Final Report Birgit Meyer, VU University Amsterdam

Final Report Birgit Meyer, VU University Amsterdam http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/media-religion/publications/publicat.htm PIONIER-program Modern Mass Media, Religion and the Imagination of Communities: Different Postcolonial Trajectories in West Africa, India, Brazil and the Caribbean. 2000-2006.

A) Scientific report This multidisciplinary research program addressed the role of electronic mass media in the shift from the nation-state as the privileged space for the imagination of community to the articulation of alternative, religious imaginations. Central questions were: How does the accessibility of new mass media, offered by new global infrastructures and media technologies as well as state policies of media liberalization, facilitate the public articulation of religion? Which role does the crisis of the modern state play in allowing for religions’ public role? How are religious traditions transformed by adopting new media, going public and becoming enmeshed with the forces of politics, entertainment and neo-liberalist economics? To which new (religious) subjectivities and notions of community does the nexus of religion and media give rise? Fields of investigation were Pentecostalism and political Islam in Ghana and Nigeria, Pentecostalism and Candomblé in Brazil, Hindu nationalism and Islam in South Asia, and various hybrid religious forms in the Caribbean After the adjustments and fine-tunings indicated in the mid-term evaluation, the program proceeded as planned. The phase following the empirical research has been very fruitful, in that it yielded a substantial number of individual publications by project members (PhD students as well as senior researchers, see D&E) and the organization of a number of high profile international events, that contributed to making the programme visible both on a national and international level. For more information see the Conference Outlines and programs of the most important conferences (Appendix A). The programme has offered much room for exchange and discussion among program members. The visiting scholars played an important role in stimulating discussions with each other. Over a period of six years, the researchers involved, and a number of scholars attracted to the program, have been in close conversation with each other, and this has been very productive for the program output. We held a weekly seminar (each Monday morning) in which work in progress and important publications were being discussed. The program also sought to attract the interest of scholars from outside (both nationally and internationally), by organizing public events. The program has certainly plaid a ‘pioneering’ role in putting the interdisciplinary study of religion and media on the (inter)national research agenda. The programme director has been invited to assume positions in a number of national and international networks (e.g. member of the program board of the NWO program The Future of the Religious Past [since 2002]; International Advisory Board of the Pew Center of Excellence for Religion and Media, New York University [since 2004]; Collaborator on the South-African Research Program Radio and the Making of Communities, University of Natal [in 2004]; Board member of the International Commission on Media, Culture and Religion [since 2006]; Member [since 2004] and Vice-president [since 2005] of the International African Institute, London; editor of Material Religion [Berg Publishers] [since 2006]; member KNAW [since 2007]). She has also been invited to present results from the program in key notes and public lectures (see Appendix B).

Key results of the programme have been published in individual publications, but also in books and special issues, as indicated under F. At the occasion of the final conference in June 2006, the program director delivered a public lecture, which presented the main outcomes of the project (see appendix C). This lecture will be the first chapter to a joint publication, under contract with Palgrave, in which the main findings will be presented (see appendix D for the prospectus and a peer review).

Some of our findings (formulated as propositions):

New opportunities to access mass media which arose through processes of (IMF-instigated) media-deregulation and democratization, have significantly transformed the public spheres in the research sites.

These processes facilitate that existing religions articulate themselves in a new manner while hitherto ‘quiet’ religions start to manifest themselves in public, often challenging the state.

Media are intrinsic to religion, in fact, religion is best understood as a practice of mediation. The adoption of new media by religious traditions often ensues crises of authority and authenticity and new possibilities of producing charisma and spreading out.

Publicizing religion implies a challenge to religious authority, as new authoritative voices – i.e. the masters of media technology, style, design, fashion, aesthetics – gain prominence in the articulation of religious ideas. Moreover, outreach often occurs at the price of the inability to impose religious discipline effectively.

