Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reshaping Hte Ethnography of Religion

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Summary: A first-rate collection
Review: Spickard, Landres, and McGuire have assembled a first-rate collection of essays. The collection brings together not only some of the best-known ethnographic researchers in the study of religion, but some of the most relective and reflexive as well. Chapters are thoughtfully written, theoretically sophisticated, refreshingly candid, and are notable both for what they reveal of the fieldwork experience and what they reveal of their authors. PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE AND BEYOND constitutes a landmark volume in the ethnographic study of religion. It will be of great interest to students and specialists alike. Stephen D. Glazier, Professor of Anthropology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln in RELIGION: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, volume 33, number 1(2003).