A Matter of Perspective?

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" A Matter of Perspective? "
Till Mostowlansky, Andrea Rota

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1077903
Doc. No	:	LA121532
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700682-12341367‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Andrea Rota
	:	Till Mostowlansky
Title & Author	:	A Matter of Perspective? [Article]\ Till Mostowlansky, Andrea Rota
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Method Theory in the Study of Religion
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	28/4-5
Page No	:	317–336
Abstract	:	This article introduces the emic–etic debate in the scientific study of religion\s and provides a frame for the special issue’s six articles on the topic. Departing from the broader debate’s early history in the 1960s, this article contextualizes the emic–etic debate and locates its point of entry into the scientific study of religion\s in the 1980s. This article argues that in the course of the debate the insider–outsider and emic–etic complexes have become entangled. In order to facilitate an understanding of the debate, this article maintains that the emic–etic debate in the scientific study of religion\s touches upon three central dimensions (existential–political, methodological, and epistemological). In order to move toward a clearer methodological and epistemological framework, this article furthermore proposes an iterative model that locates insider–outsider at the level of observers and emic–etic at the level of categories.
Descriptor	:	emic–etic
Descriptor	:	epistemology
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Harris
Descriptor	:	insider–outsider
Descriptor	:	McCutcheon
Descriptor	:	methodology
Descriptor	:	Pike
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700682-12341367‬