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Richman, ‘Machine Gun Prayer’

Richman, Naomi. 2020. ‘Machine gun prayer: the politics of embodied desire in Pentecostal worship.’ Journal of Contemporary Religion 35(3): 469-483. …

January 4, 2021 Leanne Williams Green

Malara, “The Alimentary Forms of Religious Life”

Malara, Diego. “The Alimentary Forms of Religious Life: Technologies of the Other, Lenience, and the Ethics of Ethiopian Orthodox Fasting.” Social …

September 23, 2018 ndca-admin

Opas and Haapalainen, “Connected with God”

Opas, Minna and Anna Haapalainen. 2016. Connected with God: body, the social, and the transcendent. Temenos 52(2): 179-192. Abstract: The special issue Connected …

February 22, 2017 ndca-admin

Schmalz, “Authority, Representation, and Offense”

Schmalz, Mathew. 2016. Authority, Representation, and Offense: Dalit Catholics, Foot Washing, and the Study of Global Catholicism. Journal of Global …

December 18, 2016 ndca-admin

Hoenes del Pinal, “A Ritual Interrupted”

Hoenes del Pinal, Eric. 2016. A Ritual Interrupted: A Case of Contested Ritual Practices in a Q’eqchi’-Maya Catholic Parish. Journal of …

September 9, 2016 ndca-admin

Golomski, “Risk, Mistake, and Generational Contest”

Golomski, Casey. 2016. Risk, Mistake, and Generational Contest in Body Rituals of Swazi Jerikho Zionism. Journal of Contemporary Religion 31(3): 351-364.  Abstract: This …

September 9, 2016 ndca-admin

Eriksen, “The virtuous woman and the holy nation”

Eriksen, Annelin. 2016. The virtuous woman and the holy nation: Femininity in the context of Pentecostal Christianity in Vanuatu. The …

May 3, 2016 ndca-admin

Bernstein, “Freeze, Die, Come to Life”

Bernstein, Anya. 2015. Freeze, die, come to life: The many paths to immortality in post-Soviet Russia. American Ethnologist 42(4):766-781.  Abstract: Through practices such …

October 29, 2015 ndca-admin

Harkness, “Voicing Christian aspiration”

Harkness, Nicholas. 2015. Voicing Christian Aspiration: the semiotic anthropology of voice in Seoul. Ethnography 16(3): 313-330. Abstract: This article proposes some …

September 5, 2015 ndca-admin

Nafte, “Institutional Bodies”

Nafte, Myriam. 2015. Institutional Bodies: Spatial Agency and the Dead. History & Anthropology 26(2): 206-233.  Abstract: In this paper, I argue that the …

May 19, 2015 ndca-admin

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