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    Authors
    Gregg, Stephen
    Editors
    Chryssides, George
    Zeller, Benjamin
    Issue Date
    2014-01-02
    
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    Abstract
    It has been previously noted that the post 1970s Study of New Religions entails an interdisciplinary methodological approach which has been “created primarily on the basis of the cumulation of fieldwork research projects” (Bromley, 2007, 67) In the introduction to this volume, the editors have skilfully charted the development of this distinct discipline with regard to wider Study of Religion and the Sociology of Religion and in this short chapter I wish to address the multi-methodological heritage of fieldwork research to explore its centrality to the study of New Religions. It should be noted at the outset, however that NRMs present a particularly challenging focus of study for fieldwork – often due to political or ethical issues that will be addressed below – but also simply for the fact that this relatively newly emergent academic discipline borrows from a diversity of methodologies which at the same time both enriches and “complicates the task of assembling a coherent corpus of knowledge” (Bromley, 2007, 66) Perhaps unsurprisingly, therefore, the history of NRM scholarship is a history of diverse fieldwork methodologies complicated by both the evolving nature of the discipline within the Academy and also influenced by perceptions and understandings of NRMs within wider society. Central to many of these research projects, however, is the concept of verstehen (Barker, 1984, 20), the Weberian terminology for understanding a belief or action within the social context relevant to the worldview of the individual or community in question. This has often been a challenging issue for NRM scholars due to the huge diversity of traditions bracketed within NRM studies, and also due to the sometimes counter-cultural or controversial nature of the customs and beliefs of the groups which are studied but, as Whitehead (1987) has argued, detailed fieldwork is particularly central to the study of NRMs as “if unfamiliar cultural systems are not substantially portrayed, they are easily reduced to silly stereotypes.” (Whitehead, 1987, 10)
    Citation
    In: George D. Chryssides and Benjamin E. Zeller (Eds), The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements, Part 2, Chapter 1, pp25-28
    Publisher
    Bloomsbury Publishing
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/2436/609883
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    http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-bloomsbury-companion-to-new-religious-movements-9781441190055/
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    Chapter in book
    Language
    en
    ISBN
    9781441190055
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