For a full list of publications see CV.
Highlighted publications
Meyer, B. (2021). What is Religion in Africa? Relational Dynamics in an Entangled World. Journal of Religion in Africa, 50(1-2), 156 - 181. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340184
Meyer, B., & van der Veer, P. (Eds.) (2021). Refugees and Religion: Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories. (1 ed.) Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350167162
Meyer, B. (2020). Religion as Mediation. Entangled Religions, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.13154/er.11.2020.8444
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. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2019.1681122
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. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846763452
Publications
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. 47-72). Springer.
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.
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. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2023.2250691
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. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004549319_011
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. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2023.2244369
2022
Scholarly publications
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. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2022.2111095
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. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004523791_011
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/425154/9789004523791_BP000010.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/425154/9789004523791_BP000010.pdf?sequence=1
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 .
Professional publications
Meyer, B. (Author). (2022). Cadeaus geven en ontvangen. Web publication/site, Utrecht Religie Forum. https://urf.sites.uu.nl/2022/12/16/cadeaus-geven-en-ontvangen/
2021
Scholarly publications
Meyer, B. (Author). (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. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350167162
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
Meyer, B. (2021). What is Religion in Africa? Relational Dynamics in an Entangled World. Journal of Religion in Africa, 50(1-2), 156 - 181. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340184
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/10.1177/20503032211015276
Professional publications
Ziche, P. (Author), Meyer, B. (Author), & Lange, C. (Author). (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
Popularising publications
Meyer, B. (Author). (2021). Legba-Figures and Dzokawo. Unpacking a Missionary Collections in the Übersee-Museum Bremen. Web publication/site, Boasblogs.org.
Meyer, B. (Author). (2021). Academic Unboxings. Web publication/site, Religiousmatters.nl.
Meyer, B. (Author). (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
Scholarly publications
Meyer, B. (Author). (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. 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38050-2
Meyer, B. (2020). Religion as Mediation. Entangled Religions, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.13154/er.11.2020.8444
Meyer, B. (2020). Afterword: Comparison in the Anthropological Study of Plural Religious Environments. Social Analysis, 64(1), 133 -139. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2020.640110
Meyer, B., & Stolow, J. (2020). Light Mediations: Introduction. Material Religion, 16(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2019.1696557
Professional publications
Meyer, B. (Author). (2020). Media. Web publication/site, The Immanent Frame; secularism, religion, and the public sphere. https://tif.ssrc.org/2020/02/14/media-meyer/
Popularising publications
Meyer, B. (Author). (2020). Studying religion in times of Corona. Web publication/site, Utrecht University. https://religiousmatters.nl/studying-religion-in-times-of-corona/
Meyer, B. (Author). (2020). Thinking with the virus. Web publication/site, Utrecht University. https://religiousmatters.nl/thinking-with-the-virus/
Meyer, B. (Producer). (2020). Curator: Dossier Corona. Web publication/site, Utrecht University. https://religiousmatters.nl/dossier-corona1/
2019
Scholarly publications
Meyer, B. (Author). (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. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429198588-5
Meyer, B. (2019). Remapping Our Mindset: Towards a Transregional and Pluralistic Outlook. Religion, 50(1), 113-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2019.1681122
Meyer, B. (2019). ‘Material Approaches to Religion’ Meet ‘New Materialism’: Resonances and Dissonances. Material Religion, 15(5), 620-621. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2019.1666581
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
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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. 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
Meyer, B. (2019). Guidelines for anthropological research: Data management, ethics, and integrity. Ethnography, 20(2), 170-174. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138119843312
Popularising publications
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
Scholarly publications
Meyer, B. (2018). Frontier Zones and the Study of Religion. Journal for the study of religion, 31(2), 57-78. https://doi.org/10.17159/2413-3027/2018/v31n2a3
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. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846763452
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.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/389208/vandeport.pdf?sequence=1
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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). Watching Movies in Ghana: Dream factories. Anthropology News, 58(2), e44–e50. https://doi.org/10.1111/AN.356
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
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. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340095
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/359401/Meyer_Sounaye_Journal_of_Religion_in_Africa_Introduction_Sermon_in_the_City_Christian_and_Islamic_Preaching_in_West_Africa.pdf?sequence=3
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/359401/Meyer_Sounaye_Journal_of_Religion_in_Africa_Introduction_Sermon_in_the_City_Christian_and_Islamic_Preaching_in_West_Africa.pdf?sequence=3
Meyer, B. (2017). Afterword. Towards Religious Studies “New Style”. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, 71(1), 96-105. https://doi.org/10.5117/NTT2017.71.096.MEYE
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. https://doi.org/10.5117/NTT2017.71.002.MEYE
Meyer, B. (Author). (2017). Watching Movies in Ghana. Dream factories. Web publication/site https://doi.org/10.1111/AN.356
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.
