The religioning of anthropology

Based on fieldwork in the state of Kerala, south India, Dempsey explores the ethnographical endeavour through the lens of religion. Applying religious categories such as pilgrimage and sainthood to examine the mechanics of ethnography, this essay investigates a spectrum of fieldwork motives and outcomes. Using the tourist and her quest as a comparative link between ethnographer and pilgrim, Dempsey proposes possible ‘religious’ motives in portraying the other as irretrievably exotic, in spite of evidence to the contrary, functioning as a kind of healing authenticity for modernity's banal existence. Dempsey notes that current trends in ethnography offer opportunities for an alternative kind of pilgrimage, based on attention to human intimacies that stem from extended fieldwork. These intimacies work to dash, sometimes begrudgingly, touristic ‘faith’ in unbreachable otherness, challenging the ethnographer to a conversion of sorts, and bringing her study back down to earth

Epistemology · Ethnography · Faith · Modernity · Pilgrim · Pilgrimage · Sociology · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

• Me, St. George, and Other Foreigners

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• Calamity Management and the Role of Sacred Ambivalence

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• Conclusion

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• Siblings and Other Metaphors for Christian‐Hindu Relations

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• The Life and Cult of Sr. Alphonsa

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• Perspectives on Ritual Power

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• The Changing Faces of Temple Worship

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• Visions and Versions of the Miraculous

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• Grounding the Sacred

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• Temple Entryways

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• A Fine Balance

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• Expanding Turf for Racial and Religious Others

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• Maverick Guru with a Cause

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• Making Home at the Śrī Rājarājeśwarī Pīṭham

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• Kerala Christian Sainthood

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