Metadata of the chapter that will be visualized in SpringerLink Book Title Fieldwork and the Self Series Title Chapter Title Shifting Selves: Fieldwork, Faith and Reflexivity Copyright Year 2021 Copyright HolderName The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. Corresponding Author Family Name Hoon Particle Given Name Chang-Yau Prefix Suffix Role Division Organization Centre for Advanced Research, Universiti Brunei Darussalam Address Gadong, Brunei Email changyau.hoon@ubd.edu.bn Abstract Research is a form of ‘translation process’ that aims to translate systems of meaning through mutual engagement between the researcher and the researched in the field. In observing, engaging, experiencing, living and subsequently writing the stories of the informants, the researcher also inadvertently rediscovers and renegotiates their own identity. This chapter is a critical reflection on my professional practice in doing ethnographic fieldwork with the Christian communities in Indonesia over the past decade. While my subject position as a middle-class, Western-educated, Asian, Christian, male researcher has given me rare access into various Christian sites, including clandestine seminaries, my ability to gather data is contingent upon the amount of ‘investment’ that I committed to the sites and to my informants. As there are no hard and fast rules about how much a researcher should invest in the field, my experience demonstrates how a researcher might reflexively negotiate between engaging the field and distancing from it in order to maintain intellectual objectivity, moral boundaries and emotional hygiene. This chapter takes a reflexive approach in interrogating the epistemological dichotomies of researcher/researched, self/other, insider/ outsider and native/foreign. It challenges the fixity of these categories and sheds light on how they are constructed and shaped by specific temporal and spatial contexts, and are always shifting. Keywords (separated by '-') Reflexivity - Ethnography - Indonesia - Religious fieldwork - Christianity Citation: Hoon, Chang-Yau. 2021. 'Shifting Selves: Fieldwork, Faith and Reflexivity'. In Jeremy Jammes and Victor T. King (Eds), Fieldwork and the Self. Singapore: Springer, pp. 153-169.