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Lazzarelli A. A Cultural Phenomenology of
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Experience and the Learning of a Somatic Mode of Attention. ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Alessandro Lazzarelli
- Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge University of Pisa Via Pasquale Paoli 15 56126 Pisa Italy
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Brahinsky J. Crossing the buffer: ontological anxiety among US evangelicals and an anthropological theory of mind. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.13240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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This article, a reflection on collaborative fieldwork involving a Sufi Muslim and a Pentecostal Christian setting in Berlin, examines whether distinct and diverse religious groups can be brought into a meaningful relation with one another. It considers the methodological possibilities that might become possible or foreclose when two researchers, working in different prayer settings in the same city, use affect as a common frame of reference while seeking to establish shared affective relations and terrains that would otherwise be implausible. With two separately observed accounts of prayer gatherings in a shared urban context, we describe locally specific workings of affect and sensation. We argue that sense-aesthetic forms and patterns in our field sites are supralocal affective forms that help constitute an analytic relationality between the two religious settings.
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Daswani G. Ordinary ethics and its temporalities: The Christian God and the 2016 Ghanaian elections. ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY 2019. [DOI: 10.1177/1463499619832116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Richlin JB. The Affective Therapeutics of Migrant Faith: Evangelical Christianity among Brazilians in Greater Washington, DC. CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 2019. [DOI: 10.1086/703154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Brahinsky J. The effects of scale: How Western agency-anxieties mold affect theory, and how Pentecostalism and neuroscience teach us to think differently. ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY 2018. [DOI: 10.1177/1463499618804062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This paper offers a critique of affect theory using the analytical concept of scale that is made concrete through an ethnography of Pentecostal Christianity and an exploration of current neuroscientific thinking. Affect theory is one recent form of a Western philosophical concern about the loss of agency in modernity, what I call “agency-anxiety.” Affect theorists tend to privilege the sense of freedom gained by immediate and individual experience over the constraints of more extended experiences and collectivity. That is, affect theory often scales its analysis tightly. This paper responds with an ethnography of Pentecostal practice and exploration of work in neuroscience that describes an analytic space in which broader scales can be useful as well. Ethnography scaled beyond the instant reveals that the Pentecostal ideal of surrendering to God in a moment of abandonment often results from a “fake it until you make it” approach; in other words, from extended, effortful, willful practice. This practice leads to the formation of habits and dispositions that allow the attainment of spontaneous rupture. Likewise, neuroscience can scale out its analysis by focusing on dispositions, moods and habits, rather than simply a more immediate view. Further, “scale effects” and emergent properties in scale-to-scale relations undermine reductionism. Finally, because Pentecostals are generally right wing yet also exemplify ruptural practice, it seems that outside of a particular conjuncture, the tightly scaled eruptive moment of affect is by no means per se a productive or (politically) progressive formation. As such, making scale an explicit analytical category might help us to see agency, change, and structure more clearly.
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- Josh Brahinsky
- Anthropology Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Friedner MI. Vessel of God/Access to God: American Sign Language Interpreting in American Evangelical Churches. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/aman.13117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Michele Ilana Friedner
- Department of Comparative Human Development; University of Chicago; Chicago IL 60637 USA
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Bjork-James S. Training the Porous Body: Evangelicals and the Ex-Gay Movement. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/aman.13106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Sophie Bjork-James
- Department of Anthropology; Vanderbilt University; Nashville TN 37206 USA
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- Jon Bialecki
- Social Anthropology; University of Edinburgh; Edinburgh EH8 9LD United Kingdom
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Friedner M. Understanding Sign Language Bibles through Affective Audits in South India. ETHNOS 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2015.1031264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Maguire M, Murphy F. Ontological (in)Security and African Pentecostalism in Ireland. ETHNOS 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2014.1003315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Muehlebach A. On Precariousness and the Ethical Imagination: The Year 2012 in Sociocultural Anthropology. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/aman.12011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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