The Importance of Social Science in the Study of Religion
The author uses a range of contentious assertions about contemporary religion and spirituality to show the limits on what can be extrapolated from ethnographic work and to argue for the centrality of empirical positivistic social science to claims about the popularity and social significance of reli...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox
[2009]
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| In: |
Fieldwork in religion
Year: 2009, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 7-28 |
| Further subjects: | B
limits of fieldwork
B Census B false extrapolation B Definition B Statistics |
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| Summary: | The author uses a range of contentious assertions about contemporary religion and spirituality to show the limits on what can be extrapolated from ethnographic work and to argue for the centrality of empirical positivistic social science to claims about the popularity and social significance of religious and spiritual phenomena. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-0623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Fieldwork in religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/firn.v4i1.7 |