Minna Opas
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 190028 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Minna Opas |
| PRENOMES | Minna |
| SOBRENOME | Opas |
| ASSINATURA | OPAS M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6465-6728 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
(Un)relating and (un)learning with more-than-humans during ethnographic practice
the production of knowledge in ethnographic research, and how can they possibly guide or hinder such processes?In attempting to answer these questions, we address diverse beings, such as plants, animals, microbes, and varied materials, from relational more-than-human methodological perspectives.This special issue is based on the panel '(Un)relating and (Un)learning with More-Than-Humans during Ethnographic Practice', which was organised by the sp…
Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi
Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi: Reclaiming Sacred Grounds. By Siv Ellen Kraft. 2022. Abingdon: Routledge. 203pp. $144 (hardcover), $54.99 (paperback or e-book)
Introduction
Substantiated Wealth
“They Are Very Different from Us”
Indigenous Churches
This book uses eight case studies to explore the relationships between different indigenous Christian denominations in South American lowland societies
Indigenous Churches
On the premises and possibilities of dialogue
What would anthropology, enriched by theoretical resources drawn from the field of Christian theology, but remaining deeply engaged with the ethnography of everyday lived Christianities, look like? Is there a chance to develop a conversation between anthropology and theology that would be 'transformative' for both disciplines? These are the questions Joel Robbins sets out to examine in his book Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life
Religion and cultural change
The current issue of Approaching Religion is based on a summer school and conference arranged in Åbo/Turku, Finland, in June 2021, with the theme 'Religion and Cultural Change'. The event was organized jointly by the Polin Institute for Theological Research (Åbo Akademi University), the Centre for the Study of Christian Cultures (University of Turku), and the Donner Institute for Research in Religion and Culture. The aim was to bring together doc…
Islam through Objects
Islam through Objects represents the state of the field of Islamic material cultural studies. With contributions from scholars of religion, anthropologists, art historians, folklorists, historians, and other disciplines, Anna Bigelow brings together a wide range of perspectives on Islamic materiality to debunk myths of Islamic aversion to material aspects of religion. Each chapter focuses on a single object in daily use by Muslims – prayer beads,…
Praying, Prayer Ideologies and Christian Inter-denominational Relations in Indigenous Amazonia
The history of Christianity in Amazonia until the present day is replete with controversies and negotiations over right kind of Christianity. Missionaries representing a variety of different denominations have considered local indigenous forms of Christianity as inauthentic. The question of real Christianity has also coloured local level inter-denominational relations and led to ruptures in social cohesion. Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork amon…
Una víctima del encuentro emergente entre mundos
En febrero de 2018, Víctor Zorrilla, un hombre Yine de mayor edad que vive en el sudeste de Perú, fue asesinado por los mashco piro mientras estaba cazando. Zorrilla se había encontrado con los mashco piro, los que consideraba como parientes, nomolene, varias veces durante décadas, pero eso no le impidió llegar a ser víctima de un emergente encuentro entre mundos. A través de un relato personal de sus encuentros con los mashco piro en la década d…
Institutions, Infrastructures, and Religious Sociality
Institutions, Infrastructures, and Religious Sociality: The Difference Denominations Make in Global Christianity Courtney Handman and Minna Opas Introduction Scholars working in the anthropology of Christianity have focused in large part on the subject in Protestantism, emphasizing the ways in which the modern subject is a Christian subject (Robbins 2004, 2007; Keane 2007; Meyer 1999; Elisha 2011; O’Neill 2010). This follows a wider trend in the …
Christianity and politics
The editorial presents the conference 'Religion and Politics' arranged by the Centre for the Study of Christian Cultures at the University of Turku in November 2018. Articles 3-7 of the current issue are based on papers presented at the conference
Keeping Boundaries in Motion
For the Amazonian Yine people, Christian denominationalism provides an important means for organizing social life. Denominations in this context are not, however, to be understood as clearly bounded entities. Simultaneously with forming and renewing denominational boundaries, the Yine continuously cross, dissolve, and redefine them. This article attempts to understand the denominational dynamics among the Yine people, and in particular their back…
Resistance beyond the Frontier
Not Real Christians? On the Relation between Christianity and Indigenous Religions in Amazonia and Beyond
Connected with God
The special issue Connected with God: Body, the Social, and the Transcendent addresses the very topical question of the architecture of religious, especially Christian, experiences. Specifically, it examines the processes in which Christians experience the connection with, and gain knowledge of, God in and through the body, and, in particular, the role of social relatedness and morality in generating and informing these experiences. The issue cha…
Dreaming faith into being
This article examines the role of socio-moral space in people’s experiences of divine presence. More specifically, it addresses the questions of how social others influence people’s experiences of God and Satan among the indigenous evangelical Yine people of Peruvian Amazonia, and the consequences these interactions have for the individual believer and the collectivity. For the Yine dreams are a privileged site of human encounter with other-than-…
