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MPhil Methodology Seminar in HRP 2022-23

Guide to writing a methodology paper

Studying History, Religions and Philosophies

John Tosh, The Pursuit of History, chapters 1-2

Kelly and Smith, 'Historians'

Hinnells ed., Routledge Companion to the Study of Religions, chapter 1 - why study religions?

Jonathan Smith, 'Religion, Religions, Religious'

The Archive

John Tosh, The Pursuit of History, chapters 4-5

Ann Stoler, 'Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance'

Durba Ghosh, 'Decoding the Nameless: Gender, Subjectivity and Historical Methodologies in Reading the Archives in Colonial India'

Material Culture and Visual Sources

Dilip Chakrabarti, 'The Archaeology of Hinduism'

David Morgan, 'Materiality in the Study of Religion'

Karen Harvey, History and Material Culture, Introduction

Karen Harvey, History and Material Culture, textiles in the Atlantic 1500-1900

Barber and Peniston-Bird, History Beyond the Text, Material culture - the object

Memory, Oral History and Ethnographic 'Fieldwork'

John Hinnells, Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion

G. Prins, 'Oral History', in New Perspectives

Peniston-Bird, History Beyond the Text - see chapter 7 on Oral History

Ron Geaves, 'Fieldwork in the study of religion'

K. O'Reilly, 'Participating and Observing'

K. O'Reilly, 'Interviews'

John Tosh, The Pursuit of History, chapter 11

Writing, Interpretation and Narrative

Peter Munz, 'The Historical Narrative'

Jeppe Jensen, 'Narrative', from the Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religions

Elizabeth Clark, History, Theory Text chapters 1 and 4

John Tosh, The Pursuit of History chapters 6-7

Social History and Gender

Jim Sharpe, 'History from Below'

Joan Scott, 'Gender and the Politics of History'

Darlene Juschka, 'Feminism and Gender Theory' in Oxford Handbook of the study of religion

Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay, 'Buddhist Thought from a Feminist Perspective', from _Gender, Genre and Religion: Feminist Perspectives_ (eds) Mornay Joy and Eva Neumaier-Dargyay

Link to Gender, Genre and Religion

Postmodernism, Postcolonialism and the Cultural Turn

Joyce Appleby, 'Postmodernism and the Crisis of Modernity', chapter 6 in, Telling the Truth About History

Bin Wong, 'Causation'

Richard King, Orientalism and Postcolonialism in the study of religion

Morny Joy, 'Postcolonial and Gendered Perspectives: challenges in the study of religion'

Ulinka Rublack, 'The status of historical knowledge'

Hayden White, 'The Question of Narrative in Contemporary Historical Theory', from The Content and the Form

Short handout on postmodernism

From National and Imperial to Global Histories

Stoler and Cooper, Introduction to Tensions of Empire

John Breuilly, 'Historians and the Nation'

Jerry Bentley, 'World History and Grand Narrative'

Jenny Daggers "Thinking 'religion' and the religions' in European Modernity", chapter 1 in her book _Postcolonial Theology of Religions: particularity and pluralism in world Christianity_

Arvind Mandair, 'Postcolonialism'

Textual Criticism and Translation

Arvind Mandair, 'Interdictions - Language, Religion and the (dis)Orders of Indian Identity'

Alan Williams, 'New Approaches to the Problem of Translation in the Study of Religions', in Peter Antes et.al. (eds.) _New Approaches to the Study of Religion_

Kwame Anthony Appiah, 'Thick Translation' in Lawrence Venuti (ed.), _The Translation Studies Reader_

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