Note from today's lecture by Eileen Barker: Go where the cult is! (#form of #fieldwork of #nextsociety?)
(Personal) conclusion of today's lecture by Eileen Barker: go where the cult is. For studying religious groups, namely so called sects and cults, i.e. religious movements, one has to go and visit them. Eileen Barker said, one had to do this for getting a 'feeling' for the movement in question.
Wondering, how this method of "getting a feeling for XYZ" is shaped and influenced by the invention of 'culture' (as a term) as well as in its continuity by the culture (the memory of society (Luhmann 1999; 1996) as well as as the linking point of language, thought and reality -> in this case: feeling; Baecker 2010).
If that is true - what will be the form of #fieldwork of #nextsociety? Possibly dialogical, interactional, mutually, reciprocal, reading #dfdu vol 2 (Piazzi/Seydel 2010) again and again getting a 'feeling' for the method yet not the practice (#dfdu vol 3 - couldn't be realised due to a lack of funding)…
Have to think about it more...
tags: #form of #fieldwork of #nextsociety #cults #religiousstudies #culture #feeling
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