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Title: Academic Tedium
Review: This book typifies one of the problems in the social sciences today: endless banal banter about methodology. I have great respect for many of the scholars in this volume and cite their work often, but in this volume, they are at their worst. Collectively, these essays cover routine methodological issues in tedious detail, but issues that are also basic and which should be familiar to researchers. I can't imagine that anyone other than an academic could find this book at all interesting. As a researcher of (neo)paganism myself, I bought this to converse, in a sense, with colleagues I have never met, but these essays offer nothing new. They might be useful in an undergraduate research methods class, or the stuff of conversation over drinks at a professional conference, but not beyond that.
