M Burchardt
Biographic Data
| ID | 29321 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Burchardt |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Burchardt |
| SIGNATURE | BURCHARDT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7345-3260 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 83 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 335 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 81 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1908 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Material Secularities: New Terms for the Study of Secularization
In this article, I outline why materiality and human-object relations matters for the study of secularization. Social scientific research on secularization, secularism and secularities has been, for the most part, excessively focused on what people (no more) believe in, how these beliefs have been conceptualized, made explicit and canonized, and how beliefs (and their transformation into knowledge qua evidentiary practices) relate to how people p…
African Secularity: An Introduction
Introduction
Heritage
Religion, culture and sexuality in Africa: Critical ethnographic perspectives
Book Reviewers for Volume 130
Neoliberal Religion: Faith and Power in the Twenty-First Century, by Mathew Guest
Multiple Secularities in Africa - An Introduction
Raising timely and urgent questions about the forms, scope and boundaries of religious authority and practice, this article offers novel ways for the study of secularities and secularisms in contemporary African societies. In recent scholarly debates on secularity, Africa has been marginal. Part of the reason, it was suggested was that African ways of being in, and knowing, the world lay outside the religious-secular divide. We contest such posit…
Making Moral Citizens: How Faith-Based Organizers Use Vocation for Public Action
Digital technologies and the future of health: Aspirations, Care and Data
As projects seeking to provide digitized tools in health care and medicine are gaining ground at an accelerating pace, imaginations and incipient formations of digital health have acquired a new political urgency. These projects promise to revolutionize health care and medicine. However, efforts to institutionalize digital technologies in health are often fraught with difficulties that cause them to stall during implementation. We explore digital…
Bloodstream: Notes Towards an Anthropology of Digital Logistics in Healthcare
Based on ethnographic research in northern Ghana, this article explores the complex logistics of blood and the ways in which the availability of blood has been transformed through the introduction of drones. We explore how drone services affect this ecosystem of supply and contribute to reshaping the practices of physicians, nurses, facility pharmacists and stock managers, as well as the expectations and experiences of patients and their families…
Performing heritage at Cordoba's Mosque-Cathedral
This article explores the politics of cultural heritage in societies experiencing secularization and religious diversification by examining recent efforts made by Cordoba's Cathedral Chapter to emphasize the Christian origins and identity of the iconic Mosque-Cathedral. We argue that the Cathedral Chapter's approach to managing and narrating the building over the past two decades responds largely to tensions stemming from the divergence between t…
The future of religious pasts: Religion and Cultural Heritage-Making in a Secular Age - Introduction
The question of how to symbolize collective identities in an age marked by both nationalist fervor and diversity politics has dominated public debates and highlighted the political role of religion. But what happens to religious objects, sites, and practices when they are framed as cultural heritage? What are the forces behind the ways in which religion is drawn into the dynamics around cultural heritage and heritage-making in secular societies? …
Where is the bottleneck? Drones and the paradoxes of digitising medical supplies in Ghana's landscapes of care
Implemented in several African countries, medical drones have emerged as a major infrastructural innovation in national healthcare systems and are widely hailed for improving, if not revolutionising, access to medicine and care for rural populations. Being based on digitally driven, autonomous aviation systems, drones are part of wider efforts to use digital technologies in health systems. In this article, we explore the paradoxes that emerge fro…
Markets of protection: Religious rivalry, insecurity, and illegality in Cape Town’s urban fringes
This article explores the multiple links between Pentecostalism and the production of security in Cape Town's isiXhosa-speaking townships and traces the ways in which Pentecostal churches have become embroiled with Cape Town's criminal economies, illegality and violence. In these marginalised urban spaces, which are also territories of relegation, Pentecostal pastors compete with other spiritual specialists who lay claims to spiritual protection …
Religion and Development: Alternative Visions, Credibility, and Networks as Religious Assets for Sustainable Development
Religious organizations have become crucial actors in international development. However, scholarly discussions have largely ignored the dynamics that shape their impact on the ground. This article examines these dynamics by assessing three claims about the specific developmental assets of religious organizations: (a) their credibility in the eyes of their beneficiaries; (b) their control over far-flung social networks; and (c) the idea that reli…
