Ruy Blanes
Biographic Data
| ID | 89131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruy Blanes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruy |
| FAMILY NAME | Blanes |
| SIGNATURE | BLANES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lisbon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
In the Skin of the City
Uncomfortable Knowledge
Reflexivity is a hallmark of good ethnography and many consider it a defining characteristic of anthropology. It is thus surprising that anthropologists have not paid more attention to how we teach students to be reflexive. Many of us learn reflexivity by making mistakes in the field, yet discussions of anthropological faux pas and their potential contributions to reflexive learning are typically limited to informal settings and occluded or heavi…
Achieving peaceful climate change adaptation through transformative governance
Which form of governance is required to bridge tensions that stem from the urgent need of climate change adaptation (CCA) on the one hand, and the imperative of upholding peace and social stability in vulnerable areas on the other? This article proposes transformative governance as a framework and methodology for addressing this question. It recognizes that the increased pace of climate change requires urgent and thorough adjustments to actual or…
Estética Para Quem? Sobre O Público Da Persuasão Pentecostal
Neste texto abordo a noção de "estética da persuasão" formulada por Birgit Meyer. Explorando a dimensão distributiva da estética presente na sua tese, argumento que o "lugar" da religião é um espaço de relacionalidades exteriorizações que deverá incluir tanto crentes como não crentes, os espaços de culto e as suas vizinhanças seculares, configurando um "público" que excede o religioso. Para tal, Utilizo como termo de comparação empírico o meu tra…
Utopian Encounters
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders.Instead
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
This chapter examines how witchcraft and sorcery beliefs are reproduced among the educated working and middle classes in Papua New Guinea. In a context where tertiary schooling is accessible only to a tiny segment of the population, many educated people in PNG feel anxious about their social position and worry that their upward mobility will provoke envy and resentment in the less fortunate. This anxiety is projected most strongly onto the “ples …
Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
charismatic Christianity; Holy Spirit; demonology; evangelism; indigenous Pentecostal movements; ethnography
The Ndoki Index
In this text I propose to discuss local conceptions of spiritual power in the city of Luanda, Angola. More specifically, I explore how the spiritual field in this city is configured through the markers of a plural ethnicity and Christian practice. In this framework, sorcery (ndoki) has become the practical element that connects Christian and traditional spirituality politics within the same discursive regime, addressing problems of urban life and…
Introduction to Pentecostal Witchcraft and Spiritual Politics in Africa and Melanesia
In this introduction we give a comparative overview of the situation of Pentecostalism, witchcraft and spiritual politics in Africa and Melanesia. Our comparison between Africa and Melanesia starts off from the cultural specificity of witchcraft and sorcery, but simultaneously highlights how Christian evangelism “pentecostalizes” witchcraft and sorcery by making them universal concerns of life and death, good and evil
Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe
In recent years, the Southern borders of Europe have become landmarks for the mediatic and academic verve regarding the migration and diasporas towards and beyond ‘Schengen Europe’. In these debates, religion is acknowledged as playing a central role in the recognition of major societal changes in the continent, being object of political concern and attention: from the recognition of plural forms of Christianity to the debates on a ‘European Isla…
Homenagem a Clara Mafra
The Social Life of Spirits
Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else - symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more divers…
Social Life of Spirits
Ends and Beginnings
The fact that you are reading these lines indicates that (1) issue number 4 of Advances in Research: Religion and Society has been published; and that (2) the world did not end, as expected by some, in December 2012. The buzz surrounding the Mayan calendar seemed for us as editors to be an appropriate pretext to conjure a debate concerning the intersection of religion and environmental apocalypticism. The four contributions to this debate reflect…
What kind of God
Comment on Luhrmann, Tanya. 2012. When God talks back: Understanding the American Evangelical relationship with God. New York: Alfred E. Knopf
Don Quixote's choice
In this article we propose to engage anthropology as a romanticist discipline. Revisiting particular histories, we depict the anthropological discipline and its core method (ethnography) as imbued with sensibilities and militancies that define it as a "romantic subversion," an against-the-grain attitude against intellectual hegemonies and conformisms. We do so by focusing on three points: the charting of a romanticist conceptual agenda in anthrop…
La guerre dans la paix. Ethnicité et angolanité dans l'Église kimbanguiste de Luanda
Au moment où l'Angola savoure ses premières années de paix depuis des décennies, l'un des plus importants mouvements religieux du pays vit une importante crise interne. Ce conflit qui déchire l'église kimbanguiste, un mouvement d'origine congolaise dont la plupart des fidèles sont des Bakongo, est né d'un problème de succession après la mort, en 2001, de son leader spirituel Dialungana Kiantani, vivant au Bas-Congo. Comme l'analyse cet article, l…
The Social Life of Spirits
Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else - symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more divers…
La guerre dans la paix. Ethnicité et angolanité dans l'Église kimbanguiste de Luanda
Au moment où l'Angola savoure ses premières années de paix depuis des décennies, l'un des plus importants mouvements religieux du pays vit une importante crise interne. Ce conflit qui déchire l'église kimbanguiste, un mouvement d'origine congolaise dont la plupart des fidèles sont des Bakongo, est né d'un problème de succession après la mort, en 2001, de son leader spirituel Dialungana Kiantani, vivant au Bas-Congo. Comme l'analyse cet article, l…
Achieving peaceful climate change adaptation through transformative governance
