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In this collection of essays, anthropologists of religion examine
the special challenges they face when studying populations that
proselytize. Conducting fieldwork among these groups may involve
attending services, meditating, praying, and making pilgrimages.
Anthropologists participating in such research may unwittingly give
the impression that their interest is more personal than
professional, and inadvertently encourage missionaries to impose
conversion upon them. Moreover, anthropologists attitudes about
religion, belief, and faith, as well as their response to
conversion pressures, may interfere with their objectivity and
cause them to impose their own understandings on the missionaries.
Although anthropologists have extensively and fruitfully examined
the role of identity in research particularly gender and ethnic
identity religious identity, which is more fluid and changeable,
has been relatively neglected. This volume explores the role of
religious identity in fieldwork by examining how researchers
respond to participation in religious activities and to the
ministrations of missionaries, both academically and personally.
Including essays by anthropologists studying the proselytizing
religions of Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, as well as other
religions, this volume provides a range of responses to the
question of how anthropologists should approach the gap between
belief and disbelief when missionary zeal imposes its
interpretations on anthropological curiosity."
In this collection of essays, anthropologists of religion examine
the special challenges they face when studying populations that
proselytize. Conducting fieldwork among these groups may involve
attending services, meditating, praying, and making pilgrimages.
Anthropologists participating in such research may unwittingly give
the impression that their interest is more personal than
professional, and inadvertently encourage missionaries to impose
conversion upon them. Moreover, anthropologists' attitudes about
religion, belief, and faith, as well as their response to
conversion pressures, may interfere with their objectivity and
cause them to impose their own understandings on the missionaries.
Although anthropologists have extensively and fruitfully examined
the role of identity in research-particularly gender and ethnic
identity-religious identity, which is more fluid and changeable,
has been relatively neglected. This volume explores the role of
religious identity in fieldwork by examining how researchers
respond to participation in religious activities and to the
ministrations of missionaries, both academically and personally.
Including essays by anthropologists studying the proselytizing
religions of Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, as well as other
religions, this volume provides a range of responses to the
question of how anthropologists should approach the gap between
belief and disbelief when missionary zeal imposes its
interpretations on anthropological curiosity.
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