Birgit Meyer
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies - Religious S
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Trained as a cultural anthropologist and working on lived religion in Ghana for more than 20 years, Birgit Meyer studies religion from a global and post-secular perspective. Her research is driven by an urge to make sense of the shifting place and role of religion in our time, and to show that scholarly work in the field of religion is of eminent concern to understanding the shape of our world in the early 21st century. In so doing, she seeks to synthesize grounded fieldwork and theoretical reflection in a broad multidisciplinary setting.Her main research foci are the rise and popularity of global Pentecostalism; religion, popular culture and heritage; religion and media; religion and the public sphere; religious visual culture, the senses and aesthetics.
Research Interest
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
Publications
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Meyer, B. (2015). Picturing the Invisible. Visual Culture and the Study of Religion. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 27 (4-5), (pp. 333-360).
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Meyer, B. (2015). Sensational Movies - Video, Vision and Christianity in Ghana. (408 p.). Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Meyer, B. (2015). How Pictures Matter. Religious Objects and the Imagination in Ghana. In Øivind Fuglerud & Leon Wainwright (Eds.), Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement (pp. 160-182). Berghahn.
