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Dr. R.A. van Dijks' publications

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R.A. van Dijk
'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, New York: Cornell University Press, 2010

R.A. van Dijk, L. v.d. Kamp
'Pentecostals Moving South-South: Ghanaian and Brazilian Transnationalism in Southern Africa'
In: A. Adogame; J. Spickard (eds.) Religion Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Dynamics in Africa
and the New African Diasporic Religions, Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 123-142, 2010.

R.A. van Dijk
Marriage, commodification and the romantic ethic in Botswana
In: R.A. van Dijk and M. Dekker, Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa, Leiden: Brill, African Dynamics; vol. 9, pp. 282-306, 2010.

R.A. van Dijk, H. Dilger and M. Buchardt
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.

R.A. van Dijk, H. Dilger and M. Buchardt
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 373-464, 2010.

M. Dekker and R.A. van Dijk
Individual or shared responsibility: who finances treatment of illnesses in households in rural Ethiopia?
in: Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa
Leiden: Brill, African Dynamics; vol. 9, pp. 228-255, 2010.

M. Dekker and R.A. van Dijk
Introduction: Economic ethnographies of the marketization of health and healing in Africa.
in: Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa
Leiden: Brill, African Dynamics; vol. 9, pp. 1-18, 2010.

Marleen Dekker & Rijk van Dijk (editors)
Markets of Well-being. Navigating Health and Healing in Africa
Leiden: Brill, African Dynamics; vol. 9, 2010.
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L. van de Kamp and R.A. van Dijk
'Pentecostals Moving South-South: Ghanaian and Brazilian Transnationalism in Southern Africa'
In: A. Adogame; J. Spickard (eds.) Religion Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Dynamics in Africa
and the New African Diasporic Religions, Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 123-142, 2010

R.A. van Dijk
'Gloves in times of AIDS: Pentecostalism, Hair and Social Distancing in Botswana'
In: F. Becker ; P.W. Geizzler (eds.) Aids and Religious Practice in Africa, Leiden, Boston: Brill, Studies on Religion in Africa, pp. 283-308, 2009.

R Prince, P Denis and R.A. van Dijk
'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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R.A. van Dijk
'Social catapulting and the spirit of the entrepreneurialism: migrants, private initiative and the pentecostal ethic in Botswana'
In: G. Hüwelmeier ; K. Krause (eds.) Traveling spirits: migrants, markets and mobilities, Abingdon: Routledge, 2009.

R.A. van Dijk
'Introduction and Editorial'
In: Journal of African Diaspora, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-3, 2008.
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G.J. Abbink, R.A. van Dijk and A.van Dokkum
'Verdeeld Afrika. Etniciteit, conflict en de grenzen van de staat'
In: J. Abbink ; Dokkum A.van (eds.) Verdeeld Afrika. Etniciteit, conflict en de grenzen van de staat, Diemen: Uitgeverij AMB, pp. 3-15, 2008.

M.E. de Bruijn, R.A. van Dijk and J.B. Gewald
'Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa'
In: P. Chabal ; U. Engel ; L.J.de Haan (eds.) African Alternatives, Leiden [etc.]: Brill, pp. 9-20, 2007.
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M.E. de Bruijn, R.A. van Dijk and J.B. Gewald
'Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa : an introduction'
In: M.E.de Bruijn ; R.A.van Dijk ; J.B. Gewald (eds.) Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa, Leiden: Brill, African dynamics ; vol. 6, pp. 1-16, 2007.

M.E. de Bruijn, R.A. van Dijk and J.B. Gewald (eds.)
Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa
Leiden: Brill, African dynamics ; vol. 6, 2007.
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R.A. van Dijk
'Testing Nightscapes: Ghanian Pentecostal politics of the nocturnal'
In: Etnofoor, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 41-57, 2007.
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R.A. van Dijk
'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 (eds.) Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa, Leiden: Brill, African dynamics ; vol. 6, pp. 312-333, 2007.
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R.A. van Dijk, T. Rasing, N. Tellegen and W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Een schijn van Voodoo. Culturele achtergronden van de handel in Nigeriaanse meisjes voor de Nederlandse prostitutie: een verkenning (vierde druk)
Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, 2006.
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P.J.J. Konings, D.W.J. Foeken and R.A. van Dijk
'The African neighbourhood: an introduction'
In: P.J.J. Konings ; D.W.J. Foeken (eds.) Crisis and creativity: exploring the wealth of the African neighbourhood, Leiden: Brill, pp. 1-21, 2006.

