The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Indigenous Religions (Routledge Handbooks in Religion)

Exciting developments in research among, with and by Indigenous scholars and communities are enriching a wide range of disciplines, methodologies and trans-disciplinary conversations.This growing field offers important insights and provocations about methods and approaches.Key issues such as relationality, decolonisation, research ethics, pedagogy and collaboration necessarily require improvements both in scholarly description and in scholarly practice.Similarly, critical themes for Indigenous people intersect strongly both with recent scholarly “turns”, such as embodiment, gender, performance, place, ontology, and materiality.The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Indigenous Religions reflects on appropriate approaches and methods with over 28 chapters by a team of international contributors.The Handbook is divided into three parts:Core themes and critical issues in research and debate about Indigenous ReligionsDisciplines and methods, focusing on ways in which res