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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Publié dans:Fieldwork in religion
Auteur principal: Bruce, Steve 1954- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Equinox [2009]
Dans: Fieldwork in religion
Sujets non-standardisés:B limits of fieldwork
B Définition
B false extrapolation
B Recensement
B Statistics
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Résumé: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
Contient:Enthalten in: Fieldwork in religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/firn.v4i1.7