Negotiating religious life histories in North American religious studies

International Journal of Practical Theology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-83

  Grimes, Ronald L ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 61949318182     PISSN: 14306921     EISSN: 16129768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ijpt.1998.2.1.65     Document Type: Review

References (41)

1. See for example Michael Goldberg, Theology and Narrative. A Critical Introduction, Nashville (Abingdon) 1982
2. Donald E. Polkinghorne, Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences, Albany (State University of New York Press) 1988
3. For example, see Stephanie Kirkwood Walker, This Woman in Particular. Contexts for the Biographical Image of Emily Carr, Waterloo (Wilfrid Laurier University Press) 1996
4. Janet Varner Gunn, Autobiography. Toward a Poetics of Experience, Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press) 1982
5. Thomas J. Heffernan, Sacred Biography. Saints and their Biographers in the Middle Ages, New York (Oxford) 1988
6. Examples include Karen McCarthy Brown, Mama Lola. A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, Berkeley (University of California Press) 1991
7. Ruel W. Tyson, Jr., The Testimony of Sister Annie Mae, in: Journal of Ritual Studies 2.2 1988, 163-184
8. Ruel W. Tyson, Jr./ James Peacock, Pilgrims of Paradox. Calvinism and Experience among the Primitive Baptists of the Blue Ridge, Washington DC (Smithsonian Institution Press) 1989
9. Pamela E. Klassen, Going by the Moon and the Stars. Stories of Two Russian Mennonite Women, Waterloo (Wilfrid Laurier University Press) 1994
10. See Louis Gottschalk/others, The Use of Personal Documents in History, Anthropology, and Sociology, New York (Social Science Research Council), no date
11. L.L. Langness/ Gelya Frank, Lives. An Anthropological Approach to Biography, Novato (Chandler and Sharp) 1981
12. Lawrence C. Watson/Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke, Interpreting Life Histories. An Anthropological Inquiry, New Brunswick (Rutgers University Press) 1985
13. See, for instance, Margery Wolf, A Thrice Told Tale. Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility, Stanford (Stanford University Press) 1992
14. Marjorie Shostak, Nisa. The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, New York (Vintage) 1981
15. Laurel Kendall, The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman, Honolulu (University of Hawaii Press) 1988
16. Vincent Crapanzano, Tuhami. Portrait of a Moroccan, Chicago (University of Chicago Press) 1980
17. James Clifford/George E. Marcus (eds.), Writing Culture. The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, Berkeley (University of California Press) 1986
18. For instance, Paul Stoller/Cheryl Olkes, In Sorcery's Shadow, Chicago (University of Chicago Press) 1987
19. David Young/Jean-Guy Goulet (eds.), Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters. The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience, Peterborough (Broadview) 1994
20. Edith Turner/William Blodget/Singleton Kahona/Fideli Benwa, Experiencing Ritual. A New Interpretation of African Healing, Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press) 1992
21. Edith Turner, The Hands Feel It. Healing and Spirit Presence among a North Alaska People, Dekalb (Northern Illinois University Press) 1996
22. The earliest, and perhaps fullest, recognition of conversation as a legitimate ethnographic genre is found in: Marcel Griaule, Conversations with Ogotemmêli. An Introduction to Dogon Religious Ideas, London (Oxford University Press) 1965
23. One of the most useful works on interviewing and analyzing interviews is James P. Spradley, The Ethnographic Interview, New York (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston) 1979
24. Michael Novak, Ascent of the Mountain. Flight of the Dove, New York (Harper & Row) 1971
25. Julie Cruikshank/others, Life Lived Like a Story. Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders, Vancouver (University of British Columbia Press) 1990
26. For instance, Renato Rosaldo, The Story of Tukbaw. 'They Listen As He Orates', in: Frank Reynolds/Donald Capps (eds.), The Biographical Process, The Hague (Mouton) 1976, 121-152
27. See Ronald L. Grimes, Of Words the Speaker, of Deeds the Doer, in: Journal of Religion 66.1, 1986, 1-17
28. The Presentation of Self in Native American Autobiography, in: Phyllis Granoff/Koichi Shinohara (eds.), Other Selves. Biography and Autobiography in Cross-Cultural Context, Oakville (Mosaic) 1994, 1-15
29. This is true of the major attempts to initiate collaborative research on religious biography: Frank Reynolds/Donald Capps (eds.), The Biographical Process, The Hague (Mouton) 1976
30. Phyllis Granoff/Koichi Shinohara (eds.), Monks and Magicians. Religious Biographies in Asia, Oakville (Mosaic) 1988
31. Phyllis Granoff/Koichi Shinohara (eds.), Other Selves. Biography and Autobiography in Cross-Cultural Context, Oakville (Mosaic) 1994
32. Cf. Arnold Krupat, For Those Who Come After. A Study of Native American Autobiography, Berkeley (University of California Press) 1985
33. David H. Brumble III, American Indian Autobiography, Berkeley (University of California Press) 1988
34. Leon Edel, Transference. The Biographer's Dilemma, in: Biography 7.4, 1984, 283-291
35. Vine Deloria, Jr. (ed.), A Sender of Words. Essays in Memory of John G. Neihardt, Salt Lake City (Howe) 1984
36. Stephen R. Warner, Work in Progress toward a New Paradigm for the Sociological Study of Religion in the United States, in: American Journal of Sociology 98.5, 1993, 1044-1093
37. Ritual Criticism. Case Studies in Its Practice, Essays on Its Theory, Columbia (University of South Carolina Press) 1990
38. For more on fieldwork in religious studies see the Journal of Ritual Studies 2.2, 1988
39. The entire issue is devoted to the topic. On reflexivity see Don Handelman, Models and Mirrors. Towards an Anthropology of Public Events. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 1990
40. A primary example of integrating ethnographic fieldwork with practical theological concerns is: Tom F. Driver, The Magic of Ritual. Our Need for Liberating Rites that Transform Our Lives and Our Communities, San Francisco (HarperSanFrancisco) 1991
41. Donald Miller/Barry Jay Seltser, Writing and Research in Religious Studies, Englewood Cliffs (Prentice Hall) 1992. They make a significant beginning. Section three of their manual is on field research in religion