R.A. van Dijk
'Transnational images of Pentecostal healing: comparative examples from Malawi and Botswana'
In: T.J. Luedke ; H.G. West (eds.) Borders & healers. Brokering therapeutic resources in Southeast Africa, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, pp. 101-125, 2006.
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R.A. van Dijk
'The Moral Life of the Gift in Ghanaian Pentecostal Churches in the Diaspora. Questions of (in-)dividuality and (in-)alienability in Transcultural Reciprocal Relations'
In: W. van Binsbergen & P. Geschiere (eds), Commodification. Things, Agency, and Identities, Hamburg: LIT Verlag, pp. 201-225, 2005.

R.A. van Dijk
'Transculturele religie versus integratie: Ghanese pinkstergemeenten en de constructie van kosmopolitische identiteiten in Nederland'
In: I. Hoving, H. Dibbits & M. Schrover (eds), Veranderingen van het alledaagse 1950-2000, The Hague, SDU, pp. 353-374, 2005.

R.A. van Dijk
''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 (eds.) Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture, Leiden: Brill, pp. 163-189, 2004.
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R.A. van Dijk and G. Sabar
'Editorial'
In: Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 403-406, 2004.
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R.A. van Dijk
'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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R.A. van Dijk
'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.

W.M.J. van Binsbergen, R.A. van Dijk and J.B. Gewald (eds.)
Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics ; vol. 3, 2004.
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W.M.J. van Binsbergen, R.A. van Dijk and J.B. Gewald
'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 (eds.) Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture, Leiden [etc.]: Brill, pp. 3-54, 2004.
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R.A. van Dijk, V. Mazzucato, C. Horst and P.de Vries
'Transcending the nation. Explorations of transnationalism as a concept and phenomenon'
In: D. Kalb ; W. Pansters ; H. Siebers (eds.) Globalization & development; Themes and concepts in current research, Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 131-162, 2004.

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

R.A. van Dijk, T. Rasing, N. Tellegen and W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Een schijn van voodoo : culturele achtergronden van de handel in Nigeriaanse meisjes voor de Nederlandse prostitutie : een verkenning
Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, 2003.
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R.A. van Dijk
'Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and the stranger's beauty in Botswana'
In: Africa, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 560-583, 2003.
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R.A. van Dijk
'Pentecostalism and the politics of prophetic power: religious modernity in Ghana'
In: N. Kasfelt (ed.) Scriptural politics : the Bible and the Koran as political models in the Middle East and Africa, London: Hurst & Co, pp. 155-184, 2003.
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W.M.J. van Binsbergen, R.A. van Dijk and J.B. Gewald
'Situating Globality: African Agency in the Appropriation of Global Culture: An Introduction'
In: Binsbergen, W.M.J., van Dijk, R., (eds), Situating Globality: African Agency in the Appropriation of Global Culture, Leiden: Brill, pp. 3-54, 2003.

R.A. van Dijk
'Transnationalisme en Identiteit: de Ghanese gemeenschap in Den Haag'
In: L.A.C.J. Lucassen (ed.) Amsterdammer worden, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2003.

R.A. van Dijk
'Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands : religion mediating a tense relationship'
In: I.van Kessels (ed.) Merchants, missionaries & migrants : 300 years of Dutch-Ghanaian relations, Amsterdam: KIT/Sub-Saharan Publishers, pp. 89-97, 2002.
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R.A. van Dijk
Localising anxieties : Ghanaian and Malawian immigrants, rising xenophobia, and social capital in Botswana
Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, ASC working paper 49, 2002.
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R.A. van Dijk
'Modernity's limits: Pentecostalism and the moral rejection of alcohol in Malawi'
In: D. Bryceson (ed.) Alcohol in Africa : mixing business, pleasure, and politics, Portsmouth: Heinemann, pp. 249-264, 2002.
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R.A. van Dijk
'Religion, reciprocity and restructuring family responsibility in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora'
In: D. Bryceson ; U. Vuorela (eds.) The transnational family : new European frontiers and global networks, Oxford [etc.]: Berg, pp. 173-196, 2002.
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R.A. van Dijk
'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.

R.A. van Dijk
'African pentecostalism in the Netherlands'
In: S.D. Glazier (ed.) Encyclopedia of African & African-American religion, London: Routledge, 2001.