The possibilities to technologically reproduce and circulate religious messages enhance the quest for authenticity. Ubiquitous media presence seems to foster the notion that authenticity requires the absence of mediation, i.e. suggests that only immediacy produces an authentically felt grounding to social constructs. Paradoxically, this desire and quest for unmediated truths is subject to constant (re)mediation.

What media do, and are made to do is not technologically determined, but shaped by the religious traditions and the broader social field into which these media are embedded.

New practices of mediation produce religious subjectivities by raising specific sensibilities and offering specific technologies of self.

Binding people occurs not merely by creating structures, but by generating moods through distinct religious styles.

The analysis of religion in our post-secular era needs to be located in the interface of aesthetics and politics.

B) Researchers:

Program chair:

Prof Dr Birgit Meyer, (Religious Studies, Cultural Anthropology, PhD at University of Amsterdam)

Current position (since 9/2006): Professor of Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam, affiliated with Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR).

PhD-students: Dr. Francio Guadeloupe (Development Studies, MA at the University of Nijmegen), employed from 1 December 2000 until 30 November 2004, supervisors: Prof. Dr. Birgit Meyer & Prof. Dr. Peter Geschiere; PhD defense 11 January 2006. Current position: head of Department of Social Sciences, University of Sint Maarten; part-time affiliation with KITLV

Dr. Martijn Oosterbaan (Cultural Anthropology, MA at the University of Amsterdam), employed from 1 November 2000 until 31 October 2004, supervisors: Prof. Dr. Birgit Meyer & Prof. Dr. Michiel Baud; PhD Defense 10 May 2006.

Current position; post-doc researcher, University Groningen.

Drs. Marleen de Witte (Cultural Anthropology, MA at the University of Amsterdam), employed from 1 November until 31 October 2004, supervisors: Prof. Dr. Peter Geschiere & Prof. Dr. Birgit Meyer; manuscript expected to be ready by August 2007 (extension of contract because of maternity leave)

Current position: postdoc researcher, University of Poitiers

Drs. Lotte Hoek (Cultural Anthropology/Political Science, MA at the University of Amsterdam), employed from 1 September 2003 until 31 August 2007, supervisors: Prof. Dr. Birgit Meyer & Prof. Dr. Willem van Schendel; manuscript expected to be ready in October 2007 (Lotte Hoek’s contact has been extended for reasons of ill health)

Postdocs:

Dr Brian Larkin (Cultural Anthropology/media studies, PhD at New York University, took a two years leave from Barnard College, Columbia University), employed from 1 September 2001 until 31 August 2003.

Dr Stephen Hughes (Cultural Anthropology, PhD at University of Chicago, takes a two year leave from the School of Oriental and African Studies where he was in charge of the Masters program in anthropology and media), employed from 1 September 2003 until 31 August 2005.

Dr Mattijs van de Port (Cultural Anthropology, PhD at Utrecht University, employed part- time [0.4 fte for a period of 5 years] as he also works as a lecturer at the Research Centre Religion and Society), employed from 1 July 2001 until 30 June 2006

Dr Rafael Sanchez (cultural anthropology, PhD University of Amsterdam), employed from 1 February 2004 until 31 July 2006; now fellow at the NYU Center for Religion and Media.

Visiting fellows:

Dr Meg McLagan (Centre for Culture and Media, NYU), Fall 2001

Dr Charles Hirschkind (University of California, Berkeley), Fall 2003

Dr Jeremy Stolow (McMaster, Hamilton, Canada), Spring 2005

For more information about the research team please consult the program website: www.pscw.uva.nl/media-religion C) Incorporation

