The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion

Michael Stausberg is Professor of Religion at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is author of Religion and Tourism: Crossroads, Destinations and Encounters, editor of Contemporary Theories of Religion and European editor of the journal Religion. Steven Engler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Mount Royal University, Canada. He is a co-editor of Historicizing "Tradition" in the Study of Religion and North American editor of the journal Religion.

Part One: Methodological Issues  1. Introduction (Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler)  2. Comparison (Michael Stausberg)  3. Epistemology (Jeppe Sinding Jensen)  4. Feminist methodologies (Mary Jo Neitz)  5. Research design (Wade Clark Roof)  6. Research ethics (Fred Bird and Laurie Lamoureux Scholes)  Part Two: Methods  1. Content analysis (Robert H. Woods and Chad Nelson)  2. Conversation analysis (Ehsa Lehtinen)  3. Discourse analysis (Titus Hjelm)  4. Document analysis (Grace Davie and David Wyatt)  5. Experiments (Justin Barrett)  6. Facet theory methods (Erik Cohen)  7. Factor analysis (Kendal C. Boyd)  8. Field research: participant observation (Graham Harvey)  9. Free listing (Michael Stausberg)  10. Grounded theory (Steven Engler)  11. Hermeneutics (Ingvild Sælid Gilhus)  12. History (Jörg Rüpke)  13. Interviewing (Anna Davidsson Bremborg)  14. Network analysis (jimi adams)  15. Phenomenology (James V. Spickard)  16. Philology (Einar Thomassen)  17. Semiotics (Robert A. Yelle)  18. Structuralist methods (Seth D. Kunin)  19. Structured observation (Michael Stausberg)  20. Surveys and questionnaires (Barry A. Kosmin and Juhem Navarro-Rivera)  21. Translation (Alan Williams)  22. Videography (Hubert Knoblauch)  Part Three: Materials  1. Auditory materials (Rosalind I.J. Hackett)  2. Internet (Douglas E. Cowan)  3. Material culture (Richard M. Carp)  4. Spatial methods (Kim Knott)  5. Visual culture (John Harvey)