Which form of governance is required to bridge tensions that stem from the urgent need of climate change adaptation (CCA) on the one hand, and the imperative of upholding peace and social stability in vulnerable areas on the other? This article proposes transformative governance as a framework and methodology for addressing this question. It recognizes that the increased pace of climate change requires urgent and thorough adjustments to actual or…
Don Quixote's choice
In this article we propose to engage anthropology as a romanticist discipline. Revisiting particular histories, we depict the anthropological discipline and its core method (ethnography) as imbued with sensibilities and militancies that define it as a "romantic subversion," an against-the-grain attitude against intellectual hegemonies and conformisms. We do so by focusing on three points: the charting of a romanticist conceptual agenda in anthrop…
Uncomfortable Knowledge
Reflexivity is a hallmark of good ethnography and many consider it a defining characteristic of anthropology. It is thus surprising that anthropologists have not paid more attention to how we teach students to be reflexive. Many of us learn reflexivity by making mistakes in the field, yet discussions of anthropological faux pas and their potential contributions to reflexive learning are typically limited to informal settings and occluded or heavi…
La guerre dans la paix. Ethnicité et angolanité dans l'Église kimbanguiste de Luanda
Au moment où l'Angola savoure ses premières années de paix depuis des décennies, l'un des plus importants mouvements religieux du pays vit une importante crise interne. Ce conflit qui déchire l'église kimbanguiste, un mouvement d'origine congolaise dont la plupart des fidèles sont des Bakongo, est né d'un problème de succession après la mort, en 2001, de son leader spirituel Dialungana Kiantani, vivant au Bas-Congo. Comme l'analyse cet article, l…
Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe
In recent years, the Southern borders of Europe have become landmarks for the mediatic and academic verve regarding the migration and diasporas towards and beyond ‘Schengen Europe’. In these debates, religion is acknowledged as playing a central role in the recognition of major societal changes in the continent, being object of political concern and attention: from the recognition of plural forms of Christianity to the debates on a ‘European Isla…
Homenagem a Clara Mafra
The Social Life of Spirits
Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else - symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more divers…
Social Life of Spirits
Ends and Beginnings
The fact that you are reading these lines indicates that (1) issue number 4 of Advances in Research: Religion and Society has been published; and that (2) the world did not end, as expected by some, in December 2012. The buzz surrounding the Mayan calendar seemed for us as editors to be an appropriate pretext to conjure a debate concerning the intersection of religion and environmental apocalypticism. The four contributions to this debate reflect…
What kind of God
Comment on Luhrmann, Tanya. 2012. When God talks back: Understanding the American Evangelical relationship with God. New York: Alfred E. Knopf
Don Quixote's choice
In this article we propose to engage anthropology as a romanticist discipline. Revisiting particular histories, we depict the anthropological discipline and its core method (ethnography) as imbued with sensibilities and militancies that define it as a "romantic subversion," an against-the-grain attitude against intellectual hegemonies and conformisms. We do so by focusing on three points: the charting of a romanticist conceptual agenda in anthrop…
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
This chapter examines how witchcraft and sorcery beliefs are reproduced among the educated working and middle classes in Papua New Guinea. In a context where tertiary schooling is accessible only to a tiny segment of the population, many educated people in PNG feel anxious about their social position and worry that their upward mobility will provoke envy and resentment in the less fortunate. This anxiety is projected most strongly onto the “ples …
Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
charismatic Christianity; Holy Spirit; demonology; evangelism; indigenous Pentecostal movements; ethnography
The Ndoki Index
In this text I propose to discuss local conceptions of spiritual power in the city of Luanda, Angola. More specifically, I explore how the spiritual field in this city is configured through the markers of a plural ethnicity and Christian practice. In this framework, sorcery (ndoki) has become the practical element that connects Christian and traditional spirituality politics within the same discursive regime, addressing problems of urban life and…
Introduction to Pentecostal Witchcraft and Spiritual Politics in Africa and Melanesia
In this introduction we give a comparative overview of the situation of Pentecostalism, witchcraft and spiritual politics in Africa and Melanesia. Our comparison between Africa and Melanesia starts off from the cultural specificity of witchcraft and sorcery, but simultaneously highlights how Christian evangelism “pentecostalizes” witchcraft and sorcery by making them universal concerns of life and death, good and evil
Utopian Encounters
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders.Instead
Estética Para Quem? Sobre O Público Da Persuasão Pentecostal
Neste texto abordo a noção de "estética da persuasão" formulada por Birgit Meyer. Explorando a dimensão distributiva da estética presente na sua tese, argumento que o "lugar" da religião é um espaço de relacionalidades exteriorizações que deverá incluir tanto crentes como não crentes, os espaços de culto e as suas vizinhanças seculares, configurando um "público" que excede o religioso. Para tal, Utilizo como termo de comparação empírico o meu tra…
Achieving peaceful climate change adaptation through transformative governance
Which form of governance is required to bridge tensions that stem from the urgent need of climate change adaptation (CCA) on the one hand, and the imperative of upholding peace and social stability in vulnerable areas on the other? This article proposes transformative governance as a framework and methodology for addressing this question. It recognizes that the increased pace of climate change requires urgent and thorough adjustments to actual or…
Uncomfortable Knowledge
Reflexivity is a hallmark of good ethnography and many consider it a defining characteristic of anthropology. It is thus surprising that anthropologists have not paid more attention to how we teach students to be reflexive. Many of us learn reflexivity by making mistakes in the field, yet discussions of anthropological faux pas and their potential contributions to reflexive learning are typically limited to informal settings and occluded or heavi…
In the Skin of the City
Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (4 works)