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Tables of Contents for Personal Knowledge and Beyond
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Introduction: Whither Ethnography? Transforming the Social-Scientific Study of Religion
1
16
PART I Being an Ethnographer
Truth, Subjectivity, and Ethnographic Research
17
10
From the Heart of My Laptop: Personal Passion and Research on Violence against Women
27
6
Walking betweent he Worlds: Permeable Boundaries, Ambiguous Identities
33
14
Dancing on the Fence: Researching Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Christians
47
16
PART II Doing Ethnography
Between the Living and the Dead: Fieldwork, History, and the Interpreter's Position
63
12
``But Are They Really Christian?'' Contesting Knowledge and Identity in and out of the Field
75
13
Transitional Identities: Self, Other, and the Ethnographic Process
88
12
Being (in) the Field: Defining Ethnography in Southern California and Central Slovakia
100
13
Encountering Latina Mobilization: Field Research on the U.S./Mexico Border
113
14
PART III Writing and Reading Ethnography
Writing about ``the Other,'' Revisited
127
7
``There's Power in the Blood'': Writing Serpent Handling as Everyday Life
134
12
Voicing Spiritualities: Anchored Composites as an Approach to Understanding Religious Commitment
146
16
Against Univocality: Re-reading Ethnographies of Conservative Protestant Women
162
13
A Conscious Connection to All That Is: The Color Purple as Subversive and Critical Ethnography
175
20
PART IV Beyond Personal Knowledge
New-Old Directions in the Social Scientific Study of Religion: Ethnography, Phenomenology, and the Human Body
195
17
Greening Ethnography and the Study of Religion
212
13
As the Other Sees Us: On Reciprocity and Mutual Reflection in the Study of Native American Religions
225
12
On the Epistemology of Post-Colonial Ethnography
237
16
References
253
22
Contributors
275
6
Index
281