Rijk van Dijk
Rijk van Dijk is an anthropologist. He is an expert on Pentecostalism, globalisation and transnationalism, migration, youth and healing. He has been appointed Professor of Religion in Contemporary Africa and its Diaspora at the ASCL, University of Leiden, as of 1 September 2017. He is also Head of the Graduate Programme African Studies.
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 nine other books including The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma (Oxford, James Currey 2000) with Ria Reis and Marja Spierenburg, and Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa. Saving Souls, Prolonging Lives (London, Ashgate Publ. 2014) with Hansjoerg Dilger, Marian Burchardt and Thera Rasing. His current research deals with religious, in particular Pentecostal, engagement with the domains of relationships and sexuality in Botswana. A recently published article, entitled ‘The Tent versus Lobola; marriage, monetary intimacies and the new face of responsibility in Botswana’ (2017) deals with insights gained from his ongoing research.
He is also the co-founder and former editor-in-chief of the journal African Diaspora. A Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global World (published by Brill).
Rijk van Dijk is a guest professor of the Centre of Excellence and the Ethnology-programme at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Here he is engaging with the study of Life Skills, Counselling and the Ethics of Responsibility by contributing his research on 'The Social Life of Responsibilization. Marriage as a "Life-Project" in Botswana'.
Keywords: African diaspora, pentecostalism, religion and youth, religion, sexuality and relationships in Africa
Prof. Dr. R.A. Dijk's profile on the Leiden University website
Collaboration and contestation in words: Dialogues and disputes in African social realities
Conflict continuities
Patterns of Living in Southern Africa, 1780s to the present
Pioneering futures of health and well-being: actors, technologies and social engineering
Pentecostalism and Social Services in Botswana: Charting a new terrain in the religious provisioning of social support
Religious relevance interests: Pentecostalism and super-diversity in Gaborone, Botswana (2023)
Conceptualizing the after-crisis through ethnographies of postcrisis situations in Africa (2022)
Domestic demons and the intimate uncanny (2022)
Marriage and the ambiguities of ‘seeds’: an exploration of intentions and transparency in relations in Botswana (2022)
Introduction: Hedging in demons and the uncanny (2022)
Special issue: Religiopolitical activism in Southern Africa (2021)
Pentecostalism and the arts of insistence: examples from Botswana (2021)
Family resemblances in action: an introduction to religiopolitical activism in Southern Africa (2021)
‘A question of faith’ : an explorative pilot study on the relationship between West African religion, migration and human trafficking (2021)
Book review of Astrid Bochow, "Risiko und HIV/AIDS in Botswana: Leben in der Pandemie" (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2020) (2021)
Labour of love: secrecy and kinship among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in The Netherlands (2020)
Afterword: the hodological challenge: exploring middle-class pathways and their biography (2020)
Professional and religious approaches to care for West African victims of human trafficking in The Netherlands: the challenge of new Pentecostalism (2020)
Religious sophistication in African pentecostalism: an urban spirit? (2020)
Miraculous unhappiness : does Botswana need a Ministry of Laughter? (2019)
Worlds apart?: exploring the problematic irrelevance of a psy-therapy promoting happiness-as-norm in an African context (2019)
The tent versus Lobola marriage : monetary intimacies and the new face of responsibility in Botswana (2017)
Marriage as an end, or the end of marriage? : change and continuity in Southern African marriages (2017)
Introduction: new ethical fields and the implicitness/explicitness of ethics in Africa (2017)
Event ethics and their elasticity : weddings in Botswana and the exploration of the tacit extraordinary (2017)
The critical fence : a Dietzian reflection on divergent fieldwork (2017)
The tent versus lobola: marriage, monetary intimacies and the new face of responsibility in Botswana (2016)
Faith in romance : towards an anthropology of romantic relationships, sexuality and responsibility in African Christianities (2015)
The strings, strains and strides of transnational competence: complex ambiguities (2014)
Religion and AIDS treatment in Africa: saving souls, prolonging lives (2014)
Introduction: Religion and AIDS-treatment in Africa: the redemptive moment (2014)
Introduction: Strings attached: AIDS and the rise of transnational connections in Africa (2014)
