Gerrie Ter Haar
Biographic Data
| ID | 205961 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerrie Ter Haar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerrie Ter |
| FAMILY NAME | Haar |
| SIGNATURE | TER HAAR G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Prophetic Trajectory
Religion and Politics in Africa
This chapter contains sections titled: What is Religion? Historical Concepts of Power Religion, Politics, and National States Contemporary Writing on Religion and Politics The Way Forward
The Role of Religious Ritual in Social Capital Formation for Poverty Alleviation and Social Development. Theoretical and Methodological Points of Departure of a South African Exploration
The article is a presentation of a South African research project in which researchers in the fields of ritual-liturgical studies and social development are collaborating to explore the role of religious ritual in the kinds of social capital formation that have a direct significance and implication for alleviating poverty and promoting social development at grassroots level. Focusing on Christian congregations in poor socio-economic contexts in t…
The Occult Does Not Exist
In recent years, it has become common for academic writers to use ‘the occult’ as an analytical category to which are assigned various types of mystical belief and activity that are quite widespread in Africa, including those often described as ‘magic’ and ‘witchcraft’. It is notable that all these concepts generally go undefined. The present article argues that much of the current academic vocabulary used to describe and analyse the invisible wo…
Africa's Religious Resurgence and the Politics of Good and Evil
At a time when ‘development’—the notion that bureaucratic, secular government will lead to unprecedented prosperity—has for many lost its appeal, religion provides alternative ways of organizing society and politics and of thinking about the world
Enchantment and Identity
Cet article, basé sur l'étude des chrétiens africains en Europe, soutient que les communautés d'origine migrante ne sont pas dans un processus de ré-enchantement ni dans un recours à la religion comme moyen de préservation d'une « authentique » identité africaine. Une perspective alternative est proposée, avec une discussion théorique du concept de religion. Ce qui apparaît à certains comme ré-enchantement, est en fait l'expression récente de dyn…
Religion and Society
Religion is set to be a major force in the twenty-first century. Here is a book that tells us what the world's leading scholars have to say about this. Issues of conflict and peace, ethical questions concerning the use of advanced technology, explanations of the global religious revival, and the role of women in religious leadership, as well as questions about how to study religion, are all discussed. It is a volume that ranges exceptionally wide…
Religion and Society (International Studies in Religion and Society)
Religion and politics
Religious modes of thinking about the world are widespread in Africa, and have a pervasive influence on politics in the broadest sense. We have published elsewhere a theoretical model as to how the relationship between politics and religion may be understood, with potential benefits for observers not just of Africa, but also of other parts of the world where new combinations of religion and politics are emerging. Application of this theoretical m…
The Role of Religion in Development
Religion
Bridge or Barrier
The book discusses the transformative role of religion in situations of violent conflict. It considers both the constructive and destructive sides of religious belief and particularly explores ways in which religion(s) may contribute to transforming conflict into peace. This volume analyses the role of religion in its current manifestations and provides alternative views of it. It is concerned with the role of religion as a source of conflict tha…
Worlds of power
The Freedom to do God's Will
Gerrie ter Haar, Institute of Social Studies, Religious Fundamentalism and Social Change Abdullahi Ahmed An-na'im, Emory University, Georgia, Islamic Fundamentalism and Social Change Sharifah Zaleha binti Syed Hassan, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia, Strategies to Public Participation: Women and Islamic fundamentalism in Malaysia Alice Shalvi, Seminary of Judaic Studies, Jerusalem, 'Renew Our Days as of Old' Nancy T. Ammerman, Hartford Seminary, …
The Dawn of a New Millennium a Personal Account of the XVIIIth Iahr Congress
L'Association internationale pour l'Histoire des Religions (IAHR) s'est reunie pour la premiere fois sur le continent africain, en aout 2000, a Durban, Afrique du Sud, pour son Congres quinquenal. L'article resume ce qui s'est passe pendant les sept journees de congres autour du theme general, Histoire des religions : Origines et visions. Le congres fut marque par les interventions remarquees d'Africains et aussi d'une Indienne. Les traditions re…
Halfway to Paradise
Ce livre de G. Ter Haar publie en 1998 a Cardiff, est la premiere analyse erudite de la signification du christianisme africain et des Eglises africaines independantes sur le continent europeen, et le premier a relater ce phenomene nouveau, dans l'histoire religieuse de l'Europe, de la migration internationale et de l'histoire socio-politique et religieuse d'Afrique. L'A. le recommande vivement tout en lui apportant quelques critiques
Strangers and Sojourners
