Doing Multidisciplinary Research on Religion: Methodological, Conceptual and Theoretical Challenges (International Studies in Religion and Society, 36)

Religion is increasingly visible in the contemporary world as a complex phenomenon – requiring multidisciplinary research to do justice to the complexity. Multidisciplinary research is however, though lauded by many, notoriously difficult to bring to fruition.

This volume takes on the challenge to bridge the gap. Contributions formulate the challenges many have faced, but few yet analysed and put into the hands of researchers concrete tools with which to set about designing and executing multidisciplinary research on religions, beliefs and religious behaviour. In an era where research funding increasingly expects interdisciplinary collaboration it provides guidance on constructive pathways and pitfalls to avoid.

Contributors are: Riho Altnurme, Anders Bäckström, Lori G. Beaman, Karin Borevi, Leon van den Broeke, Valerie DeMarinis, Victoria Enkvist, Jonny Långstedt, Annette Leis-Peters, Anna-Sara Lind, Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon, Cecilia Nahnfeldt, Per-Erik Nilsson, Peter Nynäs, Margit Warburg, and Anne-Laure Zwilling.

Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon, PhD Theology (b 1978), Uppsala University, is director of the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CRS) at that university. Her research focuses on religion and welfare in contemporary Europe including an interest in issues of gender, civil society and values.
Anna-Sara Lind, LL.D. (b 1977), Uppsala University, is Professor of Public Law at that university. Her research focuses on public law, EU law and fundamental rights and on how EU law and international law interacts in the fields of welfare state law in a complex constitutional reality.