Prof. dr. Birgit Meyer

Hoogleraar
Religiewetenschap
Religiewetenschap
b.meyer@uu.nl

 Voor een volledige lijst met publicaties zie CV.

Sleutelpublicaties

Meyer, B. (2024). 'Idols' in the museum: Legacies of missionary iconoclasm. In Image Controversies: Contemporary Iconoclasm in Art, Media, and Cultural Heritage (pp. 108-130). De Gruyter. [DOI] [Portal]
Meyer, B. (2023). What is Religious (About) Heritage? In T. Weir, & L. Wijnia (Eds.), Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Heritage in Contemporary Europe (pp. 15-21). Bloomsbury. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2021). What is Religion in Africa? Relational Dynamics in an Entangled World. Journal of Religion in Africa, 50(1-2), 156 - 181. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B., & van der Veer, P. (Eds.) (2021). Refugees and Religion: Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories. (1 ed.) Bloomsbury Academic. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2020). Religion as Mediation. Entangled Religions, 11(3). [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B., & Stordalen, T. (Eds.) (2019). Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Contested Desires. (Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion). Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/figurations-and-sensations-of-the-unseen-in-judaism-christianity-and-islam-contested-desires/
Meyer, B. (2019). Remapping Our Mindset: Towards a Transregional and Pluralistic Outlook. Religion, 50(1), 113-121. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B., & van de Port, M. (2018). Sense and Essence. Heritage and the Cultural Construction of the Real. Berghahn.
Kruse, C., Meyer, B., & Korte, A. J. A. C. M. (Eds.) (2018). Taking Offense: Religion, Art, and Visual Culture in Plural Configurations. Fink Verlag. [DOI] [Repository]

Publicaties

2025

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Meyer, B. (2025). Translating spirit. Web publication/site, Centre for Advanced Studies, Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices form a Global Perspective, Erlangen University . https://cas-e.de/2025/09/30/translating-spirit/
Meyer, B. (2025). Reconceptualizing African Spirituality: report about the Legba-Dzoka project. Web publication/site, Religiousmatters.nl.
Meyer, B. (2025). Missions, Materiality and the Study of Religion. Perspectives for Research. In P. F. Krüger, B.-M. Peters, & M. Radermacher (Eds.), Missionssammlungen ausgepackt: Eine kritische Spurensuche (pp. 201-209). Böhlau.
Meyer, B., Echtler, M., & Ural, N. Y. (2025). Material Secularities. Secular Studies, 7(2), 175-376. https://brill.com/view/journals/secu/7/2/secu.7.issue-2.xml
Meyer, B., & Pels, P. (2025). Unpacking Missionary Collections. Material Religion, 21(3), 231-344. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfmr20/21/3
Meyer, B. (Accepted/In press). Missions, Materiality and the Study of Religion: Ausblick. Katalog Rautenstrauch-Joost Museum Köln.
Meyer, B. (2025). "Dzo" as "magic"? - A Tricky Translation. West 86th, 32(1), 96-103. [DOI] [Portal]
Meyer, B. (2025). Provocative Objects and the Re-making of Cultural Memory. In A. Erll, S. Knittel, & J. Wüstenberg (Eds.), Dynamics, Media, Mobilization, Berlin (pp. 267-271). De Gruyter. [DOI] [Portal]
Meyer, B., & Pels, P. (2025). Spirits in the Museum. Material Religion, 21(3), 336. [DOI] [Portal]
Meyer, B., & Pels, P. (2025). Unpacking Missionary Collections. Material Religion, 21(3), 231-243. [DOI] [Portal]
Echtler, M., Meyer, B., & Ural, N. Y. (2025). Introduction Material Secularities. Secular Studies, 7(2), 175-182. [DOI] [Portal]
Meyer, B. (2025). The Materiality of Secularity. Secular Studies, 7(2), 183-201. [DOI] [Portal]
de Witte, M., & Meyer, B. (2025). Consulting the Things of the Spirits: Evidencing Unseen Presences in Missionary Collections. Museum Anthropology, 48(1), Article e70002. [DOI] [Portal]

