Title

Response: How Do We Know What We Know About the Amish and Other Minorities?

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Publication Date

9-1-2019

Abstract

The appraisal by Cory Anderson, Joseph Donnermeyer, Jeffrey Longhofer, and Steven Reschly (hereafter, appraisers) highlights a methodological divide that is important to the study of the Amish and other ethnic or religious minorities. In my reply, I discuss how my work is rooted in a cultural analytic paradigm that differs from the appraisers’ methodological orientation. My reply includes a deconstruction of the appraisal and a discussion of its “shortcomings.” I conclude by showing how the discourse surrounding this appraisal raises important epistemological questions of how we understand human societies.

Volume

58

Issue

3

First Page

743

Last Page

752

DOI

10.1111/jssr.12619

ISSN

00218294

E-ISSN

14685906

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