Birgit Meyer

Birgit Meyer is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the VU University Amsterdam. She is a member of the program board of the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NOW) Future of the Religious Past program. She has conducted research on missions and local appropriations of Christianity, Pentecostalism, popular culture and video-films in Ghana.

Her publications include Translating the Devil. Religion and Modernity Among the Ewe in Ghana (Edinburgh University Press, 1999), Globalization and Identity. Dialectics of Flow and Closure (edited with Peter Geschiere, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), Magic and Modernity. Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment (edited with Peter Pels, 2003), and Religion, Media and the Public Sphere (edited with Annelies Moors, 2006).

In April 2000 she was awarded with a PIONIER-grant from the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO) for a comparative research program on modern mass media, religion and the postcolonial state in West Africa, India, Brazil and the Caribbean.

 

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