Doing Multidisciplinary Research on Religion

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.

• ContributorsList of FiguresPart I. Introduction1. Introducing the book and its contributionsMartha Middlemiss Lé Mon & Anna-Sara LindPart II. How to gather knowledge– multidisciplinarity in theory and practice2. Organising across disciplinary boundaries – experiences of challenges and success factorsAnders Bäckström3. Complex accounts. Reflexions on defining and measuring religious belongingAnne-Laure Zwilling4. Layers of Misunderstandings? Considerations about the Benefits and Challenges of Writing an Interdisciplinary ArticleKarin Borevi, Annette Leis-Peters & Anna-Sara Lind5. Same questions different answers. Experiences from multidisciplinary work in Law and Sociology of ReligionVictoria Enkvist & Per-Erik NilssonPart III. Who defines the frames of multidisciplinary research? - Research ethical dilemmas and expectations6. Historical perspectives for the study of religionRiho Altnurme7. Pros and Cons in Multidisciplinary Research on ReligionMargit Warburg8. Observations on the international character of research: a reflective approach to managementPeter Nynäs & Jonny Långstedt9. Curiosity or Career and Finance Driven? Motivating Factors and Stumbling Blocks in the Pursuit of a Long Term and Multidisciplinary Educational and Research AgendaLeon van der BroekePart IV. Traditional and transformative research paradigms – concluding remarks10. From multidisciplinarity to transdisciplinarity and back again...Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon & Cecilia Nahnfeldt11. Current research methodological challenges and opportunities related to public mental health promotion and existential meaning- an emerging frameworkValerie De Marinis12. Religion and Diversity: Multidisciplinarity, Transdisciplinarity and Complex FuturesLori G. Beaman