Bjørn Ola Tafjord
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 456283 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bjørn Ola Tafjord |
| PRENOMES | Bjørn Ola |
| SOBRENOME | Tafjord |
| ASSINATURA | TAFJORD B O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bergen |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Challenging, Broadening, and Sharpening the Study of Indigenous Religious Traditions
Reinterpreting Mother Earth
The author responds to Gill's interpretation of Mother Earth as a name, a meme, and a conspiracy and argues it can become more compelling and perhaps less confrontational if it is supplemented with an alternative set of analytical terms. To tweak the perspective and the tone a bit, suggesting we try ‘translation’, ‘govern-materiality’, and ‘confidence
Book Forum
On 12 October 2022, a seminar was held in the University of Edinburgh to review, discuss and critique James L. Cox’s book, A Phenomenology of Indigenous Religions: Theory and Practice (2022, Bloomsbury). This article contains revised papers from that event as prepared by the speakers, including Cox’s introduction and response to the presentations. The papers explore various themes, comprising a consideration of Religious Studies as a discipline, …
On the (un)doing of anthropology and secularity, and its relevance for religious studies
This essay is a response to the inquiries and discussions of ‘anthropology’s secular conditioning’ that Khaled Furani, Joel Robbins, Jonathan Boyarin, Matthew Engelke, Richard Handler, Elayne Oliphant, and Eduardo Dullo initiate in this thematic issue of Religion. I focus on the moves that constitute anthropology and secularity. Whereas I endorse the grounded approaches that Boyarin, Engelke, Handler, Oliphant, and Dullo represent, and their high…
Indigenous Religion(s)
This chapter explores the shift to ‘indigeneity’ and ‘indigenous religion’ among the Sámi, through a focus on Sámi activism at Alta (1979–1981, concerning a proposed power plant) and Standing Rock (2016–2017, concerning a proposed pipeline). It is based on a combination of multi-sited fieldwork, interviews and textual sources, and proceeds along the lines of ‘light comparison’, inspired partly by the comparative logic of indigeneity and indigenou…
Romantic Indigenizing of New Religions in Contemporary Europe Critical Methodological Remarks
Romanticisms, not colonialisms, drive the indigenizing and the religionizing in the cases described and analyzed in this special issue. In what follows, I shall explain what I mean by this observation and suggest ways to think about it critically. The task of this essay is to highlight entangled methodological and political contexts for the discussion about “indigenizing” that Graham Harvey opened in his introduction, a discussion that the differ…
Alternative Voices
How Talking about Indigenous Religion May Change Things
A decade ago, Bribris, an indigenous community in Costa Rica, used to operate with a distinction between “indigenous traditions” and “religions.” More recently, some of them have begun to talk about an “indigenous religion.” This article is about uses of the category “religion” and especially new uses of a globalizing concept of “indigenous religion.” Some of the consequences of the shift in discourse are also discussed. The main point made is th…
Indigenous Religion(s) as an Analytical Category
Today the most common uses of “indigenous religion(s)” as an analytical category and as a class in the study of religions are intimately linked to discourses on “indigenous peoples.” The article argues that this often creates problems for critical scholarship. It contributes to the reproduction of stereotypes about particular kinds of religions among particular kinds of peoples; it nurtures ideas about religious similarities across vast spans of …
Eine Marienerscheinung in Zeiten der Diktatur. Der Konflikt um Peñablanca, Chile
Citizens of the World
Defining religion, defying tradition? Concord and conflict about the role of religion in a Costa Rican indigenous community
When approaching the issue of power, some fundamental questions always arise: Who is in a position to define? When, where, for whom, and why? These are also underlying questions in the particular case that is discussed in this article: Discourses about the role of religion among Bribris in Talamanca, the indigenously dominated area in south-eastern Costa Rica. The author looks at how ‘religion’ is defined by different actors, and into how the sam…
Indigenous Religion(s) as an Analytical Category
Today the most common uses of “indigenous religion(s)” as an analytical category and as a class in the study of religions are intimately linked to discourses on “indigenous peoples.” The article argues that this often creates problems for critical scholarship. It contributes to the reproduction of stereotypes about particular kinds of religions among particular kinds of peoples; it nurtures ideas about religious similarities across vast spans of …
How Talking about Indigenous Religion May Change Things
A decade ago, Bribris, an indigenous community in Costa Rica, used to operate with a distinction between “indigenous traditions” and “religions.” More recently, some of them have begun to talk about an “indigenous religion.” This article is about uses of the category “religion” and especially new uses of a globalizing concept of “indigenous religion.” Some of the consequences of the shift in discourse are also discussed. The main point made is th…
Romantic Indigenizing of New Religions in Contemporary Europe Critical Methodological Remarks
Romanticisms, not colonialisms, drive the indigenizing and the religionizing in the cases described and analyzed in this special issue. In what follows, I shall explain what I mean by this observation and suggest ways to think about it critically. The task of this essay is to highlight entangled methodological and political contexts for the discussion about “indigenizing” that Graham Harvey opened in his introduction, a discussion that the differ…