The program played a pivotal role in the research cluster Religion & Politics in the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research. It had an impact not only on the researchers financed by the program, but also influenced broader debates about questions of transnationalism, media, and (religious) identity. The conferences and events organized by the program at times took place in collaboration with related institutions, such as ISIM (Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World), IAS (Institute of Asian Studies), the NWO program The Future of the Religious Past, and WISER (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa). When the program director was appointed professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, she remained affiliated with the ASSR, and currently co-chairs the religion-cluster together with Prof. Dr. Thomas Blom Hansen. Together with Dr. Mattijs van de Port, Dr. Irene Stengs and Prof. Dr. Herman Roodenburg (both Meertens institute) she has instigated a new seminar Religion, Media and the Body, that brings together senior and junior scholars from UvA, VU and the Meertens institute. Some of the seminar participants have been affiliated with the Pionier program in the past. In her inaugural lecture (Appendix E), the program director has outlined how the research conducted in the framework of the Pionier program has yielded a new approach for research on contemporary religion. This new approach will also be of central concern to the new VU institute for the study of religion, of which the program director is a founding member (and program director). The institute is now in preparation, and will be launched in spring 2008.

D & E) Publications

Birgit Meyer

Articles in journals

2001 Prières, fusils et meurtre rituel. Le cinéma populaire et ses nouvelles figures du pouvoir et du success au Ghana. Politique Africaine No. 82: 45-62. 2001 Money, Power and Morality. Popular Ghanaian Cinema in the Fourth Republic. Ghana Studies 4: 65-84. 2001 Moral Discourses and Public Spaces in the Fourth Republic. [With Paul Nugent; Introduction to a section in Ghana studies on the Fourth Republic edited by B.Meyer and P. Nugent], Ghana Studies 4: 3-5. 2002 Pentecostalism, Prosperity and Popular Cinema in Ghana. Culture and Religion 3 (1): 67-87. 2002 Christianity and the Ewe Nation. German Pietist Missionaries, Ewe Converts and the Politics of Culture. Journal of Religion in Africa 32 (2): 167-199. 2002 Occult Forces on Screen: Representation and the Danger of Mimesis in Popular Ghanaian Films. Etnofoor 15 (1/2): 212-221. 2003 Visions of Blood, Sex and Money. Fantasy Spaces in Popular Ghanaian Cinema. Visual Anthropology 16 (1): 15-41. 2003 Editorial. Special Issue. Religion and the Media. Journal of Religion in Africa 33 (2): 125- 128. 2003 Pentecostalism, prosperidade en cinema popular em Gana. Religião & Sociedade Vol 23 (2): 11-32.[translation] 2004 ‘Praise the Lord….’ Popular Cinema and Pentecostalite Style in Ghana’s New Public Sphere. American Ethnologist 31 (1): 92-110. 2004 Christianity in Africa: From African Independent to Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches. Annual Review of Anthropology 33: 447-74. 2005 Religious Remediations. Pentecostal Views in Ghanaian Video-Movies. Postscripts 1 (2/3): 155-181. 2005 Introduction. Mediating Film and Religion an a Post-secular World. With Stephen Hughes. Postscripts 1 (2/3): 149-153. 2006 Religious Revelation, Secrecy and the Limits of Visual Representation. Anthropological Theory 6 (3): 431-453. 2008 Powerful Pictures. Popular Christian Aesthetics in Southern Ghana. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, fc March 2008.

Articles in books

2001 Kwaku’s Car. The Struggles and Stories of a Ghanaian Long-Distance Taxi Driver. With Jojada Verrips; In: Daniel Miller (ed.), Car Cultures. Oxford: Berg Publishers. Pp.153- 184. 2001 You Devil, go away from me! Pentecostalist African Christianity and the Powers of Good and Evil, In: Paul Clough & Jon Mitchell (eds.), The Powers of Good and Evil, Oxford: Berghahn Publishers. Pp. 104-134. 2001 Diabolism. Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religion. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Reference Works. Pp. 114-115. 2000/

