Book contents
- Analysing Religious Discourse
- Analysing Religious Discourse
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Analysing Religious Discourse: Introduction
- 2 Interaction
- 3 Ethnography
- 4 Narrative
- 5 Multimodality
- 6 Rhetoric
- 7 Translation
- 8 Institutions
- 9 Media
- 10 Community
- 11 Education
- 12 Inter-religious Dialogue
- 13 Rituals
- 14 Metaphor
- 15 Emotion
- 16 Identity
- 17 Cognition
- 18 Sacred Texts
- 19 Ecology
- 20 Conclusion
- Key Terms
- References
3 - Ethnography
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Book contents
- Analysing Religious Discourse
- Analysing Religious Discourse
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Analysing Religious Discourse: Introduction
- 2 Interaction
- 3 Ethnography
- 4 Narrative
- 5 Multimodality
- 6 Rhetoric
- 7 Translation
- 8 Institutions
- 9 Media
- 10 Community
- 11 Education
- 12 Inter-religious Dialogue
- 13 Rituals
- 14 Metaphor
- 15 Emotion
- 16 Identity
- 17 Cognition
- 18 Sacred Texts
- 19 Ecology
- 20 Conclusion
- Key Terms
- References
Summary
Examines ethnography as an approach to understanding language and literacy practices of particular religious communities, with researchers living and working among religious believers to gain important insider insights about how religious practice and belief is enacted in believers’ lives.
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- Analysing Religious Discourse , pp. 32 - 51Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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