: COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACHES FOR VIOLENCE REDUCTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN KADUNA, NIGERIA
16: Michael Keenan and Sarah-Jane Page: EXPLORING SEXUALITY AND RELIGION USING AN ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE
17: Gordon Lynch: A PERSONAL JOURNEY FROM THE SEARCH FOR MEANING TO A SOCIOLOGY OF THE SACRED
18: Sara MacKian: USING STORIES TO EXPLORE THE EVERYDAY PLACE OF SPIRIT AGENCY
19: Nicola Madge and Peter J . Hemming: USING A SURVEY TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN YOUNG PEOPLE'S LIVES
20: David Morgan: RECOGNIZING JESUS: VISUALITY AND THE STUDY OF RELIGION
21: Peter Nynäs and Johnny Långstedt: NAVIGATING AMBIGUITIES IN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COLLABORATION
22: Elizabeth Olson and Giselle Vincett: RESEARCHING SPIRITUALITY WITH AND FOR VULNERABLE YOUNG PEOPLE
23: Elizabeth Poole and Teemu Taira: COMBINING METHODS IN A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF RELIGION IN THE MEDIA
24: Melanie Prideaux: FAILING AT RESEARCH? TRYING TO ACCESS A GYPSY PENTECOSTAL COMMUNITY IN THE UK
25: Andrew Sayer: AN OUTSIDER LOOKING IN
26: Emma Tarlo: DEVELOPING 'MATERIAL' METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF DRESS AND RELIGION
27: Naomi Thompson: USING A NARRATIVE METHOD TO RESEARCH YOUNG PEOPLE'S RELIGIOUS ENGAGEMENT, PAST AND PRESENT
28: Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist and Sarah Harvey: THE CHALLENGES OF RESEARCHING AND PROVIDING INFORMATION ON 'CULTS' AND 'EXTREMISM'
29: Terhi Utriainen: LOOKING BACK AT AN INTERVIEW WITH AN ANGEL
30: Paul Weller: WHAT EVIDENCE ON WHOSE TERMS? POLICY-RELEVANT RELIGION OR BELIEF RESEARCH
31: Sarah White and Joe Devine: COMBINING METHODS (AND RESEARCHERS) TO INVESTIGATE RELIGION AND WELLBEING IN INDIA
32: John Wolffe: USING ARCHIVES AND INTERVIEWS TO LINK PAST AND PRESENT IN THE STUDY OF CONFLICT AND PEACE
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