Ingie Hovland
Biographic Data
| ID | 83550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ingie Hovland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ingie |
| FAMILY NAME | Hovland |
| SIGNATURE | HOVLAND I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2926-6326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Feminist cites: A review of feminist relations to and citations of the canon
What is a feminist citation of the canon in the study of religion? This article reflects on a triangular conversation in Ingie Hovland’s research between Hovland herself, Henny Dons (the Protestant feminist she is studying), and Ludwig Wittgenstein. In broader terms, Hovland uses this as an example of the triangular conversations that are convened in the study of religion between scholars, the people or texts they study, and academic canons. The …
Problems of Citation in the Study of Religion: Who Do We Cite and Why
This special issue introduction contributes to emerging discussions on citation in studies of religion. What particular issues of citation arise in cultural, historical, and textual research on religious traditions? What can the study of religion contribute to the study of citation? Weaving together references to the four articles of the special issue, we identify four citational themes that are particularly relevant to the study of religion: the…
A Language-and-Materiality Approach to Reading: Reinvigorating Thirty-Year-Old Questions
Mapping Eve: A new materialist approach to concept maps as “working objects” in the humanities classroom
This article presents a SoTL study of students’ use of concept maps in my undergraduate class “Women in Christian History,” in a mid-semester module called “the Eve project.” I present three students’ maps to show the different kinds of understandings that students developed in this literacy encounter. I am especially interested in how I can read these learning artifacts as a humanities scholar, and I use humanities theory—in this case, new mater…
The Religious Feminist Subject as Material-Discursive Circuit: A Christian Woman Reads and Re-reads Eve
This article describes three different readings of the creation story of Eve and Adam, occurring over the life span of Henny Dons, a Protestant Christian and first-wave feminist in early-twentieth-century Norway. I discuss her changing understandings of this creation account over the course of her life. More broadly I explore her approach to biblical reading (as receiving, arranging, and iterating) and how this shaped her as a religious feminist …
Protestant Replications: The Conversion, Ordination, and Schism of a Zulu Bishop in Colonial Natal
This article examines the story of Mbiyana Ngidi and his five-decade conversion career, leading up to his establishment of an Ethiopianist church in 1890 - the first African Initiated Church in the Colony of Natal in Southern Africa. I focus on three events in his life - conversion, ordination, schism - and suggest that one way of reading these events is as different forms of replication: conversion as identification, ordination as imitation, and…
Value moves in multiple ways: Ethical values, the anthropology of Christianity, and an example of women and movement
How can anthropologists describe ethical values-that is, what emerges as important-in the social, material worlds of Christianity? This article considers the question by working along interfaces. The first part of the article discusses two diverging approaches to values in the anthropology of Christianity (realizing values and producing values) and situates these in relation to three groupings in the anthropology of ethics and morality (deontolog…
Reconnecting Language and Materiality in Christian Reading: A Comparative Analysis of Two Groups of Protestant Women
What do Christians do when they read? How can Christian reading be understood anthropologically? Anthropologists of Christianity have offered many ethnographic descriptions of the interplay among people, words, and material objects across Christian groups, but descriptions of Christian reading have often posited an androgynous reader. In response to this we begin from the observation that while reading cannot be done without words, it also cannot…
An Ethics of Response: Protestant Christians’ Relation with God and Elsewheres
How do Protestants engage with Elsewheres, such as God and other parts of the world? While anthropologists of Christianity have focused on the problems of presence and ‘mediating’ God, this article considers instead the concept of ‘responding’ to God/Elsewheres. In examining Lutheran women in early-twentieth-century Norway who held monthly mission meetings, I begin with their decision to remove crafts from their meetings, which created a differen…
Beyond Mediation: An Anthropological Understanding of the Relationship Between Humans, Materiality, and Transcendence in Protestant Christianity