On the Significance of Representations Concerning Indigenous People in Voluntary Isolation
Ambigüedad epistemológica y moral en el cosmos social de los yine
Como muchos pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía, también los yine, de la Amazonía peruana, se adhieren a una cosmología social quese puede llamar perspectivista. Incluye una cantidad de seres intencionales que tienen alma y que en diferentes situaciones pueden transformarse en humanos, o ser vistos como tales. En este mundo de fugacidad, lo que más preocupa a los yine es la ambigüedad epistemológica inherente a la situación: nunca se puede estar com…
Mutually Exclusive Relationships
In Amazonia, body is a central organizing element of social life. Recent discussions in Amazonian anthropology show,on the one hand, the multiple ways in which the body acts in the formation of social relations, and, on the other, how social relations work in the formation of bodies. Bodies are relationally constituted in the diverse embodied processes through which Amazonian peoples form, maintain and regulate relations to each other. It is in t…
Muodonmuutoksia ja näkymättömiä yhteyksiä
This article discusses pre- and post-natal rituals and restrictions among the Yine of Peruvian Amazonia. The observations are based on my fieldwork in one Yine community in Eastern Peru in the years 2000 and 2003. The article illustrates how birth-related restrictions adhered to by Yine parents correspond to wider cosmological principles that are manifested in other spheres of their life as well. These cosmological principles are approached from …
Histories and Historicities in Amazonia
Book review of Histories and Historicities in Amazonia. Neil L. Whitehead, editor. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xx + 236 pp., maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8032-9817-X
Histories and Historicities in Amazonia
Book review of Histories and Historicities in Amazonia. Neil L. Whitehead, editor. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xx + 236 pp., maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8032-9817-X
Ambigüedad epistemológica y moral en el cosmos social de los yine
Como muchos pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía, también los yine, de la Amazonía peruana, se adhieren a una cosmología social quese puede llamar perspectivista. Incluye una cantidad de seres intencionales que tienen alma y que en diferentes situaciones pueden transformarse en humanos, o ser vistos como tales. En este mundo de fugacidad, lo que más preocupa a los yine es la ambigüedad epistemológica inherente a la situación: nunca se puede estar com…
Dreaming faith into being
This article examines the role of socio-moral space in people’s experiences of divine presence. More specifically, it addresses the questions of how social others influence people’s experiences of God and Satan among the indigenous evangelical Yine people of Peruvian Amazonia, and the consequences these interactions have for the individual believer and the collectivity. For the Yine dreams are a privileged site of human encounter with other-than-…
Institutions, Infrastructures, and Religious Sociality
Institutions, Infrastructures, and Religious Sociality: The Difference Denominations Make in Global Christianity Courtney Handman and Minna Opas Introduction Scholars working in the anthropology of Christianity have focused in large part on the subject in Protestantism, emphasizing the ways in which the modern subject is a Christian subject (Robbins 2004, 2007; Keane 2007; Meyer 1999; Elisha 2011; O’Neill 2010). This follows a wider trend in the …
Keeping Boundaries in Motion
For the Amazonian Yine people, Christian denominationalism provides an important means for organizing social life. Denominations in this context are not, however, to be understood as clearly bounded entities. Simultaneously with forming and renewing denominational boundaries, the Yine continuously cross, dissolve, and redefine them. This article attempts to understand the denominational dynamics among the Yine people, and in particular their back…
On the Significance of Representations Concerning Indigenous People in Voluntary Isolation
Mutually Exclusive Relationships
In Amazonia, body is a central organizing element of social life. Recent discussions in Amazonian anthropology show,on the one hand, the multiple ways in which the body acts in the formation of social relations, and, on the other, how social relations work in the formation of bodies. Bodies are relationally constituted in the diverse embodied processes through which Amazonian peoples form, maintain and regulate relations to each other. It is in t…
Muodonmuutoksia ja näkymättömiä yhteyksiä
This article discusses pre- and post-natal rituals and restrictions among the Yine of Peruvian Amazonia. The observations are based on my fieldwork in one Yine community in Eastern Peru in the years 2000 and 2003. The article illustrates how birth-related restrictions adhered to by Yine parents correspond to wider cosmological principles that are manifested in other spheres of their life as well. These cosmological principles are approached from …
Histories and Historicities in Amazonia
Book review of Histories and Historicities in Amazonia. Neil L. Whitehead, editor. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xx + 236 pp., maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8032-9817-X
Mutually Exclusive Relationships
In Amazonia, body is a central organizing element of social life. Recent discussions in Amazonian anthropology show,on the one hand, the multiple ways in which the body acts in the formation of social relations, and, on the other, how social relations work in the formation of bodies. Bodies are relationally constituted in the diverse embodied processes through which Amazonian peoples form, maintain and regulate relations to each other. It is in t…
Ambigüedad epistemológica y moral en el cosmos social de los yine
Como muchos pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía, también los yine, de la Amazonía peruana, se adhieren a una cosmología social quese puede llamar perspectivista. Incluye una cantidad de seres intencionales que tienen alma y que en diferentes situaciones pueden transformarse en humanos, o ser vistos como tales. En este mundo de fugacidad, lo que más preocupa a los yine es la ambigüedad epistemológica inherente a la situación: nunca se puede estar com…
