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jaar-sources-and-evidence
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handling the evidence base of a Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) article — primary texts, traditions, historical documents, material/visual sources, or ethnographic fieldwork.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.
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# Sources & Evidence (jaar-sources-and-evidence)
Religious-studies scholarship rests on **primary materials**: scriptures and commentaries, ritual and
liturgical texts, historical archives, material and visual culture, or fieldwork. JAAR judges whether
your handling of these sources is careful, well-situated, and adequate to the claim. This is humanities
evidence — no datasets or replication, but rigor still governs.
## When to trigger
- Selecting and justifying the primary sources the argument rests on
- A reviewer questioned your translation, dating, provenance, or representativeness
- Integrating fieldwork/interviews into a humanities argument
- Deciding what is primary vs. secondary and how much to quote
