Fieldwork

Fieldwork, a term frequently employed in religious studies to describe qualitative research with contemporary subjects their own milieu, is concept inextricably linked the ethnographic project. Anthropologists have for years challenged and pushed limits of what fieldwork is, where takes place, how conducted by asking productive questions about exactly “the field” located precisely constitutes work”. In studies, debates fieldwork, per se, are less advanced. Traditional notions anthropology assume long-term engagement folk communities. This often means living working years, even decades. A critical reflection on method idea brings fore important issues legitimacy, accuracy comprehensiveness study “lived religion” raises anew enduring ethics ethnography when time, access intimacy ever-shifting precarious.