What happens to religious objects that once were employed in practices of mediation to connect with the spirit world or…
Birgit Meyer
Birgit Meyer is professor of religious studies at Utrecht University. Trained in cultural anthropology, she has long conducted research on Christianity in Africa. With her transition from a position in cultural anthropology to religious studies in 2011, she increasingly concentrates on crosscutting issues in reconfiguring the study of religion from a material and postcolonial angle. In this context she also started to focus on religion in the Netherlands, especially the reframing of Christianity as cultural heritage. Since 2016 she directs the collaborative research program Religious Matters in an Entangled World.
New vistas in studying religion and public life
Taking a relatively “thin” understanding of public religion that challenges—rather than transports—the term’s typical liberal and normative baggage, the essays…
Secularization and disenchantment
Over the past decade, scholarly inquiry into contemporary religion has moved from an understanding of religion as waning in the…
The indispensability of form
The salience of ideas and practices that emphasize rupture from previous social settings and modes of thought should not blind…