R Van Dijk
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 48322 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R Van Dijk |
| NOMBRES | R |
| APELLIDO | Van Dijk |
| FIRMA | VAN DIJK R |
| AFILIACIONES | African Studies Centre |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1388-4733 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 314 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1946 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Religion, culture and sexuality in Africa
Questioning Social Security in the Study of Religion in Africa
6. Questioning Social Security in the Study of Religion in Africa: The Ambiguous Meaning of the Gift in African Pentecostalism and Islam was published in Social Security in Religious Networks on page 105.
Professional and Religious Approaches to Care for West African Victims of Human Trafficking in The Netherlands
The current study focuses on care for West African Victims of human trafficking (VHTs) in The Netherlands and addresses the question of how (1) social and legal professionals and (2) religious leaders of African-led migrant (Pentecostal) churches perceive their relationship with these VHTs. Thematic analyses of qualitative interviews (N = 21) revealed that both groups share the perception that VHTs are vulnerable, especially in view of so-called …
Pentecostalism and the Arts of Insistence
This contribution explores the significance of religious practices that put emphasis on encouraging people to hold their position when others question the ideological or dogmatic elements of their faith. Applying the term 'religious insistence', it investigates these practices with a view to the ways in which Pentecostals take a position vis-à-vis the challenges they confront in the sociopolitical domain. Contributing to the study of religious ac…
Family Resemblances in Action
The introduction to this special issue argues that in many countries in southern Africa a new phase in the entanglement between the religious and the political has set in. Increasingly, activists in political fields are borrowing from religious registers of discourse and practice, while conversely, activists in the religious domain are adopting discourses and practices originating in the political domain. We suggest that this religiopolitical act…
Religion, Reciprocity and Restructuring Family Responsibility in the Ghanaian Pentecostal Diaspora
This chapter examines one of the newly emerging, transnational, social sites that has developed in the process of intercontinental migration of Ghanaians abroad. It argues that its appeal is based on the opportunities it provides for bringing kinship obligations under the supervision of its individual members. The chapter explains how and why gifting is considered morally and spiritually hazardous by most Ghanaian migrants. One of the most import…
Religious Sophistication in African Pentecostalism
Labour of love
This paper examines the productive role of secrecy in the nexus of transnational mobility, kinship, and intimate relations among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in the Netherlands. Whereas secrecy is typically understood as one person concealing knowledge from another, implying the latter's passivity, we argue that secrecy depends on mutually constitutive interactions. Secrecy is explored as the result of an interaction between those who obscure …
The tent versuslobola
While it has become common knowledge that in many parts of Africa — including Botswana — weddings and marital arrangements in general have increasingly become subject to consumerist desires of style and glamour, much less is known about how such expectations of public display intersect with changing ideas concerning the intimate. Weddings have not only become costlier than before, and much more crucial in the marking of class, status and prestige…
Event ethics and their elasticity
Whereas Michael Lambek situates the exploration of the significance of 'ordinary ethics' in the everyday as the study of 'the ethical in the conjunction or movement between explicit local pronouncements and implicit local practices and circumstances', this article takes the opposite view by drawing attention to special events that appear to engage - or provide space for - extraordinary ethics. Special events and their extraordinary ethics bring i…
Introduction
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Hodological Care among Ghanaian Pentecostals
The nexus between Pentecostalism and migration has been studied extensively and in divergent terms. One line of research has looked at churches founded by migrants as home away from home, helping migrants to settle in a new place and at the same time connecting them back to where they came from. Another strand has rather highlighted incorporation into a global Christendom and engagement in global spiritual warfare. Whereas the first line of resea…
Marriage as an end or the end of marriage? Change and continuity in Southern African marriages
While it has become common knowledge that in many parts of Africa - including Botswana - weddings and marital arrangements in general have increasingly become subject to consumerist desires of style and glamour, much less is known about how such expectations of public display intersect with changing ideas concerning the intimate. Weddings have not only become costlier than before, and much more crucial in the marking of class, status and prestige…
Counselling and Pentecostal modalities of social engineering of relationships in Botswana
