Performative Animism: New Directions for a Contested Concept in Religious Studies
In this article we suggest a shift to a performative perspective on animism. After identifying problems with essentialism, agency, and the object/subject dichotomy in previous animism studies, we engage with posthumanist theorists and bring in perspectives from new materialism and ritual studies. Fr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 35, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 111-139 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Animism
/ Post-humanism
/ Performativity (Cultural sciences)
/ Essentialism
/ Anthropology of religion
/ Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AE Psychology of religion BB Indigenous religions |
| Further subjects: | B
Materiality
B Religious Studies B Ritual Studies B Animism B Performativity B Posthumanism B new animism |
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