Culturele Antropologie: Een Toekomstvisie/ Cultural Anthropology: A Vision of the Future. In: K. van Dam (et. al.), Toekomstbeelden / Perspectives on the Future. Jaarboek Universiteit van Amsterdam/ Yearbook University of Amsterdam 2000/2001. Amsterdam: Vossiuspers. Pp. 116-124. 2002 Commodities and the Power of Prayer: Pentecostalist Attitudes Towards Consumption in Contemporary Ghana. In: J. Xavier Inda and R. Rosaldo (eds.): The Anthropology of Globalization. A Reader. Malden, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Pp. 247- 269. [Reprint]. 2003 Ghanaian Popular Cinema and the Magic in and of Film. In: B. Meyer and P. Pels (eds.), Magic and Modernity. Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment. Stanford University Press. Pp.200-222. 2003 Pentecostalism, Prosperity, and Popular Cinema in Ghana. In: S. Brent Plate (ed.), Representing Religion in World Cinema. Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 121-144. [Reprint]. 2004 Die Erotik des Bösen. Mami Water als “christlicher” Dämon in ghanaischen und nigerianischen Videfilmen. In: Tobias Wendl (ed.), Africa Screams. Die Wiederkehr des Bösen in Kino, Kunst und Kult. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag. P. 199-210. 2005 Mediating Tradition: Pentecostal Pastors, African Priests, and Chiefs in Ghanaian Popular Films. In: Toyin Falola (ed.), Christianity and Social Change in Africa. Essays in Honor of J.D.Y. Peel. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. Pp.275-306. 2006 Pentecostalism, Islam and Culture: New Religious Movements in West Africa. (with Brian Larkin) In: Emmanuel Akyeampong (ed.): Themes in West African History. Oxford: James Currey; Athens; Ohio University Press; Accra: Woeli Publishing Services. Pp. 286-312. 2006 Introduction (with Annelies Moors), In: Birgit Meyer & Annelies Moors (eds.) to Religion, Media and the Public Sphere. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Pp. 1- 25. 2006 Impossible Representations. Pentecostalism, Vision, and Video Technology in Ghana. In: Birgit Meyer & Annelies Moors (eds.), Religion, Media and the Public Sphere. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Pp. 290-312. 2006 Prayers, Guns and Ritual Murder. Power and the Occult in Ghanaian Popular Cinema. In: Jim Kiernan (ed.), The Power of the Occult in Africa. Münster: Lit Verlag. 182-205 In Press Chiefs on Screen. Ghanaian Popular Films and Representations of Tradition. In: Irene Odotei (ed.), Chieftaincy in Ghana. Forthcoming in 2007. In Press Images of Evil in Popular Ghanaian Christianity. In: Henk Vroom (ed.), Evil, forthcoming in 2007. In Press Mami Water as a Christian Demon. The Eroticism of Forbidden Pleasures in Southern Ghana. In Henry J. Drewal: Mami Water. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming in 2007. In Press Pentecostalism and Modern Audio-visual Mass media. In: John Middleton (ed.), Media in Africa. London: IAI, Edinburgh University Press. Forthcoming in 2007. In Press Witchcraft and Christianity. Encyclopedia Books/Special issues

