Naomi Richman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 127544 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Naomi Richman |
| NOMBRES | Naomi |
| APELLIDO | Richman |
| FIRMA | RICHMAN N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4463-0306 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The choice to submit
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human behaviour. This article pushes this line of argument further by seeking to make God a more central figur…
Gendering the Pentecostal God
Scholarship on gender in Pentecostalism tends to assume that the question of how gender relates to Pentecostalism is the question of what women, and sometimes men, are allowed or not allowed to do. This approach treats gender as a human social phenomenon, and represents humans on a “horizontal” plane, in relation to other humans. In this paper, however, I suggest that placing the human–divine relation front and centre of our analyses exposes more…
Rejoinder to Giovanni Maltese
In this brief rejoinder, I respond to Maltese’s three areas of questions. Taking the first two together, I explain that my use of verticality is not primarily a theological move but a theoretical one: attending to it reveals how the various structuralisms that pervade Christian ways of seeing the world are deeply entwined. In response to the third, I suggest that it is both possible and worthwhile to ascertain particularities of different cultura…
“Call me a Fanatic
Anthropologists have pointed to the politics at play in the uneven application of the term “belief” to describe different cultural representations of reality. They have observed that westerners sometimes reserve the term “belief” for the description of non-western epistemologies, while categorising their own perspectives, informed by theories of scientific empiricism for example, as “knowledge.” This is an important critique, so what to do when o…
After rupture
How do Pentecostal Christians seek repair and renewal in their lives, after their efforts to rupture with the past and become born again? In this article, I wish to consider the ways that a group of Nigerian Pentecostals who belong to a deliverance church re‐narrativise their lives by constructing and entering into new timelines of history after their attempts to break with the past. This discursive project works to insert a notion of ‘Black Afri…
Introduction
This special issue develops and expands the discussion about religious change within the anthropology of Christianity by introducing the analytic of ‘repair’ to complement ‘rupture’. Rupture has emerged in the last two decades as a framework for theorising ethnographic accounts of Christian conversion described in radical or absolute terms (e.g., Carroll, 2017; Daswani, 2011, 2015; Engelke, 2004, 2010; Handman, 2010; Haynes, 2012; Holbraad et al.…
Gavin Miller, Miracles of Healing
Homosexuality, Created Bodies, and Queer Fantasies in a Nigerian Deliverance Church
In recent years the use of 'gay cure' therapies by religions has become a major public controversy in the West. Deliverance, or exorcism, is pointed to as an example of a Christian practice used to try and change a person's sexuality. Pentecostal churches specialising in deliverance have become particularly popular on the African continent in the last few decades, where beliefs that homosexuality is immoral and un-African are also widespread. At …
Machine gun prayer
This article examines Pentecostal embodiment through a study of the way prayer is spoken of and performed in a prominent Nigerian Deliverance church. It argues that the Deliverance churches’ exaggerated emphasis on the demonic serves to re-purpose prayer as an embodied violent performance that is often as much directed to the devil as it is to God. This article thus reveals the ways in which the entanglement of divine and demonic beings in the Pe…
Entangled Genealogies and False Dichotomies
In this article, the author sheds light on some of the methodological challenges that currently face scholars in world Christianity by mapping out genealogically how ontology has come to be a concern for those pursuing social scientific approaches to the study of Christianity in particular. By unraveling some of the guiding theoretical principles of the study of religions more generally, the author reveals the conditions that have ultimately rend…
What does it feel like to be post-secular? Ritual expressions of religious affects in contemporary renewal movements
This paper seeks to problematise and complexify scholarly accounts of contemporary emotional repression in Western contexts by presenting counterevidence in the form of two examples of post-secular collective affectivity and their ritual expressions. It argues that both narratives of emotional repression and expression fail to capture the non-linear complexity of processes of cultural transformation, which have resulted in the simultaneous expres…
After the flood
