Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion Book

	Introduction: Whither Ethnography? Transforming the Social-Scientific Study of Religion	1
Pt. I	Being an Ethnographer
1	Truth, Subjectivity, and Ethnographic Research	17
2	From the Heart of My Laptop: Personal Passion and Research on Violence against Women	27
3	Walking between the Worlds: Permeable Boundaries, Ambiguous Identities	33
4	Dancing on the Fence: Researching Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Christians	47
Pt. II	Doing Ethnography
	Between the Living and the Dead: Fieldwork, History, and the Interpreter's Position	63
6	"But Are They Really Christian?" Contesting Knowledge and Identity in and out of the Field	75
7	Transitional Identities: Self, Other, and the Ethnographic Process	88
8	Being (in) the Field: Defining Ethnography in Southern California and Central Slovakia	100
9	Encountering Latina Mobilization: Field Research on the U.S./Mexico Border	113
Pt. III	Writing and Reading Ethnography
10	Writing about "the Other," Revisited	127
11	"There's Power in the Blood": Writing Serpent Handling as Everyday Life	134
12	Voicing Spiritualities: Anchored Composites as an Approach to Understanding Religious Commitment	146
13	Against Univocality: Re-reading Ethnographies of Conservative Protestant Women	162
14	A Conscious Connection to All That Is: The Color Purple as Subversive and Critical Ethnography	175
Pt. IV	Beyond Personal Knowledge
15	New-Old Directions in the Social Scientific Study of Religion: Ethnography, Phenomenology, and the Human Body	195
16	Greening Ethnography and the Study of Religion	212
17	As the Other Sees Us: On Reciprocity and Mutual Reflection in the Study of Native American Religions	225
18	On the Epistemology of Post-Colonial Ethnography	237
	References	253
	Contributors	275
	Index	281