2001 Section with articles on Fourth Republic, edited by B. Meyer and P. Nugent, Ghana Studies 4. 2002 Missions: the Politics of Culture and Gender. Special Issue of the Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 32.2 2003 Religion and the Media. Special Issue of Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 33.2. 2003 Magic and Modernity. Dialectics of Revelation and Concealment. (edited together with Peter Pels). Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2006 Religion, Media and the Public Sphere (edited together with Annelies Moors). Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 2005 Mediating Film and Religion an a Post- secular World (edited together with Stephen Hughes). Special Issue Postscripts 1 (2/3) Other publications 2006 Religious Sensations. Why Media, Aesthetics and Power Matter in the Study of Contemporary Religion, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 6 October 2006. Reprinted in: Hent de Vries (ed.), Why Religion? The Future of the Religious Past. Vol 1. New York: Fordham, forthcoming in 2008. AIOS Marleen de Witte Articles in journals 2001 Accra’s Charismatic Screens. Etnofoor 15 (1/2):222-228. 2003 Altar Media’s Living Word. Televised Charismatic Christianity in Ghana. Journal of Religion in Africa 33(2):172-202. 2003 Money and Death. Funeral Business in Asante, Ghana. Africa 73(4):531-5 2004 Afrikania’s Dilemma. Reframing African Authenticity in a Christian Public Sphere. Etnofoor 17 (1/2):133-155. 2005 ‘Insight’, secrecy, beasts, and beauty. Struggles over the making of a Ghanaian documentary on ‘African traditional religion’. Postscripts 1 (2/3): 277-300. 2005 2005 The Spectacular and the Spirits. Charismatics and Neo-Traditionalists on Ghanaian Television. Material Religion 1(3):314- 335. 2005 The Holy Spirit on Air in Ghana. Media Development 42(2):22-26. n.d. Accra’s sounds and sacred spaces, forthcoming in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, symposium on Religiosity and Urban Space, guest editors Mary Hancock and Smriti Srinivas. Submitted, under review. n.d. Media Afrikania. Styles and Strategies of Representing ‘Afrikan Traditional Religion’ in Ghana. Under review at Africa Today. Articles in books n.d. Audiences, publics, clienteles, and religious formats of mediation. In: Birgit Meyer (ed.), Religion, Media and the Question of Community. Forthcoming with Palgrave. n.d. ‘A Family Loves a Dead Body’. Body Imagery and Technologies of Remembrance at Asante Funeral Celebrations. In: Michael Jindra (ed.), The Living and the dead in Africa. Submitted, under review. n.d. ‘Buy the Future’. A Charismatic Vision on African Modernity. In: Eileen Moyer and AbdouMaliq Simone (eds.), Speculative Futures in Urban Africa. Submitted, under review. Books 2001 Long Live the Dead! Changing Funeral Celebrations in Asante, Ghana. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers. n.d. Charisma and Spiritual Power. Pentecostalism and Tradiotional Religion in Ghana. University of Amsterdam. PhD dissertation. Manuscript expected in August 2007. Francio Guadeloupe Articles in journals 2006 Carmelita’s In-possible Dance: another style of Christianity in the capitalist ridden Caribbean. Journal for the Study of Religion 19(1):5-22. 2006 Drumstokjes, drums en Antilliaanse jongeren: over een brassband, consumptie en racisme. Mensenstreken 8 (2):20-22. 2006 Love when Love could not be: an example of romantic love from the Caribbean. Etnofoor 19 (1):63-70. 2007 Supercreolisation within and beyond the structures of ‘race’ and class. REMI (special volume dedicated to Caribbean migration and Diaspora). Submitted. Articles in Books 2005 Introducing an anti-national pragmatist on Saint Martin and Sint Maarten. In: Lammert de Jong and Dirk Kruyt (eds.), Extended Statehood in the Caribbean: paradoxes of quasi colonialism, local autonomy, and extended statehood in the USA, French, Dutch, and British Caribbean. Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers. 157-175 2005 The Politics of Autochthony and Economic Globalization: seamy sides of the same coin. In: Lammert de Jong and Douwe Boersma (eds.), The Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean: 1954-2004 What Next? Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers. 45-57 2005 The Need for a Critical Imagination (in reaction to comments by Denicio Bryson). In: Lammert de Jong and Douwe Boersma (eds.), The Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean: 1954- 2004 What Next? Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers. 61-64 2006 What the Tamarind Tree Whispers: Notes on a Pedagogy of Tragedy. In: Maria Cijntje-van Enckevort, Sergio Scatollini Apostolo & Milton George (eds.), St. Martin Studies Volume 1: 101-104. Phillipsburg: University of St. martin press. 101-104. 