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Travers, Max; Ezzy, Doug --- "Interpretive issues in researching law and religion" [2019] ELECD 2579; in Sandberg, Russell; Doe, Norman; Kane, Bronach; Roberts, Caroline (eds), "Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 207

Book Title: Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion

Editor(s): Sandberg, Russell; Doe, Norman; Kane, Bronach; Roberts, Caroline

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 11

Section Title: Interpretive issues in researching law and religion

Author(s): Travers, Max; Ezzy, Doug

Number of pages: 14

Abstract/Description:

This chapter begins the section on sociological approaches by explaining the approach of interpretive sociologists in studying law and religion, through use of ethnographic methods, to a readership in legal studies that may be unfamiliar with these methods. The chapter will also seek to demonstrate that much can be learnt about religions through studying legal processes – both those inside religions, and those that arise in the interactions or encounters between religions and the State.