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https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/389205/The_Anthropology_of_Catholicism_A_Reader_23._Catholicism_and_the_Study_of_Religion_.pdf?sequence=1
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/S0001972016000553
Meyer, B. (Author). (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. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12331
Meyer, B. (2016). The Icon in Orthodox Christianity, Art History and Semiotics. Material Religion, 12(2), 233-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2016.1172759
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/345070/The_Icon_in_Orthodox_Christianity_Art_History_and_Semiotics.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/345070/The_Icon_in_Orthodox_Christianity_Art_History_and_Semiotics.pdf?sequence=1
Meyer, B., Knott, K., & Krech, V. (2016). Iconic Religion in Urban Space. Material Religion, 12(2), 123-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2016.1172759
Meyer, B. (2016). Three points About Current German Anthropology. American Anthropologist, 118(2), 379-380. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12539
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
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
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
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. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341357
Popularising publications
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
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). 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
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: Introduction. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, 9(3), 274-280. https://doi.org/10.2752/175183413X13730330868870
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. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118605936.ch17
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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
de Witte, M., & Meyer, B. (2012). African Heritage Design: Entertainment Media and Visual Aesthetics in Ghana. Civilisations, 61(1), 43-64. https://doi.org/10.4000/civilisations.3132
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/376447/civilisations_3132.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/376447/civilisations_3132.pdf?sequence=1
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. https://doi.org/10.2752/175183412X13522006995015
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.
Meyer, B. (2012). Mediation and the genesis of presence. Towards a material approach to religion. Universiteit Utrecht.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/257546/Meyer%2C%2520B._Mediation%2520and%2520the%2520Genesis%2520of%2520Presence_%28inaugural%29.pdf?sequence=1
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2011
Scholarly publications
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. https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2011.0035
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/389038/Effecting_Spiritual_Presence.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/389038/Effecting_Spiritual_Presence.pdf?sequence=1
Meyer, B. (2011). Going and Making Public: Pentecostalism as Public Religion in Ghana. In Christianity and Public culture in Africa Columbus: Ohia University Press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/389204/Christianity_and_Public_Culture_in_Africa_7_Going_and_Making_Public_.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/389204/Christianity_and_Public_Culture_in_Africa_7_Going_and_Making_Public_.pdf?sequence=1
Meyer, B., Morgan, D., Paine, C., & Plate, S. B. (2011). Introduction: Key Words in Material Religion. Material Religion, 7(1), 4-9. https://doi.org/10.2752/175183411X12968355481737
Meyer, B. (2011). Mediation and Immediacy: Sensational Forms, Semiotic Ideologies and the Question of the Medium. Social Anthropology, 19(1), 23-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2010.00137.x
Meyer, B. (2011). Religious Sensations: Media, Aesthetics, and the Study of Contemporary Religion. In Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader. (pp. 159-170). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203805657-18
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/389202/Religion_Media_and_Culture_a_Reader_14_Religious_sensations_media_aesthetics_and_the_study_of_contemporary..._.pdf?sequence=1
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Meyer, B., Morgan, D., Paine, C., & Plate, S. B. (2011). Medium. Material Religion, 7(1), 58-67. https://doi.org/10.2752/175183411X12968355482015
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
Meyer, B. (1999). Translating the Devil: religion and modernity among the Ewe in Ghana. (International African Library; Vol. 21). Edinburgh University Press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/357317/Meyer_Translating_the_Devil.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/357317/Meyer_Translating_the_Devil.pdf?sequence=1