2024

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Meyer, B. (2024). In-between: Studying Lived Plurality from the Interstice. Material Religion, 20(5), 2-4. [DOI] [Portal]
Meyer, B. (2024). Foreword. In M. Janson, K. Kressem, B. Pontzen, & H. Mwakimako (Eds.), Religious Plurality in Africa: Coexistence, Conviviality, Conflict. (pp. xvii-xxii). Boydell & Brewer.
Meyer, B. (2024). Foreword. In I. Bredenbröker (Ed.), Rest in Plastic. Time, Death and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community (pp. xi-xiv). Berghahn Publishers. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BredenbrokerRest
Meyer, B. (2024). 'Idols' in the museum: Legacies of missionary iconoclasm. In Image Controversies: Contemporary Iconoclasm in Art, Media, and Cultural Heritage (pp. 108-130). De Gruyter. [DOI] [Portal]

2023

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Meyer, B. (2023). Moving Christian Imagery: Jan Tregot. Web publication/site http://https:/religiousmatters.nl/moving-christian-imagery-jan-tregot-blog-by-birgit-meyer/
Meyer, B. (2023). “Religion Across Media“: Materielle Medien und religiöse Praktiken der Welterzeugung. In A. Offerhaus (Ed.), Medienvielfalt – Religionsvielfalt. Medien, Kultur, Kommunikation.: (translation of Material Mediations and Religious Practices of World-making, 2013) (pp. 47-71). Springer. [DOI]
Meyer, B. (2023). What is Religious (About) Heritage? In T. Weir, & L. Wijnia (Eds.), Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Heritage in Contemporary Europe (pp. 15-21). Bloomsbury. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (Ed.) (2023). Hans Belting (1935-2023) Images beyond the Era of Art. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, 19(3), 306-306. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2023). Religion and Materiality: Food, ‘Fetish’ and Other Matters. In M. Freudenberg, F. Elwert, T. Karis, M. Radermacher, & J. Schlamelcher (Eds.), Stepping Back and Looking Ahead: Twelve Years of Studying Religious Contact at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Bochum (pp. 267-301). (Dynamics in the History of Religions; Vol. 13). Brill. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2023). Religious Repercussions in Hans Belting’s Anthropology of Images. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, 19(3), 307-309. [DOI] [Repository]

2022

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Meyer, B. (2022, Jan). Disturbing Heritage. AllegraLab. https://allegralaboratory.net/heritage-out-of-control-recycdisturbing-heritage/
Meyer, B., & Ntewusu, S. (2022). Modalities of Co-existence in Madina, Ghana. Material Religion, 18(4), 486-497. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2022). Afterword: Things for Thought. In L. van Liere, & E. Meinema (Eds.), Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence: Things of Conflict (pp. 211-217). (Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion; Vol. 19). Brill. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2022). Slotbeschouwing. In T.-E. Krijger, & P. van Trigt (Eds.), Pandemieën en Protestanten. De omgang met infectieziekten in Protestants Nederland sinds 1800. (pp. 191-199). Kok Boekencentrum .

Vakpublicaties

Meyer, B. (2022). Cadeaus geven en ontvangen. Web publication/site, Utrecht Religie Forum. https://urf.sites.uu.nl/2022/12/16/cadeaus-geven-en-ontvangen/

2021

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Meyer, B. (2021). Refugees and Religion. Web publication/site, Forum Transregionale Studien. https://trafo.hypotheses.org/29844
Meyer, B., & van der Veer, P. (Eds.) (2021). Refugees and Religion: Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories. (1 ed.) Bloomsbury Academic. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2021). Mobilizing Theory: Concluding Thoughts. In B. Meyer , & P. V. D. Veer (Eds.), Refugees and Religion: Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories (pp. 256-273). Bloomsbury. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2021). What is Religion in Africa? Relational Dynamics in an Entangled World. Journal of Religion in Africa, 50(1-2), 156 - 181. [DOI] [Repository]
Stolow, J., & Meyer, B. (2021). Enlightening Religion: Light and Darkness in Religious Knowledge and Knowledge About Religion. Critical Research on Religion, 9(2), 119-125. [DOI] [Repository]

Vakpublicaties

Ziche, P., Meyer, B., & Lange, C. (2021). Geesteswetenschappers gaan gewoon in zee met de digitale boot. Web publication/site, DUB (UU). https://www.dub.uu.nl/nl/opinie/geesteswetenschappers-gaan-gewoon-zee-met-de-digitale-boot

Populariserende publicaties

Meyer, B. (2021). Legba-Figures and Dzokawo. Unpacking a Missionary Collections in the Übersee-Museum Bremen. Web publication/site, Boasblogs.org.
Meyer, B. (2021). Academic Unboxings. Web publication/site, Religiousmatters.nl.
Meyer, B. (2021). Corona en de crisis van de moderne mens. Web publication/site, Utrecht Religie Forum. https://urf.sites.uu.nl/2021/12/20/corona-en-de-crisis-van-de-moderne-mens/

