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Birgit Meyer

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PhD Anthropology University of Amsterdam

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According to Wikipedia, Birgit Meyer is a German professor of religious studies at Utrecht University. Career Meyer was born on 21 March 1960 in Emden, Germany. She studied comparative religion, pedagogy, and cultural anthropology at the University of Bremen and the University of Amsterdam. She earned her PhD at the latter university in 1995 under doctoral advisors J. Fabian and H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen, with a thesis titled: Translating the Devil. An African Appropriation of Pietist Protestantism. The Case of the Peki Ewe, 1847–1992. She was appointed as professor of religious studies at Utrecht University in 2011. She previously spent over 20 years living in Ghana studying Pentecostalism and religious change.

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Birgit Meyer's Published Works

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'Make a Complete Break With the Past.' Memory and Post-Colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse' (1998) (550)
Christianity in Africa: From African Independent to Pentecostal‐Charismatic Churches (2004) (454)
“Praise the Lord”: Popular cinema and pentecostalite style in Ghana's new public sphere (2004) (207)
Mediation and Immediacy: Sensational Forms, Semiotic Ideologies and the Question of the Medium (2011) (201)
Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere (2006) (193)
Aesthetics of Persuasion: Global Christianity and Pentecostalism's Sensational Forms (2010) (170)
Translating The Devil. Religion and Modernity among The Ewe in Ghana (cf. Arch. supra. Sandra Fancello). Édimbourg, Edinburgh University Press, 1999, 260 p. (cf. Arch. supra, pp. 43-53). (2000) (162)
Introduction: From Imagined Communities to Aesthetic Formations: Religious Mediations, Sensational Forms, and Styles of Binding (2009) (151)
Things: Religion and the Question of Materiality (2012) (149)
Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment (2003) (136)
Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses (2009) (134)
The origin and mission of Material Religion (2010) (123)
Globalization and Identity: Dialectics of Flow and Closure. Introduction (1998) (119)
'If You Are a Devil, You Are a Witch and, If You Are a Witch, You Are a Devil.' the Integration of 'Pagan' Ideas Into the Conceptual Universe of Ewe Christians in Southeastern Ghana1 (1992) (108)
Mediation and the genesis of presence. Towards a material approach to religion (2012) (99)
Who Benefits from Aid for Trade? Comparing the Effects on Recipient versus Donor Exports (2014) (98)
The Power of Money: Politics, Occult Forces, and Pentecostalism in Ghana (1998) (95)
Aid, Infrastructure, and FDI: Assessing the Transmission Channel with a New Index of Infrastructure (2016) (86)
A New Global Index of Infrastructure: Construction, Rankings and Applications (2014) (80)
Impossible representations: Pentecostalism, vision and video technology in Ghana (2006) (73)
Pentecostalism and globalization (2010) (70)
Introduction: Material religion-how things matter (2012) (69)
Popular Ghanaian Cinema and "African Heritage" (1999) (67)
Pentecostalism, Islam and culture: New religious movements in West Africa (2006) (67)
Translating the Devil (2019) (60)
“There Is a Spirit in that Image”: Mass-Produced Jesus Pictures and Protestant-Pentecostal Animation in Ghana (2009) (58)
EIGHT Ghanaian Popular Cinema and the Magic in and of Film (2003) (57)
Powerful Pictures: Popular Christian Aesthetics in Southern Ghana (2008) (57)
Beyond syncretism: Translation and diabolization in the appropriation of Protestantism in Africa (1994) (57)
Iconic Religion in Urban Space (2016) (54)
Readings in Modernity in Africa (2008) (54)
Religious revelation, secrecy and the limits of visual representation (2006) (51)
Pentecostals after a Century: Global Perspectives on a Movement in Transition (1999) (50)
