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Lecturer(s)
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Šotola Jaroslav, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Topinka Daniel, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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What is Field Research on Religion? Research problem and its formulation in relation to the studied environment. Ethical and practical aspects of entering the field. Relations with research actors. Reflexivity: researcher's situation in theoretical and methodological framework. Participant observation. Conducting informal interviews. Practical training in selected environment. Writing field notes. Terrain diary. The second practical training associated with writing field notes. Analysis of ethnographic data.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The course focuses on the theoretical and practical introduction to the field research methodology of religion, which will be presented as a challenging but dynamically developing discipline that can be implemented in any environment. Special attention will be paid to anchoring ethnography as a research of the intersection of global phenomena and structural forces with the concrete lived experience of human actors. Ethnography must then be based on consistent interconnection and reflection of one's own theoretical and epistemological position.
Based on the reading of methodological texts and examples of field research, as well as through the practice of ethnographic methods (participating observation, writing field notes and their processing), students will acquire skills for subsequent implementation of their own field research.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
90% participation in lessons; active participation in field research seminars and practicals; passing the credit.
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Recommended literature
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Bourgois, P. (2003). In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Geertz, Armin W. (ed). (2014). Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture.. London: Routledge.
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Hammersley, M. - Atkinson, P. (2007). Ethnography. Principles in Practice.. New York and London: Routledge.
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Soukup, M. (2014). Terénní výzkum v sociální a kulturní antropologii.. Praha: Karolinum.
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