2020

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Meyer, B. (2020). Studying religion in and from Africa. Web publication/site https://religiousmatters.nl/studying-religion-in-and-from-africa-a-new-blog-by-birgit-meyer/
Meyer, B. (2020). The Thing About Religion: interview with David Morgan. Web publication/site, Utrecht University. https://religiousmatters.nl/the-thing-about-religion-interview-with-david-morgan/
Meyer, B. (2020). Religion und Pandemie. In B. Kortmann , & G. Schulze (Eds.), Jenseits von Corona. Unsere Welt nach der Pandemie – Perspektiven aus der Wissenschaft (pp. 147-156). transcript Verlag. [DOI]
Meyer, B. (2020). Afterword. In M. Balkenhol, E. Hemel, van den, & I. Stengs (Eds.), The Secular Sacred: Emotions of Belonging and the Perils of Nation and Religion. (pp. 285 - 290). Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2020). Religion as Mediation. Entangled Religions, 11(3). [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2020). Afterword: Comparison in the Anthropological Study of Plural Religious Environments. Social Analysis, 64(1), 133 -139. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B., & Stolow, J. (2020). Light Mediations: Introduction. Material Religion, 16(1), 1-8. [DOI] [Repository]

Vakpublicaties

Meyer, B. (2020). Religieuze Objecten in museale collecties. Web publication/site, Utrecht Religie Forum. https://urf.sites.uu.nl/2020/12/16/religieuze-objecten-in-museale-collecties/
Meyer, B. (2020). Media. Web publication/site, The Immanent Frame; secularism, religion, and the public sphere. https://tif.ssrc.org/2020/02/14/media-meyer/

Populariserende publicaties

Meyer, B. (2020). Studying religion in times of Corona. Web publication/site, Utrecht University. https://religiousmatters.nl/studying-religion-in-times-of-corona/
Meyer, B. (2020). Thinking with the virus. Web publication/site, Utrecht University. https://religiousmatters.nl/thinking-with-the-virus/
Meyer, B. (2020). Curator: Dossier Corona. Web publication/site, Utrecht University. https://religiousmatters.nl/dossier-corona1/

2019

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Meyer, B. (2019). New Vistas in Studying Religion and Public Life. Concluding Essay to Rethinking Public Religion: Word, Image, Sound. Web publication/site, The Immanent Frame; secularism, religion, and the public sphere. https://tif.ssrc.org/2019/07/02/new-vistas-in-studying-religion-and-public-life/
Meyer, B. (2019). Recycling the Christian Past. The Heritagization of Christianity and National Identity in the Netherlands. In Culture, Citizenship and Human Rights (pp. 64-88). Routledge. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2019). Remapping Our Mindset: Towards a Transregional and Pluralistic Outlook. Religion, 50(1), 113-121. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2019). ‘Material Approaches to Religion’ Meet ‘New Materialism’: Resonances and Dissonances. Material Religion, 15(5), 620-621. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2019). ‘Pentecost’ in the World. In A. Eriksen, R. Llera Blanes, & M. MacCarthy (Eds.), Going to Pentecost. An Experimental Approach to Studies of Pentecostalism. (pp. 209 - 215). Berghahn Books. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/OpenAccess/EriksenGoing/9781789201406_OA.pdf [Repository]
Meyer, B., Giumbelli, E., (Trans.), Rickli, J., (Trans.), & Toniol, R., (Trans.) (2019). Entravista com Birgit Meyer. Interview. In Como as coisas importam. Uma abordagem material de religião. Textos de Birgit Meyer (translation of some of my chapters and articles) (pp. 275-292). Editora da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Editora da UFRGS).
Meyer, B., Giumbelli, E., (Trans.), Rickli, J., (Trans.), & Toniol, R., (Trans.) (2019). Como as coisas importam. Uma abordagem material de religião: Textos de Birgit Meyer (translation of some of my chapters and articles). Editora da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Editora da UFRGS).
Meyer, B., & Stordalen, T. (Eds.) (2019). Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Contested Desires. (Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion). Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/figurations-and-sensations-of-the-unseen-in-judaism-christianity-and-islam-contested-desires/
Meyer, B. (2019). Introduction: Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (with Terje Stordalen). In Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Contested Desires Bloomsbury. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2019). Idolatry beyond the Second Commandment: Conflicting figurations and sensations of the unseen. In B. Meyer, & T. Stordalen (Eds.), Figurations and sensations of the unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: contested desires (pp. 77-96). Bloomsbury. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2019). Guidelines for anthropological research: Data management, ethics, and integrity. Ethnography, 20(2), 170-174. [DOI] [Repository]

Populariserende publicaties

Meyer, B. (2019). Kijk eens naar de geesteswetenschappen zoals de Duitsers. NRC. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/09/24/ocw-kampt-met-bekrompen-louter-technische-mindset-a3974430
Meyer, B. (2019). Christendom als erfgoed. In J. Wagemakers, & L. Liere, van (Eds.), Wie is er bang voor religie? Waarom kennis van religie belangrijk is (pp. 106-117). Parthenon.