R.A. van Dijk
'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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M.E. de Bruijn, J.W.M. van Dijk and R.A. van Dijk
'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 (eds.) Mobile Africa : changing patterns of movement in Africa and beyond, Leiden: Brill, pp. 63-88, 2001.
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M.E. de Bruijn, R.A. van Dijk and D.W.J. Foeken
'Mobile Africa : an introduction'
In: M.E.de Bruijn ; R.A.van Dijk ; D.W.J. Foeken (eds.) Mobile Africa : changing patterns of movement in Africa and beyond, Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics ; Vol. 1, pp. 1-8, 2001.
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M.E. de Bruijn, R.A. van Dijk and D.W.J. Foeken (eds.)
Mobile Africa : changing patterns of movement in Africa and beyond
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics ; vol. 1, 2001.
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R.A. van Dijk, J. Nijboer and J. Vocks
'Sociale en culturele achtergronden van vrouwenhandel'
In: Tijdschrift voor criminologie, vol. 4, no. 43, pp. 390-401, 2001.
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R.A. van Dijk
'Time and transcultural technologies of the self in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora'
In: A. Corten ; R. Marshall-Fratani (eds.) Between Babel and Pentecost : transnational Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America, pp. 216-234, 2001.
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R.A. van Dijk
''Voodoo' on the doorstep : young Nigerian prostitutes and magic policing in the Netherlands'
In: Africa, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 558-586, 2001.
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R.A. van Dijk
'Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy : Pentecostalism and laughter in urban Malawi'
In: H. Moore ; T. Sanders (eds.) Magical interpretations, material realities : modernity, witchcraft and the occult in postcolonial Africa, London: Routledge, pp. 97-117, 2001.
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R.A. van Dijk
'Afrikaanse gemeenschappen, religie en identiteit. Ghanese pinksterkerken in Den Haag'
In: I.van Kessels ; N. Tellegen (eds.) Afrikanen in Nederland, Amsterdam / Leiden: KIT: KIT / African Studies Centre, pp. 199-212, 2000.
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R.A. van Dijk
Christian fundamentalism in sub-Saharan Africa : the case of Pentecostalism
Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, Centre of African Studies, Occasional paper, 2000.
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R.A. van Dijk, T. Rasing, N. Tellegen and W.M.J. van Binsbergen
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, R. Reis and M. Spierenburg
'Introduction : beyond the confinement of affliction : a discursive field of experience'
In: R.A.van Dijk ; R. Reis ; M. Spierenburg (eds.) The quest for fruition through ngoma : political aspects of healing in southern Africa, London: James Currey, pp. 1-11, 2000.
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R.A. van Dijk
'Ngoma, born-again fundamentalism and contesting representations of time in urban Malawi'
In: R.A.van Dijk ; R. Reis ; M. Spierenburg (eds.) The quest for fruition through Ngoma. The political aspects of healing in Southern Africa, London: James Currey, pp. 133-154, 2000.
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R.A. van Dijk
'Secret worlds, democratization and election observation in Malawi'
In: J. Abbink ; G. Hesseling (eds.) Election Observation and Democratization in Africa, Hampshire: MacMillan Press Ltd., pp. 180-210, 2000.
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R.A. van Dijk, Ria Reis and Marja Spierenburg (eds)
The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma. The Political Aspects of Healing in Southern Africa.
Oxford: James Currey, 2000.
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E.A.B. Rouveroy van Nieuwaal and R.A. van Dijk
African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape
Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 1999.
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E.A.B. Rouveroy van Nieuwaal and R.A. van Dijk
'Introduction: the domestication of chieftaincy in Africa: from the imposed to the imagined'
In: E.A.B. Rouveroy van Nieuwaal ; R.A.van Dijk (eds.) African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape, Hamburg: Lit Verlag, pp. 1-20, 1999.
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R. Fardon, W.M.J. van Binsbergen and 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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R.A. van Dijk
'Pentecostalism, gerontocratic rule and democratization in Malawi : the changing position of the young in political culture'
In: J. Haynes (ed.) Religion, globalization and political culture in the Third World, New York: St. Martin's Press, pp. 164-188, 1999.
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R.A. van Dijk
Plunder hell, to populate heaven : the extractive and the insertive in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora
The Hague: WOTRO, Working paper 9, 1999.
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R.A. van Dijk
'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 (eds.) Modernity on a shoestring : dimensions of globalization, consumption and development in Africa and beyond, Leiden [etc.]: EIDOS:, pp. 71-89, 1999.
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R.A. van Dijk
Chieftaincy in West Africa: an extended proposal of an international colloquium
, 1998.