How does a relationship come about between religious practitioners and supernatural beings? According to the mediation turn—which has recently taken hold in the material religion field and the anthropology of religion—religious communities use sensational forms to mediate the presence of an otherwise invisible transcendent. This article will apply the mediation framework to a case study of a particular Protestant group—namely world-renouncing, ev…
Christianity, place/space, and anthropology: Thinking Across Recent Research on Evangelical Place-Making
Place-making is a central activity for Christian groups. Yet the scholarly literature contains little comparative conversation on local Christian theories of place. This article ‘thinks across’ ten ethnographic descriptions of evangelical communities in order to pay attention to what these Christians pay attention to in their everyday place-making. It discusses seven problematics that commonly recur in evangelical place-work (namely linguistic, m…
Why are Women More Religious than Men
Mission Station Christianity: Norwegian Missionaries in Colonial Natal and Zululand, Southern Africa 1850-1890
In Mission Station Christianity, Ingie Hovland presents an anthropological history of the ideas and practices that evolved among Norwegian missionaries in nineteenth-century colonial Natal and Zululand (Southern Africa). She examines how their mission station spaces influenced their daily Christianity, and vice versa, drawing on the anthropology of Christianity. Words and objects, missionary bodies, problematic converts, and the utopian imaginati…
Regulating emotions and aiming for a Ph.D: Excerpts from Anthropology Matters
In this article I will present a range of experiences of graduate socialisation that have been discussed in past articles in the journal Anthropology Matters. These are the experiences of social anthropology Ph.D. students in the United Kingdom. The overarching theme for the article is 'regulating emotions', and the excerpts presented illustrate how Ph.D. students experience and deal with different emotional states that they encounter during the …
The Faith of Girls: Children's Spirituality and Transition to Adulthood
Fieldwork support: Introduction
Who’s Afraid of Religion? Tensions between ‘Mission’ and ‘Development’ in the Norwegian Mission Society
There has been a recent surge of interest in the topic 'faiths and development' in the United Kingdom, at universities and research institutes as well as in the UK Department for International Development (DFID). This interest throws up a series of new questions within development studies and related disciplines: from the perspective of development studies it raises questions about how donors and faith-based organizations (FBOs) can most construc…
Umpumulo, Place of Rest: A Nineteenth-Century Christian Mission Station among the Zulus
Research Article| October 01 2007 Umpumulo, Place of Rest: A Nineteenth-Century Christian Mission Station among the Zulus Ingie Hovland Ingie Hovland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (99): 140-157. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2007-007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ingie Hovland; Umpumulo, Place of Rest: A Nineteent…
Macro/Micro Dynamics in South Africa: Why the Reconciliation Process Will Not Reduce Violence
The reconciliation process in South Africa has been hailed as an astounding example of a non-violent transition to democracy, and its Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has subsequently served as the starting point for reflections on reconciliation, transitional justice and the possibility of truth commissions in other countries. This article suggests that it is necessary to examine South Africa's reconciliation process more critically, fo…
Fieldnotes on some cockroaches at Soas and in Stavanger, Norway
This paper explores various aspects of doing 'anthropology of home'. An anthropologist of home does not go 'elsewhere' to produce the experiential shifts that can lead to anthropological knowledge. She experiences shifts at home. In this paper I am interested in exploring precisely these experiential shifts-these 'dislocations'-and how they might be instrumental in producing anthropological insight. I want to suggest that 'dislocation insights', …
Fieldwork identities: Introduction
Writing Up and Feeling Down: Introduction
You might be one of the lucky 1%: you love writing up, you gain a new sense of meaning from it, and you can imagine doing nothing else for the rest of your life. Or you may be among the vast majority: you narrow your eyes suspiciously when anyone asks you how the PhD is going, and later when you find you have to carry on writing articles, you promise yourself twenty Twix bars for every page you manage to hammer out. It is not uncommon for PhD stu…
Fielding emotions: Introduction
What is the function of emotions in the socio-cultural anthropological research process
Careful, You Might Lose Something: On Being Disciplined into the Anthropology of Religion
This paper reflects on the experience of entering into the academic field of the anthropology of religion. Its reflections are prompted by a perceived division in the anthropology of religion between the Other (whose religion is the target of incessant and persistent questions) and the Self (whose religion is a fairly sensitive issue that is decidedly not questioned). The paper explores by what means the two sides of such a double phenomenon are …