2006 What their modernity can teach us: exploring the linkages between Black Atlantic identity formations in the Caribbean and consumer capitalism. In: Maria Cijntje-van Enckevort, Sergio Scatollini Apostolo & Milton George (eds.), St. Martin Studies Volume 2. Phillipsburg: University of St. Martin press. 195- 199 n.d. The Architects of a New Tower of Babel: Radio Disc Jockeys and their Politics of Belonging. In: Birgit Meyer (ed.), Religion, Media and the Question of Community. New York: Palgrave, under contract. Books 2006 Chanting Down the New Jerusalem, the Politics of Belonging on Saint Martin and Sint Maarten. PhD Dissertation, University of Amsterdam 2007 Nosce Te Ipsum: ls this really how Saint Martinoise & Sint Maarteners Think? Speeches and essays 2006-2007. Edited Volume with Maria Cijntje-van Enckevort. (Phillipsburg: University of St. Martin press) 2007 Chanting Down the New Jerusalem: Christianity, Calypso, and Capitalism on Saint Martin & Sint Maarten. Berkeley: University of California Press. (forthcoming) 2007 Chanting Down the New Jerusalem: Christianity, Calypso, and Capitalism on Saint Martin & Sint Maarten. Berkeley: University of California Press. (forthcoming) 2007 On Our own terms: perspectives on multiculturality in the Netherlands. Edited Volume with Vincent de Rooij (forthcoming) Lotte Hoek Books In progress Vulgar Frames: Commercial Cinema in Bangladesh. PhD Dissertation, University of Amsterdam. Expected to be completed in the Fall of 2007. Articles in books n.d. ‘I Will Wash Your Shrine With My Blood’: the Mazar in Bangladeshi Cinema. In: Birgit Meyer (ed.), Religion, Media and the Question of Community. New York: Palgrave, under contract. Other publications 2006 The mysterious Whereabouts of the Cut-pieces: Dodging the film censors in Bangladesh. IIAS Newsletter, 42, Autumn, pp. 18-19 Martijn Oosterbaan Articles in journals 2002 Big Brother Brazil and the Evangelical response. Etnofoor, XV (1/2): 259-269 2003 ‘Escrito pelo Diabo’, interpretações pentecostais das telenovelas. Religião&Sociedade 23(2): 53-76. Rio de Janeiro: ISER 2005 Mass Mediating the Spiritual Battle: Pentecostal Appropriations of Mass Mediated Violence in Rio de Janeiro. Material Religion, vol. 1(3): 358-385 n.d. Sonic Supremacy: Sound, Space and the Politics of Presence in a Favela in Rio de Janeiro. In: Critique of Anthropology, special issue Urban Charisma, guest editors Thomas Blom Hansen and Oskar Verkaaik. Submitted, under review. n.d. Spiritual Attunement: Pentecostal Radio in the Soundscape of a Favela in Rio de Janeiro. In: Social Text. Submitted, under review. Articles in books n.d. Purity and the Devil: Pentecostal Media and the Social Context of Reception in Rio de Janeiro. In: Birgit Meyer (ed.), Religion, Media and the Question of Community. New York: Palgrave, under contract. Books 2006 Divine Mediations: Pentecostalism, Politics and Mass Media in a Favela in Rio de Janeiro. PhD Dissertation, University of Amsterdam. Other publications 2007 Book review: Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer’s Woman, by Robert Gay. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005. In: European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 82, April 2007, pp.161-162 Postdocs Stephen Hughes Articles in journals 2000 Policing Silent Film Entertainment in Colonial South India. In Ravi S. Vasudevan (ed.), Making Meaning in Indian Cinema. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 39-64. 2002 The ‘Music Boom’ in Tamil South India: gramophone, radio and the making of mass culture. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, vol. 22, no 4: 445- 473. 2005 Mythologicals and modernity: contesting silent cinema in south India. Postscripts: The Journal of Scared Texts and Contemporary Worlds 1 (2-3) 207-235. 2005 Introduction: Mediating Religion and Film in a Post-secular World” with Birgit Meyer, co- editors in Postscripts: The Journal of Scared Texts and Contemporary Worlds, vol. 1 ( 2-3): 149-153. 2006 House Full: film genre, exhibition and audiences in south India” in Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 43 (1): 31-62. 2007 Music in the age of mechanical reproduction: Drama, gramophone and the beginnings of Tamil cinema,” in Journal of Asian Studies, forthcoming vol. 66 (1): 3-34. Articles in books 2003 Pride of Place: rethinking exhibition in the history of cinema in India. Seminar (India), Unsettling Cinema: a symposium on the place of cinema in India, no. 525, May 2003, pp. 28-32. 2006 Urban mobility and early cinema in Chennai. in A. R. Venkatachalapathy, ed., Chennai, Not Madras: Perspectives on the City. Marg Publications (a division of the National Centre for the Performing Arts), vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 39-48. n.d. Tamil Mythological Cinema and the Politics of Secular Modernism. In: B. Meyer (ed.), Religion, Media and the Question of Community. New York; Palgrave, under contract. Brian Larkin Articles in journals 2002 Bandiri Music, Globalization and Urban Experience in Nigeria. In, Cahiers d’études africaines 168 XLII-4 Pp.739-762. Reprinted in: - 2005 Bollyworld: Popular Indian Cinema Through a Transnational Lens. Pp.284-308. Raminder Kaur and Ajay Sinha eds. Delhi: Sage India. – 2004 Social Text 22(4): 91-112. 