The modern world is full of diasporas. African Americans, and Muslims and Hindus in Europe, are some of the best known among them. The concept of 'diaspora' has spread rapidly in academic writing and the popular press. But what is a diaspora ? Derived from Jewish tradition, the word is now often applied to any minority which has migrated from its place of origin. Increasingly, the criterion used by journalists and academics for identifying such m…
Religion and politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
There is a thriving literature of religious tracts in Africa. The few formal bookshops, and the far more numerous market-stalls and itinerant hawkers who sell books, offer for sale pamphlets and popular works on religious subjects in every country of the continent, it would seem. Some are theological inquiries into aspects of the Bible or the Koran. Others contain moral lessons derived from these sacred books. Perhaps the most common category, ho…
Bemba-Speaking Women of Zambia in a Century of Religious Change (1892-1992)
Strangers in the Promised Land
Standing Up for Jesus
African Women in the Netherlands
Conversion and Jesuit Schooling in Zambia
Mission Studies Bibliography
Spirit of Africa
After his appointment as RC Archbishop of Lusaka in 1969, Emmanuel Milingo became aware of his healing powers. Members of his congregation believed him to be able to liberate them from evil spirits. This work examines Milingo's life and work and the conflict surrounding his healing ministry
Religion and politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
There is a thriving literature of religious tracts in Africa. The few formal bookshops, and the far more numerous market-stalls and itinerant hawkers who sell books, offer for sale pamphlets and popular works on religious subjects in every country of the continent, it would seem. Some are theological inquiries into aspects of the Bible or the Koran. Others contain moral lessons derived from these sacred books. Perhaps the most common category, ho…
The Role of Religion in Development
Worlds of power
The Occult Does Not Exist
In recent years, it has become common for academic writers to use ‘the occult’ as an analytical category to which are assigned various types of mystical belief and activity that are quite widespread in Africa, including those often described as ‘magic’ and ‘witchcraft’. It is notable that all these concepts generally go undefined. The present article argues that much of the current academic vocabulary used to describe and analyse the invisible wo…
Religion and politics
Religious modes of thinking about the world are widespread in Africa, and have a pervasive influence on politics in the broadest sense. We have published elsewhere a theoretical model as to how the relationship between politics and religion may be understood, with potential benefits for observers not just of Africa, but also of other parts of the world where new combinations of religion and politics are emerging. Application of this theoretical m…
Strangers in the Promised Land
Religion and Healing
Cet article traite des controverses qui ont entouré le ministère de guérison d'Emmanuel Milingo, ancien archevêque catholique de Lusaka en Zambie. Durant les années 1970, Milingo acquit une grande réputation comme guérisseur dans les cas de possession par les esprits. Son ministère de guérison rencontra une forte opposition de son Eglise et entraîna sa mutation en 1982. Plu sieurs aspects de l'' affaire Milingo' sont remarquables, mais l'Auteur s…
Enchantment and Identity
Cet article, basé sur l'étude des chrétiens africains en Europe, soutient que les communautés d'origine migrante ne sont pas dans un processus de ré-enchantement ni dans un recours à la religion comme moyen de préservation d'une « authentique » identité africaine. Une perspective alternative est proposée, avec une discussion théorique du concept de religion. Ce qui apparaît à certains comme ré-enchantement, est en fait l'expression récente de dyn…
Standing Up for Jesus
Religion and Healing
Cet article traite des controverses qui ont entouré le ministère de guérison d'Emmanuel Milingo, ancien archevêque catholique de Lusaka en Zambie. Durant les années 1970, Milingo acquit une grande réputation comme guérisseur dans les cas de possession par les esprits. Son ministère de guérison rencontra une forte opposition de son Eglise et entraîna sa mutation en 1982. Plu sieurs aspects de l'' affaire Milingo' sont remarquables, mais l'Auteur s…
Religious Educationinafrica – Traditional, Islamic, and Christian
Spirit Possession and Healing in Modern Zambia
This article is based on research into the healing ministry of Monsignor Emmanuel Milingo, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lusaka from 1969 to 1983. On the basis of an analysis of a collection of some 250 letters written to the Archbishop in 1979 and 1980 by people in need of spiritual healing or guidance, it examines the relationship between spirit possession and the request for healing and social class, Christianity, urban life, ethnicity, and gen…
Mission Studies Bibliography
Spirit of Africa
After his appointment as RC Archbishop of Lusaka in 1969, Emmanuel Milingo became aware of his healing powers. Members of his congregation believed him to be able to liberate them from evil spirits. This work examines Milingo's life and work and the conflict surrounding his healing ministry
African Women in the Netherlands
Conversion and Jesuit Schooling in Zambia
Standing Up for Jesus
Strangers in the Promised Land
Bemba-Speaking Women of Zambia in a Century of Religious Change (1892-1992)
Religion and politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
