RT Article
T1 "At Home Camping on Shifting Sands": Lessons in Humility from Between Worlds
JF Fieldwork in religion
VO 15
IS 1/2
SP 67
OP 80
A1 Mamtora, Bhakti
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1752462270
AB This personal narrative analyzes how the practice of intellectual humility can push the boundaries placed around the categories of home and field. I contend that scholars can conduct fieldwork in religion meaningfully by practicing intellectual humility with ourselves, with our interlocutors, and within the academy. Humility with ourselves consists of practicing self-reflexivity and understanding our positionality and its connection to the field. Humility with our interlocutors requires listening to their voices and accepting that fieldwork is  dictated by things that happen on the ground and not our neatly conceived  plans. Humility in the academy entails an open-minded-ness to theorize about  the field from within the field and not necessarily from within the confines of the academy. By practicing intellectual humility, one can begin to bridge the boundaries of home and field, self and other, and become attentive to new directions in academic research.
K1 Gujarat
K1 HINDU TRADITIONS
K1 Swaminarayan
K1 Swaminarayan Sampraday
K1 Swamini Vato
K1 Hybrid identity
K1 intellectual humility
DO 10.1558/firn.18352