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What is Religious Context

Chapter 3
Practices, Challenges, and Prospects of Digital Ethnography as a Multidisciplinary Method
Is depicted here as “cultural features” of course include much of the content of “religion.” An example of the latter would have secular as understood in India, as a means of handling “religious diversity”.
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Interpreting Cross-Cultural Digital Ethnography: The Need to Consider Local and Religious Context
Jim Harries (William Carey International University, Kenya)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4190-9.ch003
Abstract
This chapter finds that the use of digital ethnography (sometimes considered a wonderful new effective way of unearthing truth) interculturally can easily dupe the gullible into confusing presuppositions with research outcomes. The widespread assumption that English communicates accurately between cultures underlies the duplicity. Examples from Africa illustrate how English words can be misleadingly assumed to carry original-native plus foreign meanings both distinctly, yet also simultaneously. Responses to COVID-19 and Protestant theological education practices in Africa illustrate the concern. Widespread veneers of Westernization around the world, in combination with taboos upholding political correctness, build on the hegemony of secularism to conceal consequential goings-on. The chapter concludes that intercultural use of digital ethnography easily results in unhelpful deception.
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