Christian creations of new spaces of sexuality, reproduction, and relationships in Africa : exploring faith and religious heterotopia: a special issue (2013)
Special issue: Counselling, sexuality and intimacy: perspectives from Africa (2013)
Editorial introduction: sexuality, intimacy and counselling: perspectives from Africa (2013)
Counselling and Pentecostal modalities of social engineering of relationships in Botswana (2013)
'Dal campo all' inclusione: discorsi di trans-soggttivita nella diaspora pentecostale ghanese (2012)
Geboorte in een Ghanese Pinksterkerk: postmodern vieren in Den Haag (2012)
Introduction: Christian creations of new spaces of sexuality, reproduction, and relationships in Africa : exploring faith and religious heterotopia (2012)
The social life of connectivity in Africa (2012)
Connecting and change in African societies: examples of 'ethnographies of linking' in anthropology (2012)
Pentecostalism and post-development: exploring religion as a developmental ideology in Ghanaian migrant communities (2012)
Connectivity and the postglobal moment: (dis)connections and social change in Africa (2012)
The social cocktail: weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Botswana (2012)
A ritual connection: urban youth, marrying in the village in Botswana (2012)
Special issue: Ideologies of youth (2011)
Introduction: economic ethnographies of the marketization of health and healing in Africa (2010)
Cities and linking hot spots: subjective rescaling, Ghanaian migration and the fragmentation of urban spaces (2010)
Pentecostals moving South-South: Brazilian and Ghanaian transnationalism in Southern Africa compared (2010)
Marriage, commodification and the romantic ethic in Botswana (2010)
The redemptive moment: antiretroviral treatment (ART's) and the production of new religious spaces in Africa:an introduction (2010)
The redemptive moment: antiretroviral treatment (ART's) and the production of new religious spaces in Africa: special section on religion and antiretroviral therapy for the African Journal of AIDS Research (AJAR) (2010)
Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa (2010)
Gloves in times of AIDS: Pentecostalism, Hair and Social Distancing in Botswana (2009)
Social catapulting and the spirit of the entrepreneurialism: migrants, private initiative and the pentecostal ethic in Botswana (2009)
Introduction to special issue: engaging christianities: negotiating HIV/AIDS, health, and social relations in east and southern Africa (2009)
Questioning social security in the study of religion in Africa: the ambiguous meaning of the gift in African Pentecostalism and Islam (2009)
Verdeeld Afrika. Etniciteit, conflict en de grenzen van de staat (2008)
Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa (2007)
Testing Nightscapes: Ghanian Pentecostal politics of the nocturnal (2007)
The safe and suffering body in transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism: towards an anthropology of vulnerable agency (2007)
Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa (2007)
Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa : an introduction (2007)
Transnational images of Pentecostal healing: comparative examples from Malawi and Botswana (2006)
Een schijn van Voodoo. Culturele achtergronden van de handel in Nigeriaanse meisjes voor de Nederlandse prostitutie: een verkenning (vierde druk) (2006)
The African neighbourhood: an introduction (2006)
Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and Issues of citizenship in Botswana (2004)
Neuer Look und neuer Sinn. Wie Frisoerinnen aus Ghana ihre Kundinnen in Botsuana zu neuen Menschen machen (2004)
Creating and contesting urban space through audotiry strategies in Accra (2004)
Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture : an introduction (2004)
Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture (2004)
Conversion and narration as cultural politics: exploring individual agency in religious transformations in Africa (2004)
'Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia': Pentecostal Pan-Africanism and Ghanaian identities in the transnational domain (2004)
Negotiating marriage: questions of morality and legitimacy in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (2004)
Transnationalisme en identiteit: de Ghanese gemeenschap in Den Haag (2004)
Resistance through the senses; auditory confrontations and the Pentecostal negotiation of religious domains in Ghana (2004)
Transcending the nation. Explorations of transnationalism as a concept and phenomenon (2004)
Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and the stranger's beauty in Botswana (2003)
Transnationalisme en Identiteit: de Ghanese gemeenschap in Den Haag (2003)
Pentecostalism and the politics of prophetic power: religious modernity in Ghana (2003)
