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Positioning Myself Within the Research. 21 1.2. Islam in Europe and the Netherlands 23
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Positioning Myself Within the Research. ‌ In the present study, I follow two distinctive paths: first, analysing from my position as an insider, as a member of the group; second, analysing in light of my position as an outsider, as a sociologist of religion. This is first and foremost an empirical study of religiosity among Dutch-Turkish Muslims that was conducted by a Turkish Muslim scholar who lives in the Netherlands. It is important, therefore, to begin this study with a discussion of my own positionality as a Muslim researcher. My background was relevant to the research methodologies and the conceptual development used in this thesis. As an insider, I had access to many private and public religious experiences such as ṣalaḥ, ṣawm, ḥajj etc. while these experiences took place. At the same time, I evaluate these practices in the light of a social scientific study of religion. In this section, therefore, I will discuss the experienced benefits and possible challenges that were produced by my specific background. One of the essential instruments of the ethnographic method is participant observation. This includes gathering social data in their natural social setting, in which researchers have access to the meaning of events and social interactions as understood by the group or organization under study. Different typologies of participant observers were developed according to their role during the course of research. The basic typology formulated by Xxxx (1958) defined four so-called field roles: ‘the complete participant’, ‘the participant-as-observer’, ‘the observer as participant’, and ‘the complete observer’. In the ethnographic part of this study, I usually took on the role of ‘complete participant’ (in virtue of my background) and of ‘participant-as-observer’, in order to gain access to a wider group of participants in their social connections. These insider positions provided me with excellent opportunities for in-depth interaction with various sections of the Turkish community in the Netherlands, in order to understand the meaning they ascribed to culture and religion within the context of a multicultural society. The reason for accepting an insider role was to get close to the behaviours and everyday experiences of the Turkish Muslim community in the Netherlands. “Getting close”, according to Xxxxxxx (1995, pp. 1-2) requires “physical and social proximity to the daily rounds of people’s lives and activities; the field researcher must be able to take positions in the midst of the key sit...
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