This article reviews geographical research on religion in the 1990s, and highlights work from neighbouring disciplines where relevant. Contrary to views that the field is incoherent, I suggest that...

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Mapping ‘new’ geographies of religion: politics and poetics in modernity:

This paper is the first overview of the treatment of haptic knowledges in geography, responding to bodily sensations and responses that arise through the embodied researcher. After Crang's (2003) article on 'touchy-feely' methods identifies the dearth of actual touching and embodied feeling in research methods, this article does three things. First, it clarifies the terminology, which is derived from a number of disciplines. Second, it summarizes developments in sensuous ethnographies within cultural geography and anthropology. Third, it suggests pathways to new research on 'sensuous dispositions' and non-representational theory. We thereby see just how 'touchy-feely' qualitative methods have, or might, become.

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Haptic geographies: ethnography, haptic knowledges and sensuous dispositions

Hidden struggles of fieldwork: Exploring the role and use of field diaries

Every August for more than a decade, thousands of information technologists and other knowledge workers have trekked out into a barren stretch of alkali desert and built a temporary city devoted to art, technology and communal living: Burning Man. Drawing on extensive archival research, participant observation and interviews, this article explores the ways in which Burning Man’s bohemian ethos supports new forms of production emerging in Silicon Valley and especially at Google. It shows how elements of the Burning Man world – including the building of a sociotechnical commons, participation in project-based artistic labor and the fusion of social and professional interaction – help to shape and legitimate the collaborative manufacturing processes driving the growth of Google and other firms.The article develops the notion that Burning Man serves as a key cultural infrastructure for the Bay Area’s new media industries.

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Burning Man at Google: a cultural infrastructure for new media production

In this paper I examine different forms of spiritual practice which seek to (re)enchant the everyday and the ordinary. By considering the duality of sacred and profane as the relational outcome of both embodied action and the action of other objects or things that are nominally valued as profane, an account is sought which acknowledges the corporeal enacting and sensing of the sacred both in and of the everyday. Taking empirical examples from New Age spiritual seekers, I trace the ways in which profane spatialities and temporalities are reconfigured into sacred topologies and how these seekers realise spiritual enlightenment through a reinhabited appropriation or articulation of the world. The source of signification of this spiritual comportment lies in embodied practices of the everyday that are sensed as the spiritually ‘correct’ or ‘true’ way of doing things. New ways of thinking everyday spiritual practice are thus sought and elaborated upon.

Make-Believe: Spiritual Practice, Embodiment, and Sacred Space:

Positioned EngagementAwkward Spaces, productive places: the ethnography of participant observations, by Lynne Hume and Jane MulcockEthical EngagementsAwkward Intimacies: Prostitution, Politics, and Fieldwork in Urban Mexico, by Patty KellyMulti-sited EngagementsDisclosure and Interaction in a Monastery, by Michael V. AngrosinoGoing Beyond "The West" and "The Rest": Conducting Non-Western, Non-Native Ethnography in Northern Thailand, by Ida FadzillahMultiple Roles, Statuses and Allegiances: Exploring the Ethnographic Process in Disability Culture, by Russell ShuttleworthHe's Not a Spy, He's One of Us: Ethnographic Positioning in a Middle-class Setting, by Martin ForseyDissent and Consent: Negotiating the Adoption Triangle, by Jonathan TelferDoing Ethnography in 'One's Own Ethnic Community': The Experience of an Awkward Insider, by Val Colic-Peisker"And I Can't feel at Home in this World Anymore": Fieldwork in Two Settings, by Jim Birckhead"Yo, bitch..." and Other Challenges: Bringing High-risk Ethnography into the Discourse, by Sylvie C. TourignyReflections on Fieldwork Amongst Kenyan Heroin Users, by Susan Beckerleg and Gillian Lewando HundtClosed Doors: Ethical Issues with Prison Ethnography, by John M. CoggeshallLiving in Sheds: Suicide, Friendship and Research Among the Tiwi, by Gary RobinsonPerforming and Constructing Research as Guesthood in the Study of Religions, by Graham HarveyNot Quite at Home: Field Envy and New Age Ethnographic Dis-ease, by Stewart MuirMulti-sited transnational ethnography and the shifting construction of fieldwork, by Sawa KurotaniMulti-sited Methodologies: "Homework" between Australia, Fiji and Kiribati, by Katerina Martina Teaiwa

Anthropologists in the Field: Cases in Participant Observation

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Introduction: Awkward Spaces, Productive Places

This chapter examines the status of self-identity, death, and community, in highly technological, spiritually hybrid, post-traditional societies. Although the term 'spirituality' is used throughout this chapter, it is not used uncritically; this is partly because it inscribes a dualism and, by omission, a hierarchy between the material and the spiritual. If the spiritual signifies a notion of the sacred or a transcendent otherness beyond the sensible and intelligible, then one has to ask what relation this has to material existence. There will always be religious and/or spiritual cultures and practices while death continues to be part of the human condition. Priests and other religious persons do not have a monopoly on existential interpretations in contemporary society - they compete with other spiritual experts and often with secular experts such as counsellors and psychologists. Death is the great equalizer because it is 'general equivalence'.

Popular Spiritualities: The Politics of Contemporary Enchantment

From clothing to the painted and scarified nude body, through overt, public display or esoteric symbols known only to the initiated, dress can convey information about beliefs, faith, identity, power, agency, resistance, and fashion. Taking a 'senses' approach, Hume's engaging account takes into consideration the look, smell, feel, touch and sound of religious apparel, the 'smells and bells' of dress and its accoutrements, as well as the emotions evoked by donning religious garb.The book's global perspective provides wide-ranging, yet detailed, coverage of religious dress, from the history and meaning of the simple 'no-frills' attire of the Anabaptists to the power structure displayed in the elaborate fabrics and colours of the Roman Catholic Church; Hume examines the 2,500 year-old tradition of Buddhist robes, the nudity of India's holy men, and much more. With chapters on Sufism, Vodou, modern Pagans, as well as painted and tattooed indigenous and modern Western bodies, the reader is swept along on a sensual journey of the sight, sound, smell and feel of wearing religion.Unique in its field, this intriguing and informative anthropological approach to the body and dress is an essential read for students of Anthropology, Anthropology of Dress, Sociology, Fashion and Textiles, Culture and Dress, Body and Culture and Cultural Studies.

The Religious Life of Dress: Global Fashion and Faith

This book reflects the style of conference discussions on the subject and parallels the eclectic nature of Paganism itself. It includes articles that are objective and subjective, resulting in an intriguing collection of discussions on many aspects of nature religion. The articles vary from the personal spiritual journey of Philip Shallcrass, through a comparison of Buddhism and Wicca by Geoffrey Samuel, to the historical-political approach of Ronald Hutton.© 1999 Taylor & Francis Ltd

Nature Religion Today: Paganism in the Modern World

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