There is a thriving literature of religious tracts in Africa. The few formal bookshops, and the far more numerous market-stalls and itinerant hawkers who sell books, offer for sale pamphlets and popular works on religious subjects in every country of the continent, it would seem. Some are theological inquiries into aspects of the Bible or the Koran. Others contain moral lessons derived from these sacred books. Perhaps the most common category, ho…
Halfway to Paradise
Ce livre de G. Ter Haar publie en 1998 a Cardiff, est la premiere analyse erudite de la signification du christianisme africain et des Eglises africaines independantes sur le continent europeen, et le premier a relater ce phenomene nouveau, dans l'histoire religieuse de l'Europe, de la migration internationale et de l'histoire socio-politique et religieuse d'Afrique. L'A. le recommande vivement tout en lui apportant quelques critiques
Strangers and Sojourners
The modern world is full of diasporas. African Americans, and Muslims and Hindus in Europe, are some of the best known among them. The concept of 'diaspora' has spread rapidly in academic writing and the popular press. But what is a diaspora ? Derived from Jewish tradition, the word is now often applied to any minority which has migrated from its place of origin. Increasingly, the criterion used by journalists and academics for identifying such m…
The Dawn of a New Millennium a Personal Account of the XVIIIth Iahr Congress
L'Association internationale pour l'Histoire des Religions (IAHR) s'est reunie pour la premiere fois sur le continent africain, en aout 2000, a Durban, Afrique du Sud, pour son Congres quinquenal. L'article resume ce qui s'est passe pendant les sept journees de congres autour du theme general, Histoire des religions : Origines et visions. Le congres fut marque par les interventions remarquees d'Africains et aussi d'une Indienne. Les traditions re…
The Freedom to do God's Will
Gerrie ter Haar, Institute of Social Studies, Religious Fundamentalism and Social Change Abdullahi Ahmed An-na'im, Emory University, Georgia, Islamic Fundamentalism and Social Change Sharifah Zaleha binti Syed Hassan, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia, Strategies to Public Participation: Women and Islamic fundamentalism in Malaysia Alice Shalvi, Seminary of Judaic Studies, Jerusalem, 'Renew Our Days as of Old' Nancy T. Ammerman, Hartford Seminary, …
Worlds of power
Religion
Bridge or Barrier
The book discusses the transformative role of religion in situations of violent conflict. It considers both the constructive and destructive sides of religious belief and particularly explores ways in which religion(s) may contribute to transforming conflict into peace. This volume analyses the role of religion in its current manifestations and provides alternative views of it. It is concerned with the role of religion as a source of conflict tha…
The Role of Religion in Development
Religion and Society
Religion is set to be a major force in the twenty-first century. Here is a book that tells us what the world's leading scholars have to say about this. Issues of conflict and peace, ethical questions concerning the use of advanced technology, explanations of the global religious revival, and the role of women in religious leadership, as well as questions about how to study religion, are all discussed. It is a volume that ranges exceptionally wide…
Religion and Society (International Studies in Religion and Society)
Religion and politics
Religious modes of thinking about the world are widespread in Africa, and have a pervasive influence on politics in the broadest sense. We have published elsewhere a theoretical model as to how the relationship between politics and religion may be understood, with potential benefits for observers not just of Africa, but also of other parts of the world where new combinations of religion and politics are emerging. Application of this theoretical m…
Africa's Religious Resurgence and the Politics of Good and Evil
At a time when ‘development’—the notion that bureaucratic, secular government will lead to unprecedented prosperity—has for many lost its appeal, religion provides alternative ways of organizing society and politics and of thinking about the world
Enchantment and Identity
Cet article, basé sur l'étude des chrétiens africains en Europe, soutient que les communautés d'origine migrante ne sont pas dans un processus de ré-enchantement ni dans un recours à la religion comme moyen de préservation d'une « authentique » identité africaine. Une perspective alternative est proposée, avec une discussion théorique du concept de religion. Ce qui apparaît à certains comme ré-enchantement, est en fait l'expression récente de dyn…
The Occult Does Not Exist
In recent years, it has become common for academic writers to use ‘the occult’ as an analytical category to which are assigned various types of mystical belief and activity that are quite widespread in Africa, including those often described as ‘magic’ and ‘witchcraft’. It is notable that all these concepts generally go undefined. The present article argues that much of the current academic vocabulary used to describe and analyse the invisible wo…
Sociology (20 works) · Philosophy (19 works) · Political science (17 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (13 works) · History (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Religious studies (12 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · History of religions (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works)