Anthropologist Angie Heo’s first book, The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt (2018), examines saintly intercession to explore …
Mediation
Ravalde, “Deceiving the spirit”
Ravalde, L. (2019). “Deceiving the spirit: engaging with the Holy Spirit in Catholic Uganda.” Africa 89(1), 147-164. Abstract: During ethnographic fieldwork …
Pond-de Wit, Houtman, Exalto, Lieburg, Roeland, and Wisse, “Buildings and Bibles Between Profanation and Sacralization”
Pons-de Wit, Anneke, Dick Houtman, John Exalto, Fred van Lieburg, Johan Roeland, and Maarten Wisse. 2019. “Buildings and Bibles between …
Feller, “Portable Power, Religious Swag”
Feller, Gavin. “Portable Power, Religious Swag: Mediating Authority in Brazillian Neo-Pentecostalism.” Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief. …
Hovland, “Beyond Mediation”
Hovland, Ingie. 2018. Beyond Mediation: An Anthropological Understanding of the Relationship Between Humans, Materiality, and Transcendence in Protestant Christianity. Journal of …
Haynes, “Why can’t a pastor be president of a ‘Christian Nation’?”
Haynes, Naomi. 2018. Why can’t a pastor be president of a “Christian Nation”? Pentecostal Politics as Religious Mediation. PoLAR: Political …
Boylston, “The Stranger at the Feast”
Boylston, Tom. 2018. The Stranger at the Feast: Prohibition and Mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Community. Berkeley: University of California …
Robbins, “Keeping God’s Distance”
Robbins, Joel. 2017. Keeping God’s Distance: Sacrifice, possession, and the problem of religious mediation. American Ethnologist 44(3): 464-475. Abstract: Much contemporary work in …
Elisha, “Saved by a Martyr”
Elisha, Omri. 2016. Saved by a Martyr: Evangelical Mediation, Sanctification, and the “Persecuted Church.” Journal of the American Academy of …
Butticci, “African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe”
Butticci, Annalisa. 2016. African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe: The Politics of Presence in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University …