What is an individual?

Bialecki, Jon; Daswani, Girish

doi:10.14318/hau5.1.013

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“…Bialecki & Daswani 2015; Itzhak 2021), what I will do here is show how the intriguing new directions this conversation has taken inform this project (Bialecki 2015; Bialecki & Daswani 2015; Cannell 2017; Daswani 2015; Itzhak 2021). Bialecki and Daswani have suggested that rather than accept a stark individual/dividual binary, we should recognize that Christians (and others) ‘may not be tied to one model of subjectivity’ (2015: 272). Elsewhere, Bialecki notes the interplay of various individualism and dividualisms in Christian contexts from southern California to Ghana (Daswani 2011), Botswana (Werbner 2011), and Amazonia (Vilaça 2011).…”

Section: Relational Values In Mormonism and The Anthropology Of Chris...mentioning

confidence: 86%

“…As useful summaries of this debate already exist (e.g. Bialecki & Daswani 2015; Itzhak 2021), what I will do here is show how the intriguing new directions this conversation has taken inform this project (Bialecki 2015; Bialecki & Daswani 2015; Cannell 2017; Daswani 2015; Itzhak 2021). Bialecki and Daswani have suggested that rather than accept a stark individual/dividual binary, we should recognize that Christians (and others) ‘may not be tied to one model of subjectivity’ (2015: 272).…”

Section: Relational Values In Mormonism and The Anthropology Of Chris...mentioning

confidence: 91%

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‘They have shown me what I need to know’: spirits, the eternal family, and collective ethical responsibility in Utah Mormonism

Stiles

2023

Royal Anthropological Inst

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ResumenVisits from spirits are common among Latter‐day Saints (Mormons) in northern Utah, and most involve positive interactions with the spirits of helpful kin: the spirits of the deceased and of children not yet born. The spirit visits show that the Mormon cosmological notion of the eternal family is not simply abstract or something to imagine and long for in the afterlife. Rather, spirit members of the family are active in the world of the living, and both spirit and living members of the family are involved in the mutual project of salvation. The living and the spirits coexist in a relationship of mutual ethical responsibility centred on assisting one another with spiritual progress. Mormon notions of the eternal family are manifest in the mutual responsibility between the spirit world and the mortal world. An exploration of Mormon spirit interactions contributes to recent work in the anthropology of Christianity that emphasizes relationalism as a value by extending an understanding of this concept to include active ethical obligations between living and spirit kin.

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Section: Relational Values In Mormonism and The Anthropology Of Chris...mentioning

confidence: 86%

Section: Relational Values In Mormonism and The Anthropology Of Chris...mentioning

confidence: 91%

‘They have shown me what I need to know’: spirits, the eternal family, and collective ethical responsibility in Utah Mormonism

Stiles

2023

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…Helping people to overcome their problems requires that they learn how to uncover, release, and avoid "bondages" that allow Satan to bring problems such as alcoholism, poverty, and illness into their lives and the lives of members of their extended families. While scholars have often focused on the bounded individualism of Christianity, this understanding of spiritual warfare makes clear that this individualism can exist in tension with understandings of the self in which actions and character are deeply influenced by other people and spiritual beings (Daswani 2015;Bialecki and Daswani 2015;Coleman 2011). This way of thinking about addiction also differs substantially from the model put forward by Alcoholics Anonymous, and the disease model of addiction more generally, with regard to the question of permanence.…”

Section: Pentecostal Churchesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Higher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City

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Mpanga,

Namirembe

2024

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Higher Powers draws on four years of collaborative fieldwork carried out with Ugandans working to reconstruct their lives after attempting to leave behind problematic alcohol use. Given the relatively recent introduction of biomedical ideas of alcoholism and addiction in Uganda, most of these people have used other therapeutic resources, including herbal aversion therapies, engagements with balubaale spirits, and forms of deliverance and spiritual warfare practiced in Pentecostal churches. While these methods are at times severe, they contain within them understandings of the self and practices of sociality that point away from models of addiction as a chronic relapsing brain disease and towards the possibility of release. Higher Powers offers a reconceptualization of addiction and recovery that may prove relevant well beyond Uganda.

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“…My proposal intends to be the first related to the Christian Gypsy personhood directly linked to the debate on in/individualism. I try to avoid an evolutionary and homogenizing trend in this alternation (Coleman, 2011), so I recognize from the human being’s ability to transition between different forms of subjectivity (Bialecki and Daswani, 2015: 272–273).…”

Section: In/individualism In Christian Conversionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

In/dividuality and charisma among Pentecostal Gypsies

Jiménez-Royo

2023

Social Compass

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This text reflects on the constitution of the Gypsy Pentecostal person, thus inserting itself in the debates on the continuity or rupture that motivate conversions to Christianity. The moral obligations generated by kinship relations among the Gypsies and the links with the Holy Spirit make it difficult to find gaps for the deployment of individuality by evangelical Gypsies. However, the materialization of God’s desire is embedded in the dynamics of leadership, which in the context of the religious organization causes the charisma to avoid its routinization.

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What is an individual?

Cited by 49 publications

References 33 publications

‘They have shown me what I need to know’: spirits, the eternal family, and collective ethical responsibility in Utah Mormonism

‘They have shown me what I need to know’: spirits, the eternal family, and collective ethical responsibility in Utah Mormonism

Higher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City

In/dividuality and charisma among Pentecostal Gypsies

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