Een schijn van voodoo : culturele achtergronden van de handel in Nigeriaanse meisjes voor de Nederlandse prostitutie : een verkenning (2003)
The soul is the stranger. Ghanaian pentecostalism and the diasporic contestation of 'flow' and 'individuality (2002)
Modernity's limits: Pentecostalism and the moral rejection of alcohol in Malawi (2002)
Religion, reciprocity and restructuring family responsibility in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (2002)
Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands : religion mediating a tense relationship (2002)
Ghanaian Pentecostal churches and the politics of a transcultural identity (2001)
'Voodoo' on the doorstep : young Nigerian prostitutes and magic policing in the Netherlands (2001)
African pentecostalism in the Netherlands (2001)
Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands: religion mediating a tense relationship (2001)
Time and transcultural technologies of the self in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (2001)
The soul is the stranger. Ghanaian Pentecostalism and the contestation of 'flow' and 'individuality' in the diaspora (2001)
Contesting silence : the ban on drumming and the musical politics of Pentecostalism in Ghana (2001)
Mobile Africa : an introduction (2001)
The disgust of absence: money and moral dilemmas in Ghanaian Pentecostal churches at home and abroad (2001)
Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy : Pentecostalism and laughter in urban Malawi (2001)
Mobile Africa : changing patterns of movement in Africa and beyond (2001)
Cultures of travel : Fulbe pastoralists in central Mali and Pentecostalism in Ghana (2001)
De smokkel in Nigeriaanse meisjes voor de Nederlandse sex-industrie en de betekenis van Afrikaanse religie (2001)
Negotiating modernity : Ghanaian Pentecostal churches and the politics of a transcultural identity (2001)
Interrogating individuality in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (2001)
Sociale en culturele achtergronden van vrouwenhandel (2001)
Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy. Pentecostal rhetorics of self-making in urban Malawi (2000)
Conflicts of individuality of Ghanaian migrants in the Netherlands (2000)
Voodoo on the doorstep. magic policing in the Netherlands and explosions in anthropology (2000)
Christian fundamentalism in sub-Saharan Africa : the case of Pentecostalism (2000)
Voodoo on the doorstep and the trafficking in young Nigerian girls in the Netherlands (2000)
Secret worlds, democratization and election observation in Malawi (2000)
The anatomy of mobility in Africa. Some research questions (2000)
Ngoma, born-again fundamentalism and contesting representations of time in urban Malawi (2000)
Opvattingen over 'identiteit' en 'persoon' onder Ghanezen in het kader van transcontinentale migratie naar Nederland (2000)
Introduction : beyond the confinement of affliction : a discursive field of experience (2000)
Afrikaanse gemeenschappen, religie en identiteit. Ghanese pinksterkerken in Den Haag (2000)
Interrogating individuality: Ghanaian Pentecostalism and Dutch identity-politics (2000)
Modernity on a shoestring : dimensions of globalization, consumption and development in Africa and beyond (1999)
The musical politics of transnational pentecostalism in Ghana (1999)
African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape (1999)
The moral life of the gift in Ghanaian Pentecostal churches in the diaspora: questions of (in-)dividuality and (in-)alienability in transcultural reciprocal relations (1999)
Pentecostalism, gerontocratic rule and democratization in Malawi : the changing position of the young in political culture (1999)
The Pentecostal gift : Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence of the global economy (1999)
Religion, reciprocity and restructuring family responsibility in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1999)
Plunder hell, to populate heaven : the extractive and the insertive in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1999)
Plunder hell to populate heaven: the extractive and the insertive in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1999)
Confronting the past and post-colonial identities in Africa: the case of pentecostalism (1999)
Introduction: the domestication of chieftaincy in Africa: from the imposed to the imagined (1999)
Pentecostalism and the politics of prophetic power: ambivalences of modernity in Ghana (1998)
Spiegeling en verwonding. Enkele bespiegelingen over Schoffeleers' tijdloosheid (1998)
Chieftaincy in West Africa: an extended proposal of an international colloquium (1998)
Ghanaian Pentecostalism in The Hague and the national order of things (1998)
The alternative economy of pentecostal churches in Ghana (1998)
Pentecostalism, cultural memory and the state: contested representations of time in postcolonial Malawi (1998)
