Different Repetitions

ISBN-13: 9780367712266 / Miękka / 2023 / 120 str.

Opis

This book takes the concept of repetition beyond older anthropological debates over habit, structure, or cultural continuity, and demonstrates its value in attempts to comprehend the temporal, spatial and ideological fields in which contemporary social scientists must operate.

Spis treści

Introduction: Different repetitions: Anthropological engagements with figures of return, recurrence and redundancy

Andreas Bandak and Simon Coleman

1. The ultimate return: Dissent, apostolic succession, and the renewed ministry of roman catholic women priests

Maya Mayblin

2. Repetition in the work of a Samoan Christian theologian: Or, what does it mean to speak of the Perfect Pig of God?

Matt Tomlinson

3. From excess to encompassment: Repetition, recantation, and the trashing of time in Swedish Christianities

Simon Coleman

4. Repetition and uncanny temporalities: Armenians and the recurrence of genocide in the Levant

Andreas Bandak

5. The good and the bad of the same: On the political value of historical repetition in Angola

Ruy Llera Blanes

Afterword: Anthropology of/as repetition

Morten Axel Pedersen

O autorze

Andreas Bandak is Associate Professor at the Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research interests centre on Orthodox and Catholic Christianity in the Levant. Currently, he leads the collective research project 'Archiving the Future: Re-Collections of Syria in War and Peace'.

Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Canada. His research interests include Pentecostalism and pilgrimage, and he has conducted fieldwork in Sweden, the United Kingdom and Nigeria. He is Co-editor of the journal Religion and Society.