Ethnography

doi:10.1017/9781108863957.003

3 - Ethnography

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2021

Vally Lytra

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Stephen Pihlaja

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Stephen Pihlaja: Affiliation:
Newman University

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Examines ethnography as an approach to understanding language and literacy practices of particular religious communities, with researchers living and working among religious believers to gain important insider insights about how religious practice and belief is enacted in believers’ lives.

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religion language belief community ritual ethnography field notes participant observation

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Information: Analysing Religious Discourse , pp. 32 - 51

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108863957.003 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2021

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