With each passing decade, the num- ber of people affected by disasters world- wide is escalating. The reported incidences of floods, storms, earthquakes, drought, and famine have all increased and in total occur more often than civil strife.' Floods accounted for more than a third of all disasters occurring in the 1970s although earthquakes caused the most deaths and financial losses.2 Whatever the cause, however, the poorest suffer most in
Children with epilepsy who have special needs
About five percent of children with epilepsy are severely or multiply handicapped. Many of these probably did not go to school before the 1970 Education Act, although epilepsy had been a named category for special education from the earliest provision. This paper describes two studies of the characteristics of children attending the residential special schools for epilepsy in England and Wales before the 1981 Education Act, and discusses the prov…
Institutional characteristics and staff behaviour in day nurseries
The authors report on a research project aimed at identifying differences between day nurseries in relation to staff and child behaviour. Six day nurseries were studied in London: staff levels and behaviour were measured against child behaviour and interactions between adults and children. They conclude that management styles, group size and staff attitudes to parents affect staff behaviour and consequently problem behaviour in children. The work…
Homosexuality, Created Bodies, and Queer Fantasies in a Nigerian Deliverance Church
In recent years the use of 'gay cure' therapies by religions has become a major public controversy in the West. Deliverance, or exorcism, is pointed to as an example of a Christian practice used to try and change a person's sexuality. Pentecostal churches specialising in deliverance have become particularly popular on the African continent in the last few decades, where beliefs that homosexuality is immoral and un-African are also widespread. At …
Machine gun prayer
This article examines Pentecostal embodiment through a study of the way prayer is spoken of and performed in a prominent Nigerian Deliverance church. It argues that the Deliverance churches’ exaggerated emphasis on the demonic serves to re-purpose prayer as an embodied violent performance that is often as much directed to the devil as it is to God. This article thus reveals the ways in which the entanglement of divine and demonic beings in the Pe…
What does it feel like to be post-secular? Ritual expressions of religious affects in contemporary renewal movements
This paper seeks to problematise and complexify scholarly accounts of contemporary emotional repression in Western contexts by presenting counterevidence in the form of two examples of post-secular collective affectivity and their ritual expressions. It argues that both narratives of emotional repression and expression fail to capture the non-linear complexity of processes of cultural transformation, which have resulted in the simultaneous expres…
After the flood
With each passing decade, the num- ber of people affected by disasters world- wide is escalating. The reported incidences of floods, storms, earthquakes, drought, and famine have all increased and in total occur more often than civil strife.' Floods accounted for more than a third of all disasters occurring in the 1970s although earthquakes caused the most deaths and financial losses.2 Whatever the cause, however, the poorest suffer most in
Entangled Genealogies and False Dichotomies
In this article, the author sheds light on some of the methodological challenges that currently face scholars in world Christianity by mapping out genealogically how ontology has come to be a concern for those pursuing social scientific approaches to the study of Christianity in particular. By unraveling some of the guiding theoretical principles of the study of religions more generally, the author reveals the conditions that have ultimately rend…
Institutional characteristics and staff behaviour in day nurseries
The authors report on a research project aimed at identifying differences between day nurseries in relation to staff and child behaviour. Six day nurseries were studied in London: staff levels and behaviour were measured against child behaviour and interactions between adults and children. They conclude that management styles, group size and staff attitudes to parents affect staff behaviour and consequently problem behaviour in children. The work…
Children with epilepsy who have special needs
About five percent of children with epilepsy are severely or multiply handicapped. Many of these probably did not go to school before the 1970 Education Act, although epilepsy had been a named category for special education from the earliest provision. This paper describes two studies of the characteristics of children attending the residential special schools for epilepsy in England and Wales before the 1981 Education Act, and discusses the prov…
After the flood
