1st Edition
Different Repetitions Anthropological Engagements with Figures of Return, Recurrence and Redundancy
Introduction: Different repetitions: Anthropological engagements with figures of return, recurrence and redundancy
Andreas Bandak and Simon Coleman
1. The ultimate return: Dissent, apostolic succession, and the renewed ministry of roman catholic women priests
Maya Mayblin
2. Repetition in the work of a Samoan Christian theologian: Or, what does it mean to speak of the Perfect Pig of God?
Matt Tomlinson
3. From excess to encompassment: Repetition, recantation, and the trashing of time in Swedish Christianities
Simon Coleman
4. Repetition and uncanny temporalities: Armenians and the recurrence of genocide in the Levant
Andreas Bandak
5. The good and the bad of the same: On the political value of historical repetition in Angola
Ruy Llera Blanes
Afterword: Anthropology of/as repetition
Morten Axel Pedersen
Biography
Andreas Bandak is Associate Professor at the Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research interests centre on Orthodox and Catholic Christianity in the Levant. Currently, he leads the collective research project 'Archiving the Future: Re-Collections of Syria in War and Peace'.
Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Canada. His research interests include Pentecostalism and pilgrimage, and he has conducted fieldwork in Sweden, the United Kingdom and Nigeria. He is Co-editor of the journal Religion and Society.