Media and the senses in the making of religious experience: an introduction (2008) (45)
How to capture the ‘wow’: R.R. Marett's notion of awe and the study of religion⋆ (2016) (44)
Visions of Blood, Sex and Money: Fantasy Spaces in Popular Ghanaian Cinema (2003) (42)
Religious and Secular, “Spiritual” and “Physical” in Ghana (2012) (41)
Heritage and the sacred: introduction (2013) (39)
Much Ado about Nothing? Political Representation Policies and the Influence of Women Parliamentarians in Germany (2003) (39)
Modernity and Enchantment. The Image of the Devil in Popular African Christianity (1996) (34)
Disentangling the impact of infrastructure on trade using a new index of infrastructure (2018) (34)
Picturing the Invisible : Visual Culture and the Study of Religion (2015) (30)
Key Terms in Material Religion (2015) (29)
CHRISTIANITY AND THE EWE NATION: GERMAN PIETIST MISSIONARIES, EWE CONVERTS AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURE (2002) (28)
Religious Remediations. Pentecostal views in Ghanaian video-movies (2006) (28)
INTRODUCTION: TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR THE STUDY OF CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM ENCOUNTERS IN AFRICA (2016) (28)
Ambiguous pleasures. Sexuality and new self-definitions in Nairobi (2000) (28)
Pentecostalism, prosperity and popular cinema in Ghana (2002) (26)
Translating the devil; an African appropriation of pietist protestantism. The case of the Peki Ewe in Southeastern Ghana (1995) (25)
Aid for trade: Assessing the effects on recipient exports of manufactures and primary commodities to donors and non-donors (2014) (22)
Mediating tradition: pentecostal pastors, African priests and chiefs in Ghanaian popular films (2005) (22)
‘Tradition and colour at its best’: ‘tradition’ and ‘heritage’ in Ghanaian video-movies1 (2010) (21)
Pentecostalism, Prosperity, and Popular Cinema in Ghana (2003) (21)
Mediating Absence—: Effecting Spiritual Presence Pictures and the Christian Imagination (2014) (20)
African heritage design: Entertainment media and visual aesthetics in Ghana (2012) (20)
Christian Mind and Worldly Matters (1997) (19)
TOWARDS A JOINT FRAMEWORK FOR THE STUDY OF CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS IN AFRICA: RESPONSE TO J. D. Y. PEEL (2016) (17)
Introduction: key words in material religion (2011) (16)
Guidelines for anthropological research: Data management, ethics, and integrity (2019) (15)
Material religion's first decade (2014) (14)
Enchantment Inc: Online Gaming between Spiritual Experience and Commodity Fetishism (2012) (12)
Commodities and the Power of Prayer (2001) (12)
Religion as Mediation (2020) (12)
Response to Ter Haar and Ellis (2009) (11)
Ghanaian popular video-movies between state film policies and nollywood: Discourses and tensions (2010) (11)
Does Aid for Trade from the North promote South–South trade? (2014) (10)
Money, Power and Morality: Popular Ghanaian Cinema in the Fourth Republic (2001) (10)
Going and Making Public. Some Reflections on Pentecostalism as Public Religion in Ghana. (2011) (10)
Introduction: Sermon in the City: Christian and Islamic Preaching in West Africa (2017) (10)
Short-term induction of assimilation and accommodation (2014) (9)
Beyond ‘Image Ban’ and ‘Aniconism’: Reconfiguring Ancient Israelite and Early Jewish Religion\s in a Visual and Material Religion Perspective (2019) (9)
Materializing religion (2008) (8)
A ESTÉTICA DA PERSUASÃO: AS FORMAS SENSORIAIS DO CRISTIANISMO GLOBAL E DO PENTECOSTALISMO (2019) (8)
Magic, Mermaids and Modernity. The Attraction of Pentecostalism in Africa (1995) (8)
Introduction : Heritage dynamics politics of authentication, aesthetics of persuasion and the cultural production of the real (2018) (7)
Frontier Zones and the Study of Religion (2018) (7)
You Devil, go away from me! Pentecostalist African Christianity and the Powers of Good and Evil (2001) (7)
Religious sensations: media, aesthetics, and the study of contemporary religion (2012) (7)
Recycling the Christian Past. The Heritagization of Christianity and National Identity in the Netherlands. (2019) (6)
What Is Religion in Africa? Relational Dynamics in an Entangled World (2021) (6)
