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jaar-sources-and-evidence

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Use when handling the evidence base of a Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) article — primary texts, traditions, historical documents, material/visual sources, or ethnographic fieldwork. Plans rigorous, transparent source work for humanities scholarship in the study of religion; it does not run statistics.

When to use

• Selecting and justifying primary sources
• Handling translation, dating, provenance, or representativeness
• Integrating fieldwork or interviews into humanities arguments
• Deciding primary vs. secondary sources and quoting levels
• Establishing provenance, dating, and context
• Engaging disconfirming evidence
• Describing access, consent, and positionality for ethnography

When not to use

• Running statistics
• Handling datasets or replication

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