Autorefleksja i usytuowanie badawcze w socjologicznych studiach nad religią
Self-reflexivity and Situatedness in Sociological Studies of Religion

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses the issue of personal attitudes of those conducting social studies on religion towards the subject of their academic interest. It focuses on self-reflexivity in sociology of religion and critically discusses the ecommendations for reflection on researchers’ situatedness presented by Neitz as well as Altglas and Wood. These recommendations correspond to the recent calls for a stronger embeddedness of sociology of religion in social theory and the issue of power relations. However, they inadequatly address the contemporary debate on epistemology and methodology of social sciences, which destabilizes identities, points to the political and ethical entanglement of academic activity and draws attention to the relational nature of knowledge production. The article encourages further reflection on the issue of situatedness in sociological studies of religion. Within studies conducted in Poland, such reflection could strengthen the analytical currents aimed at breaking with the research practice called „methodological Catholicism”.

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