No. 23 (2017): Sexualité et religion aux risques de l'enquête de terrain

Coordinated by Myriam Joël et Josselin Tricou. Editorial coordination (in Émulations) Isabelle Jabiot.

This issue of Émulations intends to serve as a methodological crossroad between sexuality and religion. One can admit there is no lack of questioning sexuality in the field of sociology of religion, and reciprocally, but if these two topics have often been analysed jointly, the buck of such analyses  usually shows a deficiency regarding methodology. Excepting occasional mentions of reluctance to discuss their sexual behaviours with unfamiliar people, researchers barely address practical and ethical questions that have arisen during their investigations, when they don’t simply evict them out of their work. This blind spot raises questions in a context of legitimized-again subjectivity in the now compulsory critical-analytical method. This deficiency is all the more disturbing as it is observed in two areas that are heavily invested with emotional, symbolic and bodily charges whose conjunction increase the necessity of addressing such subjectivity with objectivity.