R.A. van Dijk
'Pentecostalism, cultural memory and the state: contested representations of time in postcolonial Malawi'
In: R. Werbner (ed.) Memory and the postcolony : African anthropology and the critique of power, London [etc.]: Zed Books:, pp. 155-181, 1998.
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R.A. van Dijk
'Spiegeling en verwonding. Enkele bespiegelingen over Schoffeleers' tijdloosheid'
In: M. Elias ; R. Reis (eds.) Getuigen ondanks zichzelf. Voor Jan Mathijs Schoffeleers bij zijn zeventigste verjaardag, Maastricht: Shaker Publishing, pp. 31-50, 1998.
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R.A. van Dijk
'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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T. Dijkstra and 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.
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R.A. van Dijk and P. Pels
'Contested authorities and the politics of perception: deconstructing the study of religion in Africa'
In: R. Werbner ; T. Ranger (eds.) Postcolonial identities in Africa, London: Zed Books, pp. 245-270, 1996.
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R.A. van Dijk
'Foucault, hekserij en puritanisme in Malawi : een expressionistische kritiek op Douglas' 'grid/group' analyse'
In: Focaal, vol. 28, pp. 47-61, 1996.
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R.A. van Dijk
'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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R.A. van Dijk
'La guérisseuse du docteur Banda au Malawi'
In: Politique africaine, vol. 52, pp. 145-150, 1993.
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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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R.A. van Dijk
'Young Born-Again preachers in post-independence Malawi: the significance of an extraneous identity'
In: P. Gifford (ed.) New dimensions in African Christianity, Nairobi: All Africa Conference of Churches, pp. 55-79, 1992.
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R.A. van Dijk
Young Malawian puritans : young born-again preachers in a present-day African urban environment
Utrecht: ISOR, 1992.
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R.A. van Dijk
'Young puritan preachers in post-independence Malawi'
In: Africa, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 159-181, 1992.
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Paper and poster presentations

 

R.A. van Dijk
Conversion and narration as cultural politics: exploring individual agency in religious transformations in Africa
Paper presented at the symposium on 'conversion and the religious market', Free University, Amsterdam, September 24, 2004. 2004.

R.A. van Dijk
Creating and contesting urban space through audotiry strategies in Accra
Paper presented at the ASC-Colloquium on 'The Wealth of the Neighborhood: The sustainability and creativity of urban life, 16 & 17 September, 2004.

R.A. van Dijk
Geboorte in een Ghanese Pinksterkerk: Postmodern vieren in Den Haag
Paper presented at the symposium 'Vieringen van migrantengemeenschappen in de hedendaagse Nederlandse samenleving'. KNAW van Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam, 18 May, 2004.

R.A. van Dijk
Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and Issues of citizenship in Botswana
Paper presented at the pdo-colloquium: 'redefining citizenship and access to the public sphere. recent African developments in historical and comparative perspective', (asc, assr, cnws, rmv), 7, 8, 9 october, 2004. 2004.

R.A. van Dijk
Resistance through the senses; auditory confrontations and the Pentecostal negotiation of religious domains in Ghana
Paper presented at the colloquium on 'transnational aspects of localized conflict and protest.' organized by the project group identity in transnational spaces (pits), faculty of social sciences, free university amsterdam, 19, 20, 21 december, 2004. 2004.

R.A. van Dijk
'Religie in Afrika in relatie tot ontwikkeling'
Paper presented in the series: 'De Rol van Religie in Ontwikkelingsprocessen' georganiseerd door Bureau Beleidsvorming Ontwikkelingssamenwerking in samenwerking met Ministerie BuZa & Os, ICCO, Kerk-in-Actie & Prisma. Deel IV: 'De rol van zingeving in Ontwikkelingsprocessen', 18 February, 2004.

R.A. van Dijk
De smokkel in Nigeriaanse meisjes voor de Nederlandse sex-industrie en de betekenis van Afrikaanse religie
Paper presented at the workshop 'Handel in AMA's', organized by C.R.D. and Politie & Analysecentrum Mensenhandel (I.A.M.), Zoetermeer, 19 January, 2001.