Rite and Stone: Religious Belonging and Urban Space in Global Perspective
Over long periods, interdisciplinary debates in urban studies on the relationships between religion and urban space were influenced by mainstream versions of modernization theory. These were based on the binary of urban modernity and nonurban (religious) tradition. However, historical urban research has shown that cities were also more often sites of religious innovation. Inspired by Jennifer Robinson’s understanding of cities as “ordinary” sites…
Under pressure: South Africa’s middle classes and the ‘rebellion of the poor’
In this article, I explore the relationship of South Africa’s middle classes to popular protests. Dubbed ‘the rebellion of the poor’ in scholarly debates, these protests target access to public infrastructures such as electricity, water, education and housing. I argue that the relationship of South Africa’s middle classes to these ‘service delivery protests’ is highly ambivalent, charged with political tensions and structural contradictions. The …
Designing Interreligious Encounters: Space, Materiality, and Media in Berlin's House of One
Drawing on an analysis of the multi-religious architectural project called “House of One” in Berlin, this article explores the spatial dynamics surrounding multi-religious places by design. My central questions are: How are liberal notions of tolerance, religious sharing, and diversity addressed and translated in the medium of architecture? And what are the spatial dynamics that facilitate the formation of urban, national, and transnational publi…
Becoming secular: Biographies of disenchantment, generational dynamics, and why they matter
In many Western societies, support for policies concerning the secularization of the public sphere or the state often seems to be driven by secularized majority populations considered to be largely homogeneous. In this article, by contrast, I draw on the case of the Canadian province of Quebec to show that, as a fundamental element of conflicts over secularism, secularist activism emerges from particular generational dynamics, especially those of…
Infrastructuring Religion: Materiality and Meaning in Ordinary Urbanism
This article draws on the infrastructural turn in urban studies to explore the profane materialities that enable particular forms of urban religion. Assuming that cities are configurations of spaces, actors and materialities characterized by dominant modes of belonging, hegemonic definitions of public space, and hierarchical orderings of spatial uses, infrastructures are a central element of cities’ material bases. Based on ethnographic research …
Infrastructure-as-a-service: Empty skies, bad roads, and the rise of cargo drones
In this article, we draw on the case of experimental drone uses in African health care systems in order to explore how diverse actors use digital innovation to stimulate critical changes in infrastructural provision and the ways in which the global role of places such as Silicon Valley, Rwanda, and Ghana, as well as their connections, are configured in such processes. Developing the idea of 'infrastructure-as-service' as a concept, we suggest tha…
Das Versprechen der Architektur: Schaffen Multireligiöse Räume Toleranz
Während interreligiöse Dialoge durch ikonische architektonische Projekte eine größere öffentliche Sichtbarkeit und mediale Aufmerksamkeit erlangt haben, ist deren breitere gesellschaftliche Wahrnehmung und Wirkung weitestgehend unerforscht. Der Beitrag untersucht gruppenspezifische Wahrnehmungen interreligiöser Beziehungen und Positionierungen zu interreligiösen Dialogen. Im Zentrum der Analyse stehen dabei die Debatten zum Berliner House of One …
Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa. By Adriaan van Klinken
Practical resistance against homophobia and heteronormativity draws on a multiplicity of cultural resources, counter-imaginaries, and movement repertoires. But the idea that religion could be one of these resources is still a strange one—for good reason. Across the world, dominant or hegemonic religious institutions play a central role in social and political coalitions that vilify homosexuality as unnatural and ungodly and that seek to criminali…
Regulating Difference: Religious Diversity and Nationhood in the Secular West
Multiple Secularities: Toward a Cultural Sociology of Secular Modernities
For more than two decades sociological debates over religion and secularization have been characterized by a confrontation between (often American) critics and (mostly European) defenders of secularization theories. At the same time, there was a remarkable rise in public debates about the role of secularism in political regimes and in national as well as civilizational frameworks. Against this backdrop this paper presents the conceptual framework…
The Politics of Religious Heritage: Framing Claims to Religion as Culture in Spain
This article contributes to sociological theorizations of religion as heritage through analyzing the politics of religious heritage in Spain since its transition to democracy during the late 1970s. Our analysis is organized around three historical sequences of critical importance for understanding the political and legal significance of discourses that frame religion as cultural heritage in Spain: (1) negotiations that took place during Spain's d…
Narrating Liberal Rights and Culture: Muslim Face Veiling, Urban Coexistence and Contention in Spain