In African societies where HIV and AIDS are widespread, counselling is being used in an attempt to control people's sexual relationships and has become an important industry. Counselling is centrally placed in many AIDS-related policies in Botswana and is sponsored by both the government and religious organisations. Within the broad spectrum of Christianity, Pentecostal churches are very active. They emphasise the refashioning of relationships by…
Pentecostalism and Post-Development
Based on post-development theory as developed by Nederveen Pieterse (2000) and Escobar (2007), among others, this chapter explores how and why Pentecostal ideologies and practices foster certain notions of development on their own terms. Pentecostal churches in Ghana can be seen as having introduced these developmental notions to their membership while they promote participation in specific activities and ritual practices that focus on the 'growt…
The social cocktail
In bookshops in some of the urban centers of Botswana, such as the capital Gaborone but also in smaller towns such as Molepolole and Mochudi, there are increasing numbers of glossies portraying the splendour and grandiose style of so-called white weddings. In the case of these weddings, this chapter argues that a qualitative change in the competences that are required for dealing with the intricacies of their complexity is the innovative aspect o…
Christian Creations of New Spaces of Sexuality, Reproduction, and Relationships in Africa
In many African societies today Christian churches, Pentecostals in particular, are an important source of information on sexuality, relationships, the body, and health, motivated in part by the HIV/AIDS pandemic but also related to globally circulating ideas and images that make people rethink gender relations and identities through the lens of 'romantic love'. Contextualizing the contemporary situation in the history of Christian movements in A…
Sibrandus Leo en zijn abtenkronieken van de Friese premonstratenzerkloosters Lidlum en Mariëngaarde. Een nadere studie, editie en vertaling
Book Reviews / CHRC . () – © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, DOI: 10.1163/187124110X545281 H.Th.M. Lambooij, Sibrandus Leo en zijn abtenkronieken van de Friese premon- stratenzerkloosters Lidlum en Mariëngaarde. Een nadere studie, editie en vertaling [Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen ]. Verloren, Hilversum , pp. ISBN . . Chronicles reporting the history of monasteries are important historical sources,…
Introduction—The redemptive moment
Journal of African Diaspora; Transnational Africa in a Global World
Introduction to Special Issue
Introduction to Special Issue: Engaging Christianities:Negotiating HIV/AIDS, Health, and Social Relations in East and Southern Africa Ruth Prince (bio), Philippe Denis (bio), and Rijk van Dijk (bio) The purpose of this special issue1 is to explore and analyze the ways in which Christianity is becoming one of the most influential factors in the engagement of AIDS in some African countries. This special issue addresses the consequences of this rapi…
Journal of African Diaspora; Transnational Africa in a Global World
A Review of
In this book, subtitled Research Stories from the Kalahari, Keyan Tomaselli takes us for a ride into the sandy wilderness stretching from Botswana into Namibia and South Africa. He invites us to jo...
Social Catapulting and the Spirit of Entrepreneurialism
Mobile Africa
The case studies in this book on mobility in sub-Saharan Africa critically discuss dichotomous interpretations of mobility and reject the idea that migration indicates a breakdown in society. They adopt the approach that sedentary and mobile worlds converge and that mobility is part of the livelihood system of African people. Contents: Mobile Africa: an introduction (Mirjam de Bruijn, Rijk van DijkandDick Foeken) - Population mobility in Africa: …
Young puritan preachers in post-independence Malawi
In Blantyre, Malawi's main urban centre with a population of over 400,000, there are some thirty to forty young preachers who between them run fifteen or so organisations that constitute the Born Again movement. The organisations include 'ministries' and 'fellowships' as well as 'churches'. The movement started c.1974. What is significant is that all the leaders were then teenagers; even today the second 'generation' of preachers are teenagers or…
Voodoo' on the Doorstep
This article deals with the moral panic that emerged in the Netherlands when it became publicly known that under-age Nigerian girls were being smuggled into the country to be put to 'work' in the sex industry. A massive police investigation not only found hundreds of cases but also uncovered the fact that certain unknown and occult rituals played a part in how traffickers, 'madams' and other sex bosses appeared to keep the girls locked in this ex…
Marriage as an end or the end of marriage? Change and continuity in Southern African marriages
While it has become common knowledge that in many parts of Africa - including Botswana - weddings and marital arrangements in general have increasingly become subject to consumerist desires of style and glamour, much less is known about how such expectations of public display intersect with changing ideas concerning the intimate. Weddings have not only become costlier than before, and much more crucial in the marking of class, status and prestige…
From Camp to Encompassment
This article explores the role of religion in identity formation in situations where individuals are engaged in intercontinental diasporic movement, starting from R.P. Werbner's notion that religion and strangerhood transform together. In particular, the author examines the diaspora of Ghanaians in the Netherlands and the role Ghanaian Pentecostalism appears to play in the forming of their identity as strangers in Dutch society. The author uses t…
The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma
