Contesting Secularism: Reflexive Methodology, Belief Studies, and Disciplined Knowledge

Susan J Ritchie

doi:10.1353/jaf.2002.0047

Contesting Secularism

Reflexive Methodology, Belief Studies, and Disciplined Knowledge

Bibliographic Data

ID	2800306
Authors	Susan J Ritchie, Susan Ritchie (corresponding author)
Year	2002
Volume	115
Issue	457-458
Pages	443-456
Publication date	2002-07-01
Peer Reviewed	Yes
Open Access	No
Type	ARTICLE
Venue	Journal of American Folklore (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiers	ISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882
Publisher	University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI	10.1353/jaf.2002.0047
OpenAlex	W2051262951
Language	EN
Citations received	8
References cited	30

Reflexive methodologies are increasingly suggested as a means of correcting what is assumed to be a secular bias with the study of belief. Yet the academic study of belief like secularism itself originated with liberal Protestant presumptions that continue to inform even our methodologies. Academic considerations of belief truly open to a range of diverse traditions and opinions will require reflexivity of belief not with respect to individual scholars but as to disciplinary practice

Belief system · Discipline · Epistemology · Folklore · Folkloristics · Islam · Political science · Protestantism · Reflexivity · Religious belief · Secularism · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious Education and Schools

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