Taking Offense: Religion, Art, and Visual Culture in Plural Configurations (2018) (6)
Introduction: media and the senses in the making of religious experience (2008) (6)
Who benefits from aid-for-trade? (2014) (6)
Idolatry beyond the Second Commandment: Conflicting Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen (2019) (5)
Occult Forces on Screen: Representation and the Danger of Mimesis in Popular Ghanaian Films. (2002) (5)
Money, Power and Morality: Popular Cinema in the Fourth Republic (2001) (5)
Catholicism and the Study of Religion (2017) (5)
Pentecostalism and modern audio-visual media (2009) (4)
Prayers, guns and ritual murder. Power and the occult in Ghanaian popular cinema (2006) (4)
Creativity in Transition: Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe (2016) (4)
Popular Ghanaian Cinema and (2016) (3)
Remapping our mindset: towards a transregional and pluralistic outlook (2019) (3)
Light Mediations: Introduction (2020) (3)
Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2019) (3)
Chanting Down the New Jeruzalem: the politics of belonging on Saint Martin & Sint Maarten (2000) (3)
Democracies cooperate more: even where it threatens to bite? (2016) (3)
Self-contained. Glamorous houses and modes of personhood in Ghanaian video-movies (2011) (3)
Mami water as a Christian demon: The eroticism of forbidden pleasures in Southern Ghana (2008) (3)
Afterword: Media Dynamics of Religious Diversity (2018) (3)
Media, Religion and the Public Sphere: Introduction (2005) (2)
Introduction: Mediating Religion and Film in a Post-secular World (2005) (2)
Portraits that Matter: King Chulalongkorn Objects and the Sacred World of Thai-ness (2012) (2)
Refugees and Religion (2021) (2)
The Discreet Charm of Populism: (2019) (2)
Aesthetic formations. Media, religion and the senses in the making of communities (2009) (2)
Comment on: "Researching Muslim Worlds: regions and disciplines" by Ulrike Freitag, Programmatic Text No. 6, 2013 (2014) (2)
The crucial role of infrastructure in attracting FDI by Julian Donaubauer, Birgit Meyer and Peter Nunnenkamp (2014) (2)
Pentecostal Passion Paradigm. The (In)Visible Framing of Gibson's Christ in a Dutch Pentecostal Church (2012) (2)
Sense and Essence (2018) (2)
Enlightening religion: Light and darkness in religious knowledge and knowledge about religion (2021) (2)
Introduction: Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2019) (2)
Sensuous mediations. The city in Ghanaian films - and beyond (2007) (2)
Art, anthropology, and religion (2015) (1)
Images of evil in popular Ghanaian Christianity (2008) (1)
Afterword. Towards Religious Studies “New Style” (2017) (1)
Editorial. Special issue. Religion and the Media (2003) (1)
Comparison as critique (2017) (1)
Afterword (2020) (1)
‘Material Approaches to Religion’ Meet ‘New Materialism’: Resonances and Dissonances (2019) (1)
Unexpected synergies (2012) (1)
Moral Discourses and Public Spaces in the Fourth Republic (2001) (1)
The Icon in Orthodox Christianity, Art History and Semiotics (2016) (1)
‘Pentecost’ in the World (2019) (1)
The Dynamics of Taking Offense. Concluding Thoughts and Outlook (2018) (1)
The Power of Money. Politics, Sorcery and Pentecostalism in Ghana (1999) (1)
The Study of Religion Today (2017) (1)
Sense and Essence: Heritage and the Cultural Construction of the Real (2018) (1)
Magic and Modernity. Dialectics of Revelation and Concealment (2003) (1)
Heritage Dynamics: Politics of Authentication, Aesthetics of Persuasion and the Cultural Production of the Real. : Introduction (2018) (1)
Firm Heterogeneity and Choice of Ownership Structure: An Empirical Analysis of German FDI in India (2009) (1)
The Current Crisis in Dutch Study of Religion and the Role of the NGG (2020) (1)
Modernity and belonging (2003) (1)
Aid, Trade and Foreign Direct Investment (2016) (0)
Rethinking Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa (2016) (0)
ONE. The Video Film Industry (2019) (0)
AFR volume 92 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
FRG Perceptions of the Soviet Threat (2019) (0)
AFR volume 91 issue 5 Cover and Front matter (2021) (0)