Drawing on cultural sociology approaches to the role of narrative and framing in politics, this article explores urban contestations over Muslim face veiling in Spain. We argue that regimes of religious diversity are shaped by the ways that the framing and narrating of rights and culture acquire cultural resonance and political traction in urban society. We find that the meanings attached to the face veil and mobilised in public discourses draw o…
Multiple Secularities: Religion and Modernity in the Global Age' - Introduction
Many of the key features of the contemporary era of global modernity bear powerful connections to religion and secularity. Worldwide migration brings with it the movement of religious identities and practices. Emergent forms of religious diversity challenge societies, especially those who have been marked by close connections between state, national identity and organized religion. More than before, migratory movements and questions regarding the…
Recalling modernity: How nationalist memories shape religious diversity in Quebec and Catalonia
In this article, I explore how nations without states, or ‘stateless nations’ respond to new forms of religious diversity. Drawing on the cases of Quebec and Catalonia, I do so by tracing the historical emergence of the cultural narratives that are mobilized to support institutional responses to diversity and the way they bear on contemporary controversies. The article builds on recent research and theorizations of religious diversity and secular…
The im-materiality of urban religion: Towards an ethnography of urban religious aspirations
In recent years, scholars from a wide variety of disciplines have engaged in the study of urban religion. Taken together, these studies form a paradigm that intertwines (1) the politics of belonging, (2) regimes of space and territoriality, (3) materiality and sensorial power and (4) visibility. We argue that while scholars have conceptualised these aspects in very nuanced ways, there is a need to address in a more rigorous way immaterial dimensi…
Religious super-diversity and spatial strategies in two European cities
The background to this article is the debate on cities as post-secular and super-diverse. The authors question that the concept of post-secular cities usefully sums up the complex processes currently characterizing religion in contemporary European cities. They propose that different historical memories are layered upon one another and they demonstrate how religious diversity and cities mutually shape one another. Based on empirical illustrations…
Faith-Based Humanitarianism: Organizational Change and Everyday Meanings in South Africa
Engaging and challenging central institutionalist concepts, this article focuses on the involvement of churches and other Christian organizations in HIV/AIDS programs in South Africa in order to analyze the ensuing organizational dynamics. It argues that the asymmetrical power relations between mostly Northern donors and local churches, within which these organizational dynamics unfold, engender two interlocked processes: on the one hand, institu…
To see or not to see: Explaining intolerance against the “Burqa” in European public space
Why has the face veil become the centre of political debates about Islam in urban contexts? What kinds of experiences and ideas have animated its framing as a practice in need of regulation? Focusing on Spain, we argue that space and emotion are the key categories for explaining the micro-politics of face veil conflicts and that constitute face veiling as an object of contention "on the ground". We suggest the notion of regimes of public space an…
Religion in urban assemblages: Space, law, and power
This contribution explores how religious diversity is governed at the urban level and seeks to explain patterns of regulatory practice. It does so by developing the notion of the urban religious diversity assemblage, by which I mean heterogeneous regulatory apparatuses that are territorially ambiguous and fluid, change over time, and operate as enabling and constraining conditions for religious expressions in diverse cities. Made up of human acto…
Saved from hegemonic masculinity? Charismatic Christianity and men's responsibilization in South Africa
In this article, the author explores the role of religion in social constructions of heterosexual masculinity in South Africa in the context of civil society driven programs to fight sexual and gender-based violence and the spread of HIV. Critically engaging with the concept of hegemonic masculinity and the sociological literature on gender relations in conservative Christian communities, the author examines how Charismatic Christian and Pentecos…
Infrastructuring Religion: Materiality and Meaning in Ordinary Urbanism
This article draws on the infrastructural turn in urban studies to explore the profane materialities that enable particular forms of urban religion. Assuming that cities are configurations of spaces, actors and materialities characterized by dominant modes of belonging, hegemonic definitions of public space, and hierarchical orderings of spatial uses, infrastructures are a central element of cities’ material bases. Based on ethnographic research …
Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes
Affective Trajectories explores affective and emotional experiences as manifestations of religion in the rapidly shifting conditions of postcolonial African urban spaces and the diaspora. The editors define the term "affective trajectory" as the force of affect in the religious lives of individuals and communities; it is a network of people, religious forces, and material places that are established, dissolved, and remade, and a mode of articulat…
