1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Indigenous Religions
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Afe Adogame and Graham Harvey
PART 1: Critical Issues
1. Cosmologies
Graham Harvey
2.Cosmologies and Land
Amidu Elabo
3. Indigenous Religions, Diaspora and Reverse Diaspora
Afe Adogame
4 Personhood, Kinship, and Relations
Fritz Detwiler
5. Bodies and Materiality
Laura S. Grillo
6. Genders
Oyeronke Olademo
7. Trance and Possession Practices
Bettina E. Schmidt
8. Decolonial And Indigenist Approaches
Natalie Avalos
PART 2: Disciplines and Methods
9. Religious Studies
James L. Cox
10. Ethnography
Tabona Shoko and Tracey Chirara
11. Ritual Studies
Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern) and Andrew Strathern
12. History
Robert Baum
13. Material Culture
Kenneth H. Lokensgard
14. Museum Studies
Max Carocci
15. Literature
Isabel Laack
16. Ethnomusicology
Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg
17. Film Studies
Gabriel Estrada, Jon Ivan Gill, and Ken Derry
18. Māori Philosophy
Georgina Tuari Stewart
19. Research Ethics
Ezra Chitando
20. Indigenous Methodologies And Pedagogical Challenges
Mary Nyangweso
PART 3: Regions
21. Africa
Benson Igboin and Josiah Taru
22. Australia
David Moore
23. The Arctic, Sub-Arctic And North Asia
Liudmila Nikanorova, Daria Burnasheva,and Anastasiia Borisova
24. India
Claire S. Scheid and Margaret Lyngdoh
25. Mesoamerica/Central-America
Miguel Astor-Aguilera
26. North America
Sarah Dees
27. Oceania
Garry Trompf
28. South America
Robin Wright
Index
Biography
Afe Adogame is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society, Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, USA. His research focuses on interrogating new dynamics of religious experiences and expressions in Africa and the African diaspora. He is co-editor of the Routledge series Vitality of Indigenous Religions; Editor in Chief, AASR e-journal of Religion in Africa and Its Diaspora; and Deputy Editor, Journal of Religion in Africa (Brill).
Graham Harvey is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at The Open University, UK. His research largely concerns “the new animism”, especially in the rituals and protocols through which Indigenous and other communities engage with the larger-than-human world. He is co-editor of the Routledge series Vitality of Indigenous Religions and the Equinox series Religion and the Senses. He co-edited Indigenous Religions (Routledge 2018) with Amy Whitehead and has contributed to a significant number of other Indigeneity focused publications.
