Recent Publications by Members of the KFG

Our associate member Marian Burchardt is co-editor of the recently published book on Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes. The contributors to Affective Trajectories examine the mutual and highly complex entwinements between religion and affect in urban Africa in the early twenty-first century. 

Marian has also published an article in the book with the title "Learning How to Feel: Emotional Repertoires of Nigerian and Congolese Pentecostal Pastors in the Diaspora" together with Rafael Cazarin.

Cazarin, Rafael, and Marian Burchardt. “Learning How to Feel.” In Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes. Edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Astrid Bochow, Marian Burchardt, and Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, 160–81. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478007166-010

In addition, our former Fellow Philip Clart has also published the edited volume "Transnational Religious Spaces. Religious Organizations and Interactions in Africa, East Asia, and Beyond" together with Adam Jones. 

In it you can also find contributions from Marian, "From Mission Station to Tent Revival: Material Forms and Spatial Formats in Africa’s Missionary Encounter", and our Senior Researcher Magnus Echtler on "Redeeming Zululand: Placing Cultural Resonances in the Nazareth Baptist Church, South Africa". Here he argues that a colonial-era spatial format has been localized and is actively involved in the reinvention, negatiation, and legitimation of political authority between colonial, apartheid, and post-apartheid state and Zulu royalty.

Clart, Philip, and Adam Jones, eds. Transnational Religious Spaces. Religious Organizations and Interactions in Africa, East Asia, and Beyond. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co, 2020.

Findings: Podcast "China Eats"

This week we would like to introduce to you the podcast "China Eats" by our colleague Thomas David DuBois (Professor of Humanities, Beijing Normal University). Thomas has been involved for many years, both as scholar and gourmet, with the topic of food and nutrition in China, from the food industry in China, especially cattle farming and trade, to recipes. He now continues this multifaceted engagement with his podcast and illuminates "everything from cold chains to cuisine". The episodes are about 15 minutes long, the first ones deal with "food security, land grabbing, alternative proteins, and historical gastronomy". Upcoming topics include China-Israel agricultural cooperation, anthropology of banquets, and soybean commodity trade. Enjoy!

We also take this opportunity to again refer to Thomas' article on "'Be a civilized citizen! Corporate social responsibility and the new Chinese secular"  in our Working Paper Series.