Brian Goldstone,

Brian Goldstone

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Education:

Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology2012

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

Dissertation Title:

The Miraculous Life: Scenes from the Charismatic Encounter in Northern Ghana
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." The Johannesburg Salon. Edited by Achille Mbembe & Lara Allen.  vol. 4 (2011): 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): 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." Secularism and Religion-Making. Edited by Markus Dressler and Arvind Mandair.  (2011): 104-124. [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): 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): 159-64.
Chair: The Miraculous Life: Scenes from the Charismatic Encounter in Northern Ghana