R.A. van Dijk
Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands: religion mediating a tense relationship
Paper presented at the conference on 'Dutch-Ghanaian Relations: Past and Present', The Hague, 7 November, 2001.

R.A. van Dijk
Ghanaian Pentecostal churches and the politics of a transcultural identity
Paper presented at the 'Conference on Pentecoastalism and Globalisation', Department of Religious Studies, University of Bayreuth, Sonderforschungsbereich 'Lokales Handeln in Afrika im Kontext Globaler Einflusse', Bayreuth 23-25 March, 2001.

R.A. van Dijk
Interrogating individuality in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora
Paper presented at Ghana Studies Group, Leiden, 18 May, 2001.

R.A. van Dijk
Negotiating modernity : Ghanaian Pentecostal churches and the politics of a transcultural identity
Paper presented at the Department of Sociology, University of Botswana Seminar Series, no. 21, Friday 23 February, 2001.

R.A. van Dijk
The disgust of absence: money and moral dilemmas in Ghanaian Pentecostal churches at home and abroad
Paper presented in absentio at the panel on 'Transgression and Transcedence: anthropologies of disgust', for the AAA annual meeting, Washington DC, December 2, 2001.

R.A. van Dijk
The soul is the stranger. Ghanaian Pentecostalism and the contestation of 'flow' and 'individuality' in the diaspora
Paper presented at the Institut fur Etnologie-seminar series, University of Berlin, 18 June, 2001.

R.A. van Dijk
Conflicts of individuality of Ghanaian migrants in the Netherlands
Paper presented at the Pd.D & Post-Doc-seminar on 'Personhood and Agency in African Studies', Leiden, ASC/CNWS/ASSR, 27-30 September, 2000. 2000.

R.A. van Dijk
Interrogating individuality: Ghanaian Pentecostalism and Dutch identity-politics
Draft-chapter presented for the ASC theme-group on Globalisation, Leiden, April, 2000.

R.A. van Dijk
Opvattingen over 'identiteit' en 'persoon' onder Ghanezen in het kader van transcontinentale migratie naar Nederland
Paper presented at the Seminar Interculturele Filosofie, EUR, 'Globalisering, Commoditeit en identiteit', Rotterdam, 31 May, 2000.

R.A. van Dijk and J.W.M. van Dijk
The anatomy of mobility in Africa. Some research questions
Paper presented at the conference on 'Moving People: Trends in Mobility in Africa', ASC, Leiden, 22 June, 2000.

R.A. van Dijk
Voodoo on the doorstep and the trafficking in young Nigerian girls in the Netherlands
Paper presented at the Satterhwaite Colloquium on African Religion and Ritual, Manchester University, 16-19 April, 2000.

R.A. van Dijk
Voodoo on the doorstep. magic policing in the Netherlands and explosions in anthropology
Paper presented at the Colloquium on New Theoretical Perspectives in Current Anthropology, San Francisco, 15-21 November, 2000.

R.A. van Dijk
Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy. Pentecostal rhetorics of self-making in urban Malawi
Paper presented for the ASC Theme-group on Globalisation, Leiden, 31 October, 2000.

R.A. van Dijk
Confronting the past and post-colonial identities in Africa: the case of pentecostalism
Paper presented at the African Studies Program, Indiana University, 17 November 1999.

R.A. van Dijk
Plunder hell to populate heaven: the extractive and the insertive in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora
Paper presented at the WOTRO seminar series, 5 March 1999.

R.A. van Dijk
Religion, reciprocity and restructuring family responsibility in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora
Paper presented at the conference 'Migrant Families and Human Capital Formation', Leiden, 19-21 November 1999.

R.A. van Dijk
The moral life of the gift in Ghanaian Pentecostal churches in the diaspora: questions of (in-)dividuality and (in-)alienability in transcultural reciprocal relations
Paper presented at the conference 'Commodification, Objects and Identities: Social Life of Things Revisited', Amsterdam, 10-12 June 1999.

R.A. van Dijk
The musical politics of transnational pentecostalism in Ghana
Paper presented at the African Studies Association, panel 'Religious Discourse and Political Expression in the Fourth Republic, Ghana', Philadelphia, 11-14 November 1999.

R.A. van Dijk
Charismatic Pentecostalism in Africa: a comparison of cases from Malawi and Ghana
Paper presented at the CEDLA/Zocalo conference on 'Churches, Popular Religion and Charismatic Pentecostalism: Latin America compared', panel 'It ain't necessarily so', CEDLA, Amsterdam, 6 April 1998.

