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Vijfentwintigste zondag door het jaar: Lezingen: Jes. 55,6-9; Ps. 145; Fil. 1,20c-24.27a; Mat. 20,1-16a (A-jaar)
No full textArt, Anthropology and Religion. Contribution to In Conversation “Secrets Under the Skin” (by Jill Flanders Crosby)
No full textConflations and gaps. A response to Nicholas Wolterstorff’s ‘toleration, justice, and dignity’
No full textThis contribution responds to Nicholas Wolterstorff’s argument for religious toleration and freedom of religion respectively that he develops in his paper ‘Toleration, justice and dignity’. I argue that Wolterstorff conflates religious toleration and the right to freedom of religion, which has problematic implications. Moreover, I reveal gaps in his justification of the special worth or dignity of human persons, and, derived from this, freedom of religion
Tweede zondag van de veertigdagentijd: Lezingen: Gen. 12,1-4a; Ps. 33; 2 Tim. 1,8b-10; Mat. 17,1-9 (A-jaar)
No full textA moment of persuasion: Travelling preachers and Islamic pedagogy in the Netherlands
No full textIn this article, I examine the discursive as well as embodied and sensorial forms of persuasion that undergird the formation of religious authority, Islamic authority in the Netherlands more specifically. I argue that particular momentary occasions can play important roles in facilitating the mobilisation of these discursive and non-discursive forms of persuasion. Based on a close reading of an event I participated in during my fieldwork among young Muslims in the Netherlands, the analysis focuses on such a key moment of persuasion, paradoxically characterised by a preacher's apparently failed attempt at conversion. Despite this failure, this preacher can be seen to have succeeded in offering his young Muslim audience a model of how to be a Muslim and of how to represent Islam to non-Muslims. Apart from contributing to anthropological debates on Islamic authority in Europe and religious persuasion more generally, I discuss an important new type of Islamic leaders – referred to here as ‘travelling preachers’ – and the new kinds of youth-centred settings of religious learning in which they operate
Flowing and framing: Language ideology, circulation, and authority in a Pentecostal Bible school
No full textExperiential and mediatized, Pentecostal Christianity is one of the most successful cases of contemporary religious globalization. However, it has often grown and expanded transnationally without clear authoritative contours. That is the case in contemporary Ghana, where Pentecostal claims about charismatic empowerment have fed public anxieties concerning the fake and the occult. This article examines how Pentecostalism’s dysfunctional circulation is countered within seminaries, or Bible schools, by specific strategies of pastoral training. First, I revisit recent debates on Protestant language ideology in the anthropology of Christianity, and stress Pentecostalism’s affinity with notions of flow and saturation of speech by divine presence. Second, I move to data collected in the Anagkazo Bible and Ministry Training Center, and investigate this institution’s pedagogical framing of Pentecostalism’s otherwise erratic flow of speech and power according to two normative operations: Biblical figuration and the emic notion of transmission as ‘impartation’. I conclude by stressing how the metapragmatics of figuration and impartation in Anagkazo requires an understanding of religious circulation that exceeds the dominant scholarly focus on religion-as-mediation
Poder, história e coetaneidade: os lugares do colonialismo na antropologia sobre a África
No full textO presente artigo toma como base a tese clássica de Johannes Fabian sobre a política do tempo na representação antropológica tendo em vista revisar criticamente a carreira da coetaneidade na produção antropológica sobre a África. Ele parte da antropologia feita sob o colonialismo, com foco no estrutural-funcionalismo britânico, e chega à antropologia do colonialismo que desponta nos anos 90, passando pela forte disjunção temporal imposta à disciplina pelas independências africanas, que começam a florescer no final dos anos 50. Observa-se nessa trajetória um amadurecimento teórico acerca do impacto formativo duradouro do poder colonial nas sociedades africanas. Como conclusão, problematizo a prescrição de Fabian de “um encontro real com o tempo do outro” ao recorrer a debates contemporâneos sobre a condição pós-colonial em África. Destaco assim a natureza ambígua e elusiva da temporalidade subalterna e defendo a necessidade de uma abordagem mais etnograficamente atenta às vicissitudes da temporalização periférica
Remapping Our Mindset: Towards a Transregional and Pluralistic Outlook
No full textThe future of the study of religion/s must be actively envisioned and pursued. In the aftermath of the deconstruction of ‘religion’ and the idea of ‘secularization’ as imbued with a Western teleology, it is necessary to rethink and reconfigure the study of religion/s against a global horizon. In this essay I propose that we should move out of the unproductive Religious Studies-Theology binary and frame our work in the midst of the humanities. A new mindset is needed for scholarly research on religion, and to achieve this I point at the new vistas arising from a transregional and pluralistic outlook
Book review: His Hiding Place is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence, written by Francis X. Clooney sj
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