Birgit Meyer (anthropologist)

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Birgit Meyer (2015)

Birgit Meyer (born March 21, 1960 in Emden ) is a German religious scholar and cultural anthropologist.

Birgit Meyer studied comparative religious studies and pedagogy at the University of Bremen from 1978 and cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam from 1985 , where she received her doctorate cum laude in 1995 (highest distinction in NL). Then she was there at the Research Center for Religion and Society and from 2004 to 2011 professor for cultural anthropology. Since 2011 she has been Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Utrecht . In 2015 she was awarded the title of Academy Professor at the Dutch Academy of Sciences.

From 2000 to 2006 she headed the research project of the Dutch research organization NWO Modern Mass Media, Religion and the Imagination of Communities .

In 2010/11 she was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . In 2011 she received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Anneliese Maier Research Prize , with which she implemented her research project "Habitats and Habitus: Politics and Aesthetics of Religious World Making" at the University of Utrecht and the Berlin Center for the Modern Orient . In 2015 she received the Spinoza Prize , the highest science award in the Netherlands.

She is particularly concerned with the development of post-colonial Christian religions in West Africa (Ghana), the African Pentecostal movement and neo-capitalism, visual culture (video, cinema) and the relationship between religion, media and material religion in West Africa.

She is Vice-Chair of the International African Institute in London and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (2007).

Meyer is the editor of Material Religion .

Fonts

  • Translating the Devil. Religion and Modernity Among the Ewe in Ghana , Edinburgh University Press, 1999
  • Editor with Peter Geschiere: Globalization and Identity. Dialectics of Flow and Closure , Oxford: Blackwell, 1999
  • Editor with Peter Pels: Magic and Modernity. Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment , Stanford University Press, 2003
  • Editor with Annelies Moors: Religion, Media and the Public Sphere , Indiana University Press, 2006
  • Aesthetic Formations. Media, Religion and the Senses , Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
  • Mediation and the Genesis of Presence (reprint of inaugural lecture), with a response on comments by Hans Belting, Pamela Klassen, Chris Pinney, Monique Scheer, Religion and Society: Advances in Research, Volume 5, 2014, pp. 205-254.
  • with Marleen de Witte: 'Heritage and the Sacred', Special Issue of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief . London: Bloomsbury Journals, 9/13, 2013, pp. 274-281.
  • Material Mediations and Religious Practices of World-making, in: K. Lundby (Ed.), Religion Across Media: From Early Antiquity to Late Modernity , New York: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2013, pp. 1–19.
  • Christianity in Africa: From African Independent to Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches, Annual Review of Anthropology , Volume 33, 2004, 447-474
  • with Marleen de Witte: African heritage design: entertainment media and visual aesthetics in Ghana, in: Civilizations , 61/2, 2012, pp. 43–64

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Billionaire for Birgit Meyer, Humboldt Foundation , May 8, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and cultural anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Emden