2004 Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds. Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy. Public Culture 16(4):289-314. Reprinted in: - 2006 Politique Africaine. Special Issue: Cosmopolis: L’Afrique dans le monde. Trans Frederic Le Marcis. - ND Readings in African Modernity. Peter Geschiere, Birgit Meyer, Peter Pels ed. Oxford: James Currey. Forthcoming in 2008. n.d. Evangelical Islam: Ahmed Deedat and the form of Religious Practice. Submitted as part of the special issue, ‘Media and the Emergent Politics of Religion’ to Social Text. Articles in books 2004 From Majigi to Hausa Video Films. Cinema and Society in Northern Nigeria. In, Hausa Home Videos: Technology, Economy, Society. Abdalla Uba Adamu ed. Pp: 46-53. Kano, Nigeria: BUK Press. 2004 Piracy, Infrastructure, and the Rise of a Nigerian Video Industry. In, Transmissions..... Patrice Petro and Tasha Oren eds. Pp. 159-170. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2006 Pentecostalism, Islam and Culture. New religious movements in West Africa. (with Birgit Meyer). In, Themes in West African History. Emmanuel Akyeampong ed. Pp. 286-312. Oxford: James Currey In press Pirate Infrastructures. In, Network/Netplay. Joseph Karaganis (ed.).Submitted to Duke University Press. n.d. Evangelical Islam: Ahmed Deedat and the Performance of Religious Identity in Africa. In: B.Meyer (ed.), Religion, Media and the Question of Community. New York: Palgrave. Under contract. Books/special issues 2002 Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin eds. Berkeley: University of California Press. In Press Signal & Noise. Media, Infrastructure and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Duke University Press. Summer 2007. n.d. ‘Media and the Emergent Politics of Religion.’ Special Issue, co-edited with Charles Hirschkind. Submitted to Social Text. Other publications 2005 Interview with Brian Larkin, By Anand Taneja. Contested Commons/Trespassing Publics: A Public Record. Delhi: The Sarai Programme. Mattijs van de Port Articles in journals 2004 Registers of Incontestability. The quest for authenticity in academia and beyond. Etnofoor 17 (1/2): 1-24 2005 Candomble in pink, green and black. Re-scripting the Afro-Brazilian heritage in the public sphere of Salvador, Bahia. Social Anthroplogy, vol. 13 (1): 3-26. 2005 Circling around the really real. Possession ceremonies and the search for authenticity in Bahian candomblé. Ethos 33(2):147-179. 2005 Sacerdotes midiáticos. O candomblé, discursos de celebridade e a legitimacão da autoridade religiosa na esfera pública baiana. Religiao e Sociedade,vol. 25 (2): 32-61. 2005 Echt waar. Of: hoe Antonio A, Franky Z. en Mohammed B. hun geloofsovertuigingen heiligden. De Gids, september 2005. 2005 Priests and Stars. Candomblé, celebrity discourses and the authentication of authority in Bahia's public sphere. Postscripts 1.2/1.3. 2006 Visualizing the sacred. Televisual styles and the religious imagination in Bahian candomblé. American Ethnologist 33 (3): 444-461. 2006 'Kicken, man!' Enkele aantekeningen over grensoverschreiding en hedendaagse mystiek. Justitiele Verkenningen jrg. 32, nr. 5: 9-17. In press Bahian White. The dispersion of candomblé imagery in the public sphere of Bahia. Material Religion, forthcoming in 2007 Articles in books n.d. Re-Encoding the Primitive. Beauty and Dread in the Appreciation of Bahian Candomblé. In: B.Meyer (ed.), Religion, Media and the Question of Community. New York: Palgrave. Under contract. Rafael Sanchez Articles in journals 2007 Seized by the Spirit. The Mystical Foundation of Squatting Among Pentecostals In Caracas (Venezuela) Today. Public Culture. Forthcoming. What’s Love Got to do With ‘It.’ Populism and the Status of Community Today. Political Theory. Under consideration. Articles in books 2006 Intimate Publicities: Retreating the Theologico-Political in the Chavez Regime? Hent de Vries and Lawrence Sullivan, eds.: Political Theologies. Public Religions in a Post-Secular World. New York: Fordham University Press, pp 401-426. n.d. Wars of Transmission: Mediation and Comparative Spiritualities in Contemporary Venezuela. In: B.Meyer (ed.), Religion, Media and the Question of Community. New York: Palgrave. Under contract. Books 2007 Dancing Jacobins. A Genealogy of Latin American Populism (Venezuela). Under advanced contract with Stanford University Press. Other publications 2004 Interview with Rafael Sanchez, El Nacional, 26 September 2004. F) Activities