Review of J.L. Comaroff and J. Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution VOL II. The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier (1998)
Religion and strangerhood; the globalizing potential of Ghanaian Pentecostalism in the diaspora (1998)
Charismatic Pentecostalism in Africa: a comparison of cases from Malawi and Ghana (1998)
Plunder hell to populate heaven: the extractive and the insertive in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1998)
The Pentecostal gift : Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence of the global economy (1997)
Discourses of transubjectivity in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1997)
From camp to encompassment: discourses of transsubjectivity in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1997)
Christian fundamentalism and the moral rejection of alcohol in Malawi (1997)
Time and transcultural technologies of the self in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1997)
The Pentecostal gift : Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence of the global economy (1997)
Fundamentalism, cultural memory and the state. Contested representations of time in postcolonial Malawi (1997)
Ngoma, born-again fundamentalism and contesting representations of time in urban Malawi (1996)
Fundamentalism, cultural memory and the state. Contested representations of time in postcolonial Malawi (1996)
Contested authorities and the politics of perception: deconstructing the study of religion in Africa (1996)
From camp to encompassment: discourses of transsubjectivity in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1996)
Foucault, hekserij en puritanisme in Malawi : een expressionistische kritiek op Douglas' 'grid/group' analyse (1996)
Fundamentalism and its moral geography in Malawi : the representation of the diasporic and the diabolical (1995)
Review of Megan Vaughan, 'Foucault and the Anti-Witchcraft Movement', In: Colonial Power and African Illness (1994)
Young Born-Again preachers in post-independence Malawi: the significance of an extraneous identity (1992)
Young Malawian puritans : young born-again preachers in a present-day African urban environment (1992)
Young puritan preachers in post-independence Malawi (1992)
Van hegemonisch tot demonisch gezag : jonge puriteinse predikers en iconoclastisch verzet (1992)
Domestic demons and the intimate uncanny
London: Routledge, 2022
Editors: T.G. Kirsch; K. Mahlke; R.A. van Dijk
Faith in romance : towards an anthropology of romantic relationships, sexuality and responsibility in African Christianities
Amsterdam: Faculteit der Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Inaugural lecture series / Amsterdam University 536, 2015
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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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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
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
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'Religious relevance interests: Pentecostalism and super-diversity in Gaborone, Botswana'
In: D. Pellow; S. Scheld: 'Africa and urban anthropology: theoretical and methodological contributions from contemporary fieldwork', London, New York: Routledge, 2023.
'Introduction: Hedging in demons and the uncanny'
In: T.G. Kirsch; K. Mahlke; R.A. van Dijk: 'Hedging in demons and the uncanny', London: Routledge, 2022.
'Marriage and the ambiguities of ‘seeds’: an exploration of intentions and transparency in relations in Botswana'
In: T.G. Kirsch; K. Mahlke; R.A. van Dijk: 'Domestic demons and the intimate uncanny', London: Routledge, 2022.
'Religious sophistication in African pentecostalism: an urban spirit?'
In: H. Dilger; A. Bochow; M. Burchardt; M. Wilhelm-Solomon: 'Affective trajectories: religion and emotion in African city-scapes', Durham, London: Duke University Press, 2020.
'The critical fence : a Dietzian reflection on divergent fieldwork'
In: W. E. A.van Beek; J.C.M. Damen; D.W.J. Foeken: 'The face of Africa: essays in honour of Ton Dietz', Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2017.
'The strings, strains and strides of transnational competence: complex ambiguities'
In: N. Beckmann; A. Gusman; C. Shroff: 'Strings attached: AIDS and the rise of transnational connections in Africa', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
'Introduction: Strings attached: AIDS and the rise of transnational connections in Africa'
In: N. Beckmann; A. Gusman; C. Shroff: 'Strings attached: AIDS and the rise of transnational connections in Africa', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
'Introduction: Religion and AIDS-treatment in Africa: the redemptive moment'
In: R.A. van Dijk; H. Dilger; M. Burchardt; T. Rasing: 'Religion and AIDS treatment in Africa: saving souls, prolonging lives', London: Ashgate, 2014.
