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- - - - intersubjectivity
        
        "social, cultural, religious identities"
        
        i think that some people (like McC) define religious studies as just this- the intersubjectivity of social cultural and religious identities. i also think that splitting intersubjectivity into two equal terms is absolutely essential to getting this discipline where it needs to go
        
        religion research
        
        "research is a relationship"
        
        the intersubjectivity of religion research is just as complex and profound as that of religious practitioners- orsi has a lot to say abt the "how close should we get" question, and he argues to get as close as you need to to understand what you're studying, and offer the same vulnerability you are asking of from the people you are researching
        
        "eliminate the comfort of academic distance"
        
        i like how he refers to the distance that academia takes as a measure of comfort. because that implies two things- 1 that it is easier to take a supposedly subjective standpoint because you don't have to do any introspection if you call urself distant, and 2 that the alternate position, of being researched from a distance, is uncomfortable.
        
        i think this is an excellent point, one that we all noticed was missing from McC's argument, and Orsi address rly well- the fact that we need to acknowledge that context of research/academia as much as we need to acknowledge the context of religous thought/behavior
        
        inclusion of personal stories to illustrate Orsi's view of religion
        
        this!! was so cool!! i really look forward to the rest of this book bc orsi seems to be doing a lot of transformative stuff. he not only explains these ideas but demonstrates them as well, narrating not as a high and mighty scholar but as a human being who has lived and experienced many of the things he is studying
        
        i additionally liked the way that he explained how, when he was researching, he was constantly questioning the way he should be going about it- recognizing that there is no universal research method but instead viewing it as a relationship that changes with the subject.
      - relationship as a non-friendly word
        
        i think this was an important distinction to make because it's really true: we're not talking about a classic relationship here, it's a combination of what one would assume relationship implies, with the emotional and personal implications, as well as relationship in an algebraic sense
      - relationships that have geographical ties as well
        
        i thought this point was interesting and is a great way to take the conversation away from race and towards something more progressive/real. the racialization of religion is a huge problem but when we look at regional culture instead it moves the train of thought into a more productive direction
    - - equating religion and morality is something i see a lot of people do nowadays, conflating morals with things said in the bible and pretending like the bible is where these ideas came from. this is dangerous i think in so many different ways because it leads people to not be held responsible for their actions because they can interpret the bible any way they want