RE104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Marine Biology, Axis Mundi, Soltyrei
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Re104 week 3: origins of evil in western thought, Two kinds of academic research that scholars of religion pursue we look at in this course: fieldwork studies and textual studies: fieldwork: Conducting research in the field with people who practice religion (informants) Either quantitative or qualitative work: textual: Studying primary texts, their contexts, and their interpretations. Both entail working with primary sources (texts, artifacts, people, etc. ) Both fields of study: engage theoretical and methodological literature in the field, place their scholarship within a particular subfield(s) and theoretical/methodological perspective(s) Dialogue with other scholars (at conferences, in departments, in publications) This involves reading and contributing to the secondary literature or secondary sources (cid:1) Primary sources: sources that provide data to be analyzed and interpreted: in fieldwork, informants" activities, words, ancient texts like genesis or the gospel of mark are primary sources, material culture: artifacts, objects, etc. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1)
