Researching Paganisms

Herausgeber: Blain, Jenny; Harvey, Graham; Ezzy, Douglas

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Produktbeschreibung

Researchers of Paganism from a variety of disciplines examine how they have been affected by their contact with this nontraditional religion, how this religion has been affected by academic researchers and what this reveals about participative research methods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 147mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780759105225
• ISBN-10: 0759105227
• Artikelnr.: 21298866

Autorenporträt

Jenny Blain is Senior Lecturer, School of Social Science and Law, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Douglas Ezzy is Senior Lecturer, Sociology, University of Tasmania, Australia. Graham Harvey is Lecturer in Religious Studies, Open University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Preface 2 Introduction 3 Part I: Performance and Reflexivity 4 Bardism
and the Performance of Paganism: Implications for the Performance of
Research 5 Methods of compassion or pretension? The challenges of
conducting fieldwork in modern magical communities 6 The Deosil Dance 7
Part II: Challenging Objectivity, Theorising Subjectivity 8 Psychology of
religion and the study of Paganism 9 Drugs, Books, and Witches 10
Gleanings From the Field: Leftover Tales of Grief and Desire 11 Religious
Ethnography: Practising the Witch's Craft 12 Part III: Embodying
Relationships, Community and History 13 At the Water's Edge: An
Ecologically-Inspired Methodology 14 Thealogies in Process: Re-searching
and Theorising: Spiritualities, Identity and Goddess-talk 15 Living with
Witchcraft 16 Part IV: Re-locating the Researcher 17 Between the Worlds:
Autoarchaeology and neo-Shamans 18 Tracing the in/authentic seeress: from
seid-magic to stone circles 19 Pagan Studies or the Study of Paganisms? A
case study in the Study of Religions 20 Index 21 About the contributors