Events organized (and collective publications):

Media, Religion and the Public Sphere, University of Amsterdam 6-8 December 2001 International conference co-organized by Birgit Meyer and Annelies Moors (ASSR/ISIM) Publication: Religion, Media and the Public Sphere. Eds. Birgit Meyer & Annelies Moors, Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2006.

Religious Mediations, Postcolonial States and the Subject, ASSR 4 November 2003 Study day, co-organized by Birgit Meyer, Mattijs van de Port and Martijn Oosterbaan

Soundscapes in South Asia, University of Amsterdam, 28 January 2005 Seminar co-organized by International Institute of Asian Studies, and Pionier Program

Mediating Religion, ASSR, 31 May 2005. Seminar organized by the Pionier-group

Religious Representations: Questions of Aesthetics and Styles, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, 2-4 June 2005. Panel co-organized by Birgit Meyer and Mattijs van de Port in the context of the NWO- Conference ‘What is Religion: Vocabularies, Temporalities, Comparabilities’.

Mediating Religion and Film in a Post-Secular World, University of Amsterdam,16-17 June 2005 International workshop co-organized by Stephen Hughes and Birgit Meyer Publication: Special Issue Postscripts 1 (2/3), 2005. Reasons of Faith: Religion in Modern Public Life., Johannesburg 16-20 October 2005. International Symposium (co-organized by Pionier program/ASSR in cooperation with WISER, University of Witwatersrand and Yale University)

Media Technologies, Sensory Experiences and the Making of Religious Subjects, University of Amsterdam, 30 March-1 April 2006 International Conference co-organized by Charles Hirschkind and Birgit Meyer Publications: Special issues of Social Text (eds. Charles Hirschkind and Brian Larkin); Material Religion (ed. Birgit Meyer), forthcoming in 2007/2008

Religion, Media and the Question of Community, University of Amsterdam, 28-30 June 2006 International Conference organized by Birgit Meyer Publication: under contract with Palgrave (e.d. Birgit Meyer, see Appendix D)