Defining religion, defying tradition? Concord and conflict about the role of religion in a Costa Rican indigenous community
When approaching the issue of power, some fundamental questions always arise: Who is in a position to define? When, where, for whom, and why? These are also underlying questions in the particular case that is discussed in this article: Discourses about the role of religion among Bribris in Talamanca, the indigenously dominated area in south-eastern Costa Rica. The author looks at how ‘religion’ is defined by different actors, and into how the sam…
Reinterpreting Mother Earth
The author responds to Gill's interpretation of Mother Earth as a name, a meme, and a conspiracy and argues it can become more compelling and perhaps less confrontational if it is supplemented with an alternative set of analytical terms. To tweak the perspective and the tone a bit, suggesting we try ‘translation’, ‘govern-materiality’, and ‘confidence
On the (un)doing of anthropology and secularity, and its relevance for religious studies
This essay is a response to the inquiries and discussions of ‘anthropology’s secular conditioning’ that Khaled Furani, Joel Robbins, Jonathan Boyarin, Matthew Engelke, Richard Handler, Elayne Oliphant, and Eduardo Dullo initiate in this thematic issue of Religion. I focus on the moves that constitute anthropology and secularity. Whereas I endorse the grounded approaches that Boyarin, Engelke, Handler, Oliphant, and Dullo represent, and their high…
Defining religion, defying tradition? Concord and conflict about the role of religion in a Costa Rican indigenous community
When approaching the issue of power, some fundamental questions always arise: Who is in a position to define? When, where, for whom, and why? These are also underlying questions in the particular case that is discussed in this article: Discourses about the role of religion among Bribris in Talamanca, the indigenously dominated area in south-eastern Costa Rica. The author looks at how ‘religion’ is defined by different actors, and into how the sam…
Citizens of the World
Eine Marienerscheinung in Zeiten der Diktatur. Der Konflikt um Peñablanca, Chile
Indigenous Religion(s) as an Analytical Category
Today the most common uses of “indigenous religion(s)” as an analytical category and as a class in the study of religions are intimately linked to discourses on “indigenous peoples.” The article argues that this often creates problems for critical scholarship. It contributes to the reproduction of stereotypes about particular kinds of religions among particular kinds of peoples; it nurtures ideas about religious similarities across vast spans of …
How Talking about Indigenous Religion May Change Things
A decade ago, Bribris, an indigenous community in Costa Rica, used to operate with a distinction between “indigenous traditions” and “religions.” More recently, some of them have begun to talk about an “indigenous religion.” This article is about uses of the category “religion” and especially new uses of a globalizing concept of “indigenous religion.” Some of the consequences of the shift in discourse are also discussed. The main point made is th…
Alternative Voices
Romantic Indigenizing of New Religions in Contemporary Europe Critical Methodological Remarks
Romanticisms, not colonialisms, drive the indigenizing and the religionizing in the cases described and analyzed in this special issue. In what follows, I shall explain what I mean by this observation and suggest ways to think about it critically. The task of this essay is to highlight entangled methodological and political contexts for the discussion about “indigenizing” that Graham Harvey opened in his introduction, a discussion that the differ…
Indigenous Religion(s)
This chapter explores the shift to ‘indigeneity’ and ‘indigenous religion’ among the Sámi, through a focus on Sámi activism at Alta (1979–1981, concerning a proposed power plant) and Standing Rock (2016–2017, concerning a proposed pipeline). It is based on a combination of multi-sited fieldwork, interviews and textual sources, and proceeds along the lines of ‘light comparison’, inspired partly by the comparative logic of indigeneity and indigenou…
On the (un)doing of anthropology and secularity, and its relevance for religious studies
This essay is a response to the inquiries and discussions of ‘anthropology’s secular conditioning’ that Khaled Furani, Joel Robbins, Jonathan Boyarin, Matthew Engelke, Richard Handler, Elayne Oliphant, and Eduardo Dullo initiate in this thematic issue of Religion. I focus on the moves that constitute anthropology and secularity. Whereas I endorse the grounded approaches that Boyarin, Engelke, Handler, Oliphant, and Dullo represent, and their high…
Book Forum
On 12 October 2022, a seminar was held in the University of Edinburgh to review, discuss and critique James L. Cox’s book, A Phenomenology of Indigenous Religions: Theory and Practice (2022, Bloomsbury). This article contains revised papers from that event as prepared by the speakers, including Cox’s introduction and response to the presentations. The papers explore various themes, comprising a consideration of Religious Studies as a discipline, …
Reinterpreting Mother Earth
The author responds to Gill's interpretation of Mother Earth as a name, a meme, and a conspiracy and argues it can become more compelling and perhaps less confrontational if it is supplemented with an alternative set of analytical terms. To tweak the perspective and the tone a bit, suggesting we try ‘translation’, ‘govern-materiality’, and ‘confidence
Challenging, Broadening, and Sharpening the Study of Indigenous Religious Traditions
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