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Reflexivity, Ethics and the Teaching of the Sociology of Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2001

Kieran Flanagan
Kieran Flanagan
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, 12 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UQ.
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Abstract

This essay reflects on the ethical and reflexive considerations surrounding the use of student fieldwork reports on a course on the sociology of religion. Using reflexivity as a teaching strategy coincides with changes in sociological approaches to religion where experiential and substantive issues are stressed in its study. Reflexive and ethical issues that emerge on courses on sexuality and gender politics are compared to those which seem peculiar to the teaching of religion from a sociological perspective. Study of these fieldwork reports disclosed the way students faced their own ethical worries in a task generated to enhance their own reflexivity but also an understanding of religiosity.

Keywords

ethicsexperiential teachingfieldnotesreflexivityreligious ritualssociology of religion
Type
Original Articles
Information
Sociology , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 1 - 19
Copyright
2001 BSA Publications Limited

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