The self as capital in the narrative economy: How biographical testimonies move activism in the Global South
This article analyses and theorises the practice of biographical storytelling ofHIV-positiveAIDSactivists in South Africa. Combining research in illness narratives, studies of emotions in social activism and analysis of global health institutions in Africa, I explore how biographical self-narrations are deployed to facilitate access to resources and knowledge and thus acquire material and symbolic value. I illustrate my argument through the analy…
Rite and Stone: Religious Belonging and Urban Space in Global Perspective
Over long periods, interdisciplinary debates in urban studies on the relationships between religion and urban space were influenced by mainstream versions of modernization theory. These were based on the binary of urban modernity and nonurban (religious) tradition. However, historical urban research has shown that cities were also more often sites of religious innovation. Inspired by Jennifer Robinson’s understanding of cities as “ordinary” sites…
Assembling the Profane Materialities of Urban Religion
Polarization and the Limits of Politicization: Cordoba's Mosque-Cathedral and the Politics of Cultural Heritage
Designing Interreligious Encounters: Space, Materiality, and Media in Berlin's House of One
Drawing on an analysis of the multi-religious architectural project called “House of One” in Berlin, this article explores the spatial dynamics surrounding multi-religious places by design. My central questions are: How are liberal notions of tolerance, religious sharing, and diversity addressed and translated in the medium of architecture? And what are the spatial dynamics that facilitate the formation of urban, national, and transnational publi…
The Judicial Politics of Burqa Bans in Belgium and Spain—Socio-Legal Field Dynamics and the Standardization of Justificatory Repertoires
Over the past decade, controversies over Muslim women's face veiling have become increasingly widespread in societies across Europe. This article comparatively explores the socio-legal dynamics of claims making by proponents and opponents of prohibiting full-face coverings in Belgium and Spain. In Belgium, a federal ban of full-face coverings was adopted in July 2011 and, after intensive judicial struggles, received judicial validation by the Con…
Multiple secularities: Postcolonial variations and guiding ideas in India and South Africa
This article draws on the concept of ‘multiple secularities’ as culturally embedded forms of distinction between religious and non-religious spheres and practices. The authors argue that those distinctions gain importance if they are supported by ‘guiding ideas’ that serve to orient institutionalizations of the religious–secular divide with reference to fundamental societal problems. Focusing on the cases of India and South Africa, the authors ex…
We are saving the township: Pentecostalism, faith-based organisations, and development in South Africa
In this article, I trace the emergence of Pentecostal FBOs in the South African city of Cape Town. By focusing on their involvements in HIV/AIDS programmes, including practices such as health education, counselling and material support, I analyse the organisational dynamics and consequences ensuing from their activities. Pentecostal involvements in development work engender complex connections between two distinct processes: On the one hand, they…
Salvation as Cultural Distinction: Religion and Neoliberalism in Urban Africa
Intervening in debates on religion and social inequalities, this article advocates a shift from concerns with economic ethics to a focus on religious belonging as embodying class-based cultural distinctions. In the first part, I critically review the literature that draws inspiration from Weber's concept of Protestant inner-worldly asceticism and advance two arguments: Pentecostal orientations toward this-worldly salvation thwart rationalising po…
Transplanting institutional innovation: Comparing the success of NGOs and missionary Protestantism in sub-Saharan Africa
Viewing missionary Protestantism and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as carriers of transnational institutional innovation, this article compares their successes and failures at creating self-sustaining institutions in distant societies. Missionary Protestantism and NGOs are similar in that they attempt to establish formal organizations outside kinship, lineage, and ethnic forms of solidarity. Focusing on institutions as ways to create coll…
Religious vs secular nationhood: Multiple secularities' in post-Soviet Armenia
This article draws on the notion of 'cultural defense' to examine how nationalism shapes contemporary contestations around religion and secularity in Armenia. While clearly relevant, this framework has rarely been used for the analysis of religious change in the Caucasus region as part of the broader post-Soviet space. This article fills this lacuna. Simultaneously, it moves beyond the relatively narrow interest in the degree of secularization or…
Religious diversity in the neoliberal welfare state: Secularity and the ethos of egalitarianism in Sweden
Sociologists interested in religious change and state-church relations have, by and large, ignored how regimes of religious diversity and secularism interact with factors that are seemingly external to religious dynamics such as cultural notions of the welfare state and its neoliberal restructuring. This article fills this lacuna by exploring the social dynamics around secularity and religious diversity as they emerge in contestations around educ…