Aid-financed infrastructure promotes foreign direct investments (2016) (0)
Round table symposium: Spiritual Movements in Africa between Continuity and Innovation (2015) (0)
Uehlinger, Christoph. "Beyond ‘Image Ban’ and ‘Aniconism’: Reconfiguring Ancient Israelite and Early Jewish Religion\s in a Visual and Material Religion Perspective." Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Contested Desires (2020) (0)
Responses, reflections, and afterthoughts (2016) (0)
AFR volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (2020) (0)
Recycling the Christian past (2019) (0)
Perils of Belonging: Citizenship, Autochthony, and Exclusion in a Globalizing World (2013) (0)
Frontier Zones and the Study of Religion 1 (2018) (0)
SEVEN. Mediating Traditional Culture (2019) (0)
Grounded Reflections (2020) (0)
Sense & Essence: The Aesthetics of Heritage Politics (2017) (0)
Afterword: Comparison in the Anthropological Study of Plural Religious Environments (2020) (0)
AFR volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
Culture Birgit Meyer Nineteenth-century Gold Coast Christian Mind and Worldly Matters : Religion and Materiality in (2006) (0)
Watching Movies in Ghana (2017) (0)
Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Nigeria. A post-secular perspective on youth peacebuilding (2015) (0)
CHARISMATIC CHRISTIANITY AND ‘MODERNITY’ IN GHANA Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy. By PAUL GIFFORD. London: C. Hurst, 2004. Pp. xv+216. £45 (ISBN 1-85065-718-1); £16.50, paperback (ISBN 1-85065-718-X). (2005) (0)
Firm Heterogeneity and Choice of Ownership Structure (2009) (0)
Three Points about Current German Anthropology (2016) (0)
AFR volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2019) (0)
RELIGION AND MORALITY IN LATIN OF THE HIGH SCHOOL (0)
Missions: the politics of culture and gender. Special Issue of the Journal of Religion in Africa (2002) (0)
[Contract focused short-term group therapy--results of an evaluation]. (2010) (0)
Image Wars in Past and Present (2017) (0)
Brief an Christine Kulke (2008) (0)
6. Pentecostalism and Globalization (2019) (0)
Religion, Spirituality and the Internet (2012) (0)
Money, Power and Morality (2001) (0)
The Prophet Harris, The 'Black Elijah' of West Africa [Review of: D.A. Shank (1996) -] (1996) (0)
Book Reviews : • Christopher Tilley (ed.), Reading Material Culture: Structuralism, Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990) (1991) (0)
[Review of: A. Ashforth (2005) Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa Kupilikula; (2005) Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique] (2007) (0)
Mobilizing Theory (2021) (0)
How Jesus charged language with meaning’, in B. (1999) (0)
AGAWU, Kofi, African Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995, xx, 217 pp., ISBN 0521 148084 1 (hardback) (1999) (0)
The Sacred Heart of Jesus (2017) (0)
Books Received (1983) (0)
AFR volume 88 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (2018) (0)
Preface in special issue The Study of Religion Today (2017) (0)
Culture Birgit Meyer Nineteenth-century Gold Coast Christian Mind and Worldly Matters : Religion and Materiality in (2006) (0)
Filename 1 The future of the aesthetic past A conversation between Jerrold Levinson (2015) (0)
Kwame "Almighty" Akoto, The Supernatural Eyes of God (2014) (0)
Presence: Pictures and the (2017) (0)
AFTERWORD: Creativity in Transition (2016) (0)
AFR volume 92 issue 5 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
AFR volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
Islam, Gender, and the State: Senegalese Women's Groups in Paris and Dakar (2002) (0)
AFR volume 90 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2020) (0)
FOUR. Film as Revelation (2019) (0)
Modalities of co-existence in madina, ghana (2022) (0)
Witchcraft: Witchcraft and Christianity (2008) (0)
African Heritage Design (2013) (0)
11 ‘ Pentecost ’ in the World (2019) (0)
FIVE. Picturing the Occult (2019) (0)
Independent to Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches (2004) (0)

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