The 2019 H. Paul Douglass Lecture: I Can’t Keep Quiet: Engaging with Scholarly Research on Religion
Methodologies used by social scientists grant access to quiet worlds and otherwise hidden truths. Social scientists are akin to strangers, trusted with secrets. The 2019 H. Paul Douglass Lecture proposes that scholars who engage with research on religion ought to listen quietly, but not keep quiet....
| Published in: | Review of religious research |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
[2020]
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| In: |
Review of religious research
Year: 2020, Volume: 62, Issue: 3, Pages: 397-411 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Science of Religion
/ Religion
/ Research
/ Religious studies scholar
/ Knowledge
/ Publicity
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBQ North America NCF Sexual ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
public scholarship
B Social Change B Douglass lecture B Abortion B Interviews |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | Methodologies used by social scientists grant access to quiet worlds and otherwise hidden truths. Social scientists are akin to strangers, trusted with secrets. The 2019 H. Paul Douglass Lecture proposes that scholars who engage with research on religion ought to listen quietly, but not keep quiet. We can transform the quiet to which we are privy into the collective. I illustrate the imperative to speak research out loud using the case example of the National Abortion Attitudes Study. Personal knowledge becomes collective revelation and, sometimes, social change. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s13644-019-00393-y |