Ein Erlaß des Königs Necht-har-ehbet
Ein saitischer Statuensockel in Stockholm
Die Einnahme von Satuna
Subjects of counselling: Religion, Hiv/Aids and the management of everyday life in South Africa
The aim of this chapter is to tease out the elective affinities and to thereby capture how religious organisations contribute to the re-shaping of concepts of responsible selfhood and counselled subjectivity. It argues that AIDS counselling is fundamentally concerned with producing, inculcating and disseminating new notions of moral responsibility and that its promotion by religious organisations is a response to the shortcomings of governmental …
Ironies of Subordination: Ambivalences of Gender in Religious Aids Interventions in South Africa
Situated at the interface between the sociology of religion and gender studies, this article explores the complex relationships between faith-based activities and gendered arrangements of domination in the context of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. It argues that the linkages between religion and gender work in two directions: existing gender relations affect the shape of religious AIDS interventions just as these interventions influence dominant model…
Introduction—The redemptive moment: HIV treatments and theproduction of new religious spaces
Challenging Pentecostal moralism: Erotic geographies, religion and sexual practices among township youth in Cape Town
Research on constructions of sexuality in Pentecostalism often struggles with the fact that the research setting is defined ex ante in terms of church communities, which imposes upon ethnographic accounts the same limitations Pentecostal morality imposes upon church members' discourse. Taking young Pentecostals operating in a space that is not explicitly religious as the methodological entrance to the field, this paper explores negotiations over …
Morality, Hope and Grief: Anthropologies of Aids in Africa
How does AIDS affect communities in African societies and how does it change local moral orders? How do people explain and make sense of an ‘exceptional illness’, of grief, death, and the social costs that come with it? How are the strategies and practices of dealing with AIDS shaped by the broader structures of social life and cultural reproduction through which disease is experienced? And how do experiences of AIDS and the practices of confront…
Contested Secularities: Religious Minorities and Secular Progressivism in the Netherlands
In this paper, we propose to analyze ideas, practices, institutionalizations, and public controversies related to the religious-secular divide in the Netherlands in terms of contested formations of secularity. We introduce the concept of ‘multiple secularities’ and use it as an interpretive device for an analysis of the historical emergence and transformation of Dutch secularity. After that we show how historically shaped notions of secularity op…
Multiple Secularities: Toward a Cultural Sociology of Secular Modernities
For more than two decades sociological debates over religion and secularization have been characterized by a confrontation between (often American) critics and (mostly European) defenders of secularization theories. At the same time, there was a remarkable rise in public debates about the role of secularism in political regimes and in national as well as civilizational frameworks. Against this backdrop this paper presents the conceptual framework…
Access to the Social: The Ethics and Pragmatics of HIV/Aids Support Groups in South Africa
Throughout human history, disease has constituted a state of life in which the need for help by some has readily been adopted as an obligation to care by others, most importantly relatives and medical specialists of any kind. Given that even in wartimes injured combatants are often provided medical assistance by enemy forces, help for the diseased can be construed as a paradigmatic case from which notions of help and the entitlement to it emerge.…
Belonging and Success: Religious Vitality and the Politics of Urban Space in Cape Town
This chapter analyses how, the South African city of Cape Town, religious vitality produced by religious practices that are bound up with the ways in religious spaces and urban spaces mutually constitute and configure one another. It also pinpoints the complexities arising from the challenges of belonging and success as they take shape in the townships of Cape Town. The practices within which these challenges acted upon as both embedded in and ge…
Introduction: Religion Takes Place: Producing Urban Locality
This introductory chapter of the volume, which examines the conjunctures between religion and urban spaces under the current conditions of late capitalist modernity, and to assemble in one volume papers on religious life in very different urban contexts. It demonstrates how the oscillating of urban religious sociality between national and transnational ties is bound up with religious-secular dynamics. They engage with the politics of placemaking …
Topographies of Faith: Religion in Urban Spaces
Based on ethnographic explorations in cities across the globe, Topographies of Faith offers a unique and compelling analysis of contemporary religious dynamics in metropolitan centers. While most scholarship on religion still sidelines questions of spatiality and scale, this book creatively draws on perspectives from urban studies to study the spatiality of religion in modern cities. It shows how globalization, transnational migration and urban e…
