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Research Interests for Brian Goldstone

Research Interests:

anthropology of religion and secularism; sovereignty; miracles; demonology; media and aesthetics; ethics and sensibility; philosophy and critical theory; political theologies; science studies; intellectual history; ethnographic writing

Keywords:
anthropology of religion; secularism; sovereignty; miracles; demonology; aesthetics; ethics and sensibility; philosophy and critical theory; political theologies; science studies; intellectual history; ethnographic writing
Representative Publications
  1. B. Goldstone, The Miraculous Life: Scenes from the Charismatic Encounter in Northern Ghana (2012) [graduate-student-brian-goldstone[abs]
  2. B. Goldstone, The Event of African Pentecostalism, African Studies Review (2011) (forthcoming.)
  3. B. Goldstone, The Miraculous Life, edited by Achille Mbembe & Lara Allen, The Johannesburg Salon, vol. 4 (2011), pp. 81-96 [pdf]
  4. B. Goldstone (with Stanley Hauerwas), Disciplined Seeing: Forms of Christianity and Forms of Life, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 109 no. 4 (2010), pp. 765-790 (Special Issue on "Global Christianity, Global Critique," edited by Matthew Engelke and Joel Robbins.) [765.full.pdf+html]
  5. B. Goldstone. 2011, Secularism, 'Religious Violence,' and the Liberal Imaginary, in Secularism and Religion-Making, edited by Markus Dressler and Arvind Mandair (2011), pp. 104-124, Oxford University Press [religious%20violence%22&f=false]
  6. B. Goldstone, Critique of Abysmal Reasoning, Theory & Event, vol. 11 no. 2 (2008)
  7. B. Goldstone, Violence and the Profane: Islam, Liberal Democracy, and the Limits of Secular Discipline, Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 80 no. 1 (2007), pp. 207-37
  8. B. Goldstone, On Democratic Secularism, Borderlands, vol. 5 no. 2 (2006)
  9. B. Goldstone, Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools: Youth, Nationalism, and the Transformation of Knowledge, Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 79 no. 1 (2006), pp. 159-64

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