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Rijk van Dijk © ASC LeidenRijk van Dijk is an anthropologist. He is an expert on Pentecostalism, globalization and transnationalism, migration, youth and healing. Rijk van Dijk has done extensive research on the rise of Pentecostal movements in the urban areas of Malawi, Ghana and Botswana. He is the author of Young Malawian Puritans (Utrecht, ISOR Press, 1993) and has co-edited seven other books including The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma (Oxford, James Currey 2000) with Ria Reis and Marja Spierenburg, and Situating Globality. African Agency in the Appropriation of Global Culture (Leiden, Brill 2004) with Wim van Binsbergen. His current research deals with religious, in particular Pentecostal, engagement with the domains of sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Botswana. A recently published article entitled 'Gloves in Times of AIDS: Pentecostalism, Hair and Social Distancing in Botswana' (in: F. Becker & P.W. Geissler (eds) Aids and Religious Practice in Africa, Leiden: Brill, 2009) deals with insights gained from his ongoing research. He is also the chair of the International Research Network on Religion and AIDS in Africa (IRNARA) and the editor-in-chief of the journal African Diaspora. A Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global World which has been published by Brill since 2008.

Rijk van Dijk had been appointed as guest professor of Ethnology at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
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Dr. R.A. (Rijk) van Dijk
Senior researcher

Botswana, Ghana, Malawi

Email adress: dijkr@ascleiden.nl
Phone number: +31 (0)71 527 6607
ASC room number: 3.A13

Link to publications by Rijk van Dijk in the ASC catalogue (link opens in a new window)
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The social life of connectivity in Africa (2012)
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book

Special issue: Ideologies of youth (2011)
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; C. Cardoso; I. Butter
Type of Publication: Book

Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa (2010)
Editors: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book
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Cities and linking hot spots: subjective rescaling, Ghanaian migration and the fragmentation of urban spaces (2010)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: N. Glick Schiller; C. Caglar
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Pentecostals moving South-South: Brazilian and Ghanaian transnationalism in Southern Africa compared (2010)
R.A. van Dijk; L. van de Kamp
Editors: A. Adogame; J. Spickard
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Marriage, commodification and the romantic ethic in Botswana (2010)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

The redemptive moment: antiretroviral treatment (ART's) and the production of new religious spaces in Africa:an introduction (2010)
Editors: R.A. van Dijk; H. Dilger; M. Buchardt
Type of Publication: Journal Article

Introduction: economic ethnographies of the marketization of health and healing in Africa (2010)
M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Social catapulting and the spirit of the entrepreneurialism: migrants, private initiative and the pentecostal ethic in Botswana (2009)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: G. Hüwelmeier; K. Krause
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Gloves in times of AIDS: Pentecostalism, Hair and Social Distancing in Botswana (2009)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: F. Becker; P.W. Geizzler
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Questioning social security in the study of religion in Africa: the ambiguous meaning of the gift in African Pentecostalism and Islam (2009)
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: C. Leutloff-Grandits; A. Peleikis; T. Thelen
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Verdeeld Afrika. Etniciteit, conflict en de grenzen van de staat (2008)
J. Abbink; R.A. van Dijk; A. van Dokkum
Editors: J. Abbink; A. van Dokkum
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Introduction and Editorial (2008)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article

The safe and suffering body in transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism: towards an anthropology of vulnerable agency (2007)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa (2007)
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book
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Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa (2007)
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Editors: P. Chabal; U. Engel; L.J. de Haan
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa : an introduction (2007)
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Testing Nightscapes: Ghanian Pentecostal politics of the nocturnal (2007)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article

Transnational images of Pentecostal healing: comparative examples from Malawi and Botswana (2006)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: T.J. Luedke; H.G. West
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

The African neighbourhood: an introduction (2006)
P.J.J. Konings; D.W.J. Foeken; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: P.J.J. Konings; D.W.J. Foeken
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Transcending the nation. Explorations of transnationalism as a concept and phenomenon (2004)
R.A. van Dijk; V. Mazzucato; C. Horst; Pde Vries
Editors: D. Kalb; W. Pansters; H. Siebers
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture : an introduction (2004)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture (2004)
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book
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Editorial (2004)
R.A. van Dijk; G. Sabar
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and Issues of citizenship in Botswana (2004)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

'Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia': Pentecostal Pan-Africanism and Ghanaian identities in the transnational domain (2004)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Geboorte in een Ghanese Pinksterkerk: Postmodern vieren in Den Haag (2004)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Creating and contesting urban space through audotiry strategies in Accra (2004)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Transnationalisme en identiteit: de Ghanese gemeenschap in Den Haag (2004)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: L.A.C.J. Lucassen
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and the stranger's beauty in Botswana (2003)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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Een schijn van voodoo : culturele achtergronden van de handel in Nigeriaanse meisjes voor de Nederlandse prostitutie : een verkenning (2003)
R.A. van Dijk; T. Rasing; N. Tellegen; W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of Publication: Book
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Transnationalisme en Identiteit: de Ghanese gemeenschap in Den Haag (2003)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: L.A.C.J. Lucassen
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Pentecostalism and the politics of prophetic power: religious modernity in Ghana (2003)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: N. Kasfelt
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Modernity's limits: Pentecostalism and the moral rejection of alcohol in Malawi (2002)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: D.F. Bryceson
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Religion, reciprocity and restructuring family responsibility in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (2002)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: D.F. Bryceson; U. Vuorela
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands : religion mediating a tense relationship (2002)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: I. van Kessel
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Time and transcultural technologies of the self in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: A. Corten; R. Marshall-Fratani
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Mobile Africa : an introduction (2001)
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; D.W.J. Foeken
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; D.W.J. Foeken
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Sociale en culturele achtergronden van vrouwenhandel (2001)
R.A. van Dijk; J. Nijboer; J. Vocks
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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Cultures of travel : Fulbe pastoralists in central Mali and Pentecostalism in Ghana (2001)
M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; D.W.J. Foeken; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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African pentecostalism in the Netherlands (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: S.D. Glazier
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Mobile Africa : changing patterns of movement in Africa and beyond (2001)
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; D.W.J. Foeken
Type of Publication: Book

Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy : Pentecostalism and laughter in urban Malawi (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: H. Moore; T. Sanders
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Interrogating individuality in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Ghanaian Pentecostal churches and the politics of a transcultural identity (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands: religion mediating a tense relationship (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Conflicts of individuality of Ghanaian migrants in the Netherlands (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy. Pentecostal rhetorics of self-making in urban Malawi (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Ngoma, born-again fundamentalism and contesting representations of time in urban Malawi (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: R.A. van Dijk; R. Reis; M. Spierenburg
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Voodoo on the doorstep. magic policing in the Netherlands and explosions in anthropology (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Introduction : beyond the confinement of affliction : a discursive field of experience (2000)
R.A. van Dijk; R. Reis; M. Spierenburg
Editors: R.A. van Dijk; R. Reis; M. Spierenburg
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Voodoo on the doorstep and the trafficking in young Nigerian girls in the Netherlands (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

The anatomy of mobility in Africa. Some research questions (2000)
R.A. van Dijk; J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Afrikaanse gemeenschappen, religie en identiteit. Ghanese pinksterkerken in Den Haag (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: I. van Kessel; N. Tellegen
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Interrogating individuality: Ghanaian Pentecostalism and Dutch identity-politics (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Een schijn van voodoo. Culturele achtergronden van de handel in Nigeriaanse meisjes voor de Nederlandse prostitutie: een verkenning (2000)
R.A. van Dijk; T. Rasing; N. Tellegen; W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of Publication: Book

Secret worlds, democratization and election observation in Malawi (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: J. Abbink; G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Introduction: the domestication of chieftaincy in Africa: from the imposed to the imagined (1999)
E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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The musical politics of transnational pentecostalism in Ghana (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Modernity on a shoestring : dimensions of globalization, consumption and development in Africa and beyond (1999)
R. Fardon; W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book

The Pentecostal gift : Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence of the global economy (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: R. Fardon; W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape (1999)
Editors: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book

Confronting the past and post-colonial identities in Africa: the case of pentecostalism (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Charismatic Pentecostalism in Africa: a comparison of cases from Malawi and Ghana (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Pentecostalism, cultural memory and the state: contested representations of time in postcolonial Malawi (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: R. Werbner
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Pentecostalism and the politics of prophetic power: ambivalences of modernity in Ghana (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Modalities of fundamentalism in Malawi (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Spiegeling en verwonding. Enkele bespiegelingen over Schoffeleers' tijdloosheid (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M. Elias; R. Reis
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Ghanaian Pentecostalism in The Hague and the national order of things (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Fine young cannibal (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

The alternative economy of pentecostal churches in Ghana (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Time and transcultural technologies of the self in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Discourses of transubjectivity in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Christian fundamentalism and the moral rejection of alcohol in Malawi (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Contested authorities and the politics of perception: deconstructing the study of religion in Africa (1996)
R.A. van Dijk; P. Pels
Editors: R. Werbner; T. Ranger
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Ngoma, born-again fundamentalism and contesting representations of time in urban Malawi (1996)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