R.A. van Dijk
Fine young cannibal
A critique of four papers presented at the panel 'Terror and Political Fantasies' of the conference 'Fantasy Spaces. The Power of Images in a Globalizing World', University of of Amsterdam, 26-28 August, 1998.

R.A. van Dijk
Ghanaian Pentecostalism in The Hague and the national order of things
Paper presented at the WOTRO-NEDA Conference 'Globalization and Cultural Diversity: research perspectives', The Hague, 8 May 1998.

R.A. van Dijk
Modalities of fundamentalism in Malawi
Paper presented at study day on 'Islam as a Globalizing Project: African Perspectives', ASC, Leiden, 29 April 1998.

R.A. van Dijk
Pentecostalism and the politics of prophetic power: ambivalences of modernity in Ghana
Paper presented at the conference 'The Quran and the Bible as Political Models in Africa and the Middle East', University of Copenhagen, 25-27 November 1998.

R.A. van Dijk
Plunder hell to populate heaven: the extractive and the insertive in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora
Paper presented at the XIV Satterthwaite Colloquium on African Religion and Ritual, Manchester University 19-22 April 1998.

R.A. van Dijk
Religion and strangerhood; the globalizing potential of Ghanaian Pentecostalism in the diaspora
Paper read at the General Assembly/Scientific Conference 'The Social Sciences in Africa', CODESRIA, Dakar, 14-18 December 1998.

R.A. van Dijk
The alternative economy of pentecostal churches in Ghana
Paper presented at the Advanced African lectures Series, African Studies Centre, Copenhagen, 24 November, 1998.

R.A. van Dijk
Christian fundamentalism and the moral rejection of alcohol in Malawi
Paper presented at the Alcohol in Africa seminar, ASC, Leiden, 13 June 1997.

R.A. van Dijk
Discourses of transubjectivity in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora
Paper presented at the Pentecostalism at Home and Abroad conference, Manchester, 11 April 1997.

R.A. van Dijk
Fundamentalism, cultural memory and the state. Contested representations of time in postcolonial Malawi
Working papers on globalisation and the construction of communal identity no. 2 1997.

R.A. van Dijk
The Pentecostal gift : Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence of the global economy
Paper persented at the International Conference on Globalisation, Development and the Making of Consumers: What Are Collective Identities For?' The Hague, 13-16 March 1997.

R.A. van Dijk
The Pentecostal gift : Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence of the global economy
Paper presented at the 13th Satterthwaite Colloquium on African Religion and Ritual, Manchester, 19-22 April 1997.
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R.A. van Dijk
Time and transcultural technologies of the self in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora
Paper presented at the Religion: the City and Beyond conference organised by the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR), Toulouse, 7-11 July 1997.

R.A. van Dijk
'Fundamentalism, cultural memory and the state. Contested representations of time in postcolonial Malawi'
Paper presented at Africa Seminar, Department of Anthropology, Catholic University of Leuven, 11 December 1997.

R.A. van Dijk
'Fundamentalism, cultural memory and the state. Contested representations of time in postcolonial Malawi'
Working papers on globalisation and the construction of communal identity no. 2 1997.

R.A. van Dijk
From camp to encompassment: discourses of transsubjectivity in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora
Paper presented at the 12th Satterthwaite Colloquium on African Religion and Ritual, University of Manchester, 13-17 April, 1996. 1996.

R.A. van Dijk
Fundamentalism, cultural memory and the state. Contested representations of time in postcolonial Malawi
Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Annual Conference 20-24 November 1996, San Francisco, USA, Panel 'Memory and the Postcolony: African Anthropology and the Critique of Power', 21 November, 1996.

R.A. van Dijk
Ngoma, born-again fundamentalism and contesting representations of time in urban Malawi
Paper presented at the Studyday 'Ngoma; the political and therapeutical in Southern Africa', Leiden, 22 March, 1996.

 

Reviews

 

R.A. van Dijk
'Review of J.L. Comaroff and J. Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution VOL II. The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier'
In: American Ethnologist, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 529-530, 1998.
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R.A. van Dijk
'Review of Megan Vaughan, Foucault and the Anti-Witchcraft Movement, In: Colonial Power and African Illness'
In: Critique of anthropology, vol. 1, no. 3, 1994.

 
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