When a Missionary talks about "the Succeeding Generation" : Membership Categorization Analysis of the Missionary Work of Jehovah's Witnesses

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  • 信者が「世代」を語る時 : 「エホバの証人」の布教活動に現れたカテゴリー化実践の分析
  • シンジャ ガ セダイ オ カタル トキ エホバ ノ ショウニン ノ フキョウ カツドウ ニ アラワレタ カテゴリーカ ジッセン ノ ブンセキ

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This paper is a product of a series of field research and participant observation of the work of "Jehovah's Witnesses" missionaries from 1992 to 1998. The researcher was interested in the conviction process; the setting, the way of presentation and the argument. By employing the ethnomethodological analysis, the researcher tries to understand "faith" as an interaction while illustrating the reflexive process of "propagation and reception". Of the two major analytical methods of ethnomethodology, "conversation analysis" and "studies in work", the researcher employed the latter. The focus is 1) how the missionaries used categories when they talked people over to their point of view, and 2) how their activities with their pragmatism worked effectively when "the researcher" as a participant observer accepted their conviction in the interactive process of the propagation and reception settings. Conversation analysis, which was not included here, will be presented by the same author in a following paper.

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  • Religion and Society

    Religion and Society 5 (0), 39-59, 1999

    The Japanese Association for the Study of Religion and Society

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