Agh. I have zero experience in your field of research (I'm in the European part of International Studies) but two things, from your post: What happens when one tries to reframe one's research question into academese and come at the subject from an angle because that's how someone else wants you to do it is almost never pretty.
Two, going in on something you're hardly interested in is not likely to increase your interest in the long run.
Is there any way you can change your research proposal again within the time constraints that you've been given?
Given my limited knowledge of your field of research but having some idea of the discipline as a whole, my suggestions for why questions would be something like; "Why are *definitions-from-one-belief-system* inadequate to explain *practices/whatever-of-other-belief-system*?" or "Why does the *study-of-one-belief-system/definitions* cast light on *other-belief-system*?" or even "Why does the history of *belief-system-1* viewed in combination with *history of belief-system-2* give a better picture of the gradual development of the *belief systems* than a more narrow historical perspective?"
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Date: 2008-05-30 11:16 pm (UTC)Two, going in on something you're hardly interested in is not likely to increase your interest in the long run.
Is there any way you can change your research proposal again within the time constraints that you've been given?
Given my limited knowledge of your field of research but having some idea of the discipline as a whole, my suggestions for why questions would be something like; "Why are *definitions-from-one-belief-system* inadequate to explain *practices/whatever-of-other-belief-system*?" or "Why does the *study-of-one-belief-system/definitions* cast light on *other-belief-system*?" or even "Why does the history of *belief-system-1* viewed in combination with *history of belief-system-2* give a better picture of the gradual development of the *belief systems* than a more narrow historical perspective?"