The new animism and its challenges to the study of religion
In the last decades, the worldview(s) of so-called Indigenous religions have regained academic interest. Scholars of religion, anthropologists, and Indigenous writers engage in a new research field called new animism characterized by a diversity of insider and outsider positions. The field contains...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
[2020]
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Jahr: 2020, Band: 32, Heft: 2, Seiten: 115-147 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Religionswissenschaft
/ Postmoderne
/ Animismus
/ Religionsanthropologie
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Religionswissenschaft AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion BB Indigene Religionen |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Indigenous Religions
B Epistemology B Methodology B New Materialism B ontological turn B insider/outsider debate |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In the last decades, the worldview(s) of so-called Indigenous religions have regained academic interest. Scholars of religion, anthropologists, and Indigenous writers engage in a new research field called new animism characterized by a diversity of insider and outsider positions. The field contains immense potential for inspiring general debates in the study of religion because it touches on fundamental questions about hermeneutics, epistemology, epistemic goals, disciplinary identities, and the influence of Western ontology on scientific and academic research.This article aims to draw the attention of scholars of religion to the new animism by contextualizing the field within disciplinary and cultural history, presenting its core theories, analyzing its methodological and epistemological positions, and identifying the central players ands its politically highly charged social contexts with asymmetrical power relations. Finally, it discusses how the new animism challenges general debates within the study of religion and may provocatively stimulate them. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341473 |