Beyond Mediation: An Anthropological Understanding of the Relationship Between Humans, Materiality, and Transcendence in Protestant Christianity
How does a relationship come about between religious practitioners and supernatural beings? According to the mediation turn—which has recently taken hold in the material religion field and the anthropology of religion—religious communities use sensational forms to mediate the presence of an otherwise invisible transcendent. This article will apply the mediation framework to a case study of a particular Protestant group—namely world-renouncing, ev…
Christianity, place/space, and anthropology: Thinking Across Recent Research on Evangelical Place-Making
Place-making is a central activity for Christian groups. Yet the scholarly literature contains little comparative conversation on local Christian theories of place. This article ‘thinks across’ ten ethnographic descriptions of evangelical communities in order to pay attention to what these Christians pay attention to in their everyday place-making. It discusses seven problematics that commonly recur in evangelical place-work (namely linguistic, m…
Reconnecting Language and Materiality in Christian Reading: A Comparative Analysis of Two Groups of Protestant Women
What do Christians do when they read? How can Christian reading be understood anthropologically? Anthropologists of Christianity have offered many ethnographic descriptions of the interplay among people, words, and material objects across Christian groups, but descriptions of Christian reading have often posited an androgynous reader. In response to this we begin from the observation that while reading cannot be done without words, it also cannot…
Fieldwork support: Introduction
Umpumulo, Place of Rest: A Nineteenth-Century Christian Mission Station among the Zulus
Research Article| October 01 2007 Umpumulo, Place of Rest: A Nineteenth-Century Christian Mission Station among the Zulus Ingie Hovland Ingie Hovland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (99): 140-157. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2007-007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ingie Hovland; Umpumulo, Place of Rest: A Nineteent…
Fielding emotions: Introduction
What is the function of emotions in the socio-cultural anthropological research process
Value moves in multiple ways: Ethical values, the anthropology of Christianity, and an example of women and movement
How can anthropologists describe ethical values-that is, what emerges as important-in the social, material worlds of Christianity? This article considers the question by working along interfaces. The first part of the article discusses two diverging approaches to values in the anthropology of Christianity (realizing values and producing values) and situates these in relation to three groupings in the anthropology of ethics and morality (deontolog…
Problems of Citation in the Study of Religion: Who Do We Cite and Why
This special issue introduction contributes to emerging discussions on citation in studies of religion. What particular issues of citation arise in cultural, historical, and textual research on religious traditions? What can the study of religion contribute to the study of citation? Weaving together references to the four articles of the special issue, we identify four citational themes that are particularly relevant to the study of religion: the…
An Ethics of Response: Protestant Christians’ Relation with God and Elsewheres
How do Protestants engage with Elsewheres, such as God and other parts of the world? While anthropologists of Christianity have focused on the problems of presence and ‘mediating’ God, this article considers instead the concept of ‘responding’ to God/Elsewheres. In examining Lutheran women in early-twentieth-century Norway who held monthly mission meetings, I begin with their decision to remove crafts from their meetings, which created a differen…
Fieldnotes on some cockroaches at Soas and in Stavanger, Norway
This paper explores various aspects of doing 'anthropology of home'. An anthropologist of home does not go 'elsewhere' to produce the experiential shifts that can lead to anthropological knowledge. She experiences shifts at home. In this paper I am interested in exploring precisely these experiential shifts-these 'dislocations'-and how they might be instrumental in producing anthropological insight. I want to suggest that 'dislocation insights', …
Writing Up and Feeling Down: Introduction
You might be one of the lucky 1%: you love writing up, you gain a new sense of meaning from it, and you can imagine doing nothing else for the rest of your life. Or you may be among the vast majority: you narrow your eyes suspiciously when anyone asks you how the PhD is going, and later when you find you have to carry on writing articles, you promise yourself twenty Twix bars for every page you manage to hammer out. It is not uncommon for PhD stu…
