Replication as Religious Practice, Temporality as Religious Problem

Bielo, James S.

doi:10.1080/02757206.2016.1182522

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“…4. To suggest that ethical practice and its temporalities are entangled through action is not to suggest something new (Bear, 2014;Gell, 1992;Mbembe, 2001), especially not in the literature on Protestant Christianity (see Bialecki, 2009;Bielo, 2017;Meyer, 1999;Reinhardt, 2015Reinhardt, , 2016aReinhardt, , 2016bRobbins, 2007). 5.…”

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Ordinary ethics and its temporalities: The Christian God and the 2016 Ghanaian elections

Daswani

2019

Anthropological Theory

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In this paper I provide an analysis of how the then-imminent event of the Ghanaian 2016 elections operated within and interrupted a born-again Christian understanding of social and political change. I argue that much can be gained from understanding Pentecostal Christianity in Ghana by paying close attention to how born-again Christians anticipate and participate in shaping the near future. My analysis of this period, just before (and after) the 2016 elections—from the perspective of born-again Christians in Ghana—contributes to an engagement with the immanent and imminent qualities of ethical life. In accounting for the ways in which the Christian “God” and the “nation” overlap or collide in born-again Pentecostal discourse and practice in Ghana, I propose that the precise configuration of how these forces come together and come apart has a force that complicates how we imagine ethics as something explicit in discourse or about the ability to step back in reflection.

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Ordinary ethics and its temporalities: The Christian God and the 2016 Ghanaian elections

Daswani

2019

Anthropological Theory

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“…Dessa forma, com o desenvolvimento das pesquisas, mais do que insistir na querela continuidade versus descontinuidade, passou-se a registrar como as comunidades religiosas construíam sua relação com o tempo a partir da conversão. James Bielo (2016), por exemplo, fala de um colapso da divisão estrita entre presente e passado efetuado pela replicação das histórias bíblicas. A replicação seria um tipo de prática ritual definida "pelo recorte de um aspecto particular, evento ou era do passado (real ou imaginado) e sua recontextualização no presente usando mídia material" (Bielo, 2016: 2).…”

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Tempo e antropologia do cristianismo

Junior

2022

Cienc. Soc. y Relig.

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Este artigo aborda, a partir da Antropologia do Cristianismo, como a relação dos pentecostais com o tempo pode inspirar sua forma de presença na esfera pública brasileira. Através do processo de conversão, os fiéis apreendem modos específicos de estruturar o tempo, dentre eles, a temporalidade profética, foco deste artigo. Esse enquadramento temporal gera sensibilidades disciplinadas que excedem a vida dos fiéis, estimulando o modo de incidência pública do pentecostalismo como instituição. Para dar conta do que quero mostrar, trarei dados referentes a dois eventos liderados por Silas Malafaia, um dos principais líderes evangélicos do Brasil. Irei me deter principalmente no Ato Profético em favor do Brasil, acontecido em 2016 no contexto do afastamento da presidente Dilma Rousseff, e no culto em que Malafaia recebe em sua igreja o então recém-eleito presidente, Jair Bolsonaro. O contexto das profecias declaradas por Malafaia em ambos os eventos será o principal alvo do estudo.

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“…Walking where Jesus walked on a Holy Land pilgrimage or wearing the clothes Jesus wore is a way of making the incarnation (more) present (Kaell 2014(Kaell , 2016. Immersing oneself in the sensory environment of a Holy Land replica in the United States can create 'affective affinities' with the 'authentic' origins of Christianity, thus actualizing and temporarily solving the problem of Christian 'authenticity' (Bielo 2015(Bielo , 2016.…”

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Protestant Replications: The Conversion, Ordination, and Schism of a Zulu Bishop in Colonial Natal

Hovland

2022

J. Relig. Afr.

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This article examines the story of Mbiyana Ngidi and his five-decade conversion career, leading up to his establishment of an Ethiopianist church in 1890 – the first African Initiated Church in the Colony of Natal in Southern Africa. I focus on three events in his life – conversion, ordination, schism – and suggest that one way of reading these events is as different forms of replication: conversion as identification, ordination as imitation, and schism as reproduction. I engage with the idea in the anthropology of Christianity that Protestants desire a certain type of originality and therefore shun repetition. I argue the opposite, namely that Ngidi’s story shows us how Protestants seek out replicated relations.

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Replication as Religious Practice, Temporality as Religious Problem

Cited by 18 publications

References 26 publications

Ordinary ethics and its temporalities: The Christian God and the 2016 Ghanaian elections

Ordinary ethics and its temporalities: The Christian God and the 2016 Ghanaian elections

Tempo e antropologia do cristianismo

Protestant Replications: The Conversion, Ordination, and Schism of a Zulu Bishop in Colonial Natal

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