With each passing decade, the num- ber of people affected by disasters world- wide is escalating. The reported incidences of floods, storms, earthquakes, drought, and famine have all increased and in total occur more often than civil strife.' Floods accounted for more than a third of all disasters occurring in the 1970s although earthquakes caused the most deaths and financial losses.2 Whatever the cause, however, the poorest suffer most in
What does it feel like to be post-secular? Ritual expressions of religious affects in contemporary renewal movements
This paper seeks to problematise and complexify scholarly accounts of contemporary emotional repression in Western contexts by presenting counterevidence in the form of two examples of post-secular collective affectivity and their ritual expressions. It argues that both narratives of emotional repression and expression fail to capture the non-linear complexity of processes of cultural transformation, which have resulted in the simultaneous expres…
Entangled Genealogies and False Dichotomies
In this article, the author sheds light on some of the methodological challenges that currently face scholars in world Christianity by mapping out genealogically how ontology has come to be a concern for those pursuing social scientific approaches to the study of Christianity in particular. By unraveling some of the guiding theoretical principles of the study of religions more generally, the author reveals the conditions that have ultimately rend…
Machine gun prayer
This article examines Pentecostal embodiment through a study of the way prayer is spoken of and performed in a prominent Nigerian Deliverance church. It argues that the Deliverance churches’ exaggerated emphasis on the demonic serves to re-purpose prayer as an embodied violent performance that is often as much directed to the devil as it is to God. This article thus reveals the ways in which the entanglement of divine and demonic beings in the Pe…
Gavin Miller, Miracles of Healing
Homosexuality, Created Bodies, and Queer Fantasies in a Nigerian Deliverance Church
In recent years the use of 'gay cure' therapies by religions has become a major public controversy in the West. Deliverance, or exorcism, is pointed to as an example of a Christian practice used to try and change a person's sexuality. Pentecostal churches specialising in deliverance have become particularly popular on the African continent in the last few decades, where beliefs that homosexuality is immoral and un-African are also widespread. At …
After rupture
How do Pentecostal Christians seek repair and renewal in their lives, after their efforts to rupture with the past and become born again? In this article, I wish to consider the ways that a group of Nigerian Pentecostals who belong to a deliverance church re‐narrativise their lives by constructing and entering into new timelines of history after their attempts to break with the past. This discursive project works to insert a notion of ‘Black Afri…
Introduction
This special issue develops and expands the discussion about religious change within the anthropology of Christianity by introducing the analytic of ‘repair’ to complement ‘rupture’. Rupture has emerged in the last two decades as a framework for theorising ethnographic accounts of Christian conversion described in radical or absolute terms (e.g., Carroll, 2017; Daswani, 2011, 2015; Engelke, 2004, 2010; Handman, 2010; Haynes, 2012; Holbraad et al.…
“Call me a Fanatic
Anthropologists have pointed to the politics at play in the uneven application of the term “belief” to describe different cultural representations of reality. They have observed that westerners sometimes reserve the term “belief” for the description of non-western epistemologies, while categorising their own perspectives, informed by theories of scientific empiricism for example, as “knowledge.” This is an important critique, so what to do when o…
Gendering the Pentecostal God
Scholarship on gender in Pentecostalism tends to assume that the question of how gender relates to Pentecostalism is the question of what women, and sometimes men, are allowed or not allowed to do. This approach treats gender as a human social phenomenon, and represents humans on a “horizontal” plane, in relation to other humans. In this paper, however, I suggest that placing the human–divine relation front and centre of our analyses exposes more…
Rejoinder to Giovanni Maltese
In this brief rejoinder, I respond to Maltese’s three areas of questions. Taking the first two together, I explain that my use of verticality is not primarily a theological move but a theoretical one: attending to it reveals how the various structuralisms that pervade Christian ways of seeing the world are deeply entwined. In response to the third, I suggest that it is both possible and worthwhile to ascertain particularities of different cultura…
The choice to submit
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human behaviour. This article pushes this line of argument further by seeking to make God a more central figur…
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