Introduction - beyond the confinement of affliction a discursive field of experience, Rijk van Dijk, Ria Reis, Marja Spierenburg kings, spirits and brides in Tanzania, Henny Blokland gender and ngoma - the power of drums in Eastern Zambia, Annette Drews the wounded healer as ideology - the work of ngoma in Swaziland, Ria Reis social commentaries and the influence of the clientele - the case of the Mhondoro cult in Dande, Zimbabwe, Marja Spierenbu…
From Camp To Encompassment
This article explores the role of religion in identity formation in situations where individuals are engaged in intercontinental diasporic movement, starting from R.P. Werbner's notion that religion and strangerhood transform together. In particular, the author examines the diaspora of Ghanaians in the Netherlands and the role Ghanaian Pentecostalism appears to play in the forming of their identity as strangers in Dutch society. The author uses t…
Introduction to Special Issue
Introduction to Special Issue: Engaging Christianities:Negotiating HIV/AIDS, Health, and Social Relations in East and Southern Africa Ruth Prince (bio), Philippe Denis (bio), and Rijk van Dijk (bio) The purpose of this special issue1 is to explore and analyze the ways in which Christianity is becoming one of the most influential factors in the engagement of AIDS in some African countries. This special issue addresses the consequences of this rapi…
The tent versuslobola
While it has become common knowledge that in many parts of Africa — including Botswana — weddings and marital arrangements in general have increasingly become subject to consumerist desires of style and glamour, much less is known about how such expectations of public display intersect with changing ideas concerning the intimate. Weddings have not only become costlier than before, and much more crucial in the marking of class, status and prestige…
Christian Creations of New Spaces of Sexuality, Reproduction, and Relationships in Africa
In many African societies today Christian churches, Pentecostals in particular, are an important source of information on sexuality, relationships, the body, and health, motivated in part by the HIV/AIDS pandemic but also related to globally circulating ideas and images that make people rethink gender relations and identities through the lens of 'romantic love'. Contextualizing the contemporary situation in the history of Christian movements in A…
Of Revelation and Revolution
Of Revelation and Revolution: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier. JOHN L. COMAROFF and JEAN COMAROFF. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxlv + 588 pp., illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Fundamentalism and its Moral Geography in Malawi
Moral geographies of antiwitchcraft campaigns may be constructed from quite different vantage points and ideological programmes, as well as working upon quite diverse sets of relationships between the traditional and the modern, the young and the old, the diasporic and the diabolical. One vantage point is the village, and the moral geography that is constructed can be interpreted as a way of coming to grips with a partially apprehended modern wor…
Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and the Stranger's Beauty in Botswana
This contribution considers the current position of the Ghanaian migrant community in Botswana's capital, Gaborone, at a time of rising xenophobic sentiments and increasing ethnic tensions among the general public. The article examines anthropological understandings of such sentiments by placing them in the context of the study of nationalisms in processes of state formation in Africa and the way in which these ideologies reflect the position and…
Negotiating Marriage
Among the many immigrant groups that have settled in the Netherlands, the recently arrived migrants from Ghana have been perceived by the Dutch state as especially problematic. Explicit measures have been taken to investigate marriages of Ghanaians, as these appeared to be an avenue by which many acquired access to the Dutch welfare state. While the Dutch government tightened its immigration policies, many Ghanaian Pentecostal churches were emerg…
The soul is the stranger
Pentecostal groups have become a prominent part of the process of migration of Ghanaians to the West. In popular conceptions, migration is above all a spiritual problem. Operating from Accra and Kumasi, charismatic Pentecostal churches have been established in the Ghanaian migrant communities of the larger cities in the Netherlands. This article analyses the position these churches take in diasporic communities by asking why it is that Pentecosta…
Contesting Silence
The period of Ghana’s Fourth Republic has been characterized by the unprecedented growth of Pentecostal churches, particularly in the urban centers of the country. Many scholars have noted that Pentecostalism, as it has manifested itself in Ghana and a number of other former colonies, addresses
Labour of love
This paper examines the productive role of secrecy in the nexus of transnational mobility, kinship, and intimate relations among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in the Netherlands. Whereas secrecy is typically understood as one person concealing knowledge from another, implying the latter's passivity, we argue that secrecy depends on mutually constitutive interactions. Secrecy is explored as the result of an interaction between those who obscure …
Hodological Care among Ghanaian Pentecostals
The nexus between Pentecostalism and migration has been studied extensively and in divergent terms. One line of research has looked at churches founded by migrants as home away from home, helping migrants to settle in a new place and at the same time connecting them back to where they came from. Another strand has rather highlighted incorporation into a global Christendom and engagement in global spiritual warfare. Whereas the first line of resea…