'Geboorte in een Ghanese Pinksterkerk: postmodern vieren in Den Haag'
In: I. Stengs: 'Nieuw in Nederland: feesten en rituelen in verandering', Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
''Dal campo all' inclusione: discorsi di trans-soggttivita nella diaspora pentecostale ghanese'
In: P. Schirripa: 'Terapie religiose: neoliberismo, cura, cittadinanza nel pentecostalismo contemporaneo', Rome: CISU Press, 2012.
'The social cocktail: weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Botswana'
In: J.B. Gewald; A.H.M. Leliveld; I. Peša: 'Transforming innovations in Africa: explorative studies on appropriation in African societies', Leiden: Brill, 2012.
'Pentecostalism and post-development: exploring religion as a developmental ideology in Ghanaian migrant communities'
In: D. Freeman: 'Ghanaian migrant communities: churches, ngo's and social change in Africa', Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012.
'A ritual connection: urban youth, marrying in the village in Botswana'
In: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk: 'The social life of connectivity in Africa', Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
'Connectivity and the postglobal moment: (dis)connections and social change in Africa'
In: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk: 'The social life of connectivity in Africa', Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
'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: G.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.G. 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: W.M.J.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: G.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: W.M.J.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'
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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.
Religion and AIDS treatment in Africa: saving souls, prolonging lives
R.A. van Dijk; H. Dilger; M. Burchardt; T. Rasing (editors)
London: Ashgate, 2014.
Christian creations of new spaces of sexuality, reproduction, and relationships in Africa : exploring faith and religious heterotopia: a special issue
A. Bochow; R.A. van Dijk (editors)
Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 42, nr. 4 2013.
Special issue: Counselling, sexuality and intimacy: perspectives from Africa
E. Moyer; M. Burchardt; R.A. van Dijk (editors)
Culture, health and sexuality, vol. 15, nr. 4 2013.
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
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; C. Cardoso; I.C. Butter (editors)
Africa Development, ISSN 0850-3907, vol. 36, nr. 3 2011.
Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa
M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk (editors)
Leiden: Brill, African dynamics 9, 2010.
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Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald (editors)
Leiden: Brill, African dynamics 6, 2007.
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Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture
W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 3, 2004.
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Mobile Africa : changing patterns of movement in Africa and beyond
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; D.W.J. Foeken (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 1, 2001.
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African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape
E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk (editors)
Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 1999.
'Conceptualizing the after-crisis through ethnographies of postcrisis situations in Africa'
in: Africa today, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 1-17, 2022.
'Book review of Astrid Bochow, "Risiko und HIV/AIDS in Botswana: Leben in der Pandemie" (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2020)'
in: Anthropos, vol. 116, no. 2, pp. 471, 2021.
'Family resemblances in action: an introduction to religiopolitical activism in Southern Africa'
in: Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 49, no. 3-4, pp. 233-256, 2021.
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'Pentecostalism and the arts of insistence: examples from Botswana'
in: Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 49, no. 3-4, pp. 257-287, 2021.
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'Labour of love: secrecy and kinship among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in The Netherlands'
in: Ethnography, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 394-412, 2020.
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'Professional and religious approaches to care for West African victims of human trafficking in The Netherlands: the challenge of new Pentecostalism'
in: Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, vol. ahead-of-print, pp. 1-15, 2020.
'Afterword: the hodological challenge: exploring middle-class pathways and their biography'
in: Africa today, vol. 66, no. 3-4, pp. 180-191, 2020.
'Worlds apart?: exploring the problematic irrelevance of a psy-therapy promoting happiness-as-norm in an African context'
in: Current anthropology, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 214-215, 2019.
'Marriage as an end, or the end of marriage? : change and continuity in Southern African marriages'
in: Anthropology Southern Africa, vol. 40, no. VI, pp. 257 - 265, 2017.
'The tent versus Lobola marriage : monetary intimacies and the new face of responsibility in Botswana'
in: Anthropology Southern Africa, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 29 - 41, 2017.
'Event ethics and their elasticity : weddings in Botswana and the exploration of the tacit extraordinary'
in: Africa : journal of the International African Institute, vol. 87, no. 3, pp. 462 - 478, 2017.