2018

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Meyer, B. (2018). Frontier Zones and the Study of Religion. Journal for the study of religion, 31(2), 57-78. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2018). The Dynamics of Taking Offense: Concluding Thoughts and Outlook. In C. Kruse, B. Meyer, & A.-M. Korte (Eds.), Taking Offense: Religion, Art, and Visual Culture in Plural Configurations (pp. 340-372). Fink Verlag.
Kruse, C., Meyer, B., & Korte, A. J. A. C. M. (Eds.) (2018). Taking Offense: Religion, Art, and Visual Culture in Plural Configurations. Fink Verlag. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B., & van de Port, M. (2018). Sense and Essence. Heritage and the Cultural Construction of the Real. Berghahn.
Meyer, B., Korte, A. J. A. C. M., & Kruse, C. (2018). Introduction. In Taking Offense: Religion, Art, and Visual Culture in Plural Configurations (pp. 9-16). (Dynamis : a series on art, media and design). Fink Verlag.
van de Port, M., & Meyer, B. (2018). Heritage Dynamics: Politics of Authentication, Aesthetics of Persuasion and the Cultural Production of the Real. Introduction. In Sense and Essence: Heritage and the Cultural Construction of the Real (pp. 1-39). Berghahn. [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2018). Afterword: Media Dynamics of Religious Diversity. In K. Lundby (Ed.), Contesting Religion: The Media Dynamics of Cultural Conflicts in Scandinavia. (pp. 333-338). De Gruyter. [DOI] [Repository]
Korte, A. J. A. C. M., Meyer, B., & Kruse, C. (Eds.) (2018). Offensive Pictures: Religion and Art in Global Cultures. Berghahn Books.

2017

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Meyer, B. (2017). Watching Movies in Ghana: Dream factories. Anthropology News, 58(2), e44–e50. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2017). Comparison as Critique: Contribution to the Book Symposium Around Peter van der Veer’s The Value of Comparison. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 7(1), 509-515. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B., & Sounaye, A. (2017). Introduction: Sermon in the City: Christian and Islamic Preaching in West Africa. Journal of Religion in Africa, 47(1), 1-8. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2017). Afterword. Towards Religious Studies “New Style”. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, 71(1), 96-105. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B., & Molendijk, A. (2017). Preface in special issue The Study of Religion Today. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, 71(1), 2-4. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2017). Watching Movies in Ghana. Dream factories. Web publication/site [DOI]
Meyer, B. (2017). Catholicism and the Study of Religion. In K. Norget, V. Napolitano, & M. Mayblin (Eds.), The Anthropology of Catholicism: A reader (pp. 305-315). University of California Press. [Repository]

