Ordering being, divining time: Nilotic sacrifice as iconic poiesis
Ordering being, divining time: Nilotic sacrifice as iconic poiesis The Karimojong prophet Apaokere was called by Divinity in a dream to sacrifice. In this vision, Divinity instructed him to kill…
The semantics of akisemem: A response to Michael Herzfeld
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Iconizing ikona: A response to Quincy Amoah’s Karimojong rebus
Iconizing ikona: A response to Quincy Amoah’s Karimojong rebus Go to Source
Less virtuous than it seems: The motivations behind priestly vocations in Catholic Sri Lanka
Less virtuous than it seems: The motivations behind priestly vocations in Catholic Sri Lanka The formation of Catholic seminarians in Sri Lanka is dependent on rigorous prayer and study routines…
Performing piety in public: Ethnic politics and interreligious harmony in Indonesia
Performing piety in public: Ethnic politics and interreligious harmony in Indonesia In this article, I focus on the reentry of Chinese Indonesians into both politics and public religious life in…
In correspondence with an ever-expanding heaven: Subject formation and spiritual labor among the Syrian-Catholic nuns of Kerala
In correspondence with an ever-expanding heaven: Subject formation and spiritual labor among the Syrian-Catholic nuns of Kerala This article illustrates the religious formation and subjectivation of a nun through her…
Moral custodianship between friends: Girlhood, class, and Islamic education in Indonesia
Moral custodianship between friends: Girlhood, class, and Islamic education in Indonesia Peer monitoring is a common feature of homosocialization among girls in Indonesian Islamic boarding schools. This article examines the…
Gendering morality and providing a feminized ethics of care: Welfare, crises, and tình cảm in contemporary Vietnam
Gendering morality and providing a feminized ethics of care: Welfare, crises, and tình cảm in contemporary Vietnam Focusing on welfare challenges and crises encountered by women in contemporary Vietnam, this…
Tantsa: Intuition as authoritative know-how in the Roman Catholic Philippines
Tantsa: Intuition as authoritative know-how in the Roman Catholic Philippines This article examines ritual nailing on the cross as a conduit for a process of ethical self-making among Roman Catholics…
“Do not adjust your mind—there is a fault in reality”: Simulation games and development education
“Do not adjust your mind—there is a fault in reality”: Simulation games and development education From the late 1960s onwards simulation games were adopted by development education programs as an…
Ethical pedagogies and/of relationality
Ethical pedagogies and/of relationality In the introduction to this special section, I discuss the way in which a focus on pedagogy in ethical practice can provide insights regarding the multifaceted…
The way of the prophets: History, structure, imagination: The Lévi-Strauss Lecture 2021
The way of the prophets: History, structure, imagination: The Lévi-Strauss Lecture 2021 I follow here three different prophetic movements in Africa with which I have been closely engaged. I highlight…
Spotlight on the liminal dividend
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From identity to ID card: Becoming a woman (and) Indigenous in Bolivia
From identity to ID card: Becoming a woman (and) Indigenous in Bolivia I met Brigida in 2015. At the time, she presented herself as a young gay man, somewhat androgynous,…
Someone not exactly like the others: The animal’s status
Someone not exactly like the others: The animal’s status Debate about the status of animals has long impassioned theologians and philosophers. Are other animals “subjects” sharing the same rights as…
Logic of myth and action: The Canela Messianic Movement of 1963
Logic of myth and action: The Canela Messianic Movement of 1963 The first White man, so runs the Ramkokamekra Canela myth, was Aukê, a miraculous Indigenous boy who ends up…
Ordering being, divining time: Nilotic sacrifice as iconic poiesis: Part 1–Ikoni
Ordering being, divining time: Nilotic sacrifice as iconic poiesis: Part 1–Ikoni The Karimojong prophet Apaokere was called by Divinity in a dream to sacrifice. In this vision, Divinity instructed him…
Afterword: Pandemic governance in China
Afterword: Pandemic governance in China This article outlines China’s pandemic governance as an ever-changing assemblage of old and new techniques, material forms, and organizational structures over the course of three…
Ethnology of Indigenous prophetic movements in the South American Lowlands: An overview
Ethnology of Indigenous prophetic movements in the South American Lowlands: An overview This article introduces the translation of Manuela Carneiro da Cunha’s atricle “Logic of myth and action: The Canela…
The entrepreneurial self of market socialism: Life insurance agents in rural central Vietnam
The entrepreneurial self of market socialism: Life insurance agents in rural central Vietnam Casting the self as the primary unit of profit-making and value creation, the entrepreneurial self evolves from…