La guérisseuse du docteur Banda au Malawi (1993)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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Young puritan preachers in post-independence Malawi (1992)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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Young Born-Again preachers in post-independence Malawi: the significance of an extraneous identity (1992)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: P. Gifford
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Een schijn van Voodoo. Culturele achtergronden van de handel in Nigeriaanse meisjes voor de Nederlandse prostitutie: een verkenning (vierde druk)
 Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, 2006
R.A. van Dijk; T. Rasing; N. Tellegen; W.M.J. van Binsbergen
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Een schijn van voodoo : culturele achtergronden van de handel in Nigeriaanse meisjes voor de Nederlandse prostitutie : een verkenning
 Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, 2003
R.A. van Dijk; T. Rasing; N. Tellegen; W.M.J. van Binsbergen
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Een schijn van voodoo. Culturele achtergronden van de handel in Nigeriaanse meisjes voor de Nederlandse prostitutie: een verkenning
 Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2000
R.A. van Dijk; T. Rasing; N. Tellegen; W.M.J. van Binsbergen

Christian fundamentalism in sub-Saharan Africa : the case of Pentecostalism
 Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, Centre of African Studies, Occasional paper, ISSN 0905-4642 2000
R.A. van Dijk

Plunder hell, to populate heaven : the extractive and the insertive in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora
 The Hague: WOTRO, Working paper, ISSN 1386-9515 ; 9 1999
R.A. van Dijk

Modernity on a shoestring : dimensions of globalization, consumption and development in Africa and beyond
 Leiden [etc.]: EIDOS, 1999
R. Fardon; W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk

Chieftaincy in West Africa: an extended proposal of an international colloquium
 1998
R.A. van Dijk

Handelen met Laurens : cahier ter gelegenheid van de 65e verjaardag van Laurens van der Laan aangeboden op het symposium Agricultural Marketing in Tropical Africa op 7 november 1997
 Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, 1997
T. Dijkstra; R.A. van Dijk; H.L. Laan

Young Malawian puritans : young born-again preachers in a present-day African urban environment
 Utrecht: ISOR, 1992
R.A. van Dijk

Van hegemonisch tot demonisch gezag : jonge puriteinse predikers en iconoclastisch verzet
 Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam, Antropologisch-Sociologisch Centrum, 1992
R.A. van Dijk

'Introduction: economic ethnographies of the marketization of health and healing in Africa'
 In: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk: 'Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2010.

'Marriage, commodification and the romantic ethic in Botswana'
 In: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk: 'Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2010.

'Pentecostals moving South-South: Brazilian and Ghanaian transnationalism in Southern Africa compared'
 In: A. Adogame; J. Spickard: 'Religion crossing boundaries: transnational religious and social dynamics in Africa and the New African Diaspora', Leiden: Brill, 2010.

'Cities and linking hot spots: subjective rescaling, Ghanaian migration and the fragmentation of urban spaces'
 In: N. Glick Schiller; C. Caglar: 'Locating migration: rescaling cities and migrants', Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010.

'Social catapulting and the spirit of the entrepreneurialism: migrants, private initiative and the pentecostal ethic in Botswana'
 In: G. Hüwelmeier; K. Krause: 'Traveling spirits: migrants, markets and mobilities', Abingdon: Routledge, 2009.

'Questioning social security in the study of religion in Africa: the ambiguous meaning of the gift in African Pentecostalism and Islam'
 In: C. Leutloff-Grandits; A. Peleikis; T. Thelen: 'Social security in religious networks: anthropological perspectives on new risks and ambivalences', New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009.

'Gloves in times of AIDS: Pentecostalism, Hair and Social Distancing in Botswana'
 In: F. Becker; P.W. Geizzler: 'Aids and Religious Practice in Africa', Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2009.

'Verdeeld Afrika. Etniciteit, conflict en de grenzen van de staat'
 In: J. Abbink; A. van Dokkum: 'Verdeeld Afrika. Etniciteit, conflict en de grenzen van de staat', Diemen: Uitgeverij AMB, 2008.

'Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa : an introduction'
 In: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2007.

'Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa'
 In: P. Chabal; U. Engel; L.J. de Haan: 'African Alternatives', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2007.

'The safe and suffering body in transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism: towards an anthropology of vulnerable agency'
 In: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2007.

'The African neighbourhood: an introduction'
 In: P.J.J. Konings; D.W.J. Foeken: 'Crisis and creativity: exploring the wealth of the African neighbourhood', Leiden: Brill, 2006.

'Transnational images of Pentecostal healing: comparative examples from Malawi and Botswana'
 In: T.J. Luedke; H.G. West: 'Borders & healers. Brokering therapeutic resources in Southeast Africa', Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006.

'Transcending the nation. Explorations of transnationalism as a concept and phenomenon'
 In: D. Kalb; W. Pansters; H. Siebers: 'Globalization & development; Themes and concepts in current research', Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004.

'Transnationalisme en identiteit: de Ghanese gemeenschap in Den Haag'
 In: L.A.C.J. Lucassen: 'Amsterdammer worden, migranten, hun organisaties en inburgering, 1600-2000', Amsterdam: Vossiuspers UvA, 2004.

'Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture : an introduction'
 In: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2004.
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''Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia': Pentecostal Pan-Africanism and Ghanaian identities in the transnational domain'
 In: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture', Leiden: Brill, 2004.
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'Transnationalisme en Identiteit: de Ghanese gemeenschap in Den Haag'
 In: L.A.C.J. Lucassen: 'Amsterdammer worden', Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2003.

'Pentecostalism and the politics of prophetic power: religious modernity in Ghana'
 In: N. Kasfelt: 'Scriptural politics : the Bible and the Koran as political models in the Middle East and Africa', London: Hurst & Co, 2003.

'Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands : religion mediating a tense relationship'
 In: I. van Kessel: 'Merchants, missionaries & migrants : 300 years of Dutch-Ghanaian relations', Amsterdam: KIT/Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2002.
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'Religion, reciprocity and restructuring family responsibility in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora'
 In: D.F. Bryceson; U. Vuorela: 'The transnational family : new European frontiers and global networks', Oxford [etc.]: Berg, 2002.
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'Modernity's limits: Pentecostalism and the moral rejection of alcohol in Malawi'
 In: D.F. Bryceson: 'Alcohol in Africa : mixing business, pleasure, and politics', Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2002.
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'African pentecostalism in the Netherlands'
 In: S.D. Glazier: 'Encyclopedia of African & African-American religion', London: Routledge, 2001.

'Cultures of travel : Fulbe pastoralists in central Mali and Pentecostalism in Ghana'
 In: M.E. de Bruijn; D.W.J. Foeken; R.A. van Dijk: 'Mobile Africa : changing patterns of movement in Africa and beyond', Leiden: Brill, 2001.
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'Mobile Africa : an introduction'
 In: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; D.W.J. Foeken: 'Mobile Africa : changing patterns of movement in Africa and beyond', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2001.
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'Time and transcultural technologies of the self in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora'
 In: A. Corten; R. Marshall-Fratani: 'Between Babel and Pentecost : transnational Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America', 2001.

'Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy : Pentecostalism and laughter in urban Malawi'
 In: H. Moore; T. Sanders: 'Magical interpretations, material realities : modernity, witchcraft and the occult in postcolonial Africa', London: Routledge, 2001.

'Ngoma, born-again fundamentalism and contesting representations of time in urban Malawi'
 In: R.A. van Dijk; R. Reis; M. Spierenburg: 'The quest for fruition through Ngoma. The political aspects of healing in Southern Africa', London: James Currey, 2000.
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'Secret worlds, democratization and election observation in Malawi'
 In: J. Abbink; G.S.C.M. Hesseling: 'Election Observation and Democratization in Africa', Hampshire: MacMillan Press Ltd., 2000.
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'Afrikaanse gemeenschappen, religie en identiteit. Ghanese pinksterkerken in Den Haag'
 In: I. van Kessel; N. Tellegen: 'Afrikanen in Nederland', Amsterdam / Leiden: KIT: KIT / African Studies Centre, 2000.
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'Introduction : beyond the confinement of affliction : a discursive field of experience'
 In: R.A. van Dijk; R. Reis; M. Spierenburg: 'The quest for fruition through ngoma : political aspects of healing in southern Africa', London: James Currey, 2000.
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'Pentecostalism, gerontocratic rule and democratization in Malawi : the changing position of the young in political culture'
 In: J. Haynes: 'Religion, globalization and political culture in the Third World', New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
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'Introduction: the domestication of chieftaincy in Africa: from the imposed to the imagined'
 In: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk: 'African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape', Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 1999.
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'The Pentecostal gift : Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence of the global economy'
 In: R. Fardon; W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk: 'Modernity on a shoestring : dimensions of globalization, consumption and development in Africa and beyond', Leiden [etc.]: EIDOS:, 1999.
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'Spiegeling en verwonding. Enkele bespiegelingen over Schoffeleers' tijdloosheid'
 In: M. Elias; R. Reis: 'Getuigen ondanks zichzelf. Voor Jan Mathijs Schoffeleers bij zijn zeventigste verjaardag', Maastricht: Shaker Publishing, 1998.
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'Pentecostalism, cultural memory and the state: contested representations of time in postcolonial Malawi'
 In: R. Werbner: 'Memory and the postcolony : African anthropology and the critique of power', London [etc.]: Zed Books:, 1998.
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'Contested authorities and the politics of perception: deconstructing the study of religion in Africa'
 In: R. Werbner; T. Ranger: 'Postcolonial identities in Africa', London: Zed Books, 1996.
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'Young Born-Again preachers in post-independence Malawi: the significance of an extraneous identity'
 In: P. Gifford: 'New dimensions in African Christianity', Nairobi: All Africa Conference of Churches, 1992.

The social life of connectivity in Africa
 M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk (editors)
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Special issue: Ideologies of youth
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