Event ethics and their elasticity
Whereas Michael Lambek situates the exploration of the significance of 'ordinary ethics' in the everyday as the study of 'the ethical in the conjunction or movement between explicit local pronouncements and implicit local practices and circumstances', this article takes the opposite view by drawing attention to special events that appear to engage - or provide space for - extraordinary ethics. Special events and their extraordinary ethics bring i…
Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Family Resemblances in Action
The introduction to this special issue argues that in many countries in southern Africa a new phase in the entanglement between the religious and the political has set in. Increasingly, activists in political fields are borrowing from religious registers of discourse and practice, while conversely, activists in the religious domain are adopting discourses and practices originating in the political domain. We suggest that this religiopolitical act…
Pentecostalism and the Arts of Insistence
This contribution explores the significance of religious practices that put emphasis on encouraging people to hold their position when others question the ideological or dogmatic elements of their faith. Applying the term 'religious insistence', it investigates these practices with a view to the ways in which Pentecostals take a position vis-à-vis the challenges they confront in the sociopolitical domain. Contributing to the study of religious ac…
Journal of African Diaspora; Transnational Africa in a Global World
Journal of African Diaspora; Transnational Africa in a Global World
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Het Getijdenboek van Geert Grote
Young puritan preachers in post-independence Malawi
In Blantyre, Malawi's main urban centre with a population of over 400,000, there are some thirty to forty young preachers who between them run fifteen or so organisations that constitute the Born Again movement. The organisations include 'ministries' and 'fellowships' as well as 'churches'. The movement started c.1974. What is significant is that all the leaders were then teenagers; even today the second 'generation' of preachers are teenagers or…
La guérisseuse du docteur Banda au Malawi
Van Dijk R.A. La guérisseuse du docteur Banda au Malawi. In: Politique africaine, n°52, 1993. Madagascar. pp. 145-150
Fundamentalism and its Moral Geography in Malawi
Moral geographies of antiwitchcraft campaigns may be constructed from quite different vantage points and ideological programmes, as well as working upon quite diverse sets of relationships between the traditional and the modern, the young and the old, the diasporic and the diabolical. One vantage point is the village, and the moral geography that is constructed can be interpreted as a way of coming to grips with a partially apprehended modern wor…
From Camp to Encompassment
This article explores the role of religion in identity formation in situations where individuals are engaged in intercontinental diasporic movement, starting from R.P. Werbner's notion that religion and strangerhood transform together. In particular, the author examines the diaspora of Ghanaians in the Netherlands and the role Ghanaian Pentecostalism appears to play in the forming of their identity as strangers in Dutch society. The author uses t…
From Camp To Encompassment
This article explores the role of religion in identity formation in situations where individuals are engaged in intercontinental diasporic movement, starting from R.P. Werbner's notion that religion and strangerhood transform together. In particular, the author examines the diaspora of Ghanaians in the Netherlands and the role Ghanaian Pentecostalism appears to play in the forming of their identity as strangers in Dutch society. The author uses t…
Of Revelation and Revolution
Of Revelation and Revolution: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier. JOHN L. COMAROFF and JEAN COMAROFF. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxlv + 588 pp., illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Contesting Silence
The period of Ghana’s Fourth Republic has been characterized by the unprecedented growth of Pentecostal churches, particularly in the urban centers of the country. Many scholars have noted that Pentecostalism, as it has manifested itself in Ghana and a number of other former colonies, addresses
The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma
Introduction - beyond the confinement of affliction a discursive field of experience, Rijk van Dijk, Ria Reis, Marja Spierenburg kings, spirits and brides in Tanzania, Henny Blokland gender and ngoma - the power of drums in Eastern Zambia, Annette Drews the wounded healer as ideology - the work of ngoma in Swaziland, Ria Reis social commentaries and the influence of the clientele - the case of the Mhondoro cult in Dande, Zimbabwe, Marja Spierenbu…
Voodoo' on the Doorstep
This article deals with the moral panic that emerged in the Netherlands when it became publicly known that under-age Nigerian girls were being smuggled into the country to be put to 'work' in the sex industry. A massive police investigation not only found hundreds of cases but also uncovered the fact that certain unknown and occult rituals played a part in how traffickers, 'madams' and other sex bosses appeared to keep the girls locked in this ex…
The soul is the stranger
