Research Interests for Brian Goldstone

anthropology of religion and secularism; ethics and sensibility; sovereignty; aesthetics; mental illness and global health; philosophy and critical theory; political theologies; science studies; intellectual history; ethnographic writing

Keywords:

anthropology of religion and secularism; African history and political economy; ethics and subjectivity; aesthetics; sovereignty; mental illness and global health; media and materiality; 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 [books]
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