2016

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Janson, M., & Meyer, B. (Eds.) (2016). Studying Islam and Christianity in Africa: Moving beyond a bifurcated field. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 86(4), 615-619. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2016). Concluding remarks to the Conference “Making, Sustaining, Breaking – The Politics of Heritage and Culture”. Web publication/site https://trafo.hypotheses.org/5452
Meyer, B., Knotte, K., & Krech, V. (2016). Iconic Religion in Urban Space. (2 ed.) (Material Religion The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief; Vol. 12, No. 2). Taylor & Francis.
Meyer, B., & Svasek, M. (Eds.) (2016). Creativity in Transition. Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe. Berghahn.
Meyer, B. (2016). Tastbare Transzendenz – die Anwesendheit von Religion im Raum der Stadt / Tangible Transcendence and the Presence of Religion in Urban Space. In S. Lanwerd (Ed.), The Urban Sacred: Städtisch-religiöse Arrangements in Amsterdam, Berlin und London / How religion Makes and Takes Place in Amsterdam, Berlin and London (pp. 144-151). Metropolis Verlag. http://www.urban-sacred.org/catalogue-tangible-transcendence-and-the-presence-of-religion-in-urban-space/
Meyer, B. (2016). Afterword. Creativity in Transition. In M. Svašek, & B. Meyer (Eds.), Creativity in Transition. Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe (pp. 312-318). Berghahn.
Meyer, B. (2016). How to Capture the Wow: R.R. Marett’s Notion of Awe and the Study of Religion. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 22(1), 7-26. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2016). The Icon in Orthodox Christianity, Art History and Semiotics. Material Religion, 12(2), 233-234. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B., Knott, K., & Krech, V. (2016). Iconic Religion in Urban Space. Material Religion, 12(2), 123-136. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2016). Three points About Current German Anthropology. American Anthropologist, 118(2), 379-380. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2016). Responses, Reflections, and Afterthoughts: on comments by Adrian Hermann, Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Rosalind Hackett, Duane Jethro, Stephanie Knauss, David Morgan & Don Seeman on my book Sensational Movies. Religion, 46(4), 669-679. [DOI], [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2016). Towards a joint framework for the study of Christians and Muslims in Africa. Response to J.D.Y. Peel. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 86(4), 628-632. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B., & Janson, M. (2016). Introduction: Towards a Framework for the Study of Christian-Muslim Encounters in Africa. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 86(4), 615-619. [DOI] [Repository]

Vakpublicaties

Meyer, B. (2016). Visualizing the Spiritual. Video-Movies in Ghana. In M. Elsas (Ed.), Bloodywood. Ghanaian Film Posters from the Collection of Mandy Elsas (pp. 22-27). Vintage Voodoo.

Populariserende publicaties

Meyer, B. (2016). Religie is vooral iets wat mensen doen. NRC. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2016/05/07/religie-is-vooral-iets-wat-mensen-doen-1615973-a417528

2015

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Meyer, B. (2015). How Pictures Matter. Religious Objects and the Imagination in Ghana. In Ø. Fuglerud, & L. Wainwright (Eds.), Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement (Vol. 3, pp. 160-182). Berghahn.
Meyer, B. (2015). Sensational Movies: Video, Vision and Christianity in Ghana. University of California Press.
Meyer, B. (2015). Art, Anthropology and Religion. Contribution to In Conversation “Secrets Under the Skin” (by Jill Flanders Crosby). Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, 11(1), 113-115. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2015). Picturing the Invisible: Visual Culture and the Study of Religion. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 27(4-5), 333-360. [DOI] [Repository]

Populariserende publicaties

Beekers, D. T., & Meyer, B. (2015). Nieuwe vormen van het heilige. Nederlands Dagblad. https://www.nd.nl/nieuws/opinie/nieuwe-vormen-van-het-heilige.937210.lynkx?s=Zfx9Ms-jT2igf4kTeaaJAw%3D%3D

2014

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Meyer, B. (2014). An Author Meets Her Critics: Around Birgit Meyer’s ”Mediation and the Genesis of Presence: Toward a Material Approach to Religion”. Religion and Society: Advances in Research, 5, 205-254. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2014). Symposium Iconic buildings, building iconicity: Religious diversity, materiality and the transformation of urban space. Symposium Iconic buildings, building iconicity: Religious diversity, materiality and the transformation of urban space, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Meyer, B. (2014). Lessons From “Global Prayers”: How Religion Takes Place in the City. In J. Becker, K. Klingan, S. Lanz, & K. Wildner (Eds.), Global Prayers. Contemporary Manifestations of the Religious in the City (pp. 590-599). Lars Mueller Publishers.

Overige resultaten

Meyer, B. (2014). Pentecostal Aesthetics of Persuasion. In: Annalisa Butticci (ed), Na God. Aesthetics of African Charismatic Power (Exhibition catalogue). Padua: Padua University. Pp. 65-76. (reprint of excerpts from my article ‘Aesthetics of Persuasion,’ South Atlantic Quarterly, 2010) http://www.pentecostalaesthetics.net/the-catalog/. University of Padua.
Meyer, B. (2014). Comment on “Researching Muslim Worlds: Regions and Disciplines” by Ulrike Freitag. http://www.zmo.de/publikationen/Kommentare/meyer_pp6.pdf
Meyer, B. (2014). Afterword, Catalogue of the exposition The Spiritual Highway, curated by Marloes Janson, SOAS. SOAS.

