Methods for the Study of Religious Change - From Religious Studies to Worldview Studies - André Droogers
Chapter 7 Fieldwork on Language: Artists Express their Worldviews
Methods for the Study of Religious Change - From Religious Studies to Worldview Studies - André Droogers
Rhea Hummel [+]
Department of Arts, Culture and Media (Faculty of Arts) of Groningen University
Description
In Chapter 7 on spiritual language the central methodological question is: how to study forms of secular and spiritual worldview-making? In this chapter the worldview-making of a few dozen Dutch artists is the central issue. The researcher demonstrates in this chapter that a (playful) combination of ethnography and literary analysis of the language in life narratives of the research “objects” can be a fruitful methodology for arriving at two remarkable observations: first that many de-churched artists are searching for worldviews which apparently replace traditional religious worldviews; second that the seemingly unique and singular life stories of the artists can be modelled in “only” five patterns of worldview-making.