Publications
2024
Scholarly publications
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).
'Idols' in the museum: Legacies of missionary iconoclasm. In
Image Controversies: Contemporary Iconoclasm in Art, Media, and Cultural Heritage (pp. 108-130). De Gruyter.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110773576-007 2023
Scholarly publications
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.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-41840-3_3 2022
Scholarly publications
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 .
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.
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350167162.0023 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.
https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032211015276Popularising publications
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. (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.
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839455173-016 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.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38050-2 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.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429198588-5 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. (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.
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350078666.0006 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.
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350078666.0011 Popularising publications
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
Scholarly publications
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.
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.
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.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110502060-024 Korte, A. J. A. C. M., Meyer, B., & Kruse, C. (Eds.) (2018). Offensive Pictures: Religion and Art in Global Cultures. Berghahn Books.
2017
Scholarly publications
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.
https://doi.org/10.14318/hau7.1.035 2016
Scholarly publications
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.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972016000553Meyer, 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). 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.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12331 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.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2016.1210399,
https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2016.1210399 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.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972016000553 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.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972016000553 Professional publications
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.
Popularising publications
2015
Scholarly publications
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.
https://doi.org/10.2752/205393215X14259900061797 Popularising publications
2014
Scholarly publications
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.
https://doi.org/10.3167/arrs.2014.050114 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.
Other output
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). Afterword, Catalogue of the exposition The Spiritual Highway, curated by Marloes Janson, SOAS. SOAS.
2013
Scholarly publications
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, Special Issue of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief. (9 ed.) Bloomsbury Journals.
Other output
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
Scholarly publications
Meyer, B., & Houtman, D. (2012). Things. Religion and the Question of Materiality. Fordham.
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.
https://doi.org/10.1086/666529 Other output
Meyer, B. (2012, Oct 28). Elmina, Africa in Motion Film festival.
2011
Scholarly publications
Professional publications
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
Scholarly publications