The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Indigenous Religions
About this ebook
- Core themes and critical issues in research and debate about Indigenous Religions
- Disciplines and methods, focusing on ways in which researchers gain and share understanding about Indigenous religions
- Recent scholarship about broad regions of the world
Within these sections, central issues, debates and problems are examined, including cosmology, diaspora, bodies and materiality, witchcraft and divination, ritual studies, ethnography and fieldwork, heritage studies, ecology, feminist methodologies, decolonial methods and Indigenist methods, research ethics, activism, health, and peoplehood, kinship and relations. The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Indigenous Religions is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and Indigenous studies, and the handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields such as sociology, anthropology, history and politics.
About the author
Afe Adogame is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society, Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, USA. His research focuses on interrogating new dynamics of religious experiences and expressions in Africa and the African diaspora. He is co-editor of the Routledge series Vitality of Indigenous Religions; Editor in Chief, AASR e-journal of Religion in Africa and Its Diaspora; and Deputy Editor, Journal of Religion in Africa (Brill).
Graham Harvey is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at The Open University, UK. His research largely concerns “the new animism”, especially in the rituals and protocols through which Indigenous and other communities engage with the larger-than-human world. He is co-editor of the Routledge series Vitality of Indigenous Religions and the Equinox series Religion and the Senses. He co-edited Indigenous Religions (Routledge 2018) with Amy Whitehead and has contributed to a significant number of other Indigeneity focused publications.
