Justine M Bakker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1637417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justine M Bakker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justine M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bakker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKKER J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7842-6015 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Picturing Aura, Picturing Race?
Jeremy Stolow’s Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography is a wonderful, important book: highly original, deeply researched, beautifully written, and packed with new conceptual and empirical insights. On...
Picturing Aura
Words Made Flesh
The first sustained treatment of religion and religions in the scholarship of a prominent Caribbean thinker Sylvia Wynter is a profoundly transdisciplinary scholar whose works span an impressive array of theory, literature, science, anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies as well as different forms, including essays, plays, a novel, and a 935-page unpublished manuscript entitled “Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World.” Whatever…
Tendings
What’s in a Name
Charles H. Long’s Significations (1986), or, Making Problems for the Study of Religion in the Netherlands
As part of NTT JTSR’s series on Key Texts, this article discusses Charles H. Long’s collection Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion. Since its publication in 1986, Significations has inspired a wide range of scholars in the United States. In this article, I will outline some of the main themes and concerns of the text and review its reception in (Black) religious studies. I will then explore the potential i…
Awful Archives
Blue Black Ecstasy
Since 2001, visual artist Ellen Gallagher has been working on "Watery Ecstatic," an ongoing, expansive project that depicts real and imaginary underwater life through drawings, films, reliefs, and paintings. Thus far, this series-indeed, Gallagher's oeuvre-has not been studied by scholars of religion. Arguing that the series provokes an extended conversation about mysticism, (para)religion, and constructions of blackness, humanness, and animality…
Hidden presence
Except for a few studies that explore the intersections between esoteric ideas/practices and white supremacy, race has largely been ignored in the field of Western esotericism. This article seeks to partake in remedying this lacuna. To do so, it provides a deconstructive analysis of the way race has operated in the field. I argue that race, although consistently overlooked, has functioned as a ‘hidden presence’ that has shaped both the historical…
Hidden presence
Except for a few studies that explore the intersections between esoteric ideas/practices and white supremacy, race has largely been ignored in the field of Western esotericism. This article seeks to partake in remedying this lacuna. To do so, it provides a deconstructive analysis of the way race has operated in the field. I argue that race, although consistently overlooked, has functioned as a ‘hidden presence’ that has shaped both the historical…
Hidden presence
Except for a few studies that explore the intersections between esoteric ideas/practices and white supremacy, race has largely been ignored in the field of Western esotericism. This article seeks to partake in remedying this lacuna. To do so, it provides a deconstructive analysis of the way race has operated in the field. I argue that race, although consistently overlooked, has functioned as a ‘hidden presence’ that has shaped both the historical…
Charles H. Long’s Significations (1986), or, Making Problems for the Study of Religion in the Netherlands
As part of NTT JTSR’s series on Key Texts, this article discusses Charles H. Long’s collection Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion. Since its publication in 1986, Significations has inspired a wide range of scholars in the United States. In this article, I will outline some of the main themes and concerns of the text and review its reception in (Black) religious studies. I will then explore the potential i…
Awful Archives
Blue Black Ecstasy
Since 2001, visual artist Ellen Gallagher has been working on "Watery Ecstatic," an ongoing, expansive project that depicts real and imaginary underwater life through drawings, films, reliefs, and paintings. Thus far, this series-indeed, Gallagher's oeuvre-has not been studied by scholars of religion. Arguing that the series provokes an extended conversation about mysticism, (para)religion, and constructions of blackness, humanness, and animality…
What’s in a Name
Words Made Flesh
The first sustained treatment of religion and religions in the scholarship of a prominent Caribbean thinker Sylvia Wynter is a profoundly transdisciplinary scholar whose works span an impressive array of theory, literature, science, anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies as well as different forms, including essays, plays, a novel, and a 935-page unpublished manuscript entitled “Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World.” Whatever…
Tendings
Picturing Aura, Picturing Race?
Jeremy Stolow’s Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography is a wonderful, important book: highly original, deeply researched, beautifully written, and packed with new conceptual and empirical insights. On...
Picturing Aura
History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History of religions (3 works) · Intellectual history (3 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Educational Leadership and Practices (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)