Fokke Wouda

CHAPTER 2: A PRACTICAL THEOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY 87 their thoughts in a cohesive way. The verbatim transcripts of the interviews have acted as the source for the analysis and can be considered as the primary data for this study. Quotes included in this thesis have not been stylized as to avoid an additional hermeneutical layer to its interpretation. All interviewees have signed an informed consent form to safeguard their voluntary participation (see Appendix 2) and gave permission to use their names in this publication. Nevertheless, given the standard procedures in scientific research and the sensitivity of the subject matter, I have pseudonymized quotations from the interviews. The data (recordings and transcripts will be available at Tilburg University (TiU) Dataverse for ten years for future consultation in accordance with Tilburg University’s data management policy. Considering the biographic nature of the interviews (which makes them unfit for adequate anonymization), the data are archived with restricted access for secondary analysis. The interviewees have been anonymized by referring to them as Brothers TA, TB, and TC for the respondents from Taizé and Brothers BE and BF, and Sister BG for the respondents from Bose. These pseudonyms are also used in the footnotes to refer to quotations from their interviews, followed by the sequence number of the interview and a section number. A section includes everything the interviewer or the interviewee has said uninterrupted by the other. Questions and remarks by the interviewer have uneven numbers, responses by the interviewee have even numbers. Long responses have been split up into subsections, marked by subsequent letters of the alphabet. Hence, the reference TA-1,4b refers to a response by Brother TA (in Taizé) and can be found in the second subsection of the fourth section of his first interview. Analysis and conclusions As is customary in qualitative text analysis, transcribing the interviews and reading them several times has been essential engagement for understanding them. Familiarizing myself with the texts has been an important step in gaining insight into their content and meaning. It was indispensable to continue doing this throughout the process. As such, the process of analysis is not strictly demarcated from the phases of collecting and preparing the data. The analysis included coding, writing of memos, and theory building. The two interests mentioned in section 2.3 – collecting emerging categories and discovering their rootedness in the biographic experiences of the interviewees – have made me struggle to find a clear method that would serve both ends. Several attempts to do justice to the biographic nature of the interviews resulted in overanalyzing this aspect of the data through elaborate narrative analysis.

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