Transparent sexualities’: Sexual openness, HIV disclosure and the governmentality of sexuality in South Africa
In South Africa, as elsewhere in the world, responses to HIV and AIDS have been accompanied by calls to 'break the silence' and to openly talk about aspects of intimate life, otherwise considered private. These calls have been followed by the production of new bodies of knowledge about sex, and projections of transparent sexualities. In this context, the concept of counselling has taken on particular significance in terms of re-conceptualising di…
Multiple secularities: Postcolonial variations and guiding ideas in India and South Africa
This article draws on the concept of ‘multiple secularities’ as culturally embedded forms of distinction between religious and non-religious spheres and practices. The authors argue that those distinctions gain importance if they are supported by ‘guiding ideas’ that serve to orient institutionalizations of the religious–secular divide with reference to fundamental societal problems. Focusing on the cases of India and South Africa, the authors ex…
Equals before the Law? Public Religion and Queer Activism in the Age of Judicial Politics in South Africa
On a global scale, the politics around the recognition of same-sex relationships has turned into legal controversies while opposition to it is often framed in religious terms. This article takes the case of Christian mobilization around the legal recognition of same-sex marriage in South Africa to investigate the intertwinement of religious and sexual rights struggles. Linking the anthropology of law, the sociolegal literature on judicialization,…
We are saving the township: Pentecostalism, faith-based organisations, and development in South Africa
In this article, I trace the emergence of Pentecostal FBOs in the South African city of Cape Town. By focusing on their involvements in HIV/AIDS programmes, including practices such as health education, counselling and material support, I analyse the organisational dynamics and consequences ensuing from their activities. Pentecostal involvements in development work engender complex connections between two distinct processes: On the one hand, they…
Multiple Secularities: Religion and Modernity in the Global Age' - Introduction
Many of the key features of the contemporary era of global modernity bear powerful connections to religion and secularity. Worldwide migration brings with it the movement of religious identities and practices. Emergent forms of religious diversity challenge societies, especially those who have been marked by close connections between state, national identity and organized religion. More than before, migratory movements and questions regarding the…
Faith-Based Humanitarianism: Organizational Change and Everyday Meanings in South Africa
Engaging and challenging central institutionalist concepts, this article focuses on the involvement of churches and other Christian organizations in HIV/AIDS programs in South Africa in order to analyze the ensuing organizational dynamics. It argues that the asymmetrical power relations between mostly Northern donors and local churches, within which these organizational dynamics unfold, engender two interlocked processes: on the one hand, institu…
HIV/Aids activism, framing and identity formation in Mozambique'sEquipas de Vida
This article ethnographically explores faith-based mobilization around HIV and AIDS in Mozambique. It explains mobilization strategies and their outcomes in the case of the community-based HIV response teams of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Niassa in Northern Mozambique. Engaging constructivist perspectives from social movement theory, especially those focusing on framing processes and collective identities, this article illustrates how s…
The politics and anti-politics of social movements: Religion and HIV/Aids in Africa
In 2012, roughly 23 million people in sub-Saharan Africa were infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Religious responses to the disease have ranged from condemnation of people with HIV to the development of innovative AIDS-related services. This article utilises insights from the social movement literature about collective identity, framing, resources, and opportunity structures to interrogate religious mobilisation against HIV/AIDS. It d…
Van Klinken, Adriaan S: Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity. Gender Controversies in Times of Aids
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Narrating Liberal Rights and Culture: Muslim Face Veiling, Urban Coexistence and Contention in Spain
Drawing on cultural sociology approaches to the role of narrative and framing in politics, this article explores urban contestations over Muslim face veiling in Spain. We argue that regimes of religious diversity are shaped by the ways that the framing and narrating of rights and culture acquire cultural resonance and political traction in urban society. We find that the meanings attached to the face veil and mobilised in public discourses draw o…
Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and social change in Africa
For more than a decade both anthropologists and development sociologists have been engaged in debates about religion and development. Focusing on the case of Pentecostalism in Africa, this edited volume is without doubt a key contribution to the discussion. What stands out is the extremely coherent framing and consistently high-quality chapters. The central argument of the book is that Pentecostalism affects development by creating in followers a…
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