2013

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Meyer, B. (2013). Material Mediations and Religious Practices of World-making. In K. Lundby (Ed.), Religion Across Media: From Early Antiquity to Late Modernity (pp. 1-19). Peter Lang International Academic Publishers.
Meyer, B., & de Witte, M. (2013). Heritage and the Sacred: Introduction. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, 9(3), 274-280. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B., & de Witte, M. (2013). Heritage and the Sacred, Special Issue of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief. (9 ed.) Bloomsbury Journals.
Meyer, B. (2013). Mediation and Immediacy. Sensational Forms, Semiotic Ideologies and the Question of the Medium. In J. Boddy, & M. Lambek (Eds.), A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion (pp. 309-326). Wiley-Blackwell. [DOI] [Repository]

Overige resultaten

Meyer, B. (2013, Nov 16). Roundtable at the occasion of the launch of Global Prayers. Contemporary Manifestations of the Religions in the City, with Jochen Becker, Katrin Klinghan, Stephan Lanz and Kathrin Wildner.
Meyer, B. (2013, Mar 6). A Matter of Perception. The History of the Aesthetic Approach and the Groningen Tradition. Roundtable with Hans G. Kippenberg, Christoph Uehlinger and Alexandra Grieser.
Meyer, B. (2013, Dec 7). The Politics of Secularism and the Emergence of New Religiosities.
Meyer, B. (2013, Nov 15). On Research II. Reflections on research methodologies. Discussion with Bernd Scherer, Anne Huffschmid, Aernout Mik, Martijn Oosterbaan, Joseph Rustom and Paolo Yacoub.
Meyer, B. (2013, Nov 23). Culture@Large, roundtable around the work of W.J.T.Mitchell, with Brian Larkin (chair), Chris Pinney and Karen Strassler. AAA.

2012

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

de Witte, M., & Meyer, B. (2012). African Heritage Design: Entertainment Media and Visual Aesthetics in Ghana. Civilisations, 61(1), 43-64. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B., & Houtman, D. (2012). Things. Religion and the Question of Materiality. Fordham.
Meyer, B. (2012). Unexpected Synergies: Contribution to In Conversation “Locating the Textual Gaze. Then and Now”. Material Religion, 8(4), 530-531. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2012). Introduction. Material Religion – How Things Matter. In Things: Religion and the Question of Materiality. (pp. 1-23). Fordham University Press.
Meyer, B. (2012). Religious and Secular, ‘Spiritual’ and ‘Physical’ in Ghana. In What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a (Not So) Secular Age. (pp. 86-118). Columbia University Press.
Meyer, B. (2012). Christianity in Africa: From African Independent to Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches. (shortened reprint of article in Annual Review of Anthropology, with a new epilogue). In The Wiley Blackwell Compagnion to African Religions. (pp. 153-170). Oxford and Malden: Blackwell.
Meyer, B. (2012). Comment on T. Luhrman, A Hyperreal God and Modern Belief. Toward and Anthropological Theory of Mind. Current Anthropology, 53(4), 388-389. [DOI] [Repository]

Overige resultaten

Meyer, B. (2012, Oct 28). Elmina, Africa in Motion Film festival.
Meyer, B. (2012). Mediation and the genesis of presence. Towards a material approach to religion. Universiteit Utrecht. [Repository]

2011

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Meyer, B. (2011). Mediating Absence - Effecting Spiritual Presence Pictures and the Christian Imagination: "Image as Action, Image in Action". Social Research, 78(4), 1029-1056. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2011). Going and Making Public: Pentecostalism as Public Religion in Ghana. In Christianity and Public culture in Africa Columbus: Ohia University Press. [Repository]
Meyer, B., Morgan, D., Paine, C., & Plate, S. B. (2011). Introduction: Key Words in Material Religion. Material Religion, 7(1), 4-9. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2011). Mediation and Immediacy: Sensational Forms, Semiotic Ideologies and the Question of the Medium. Social Anthropology, 19(1), 23-39. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B. (2011). Religious Sensations: Media, Aesthetics, and the Study of Contemporary Religion. In Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader. (pp. 159-170). Routledge. [DOI] [Repository]
Meyer, B., Morgan, D., Paine, C., & Plate, S. B. (2011). Medium. Material Religion, 7(1), 58-67. [DOI] [Repository]

Vakpublicaties

Meyer, B. (2011). Self-contained. Glamorous Houses and Modes of Personhood in Ghanaian Video-movies. In Bodies of Belonging. Inhabiting Worlds in Rural West Africa.

1999

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Meyer, B. (1999). Translating the Devil: religion and modernity among the Ewe in Ghana. (International African Library; Vol. 21). Edinburgh University Press. [Repository]