Connected with God
The special issue Connected with God: Body, the Social, and the Transcendent addresses the very topical question of the architecture of religious, especially Christian, experiences. Specifically, it examines the processes in which Christians experience the connection with, and gain knowledge of, God in and through the body, and, in particular, the role of social relatedness and morality in generating and informing these experiences. The issue cha…
Dreaming faith into being
This article examines the role of socio-moral space in people’s experiences of divine presence. More specifically, it addresses the questions of how social others influence people’s experiences of God and Satan among the indigenous evangelical Yine people of Peruvian Amazonia, and the consequences these interactions have for the individual believer and the collectivity. For the Yine dreams are a privileged site of human encounter with other-than-…
On the Significance of Representations Concerning Indigenous People in Voluntary Isolation
Not Real Christians? On the Relation between Christianity and Indigenous Religions in Amazonia and Beyond
Resistance beyond the Frontier
Una víctima del encuentro emergente entre mundos
En febrero de 2018, Víctor Zorrilla, un hombre Yine de mayor edad que vive en el sudeste de Perú, fue asesinado por los mashco piro mientras estaba cazando. Zorrilla se había encontrado con los mashco piro, los que consideraba como parientes, nomolene, varias veces durante décadas, pero eso no le impidió llegar a ser víctima de un emergente encuentro entre mundos. A través de un relato personal de sus encuentros con los mashco piro en la década d…
Institutions, Infrastructures, and Religious Sociality
Institutions, Infrastructures, and Religious Sociality: The Difference Denominations Make in Global Christianity Courtney Handman and Minna Opas Introduction Scholars working in the anthropology of Christianity have focused in large part on the subject in Protestantism, emphasizing the ways in which the modern subject is a Christian subject (Robbins 2004, 2007; Keane 2007; Meyer 1999; Elisha 2011; O’Neill 2010). This follows a wider trend in the …
Christianity and politics
The editorial presents the conference 'Religion and Politics' arranged by the Centre for the Study of Christian Cultures at the University of Turku in November 2018. Articles 3-7 of the current issue are based on papers presented at the conference
Keeping Boundaries in Motion
For the Amazonian Yine people, Christian denominationalism provides an important means for organizing social life. Denominations in this context are not, however, to be understood as clearly bounded entities. Simultaneously with forming and renewing denominational boundaries, the Yine continuously cross, dissolve, and redefine them. This article attempts to understand the denominational dynamics among the Yine people, and in particular their back…
Islam through Objects
Islam through Objects represents the state of the field of Islamic material cultural studies. With contributions from scholars of religion, anthropologists, art historians, folklorists, historians, and other disciplines, Anna Bigelow brings together a wide range of perspectives on Islamic materiality to debunk myths of Islamic aversion to material aspects of religion. Each chapter focuses on a single object in daily use by Muslims – prayer beads,…
Praying, Prayer Ideologies and Christian Inter-denominational Relations in Indigenous Amazonia
The history of Christianity in Amazonia until the present day is replete with controversies and negotiations over right kind of Christianity. Missionaries representing a variety of different denominations have considered local indigenous forms of Christianity as inauthentic. The question of real Christianity has also coloured local level inter-denominational relations and led to ruptures in social cohesion. Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork amon…
Introduction
Substantiated Wealth
“They Are Very Different from Us”
Indigenous Churches
This book uses eight case studies to explore the relationships between different indigenous Christian denominations in South American lowland societies
Indigenous Churches
On the premises and possibilities of dialogue
What would anthropology, enriched by theoretical resources drawn from the field of Christian theology, but remaining deeply engaged with the ethnography of everyday lived Christianities, look like? Is there a chance to develop a conversation between anthropology and theology that would be 'transformative' for both disciplines? These are the questions Joel Robbins sets out to examine in his book Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life
Religion and cultural change
The current issue of Approaching Religion is based on a summer school and conference arranged in Åbo/Turku, Finland, in June 2021, with the theme 'Religion and Cultural Change'. The event was organized jointly by the Polin Institute for Theological Research (Åbo Akademi University), the Centre for the Study of Christian Cultures (University of Turku), and the Donner Institute for Research in Religion and Culture. The aim was to bring together doc…
Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi
Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi: Reclaiming Sacred Grounds. By Siv Ellen Kraft. 2022. Abingdon: Routledge. 203pp. $144 (hardcover), $54.99 (paperback or e-book)
(Un)relating and (un)learning with more-than-humans during ethnographic practice
the production of knowledge in ethnographic research, and how can they possibly guide or hinder such processes?In attempting to answer these questions, we address diverse beings, such as plants, animals, microbes, and varied materials, from relational more-than-human methodological perspectives.This special issue is based on the panel '(Un)relating and (Un)learning with More-Than-Humans during Ethnographic Practice', which was organised by the sp…
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