'Introduction: new ethical fields and the implicitness/explicitness of ethics in Africa'
in: Africa : journal of the International African Institute, vol. 87, no. 3, pp. 447 - 461, 2017.
'The tent versus lobola: marriage, monetary intimacies and the new face of responsibility in Botswana'
in: Anthropology Southern Africa, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 29 - 41, 2016.
'Editorial introduction: sexuality, intimacy and counselling: perspectives from Africa'
in: Culture, health and sexuality, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 509 - 522, 2013.
'Counselling and Pentecostal modalities of social engineering of relationships in Botswana'
in: Culture, health and sexuality, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 509 - 522, 2013.
'Connecting and change in African societies: examples of 'ethnographies of linking' in anthropology'
in: Anthropologica, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 45 - 59, 2012.
'Introduction: Christian creations of new spaces of sexuality, reproduction, and relationships in Africa : exploring faith and religious heterotopia'
vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 325 - 344, 2012.
'The redemptive moment: antiretroviral treatment (ART's) and the production of new religious spaces in Africa: special section on religion and antiretroviral therapy for the African Journal of AIDS Research (AJAR)'
in: African Journal of AIDS Research, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 383 - 466, 2010.
'The redemptive moment: antiretroviral treatment (ART's) and the production of new religious spaces in Africa:an introduction'
in: African Journal of AIDS Research, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 373 - 383, 2010.
'Introduction to special issue: engaging christianities: negotiating HIV/AIDS, health, and social relations in east and southern Africa'
in: Africa today, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. v - xviii, 2009.
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'Introduction and Editorial'
in: Journal of African Diaspora, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1 - 3, 2008.
'Testing Nightscapes: Ghanian Pentecostal politics of the nocturnal'
in: Etnofoor, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 41 - 57, 2007.
'Neuer Look und neuer Sinn. Wie Frisoerinnen aus Ghana ihre Kundinnen in Botsuana zu neuen Menschen machen'
in: Der Ueberblick.Quartalsschrift des kirchlichen Entwicklungsdienstes, vol. 40, pp. 39 - 41, 2004.
'Negotiating marriage: questions of morality and legitimacy in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora'
in: Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 438 - 467, 2004.
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'Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and the stranger's beauty in Botswana'
in: Africa : journal of the International African InstituteAfrica, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 560 - 583, 2003.
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'The soul is the stranger. Ghanaian pentecostalism and the diasporic contestation of 'flow' and 'individuality'
in: Culture and Religion, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 49 - 67, 2002.
'Sociale en culturele achtergronden van vrouwenhandel'
in: Tijdschrift voor criminologie, vol. 4, no. 43, pp. 390 - 401, 2001.
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''Voodoo' on the doorstep : young Nigerian prostitutes and magic policing in the Netherlands'
in: Africa : journal of the International African InstituteAfrica, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 558 - 586, 2001.
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'Contesting silence : the ban on drumming and the musical politics of Pentecostalism in Ghana'
in: Ghana studies, vol. 4, pp. 31 - 64, 2001.
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'From camp to encompassment: discourses of transsubjectivity in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora'
in: Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 135 - 159, 1997.
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'Foucault, hekserij en puritanisme in Malawi : een expressionistische kritiek op Douglas' 'grid/group' analyse'
in: Focaal : tijdschrift voor antropologieFocaal, vol. 28, pp. 47 - 61, 1996.
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'Fundamentalism and its moral geography in Malawi : the representation of the diasporic and the diabolical'
in: Critique of anthropology, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 171 - 191, 1995.
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'La guérisseuse du docteur Banda au Malawi'
in: Politique africaine, vol. 52, pp. 145 - 150, 1993.
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'Young puritan preachers in post-independence Malawi'
in: Africa : journal of the International African InstituteAfrica, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 159 - 181, 1992.
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'Review of J.L. Comaroff and J. Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution VOL II. The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier'
American Ethnologist, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 529 - 530, 1998.
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'Review of Megan Vaughan, 'Foucault and the Anti-Witchcraft Movement', In: Colonial Power and African Illness'
Critique of anthropology, vol. 1, no. 3, 1994.
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