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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, the handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as sociology, anthropology, history and politics.
List of contents
Introduction
Part 1: Critical Issues 1. Cosmologies 2. Cosmologies and Land 3. Indigenous Religions, Diaspora and Reverse Diaspora 4. Personhood, Kinship, and Relations 5. Bodies and Materiality 6. Genders 7. Trance and Possession Practices 8. Decolonial and Indigenist Approaches
Part 2: Disciplines and Methods 9. Religious Studies 10. Ethnography 11. Ritual Studies 12. History 13. Material Culture 14. Museum Studies 15. Literature 16. Ethnomusicology 17. Film Studies 18. M¿ori Philosophy 19. Research Ethics 20. Indigenous Methodologies and Pedagogical Challenges
Part 3: Regions 21. Africa 22. Australia 23. The Arctic, Sub-Arctic, and North Asia 24. India 25. Mesoamerica/Central America 26. North America 27. Oceania 28. South America
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.
Summary
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, the handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as sociology, anthropology, history and politics.
