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Birgit Meyer

Meyer, Birgit. 2015. Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana

Reviewed by John Durham Peters and Gavin Feller (University of Iowa). One of the most exciting things about the anthropology of Christianity is the way it uses the minutiae of practices in out of the way cultures to cast light on ancient and deep philosophical and religious questions

August 9, 2016 ndca-admin

Meyer, “Sensational Movies”

Meyer, Birgit. 2015. Sensational movies: video, vision, and Christianity in Ghana. Oakland, California : University of California Press. Publisher’s Description: Tracing …

October 8, 2015 ndca-admin

Webb, “Palang Conformity and Fulset Freedom: Encountering Pentecostalism’s ‘Sensational’ Liturgical Forms in the Postmissionary Church in Lae, Papua New Guinea”

Webb, Michael. 2011. “Palang Conformity and Fulset Freedom: Encountering Pentecostalism’s ‘Sensational’ Liturgical Forms in the Postmissionary Church in Lae, Papua …

January 2, 2013 ndca-admin

Meyer, “Religious and Secular”

Meyer, Birgit. 2012. Religious and Secular, “Spiritual and “Physical” in Ghana. In What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not …

August 8, 2012 ndca-admin

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Banner image photo credits:
Sacred Heart - Naomi Haynes
Man painting, Dolls, Candles, Monastery Artabyunk - Hillary Kaell
Car - James Bielo

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