Pentecostal groups have become a prominent part of the process of migration of Ghanaians to the West. In popular conceptions, migration is above all a spiritual problem. Operating from Accra and Kumasi, charismatic Pentecostal churches have been established in the Ghanaian migrant communities of the larger cities in the Netherlands. This article analyses the position these churches take in diasporic communities by asking why it is that Pentecosta…
Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and the Stranger's Beauty in Botswana
This contribution considers the current position of the Ghanaian migrant community in Botswana's capital, Gaborone, at a time of rising xenophobic sentiments and increasing ethnic tensions among the general public. The article examines anthropological understandings of such sentiments by placing them in the context of the study of nationalisms in processes of state formation in Africa and the way in which these ideologies reflect the position and…
Negotiating Marriage
Among the many immigrant groups that have settled in the Netherlands, the recently arrived migrants from Ghana have been perceived by the Dutch state as especially problematic. Explicit measures have been taken to investigate marriages of Ghanaians, as these appeared to be an avenue by which many acquired access to the Dutch welfare state. While the Dutch government tightened its immigration policies, many Ghanaian Pentecostal churches were emerg…
The Safe And Suffering Body In Transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism; Towards An Anthropology Of Vulnerable Agency
This chapter shows how the death of a Ghanaian hairdresser can be used to investigate the dimensions of agency of churches and the migrant community in view of the complexities that arose from this event as well as from the precarious position of foreigners in Botswana as a result of the government's localization policies. It also aims to demonstrate that, in the case of the death of a hairdresser, the agency of the Ghanaian Pentecostal church wa…
Journal of African Diaspora; Transnational Africa in a Global World
Introduction to Special Issue
Introduction to Special Issue: Engaging Christianities:Negotiating HIV/AIDS, Health, and Social Relations in East and Southern Africa Ruth Prince (bio), Philippe Denis (bio), and Rijk van Dijk (bio) The purpose of this special issue1 is to explore and analyze the ways in which Christianity is becoming one of the most influential factors in the engagement of AIDS in some African countries. This special issue addresses the consequences of this rapi…
Sibrandus Leo en zijn abtenkronieken van de Friese premonstratenzerkloosters Lidlum en Mariëngaarde. Een nadere studie, editie en vertaling
Book Reviews / CHRC . () – © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, DOI: 10.1163/187124110X545281 H.Th.M. Lambooij, Sibrandus Leo en zijn abtenkronieken van de Friese premon- stratenzerkloosters Lidlum en Mariëngaarde. Een nadere studie, editie en vertaling [Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen ]. Verloren, Hilversum , pp. ISBN . . Chronicles reporting the history of monasteries are important historical sources,…
Introduction—The redemptive moment
Journal of African Diaspora; Transnational Africa in a Global World
Pentecostalism and Post-Development
Based on post-development theory as developed by Nederveen Pieterse (2000) and Escobar (2007), among others, this chapter explores how and why Pentecostal ideologies and practices foster certain notions of development on their own terms. Pentecostal churches in Ghana can be seen as having introduced these developmental notions to their membership while they promote participation in specific activities and ritual practices that focus on the 'growt…
The social cocktail
In bookshops in some of the urban centers of Botswana, such as the capital Gaborone but also in smaller towns such as Molepolole and Mochudi, there are increasing numbers of glossies portraying the splendour and grandiose style of so-called white weddings. In the case of these weddings, this chapter argues that a qualitative change in the competences that are required for dealing with the intricacies of their complexity is the innovative aspect o…
Christian Creations of New Spaces of Sexuality, Reproduction, and Relationships in Africa
In many African societies today Christian churches, Pentecostals in particular, are an important source of information on sexuality, relationships, the body, and health, motivated in part by the HIV/AIDS pandemic but also related to globally circulating ideas and images that make people rethink gender relations and identities through the lens of 'romantic love'. Contextualizing the contemporary situation in the history of Christian movements in A…
Counselling and Pentecostal modalities of social engineering of relationships in Botswana
In African societies where HIV and AIDS are widespread, counselling is being used in an attempt to control people's sexual relationships and has become an important industry. Counselling is centrally placed in many AIDS-related policies in Botswana and is sponsored by both the government and religious organisations. Within the broad spectrum of Christianity, Pentecostal churches are very active. They emphasise the refashioning of relationships by…
Hodological Care among Ghanaian Pentecostals
The nexus between Pentecostalism and migration has been studied extensively and in divergent terms. One line of research has looked at churches founded by migrants as home away from home, helping migrants to settle in a new place and at the same time connecting them back to where they came from. Another strand has rather highlighted incorporation into a global Christendom and engagement in global spiritual warfare. Whereas the first line of resea…
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