Religious Matters

Research project @UtrechtUni on religion in plural settings. For a material approach in Religious Studies & Anthropology: Buildings, Images, Objects, Food, Body

[Religious Matters @ReligMatters]

Congratulations to @khamis_kauthar for her recently published article “Hijab and Niqab: A cross-religious covid-19 safety measure in Madina Zongo".

Open access on @ER_journal: https://t.co/pODigjjMKa

[Humanities Utrecht @HumanitiesUU]

Wat gebeurt er met afgedankte religieuze objecten, bv als kerken gesloten worden? Religiewetenschapper Birgit Meyer sprak op de Duitse radio over 'heilig afval' en hoe dit raakt aan koloniale geschiedenis. https://t.co/dbneSSG5DP @UtrechtReligion @ReligMatters

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On the relationship between ethnographic museums and art museums. A symposium organized by The Stedelijk Museum and the Centre for Material Culture:

https://t.co/tBmm4MvpJO

[Religious Matters @ReligMatters]

Congratulations to Erik Meinema for his recently published article in the Journal of Religion in Africa.

Erik wrote about ‘traditional religion’ and ‘interfaith’ cooperation with Christians and Muslims in the coastal Kenyan town of Malindi.

https://t.co/hzFpTehYp1

[Religious Matters @ReligMatters]

Cologne-based Africa missionaries “White Fathers" donated part of their collection to Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

In a special form of the popular unboxing videos, some scholars opened the archives:
https://t.co/VMyNNg2zLj

#heritage #materialreligion #museums

[Religious Matters @ReligMatters]

Roos Dorsman wrote about her Ph.D. thesis on Voodoo in New Orleans. She looked at Voodoo as a scape where "several socially relevant dimensions are displayed and connected, namely: race, politics, music, art, heritage, tourism, and commerce." Read more:

https://t.co/lm4sLkXzCi

[Religious Matters @ReligMatters]

Interview with Birgit Meyer on the “Entangled Worlds” website @EntangledW @UofT by Brandon Sward and Connie Gagliardi:

https://t.co/kC47rVclQJ

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Hanna Nieber cooked an experimental blogpost on ingesting the Quran as a medicine in Zanzibar and the transformative aspects of eating. Read it on #ReligiousMatters blog:

https://t.co/98fjkEVNuK

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Birgit Meyer and Jeremy Stolow curated a special issue on the religion-light nexus that moves beyond taken-for-granted metaphorical frames, especially with regard to Christianity and Islam.

Read more in a blogpost on:
https://t.co/nCaBCDzfbN

#ReligiousMatters

[Religious Matters @ReligMatters]

Jill Flanders Crosby and JT Torres on their new book "Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance: Performing the Entangled Histories of Cuba and West Africa" about the opportunities for creative interaction between Cuban and West African communities.

https://t.co/WicVs8AuZe

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‘Who gets excluded from “Christian culture”‘? New working paper by Daan Bekers

https://t.co/Qq0I1Cgm9M

[@Africa_IAI @AfricaIai]

Check out @AfricaIai's latest issue on Queer experiences in Africa, featuring Rachel Spronk, @DrSNNyeck on queer experiences in Africa, Nigerian queerscapes @msdiekara, Quietly queer in #Senegal @LOudenhuijsen & more https://t.co/wH8sK9kp0R

[Glasgow Anthropology Network @Anthro_Glasgow]

Michael Lambek
On sorcery: life with the concept
https://t.co/cFaLjPc7Wx

[Religious Matters @ReligMatters]

Online workshop on APRIL 21st: ”Refugees and Religious Tolerance in Europe”.

More info here: https://t.co/FZQ56B8FDq

[The Africa Institute @theafricainst]

We are pleased to announce Global Ghana, the 2nd edition of our country-focused season. Presented in Sharjah and Accra in 2021-22 & organized in collaboration w/ scholars @adomakoampofo @jeanallman Carina Ray @sankaralives & @drodurofrimpong Read more: https://t.co/BMqYj3OedD

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"In the contemporary world, widespread uncertainty associated with Covid-19 was responsible for the birth of ‘Corona Mai’ or Coronavirus Goddess"

#COVIDー19 #dossiercorona #religiousmatters

https://t.co/hr6UvMRFbH

[Friedlind Riedel @friedlindriedel]

STONGLY recommended read (also for use in class)! Provokative anticolonial scholarship by @liana_chua & @NayanikaM that some prestigious journal apperently refused to publish.

WHO ARE 'WE'? Reimagining Alterity & Affinity in Anthropology @BerghahnAnthro https://t.co/RcLOHTblsK

[Liana Chua @liana_chua]

Really excited to be welcoming @leataragin from @Woolf_Institute to our next @BrunelAnth research seminar on Tuesday 20 Oct 13:00-14:00 (UK time) on Zoom. As always, please drop me a note if you'd like to participate!

[Ghana Studies Association @GhanaStudiesASA]

Congratulations to Abena Dove Osseo-Asare (Univ. of Texas, Austin) for winning *The Martin A. Klein Prize in African history*

Her book is titled: Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019).

[Religious Matters @ReligMatters]

Mariam Goshadze in a brief and dense blogpost introduces her recently defended dissertation at @csrelharvard.

She listened to "silence" to focus on on the "built-in legal and ideological tensions between “culture” and “religion" in Accra, Ghana.

https://t.co/Bsjq4cJa5k