Fieldnotes on some cockroaches at Soas and in Stavanger, Norway
This paper explores various aspects of doing 'anthropology of home'. An anthropologist of home does not go 'elsewhere' to produce the experiential shifts that can lead to anthropological knowledge. She experiences shifts at home. In this paper I am interested in exploring precisely these experiential shifts-these 'dislocations'-and how they might be instrumental in producing anthropological insight. I want to suggest that 'dislocation insights', …
Fieldwork identities: Introduction
Writing Up and Feeling Down: Introduction
You might be one of the lucky 1%: you love writing up, you gain a new sense of meaning from it, and you can imagine doing nothing else for the rest of your life. Or you may be among the vast majority: you narrow your eyes suspiciously when anyone asks you how the PhD is going, and later when you find you have to carry on writing articles, you promise yourself twenty Twix bars for every page you manage to hammer out. It is not uncommon for PhD stu…
Fielding emotions: Introduction
What is the function of emotions in the socio-cultural anthropological research process
Careful, You Might Lose Something: On Being Disciplined into the Anthropology of Religion
This paper reflects on the experience of entering into the academic field of the anthropology of religion. Its reflections are prompted by a perceived division in the anthropology of religion between the Other (whose religion is the target of incessant and persistent questions) and the Self (whose religion is a fairly sensitive issue that is decidedly not questioned). The paper explores by what means the two sides of such a double phenomenon are …
Macro/Micro Dynamics in South Africa: Why the Reconciliation Process Will Not Reduce Violence
The reconciliation process in South Africa has been hailed as an astounding example of a non-violent transition to democracy, and its Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has subsequently served as the starting point for reflections on reconciliation, transitional justice and the possibility of truth commissions in other countries. This article suggests that it is necessary to examine South Africa's reconciliation process more critically, fo…
Umpumulo, Place of Rest: A Nineteenth-Century Christian Mission Station among the Zulus
Research Article| October 01 2007 Umpumulo, Place of Rest: A Nineteenth-Century Christian Mission Station among the Zulus Ingie Hovland Ingie Hovland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (99): 140-157. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2007-007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ingie Hovland; Umpumulo, Place of Rest: A Nineteent…
Who’s Afraid of Religion? Tensions between ‘Mission’ and ‘Development’ in the Norwegian Mission Society
There has been a recent surge of interest in the topic 'faiths and development' in the United Kingdom, at universities and research institutes as well as in the UK Department for International Development (DFID). This interest throws up a series of new questions within development studies and related disciplines: from the perspective of development studies it raises questions about how donors and faith-based organizations (FBOs) can most construc…
Fieldwork support: Introduction
Regulating emotions and aiming for a Ph.D: Excerpts from Anthropology Matters
In this article I will present a range of experiences of graduate socialisation that have been discussed in past articles in the journal Anthropology Matters. These are the experiences of social anthropology Ph.D. students in the United Kingdom. The overarching theme for the article is 'regulating emotions', and the excerpts presented illustrate how Ph.D. students experience and deal with different emotional states that they encounter during the …
The Faith of Girls: Children's Spirituality and Transition to Adulthood
Mission Station Christianity: Norwegian Missionaries in Colonial Natal and Zululand, Southern Africa 1850-1890
In Mission Station Christianity, Ingie Hovland presents an anthropological history of the ideas and practices that evolved among Norwegian missionaries in nineteenth-century colonial Natal and Zululand (Southern Africa). She examines how their mission station spaces influenced their daily Christianity, and vice versa, drawing on the anthropology of Christianity. Words and objects, missionary bodies, problematic converts, and the utopian imaginati…
Why are Women More Religious than Men
Christianity, place/space, and anthropology: Thinking Across Recent Research on Evangelical Place-Making
Place-making is a central activity for Christian groups. Yet the scholarly literature contains little comparative conversation on local Christian theories of place. This article ‘thinks across’ ten ethnographic descriptions of evangelical communities in order to pay attention to what these Christians pay attention to in their everyday place-making. It discusses seven problematics that commonly recur in evangelical place-work (namely linguistic, m…
Beyond Mediation: An Anthropological Understanding of the Relationship Between Humans, Materiality, and Transcendence in Protestant Christianity
