The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion

Steven Engler is Professor of Religious Studies at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. Michael Stausberg is Professor of the Study of Religion at the University of Bergen, Norway. They are co-editors of the journal Religion and The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion (2016).

Part 1: Methodology 1.1. Introduction: methods, methodology and method in the study of religion/s Steven Engler and Michael Stausberg 1.2. Comparison Michael Stausberg 1.3. Designing research Ann Taves and Raymond F. Paloutzian 1.4. Feminist methodologies and feminist standpoint analysis Mary Jo Neitz 1.5. Intersectionality Anjana Narayan, Bandana Purkayastha and Koyel Khan 1.6. Research ethics Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Stephen Jacobs, Stephen E. Gregg, Frederick Bird, Laurie Lamoureux Scholes and Steven Engler 1.7. Theorizing and analysis Steven Engler and Mark Q. Gardiner Part 2: Methods 2.1. Advanced computational methods Wesley J. Wildman, Saikou Y. Diallo and F. LeRon Shults 2.2. Autoethnography Irene Zempi and Imran Awan 2.3. Computational text analysis Frederik Elwert 2.4. Content analysis Diane M. Badzinski, Robert H. Woods Jr. and Chad M. Nelson 2.5. Conversation analysis Esa Lehtinen 2.6. Diary studies Andy Alaszewski 2.7. Digital ethnography Anna Neumaier 2.8. Discourse analysis Titus Hjelm 2.9. Document analysis Grace Davie and David Wyatt 2.10. Experimental methods Justin L. Barrett 2.11. Field research and participant observation Graham Harvey 2.12. Grounded theory Steven Engler 2.13. Hermeneutics Ingvild Sælid Gilhus 2.14. History Jörg Rüpke 2.15. Interview methods Tanya M. Luhrmann 2.16. Microhistory Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon 2.17. Network analysis Alexander-Kenneth Nagel 2.18. Phenomenology Kalpana Ram 2.19. Philology Einar Thomassen 2.20. Reading images Jeanette Favrot Peterson 2.21. Semiotics Robert A. Yelle 2.22. Sequence analysis Volkhard Krech and Martin Radermacher 2.23. Surveys and questionnaires Michael Stausberg 2.24. Translation Alan Williams 2.25. Videography Hubert Knoblauch and Meike Haken Part 3: Techniques 3.1. Coding Steven Engler, Andy Alaszewski, Tanya M. Luhrmann and Emily Winter 3.2. Event model analysis Egil Asprem and Ann Taves 3.3. Focus groups Emily Winter and Linda Woodhead 3.4. Free-listing Michael Stausberg 3.5. Photo elicitation Sarah L.B. Dunlop 3.6. Semantic differential Ralph W. Hood, Heinz Streib, Barbara Keller 3.7. Survey experiments Landon Schnabel 3.8. Survey item validation Melissa Gordon Wolf, Elliott Ihm, Andrew Maul and Ann Taves Index