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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Published in:Fieldwork in religion
Main Author: Bruce, Steve 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2009]
In: Fieldwork in religion
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.
ISSN:1743-0623
Contains:Enthalten in: Fieldwork in religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/firn.v4i1.7