How does a relationship come about between religious practitioners and supernatural beings? According to the mediation turn—which has recently taken hold in the material religion field and the anthropology of religion—religious communities use sensational forms to mediate the presence of an otherwise invisible transcendent. This article will apply the mediation framework to a case study of a particular Protestant group—namely world-renouncing, ev…
An Ethics of Response: Protestant Christians’ Relation with God and Elsewheres
How do Protestants engage with Elsewheres, such as God and other parts of the world? While anthropologists of Christianity have focused on the problems of presence and ‘mediating’ God, this article considers instead the concept of ‘responding’ to God/Elsewheres. In examining Lutheran women in early-twentieth-century Norway who held monthly mission meetings, I begin with their decision to remove crafts from their meetings, which created a differen…
Reconnecting Language and Materiality in Christian Reading: A Comparative Analysis of Two Groups of Protestant Women
What do Christians do when they read? How can Christian reading be understood anthropologically? Anthropologists of Christianity have offered many ethnographic descriptions of the interplay among people, words, and material objects across Christian groups, but descriptions of Christian reading have often posited an androgynous reader. In response to this we begin from the observation that while reading cannot be done without words, it also cannot…
The Religious Feminist Subject as Material-Discursive Circuit: A Christian Woman Reads and Re-reads Eve
This article describes three different readings of the creation story of Eve and Adam, occurring over the life span of Henny Dons, a Protestant Christian and first-wave feminist in early-twentieth-century Norway. I discuss her changing understandings of this creation account over the course of her life. More broadly I explore her approach to biblical reading (as receiving, arranging, and iterating) and how this shaped her as a religious feminist …
Protestant Replications: The Conversion, Ordination, and Schism of a Zulu Bishop in Colonial Natal
This article examines the story of Mbiyana Ngidi and his five-decade conversion career, leading up to his establishment of an Ethiopianist church in 1890 - the first African Initiated Church in the Colony of Natal in Southern Africa. I focus on three events in his life - conversion, ordination, schism - and suggest that one way of reading these events is as different forms of replication: conversion as identification, ordination as imitation, and…
Value moves in multiple ways: Ethical values, the anthropology of Christianity, and an example of women and movement
How can anthropologists describe ethical values-that is, what emerges as important-in the social, material worlds of Christianity? This article considers the question by working along interfaces. The first part of the article discusses two diverging approaches to values in the anthropology of Christianity (realizing values and producing values) and situates these in relation to three groupings in the anthropology of ethics and morality (deontolog…
A Language-and-Materiality Approach to Reading: Reinvigorating Thirty-Year-Old Questions
Mapping Eve: A new materialist approach to concept maps as “working objects” in the humanities classroom
This article presents a SoTL study of students’ use of concept maps in my undergraduate class “Women in Christian History,” in a mid-semester module called “the Eve project.” I present three students’ maps to show the different kinds of understandings that students developed in this literacy encounter. I am especially interested in how I can read these learning artifacts as a humanities scholar, and I use humanities theory—in this case, new mater…
Feminist cites: A review of feminist relations to and citations of the canon
What is a feminist citation of the canon in the study of religion? This article reflects on a triangular conversation in Ingie Hovland’s research between Hovland herself, Henny Dons (the Protestant feminist she is studying), and Ludwig Wittgenstein. In broader terms, Hovland uses this as an example of the triangular conversations that are convened in the study of religion between scholars, the people or texts they study, and academic canons. The …
Problems of Citation in the Study of Religion: Who Do We Cite and Why
This special issue introduction contributes to emerging discussions on citation in studies of religion. What particular issues of citation arise in cultural, historical, and textual research on religious traditions? What can the study of religion contribute to the study of citation? Weaving together references to the four articles of the special issue, we identify four citational themes that are particularly relevant to the study of religion: the…
Sociology (20 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Religious studies (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (7 works) · Religious Studies (7 works)