Religion and Ethnography: Theory, Praxis, Experience

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An introduction to the social scientific study of religion through the lens of the ethnographic method. Attends both to practical questions concerning the performance of qualitative research and to ethnography as a literary genre that captures the complexities of lived experience. Reading assignments may be divided into three categories: historical investigations of ethnographic theory and fieldwork praxis; close examinations of discrete religious sites; and interdisciplinary meditations on such themes as interpretation, ethics, authority, and cultural translation.