Engelke, Matthew
Dr Matthew Engelke
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Experience keywords:
Africa; religion and media; religion and ritual; human rights and asylum; Zimbabwe
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Dr Engelke is an expert on Zimbabwe and on religion, especially Christianity. He conducted extensive fieldwork on African Churches in Zimbabwe in the 1990s. More recently, he has been conducting research on Christianity in England, with particular attention to Christianity in the public sphere.
Dr Engelke also has an interest in human rights and has served as an expert witness in dozens of asylum appeals by Zimbabweans in the UK.
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
England (concerning Christian communities); Zimbabwe; Africa
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Languages: Shona [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]
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Media experience:
Radio
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Engelke, Matthew (2013) God's agent: Biblical publicity in contemporary England. University of California Press, Berkeley, USA. ISBN 9780520280472 Engelke, Matthew (2012) Angels in Swindon: public religion and ambient faith in England. American ethnologist, 39 (1). pp. 155-170. ISSN 0094-0496 Engelke, Matthew (2011) Response to Charles Hirschkind, Religion and transduction. Social anthropology, 19 (1). pp. 97-102. ISSN 0964-0282 Engelke, Matthew (2011) The semiotics of relevance: campaigning for the bible in greater Manchester. Anthropological quarterly, 84 (3). pp. 705-736. ISSN 0003-5491 Engelke, Matthew (2010) Religion and the media turn: a review essay. American ethnologist, 37 (2). pp. 371-379. ISSN 0094-0496 Robbins, Joel and Engelke, Matthew (2010) Introduction to the special issue: global Christianity, global critique. South Atlantic quarterly, 109 (4). pp. 623-631. ISSN 1527-8026 Engelke, Matthew (2010) Past Pentecostalism: notes on rupture, realignment, and everyday Life in Pentecostal and African Independent Churches. Africa: the journal of the International African Institute, 80 (2). pp. 177-199. ISSN 0001-9720 Engelke, Matthew (2010) Number and the imagination of global Christianity; or, mediation and immediacy in the work of Alain Badiou. South Atlantic quarterly, 109 (4). pp. 811-829. ISSN 1527-8026 Engelke, Matthew (2009) Reading and time: two approaches to the materiality of scripture. Ethnos, 74 (2). pp. 151-174. ISSN 0014-1844 Engelke, Matthew, (ed.) (2009) The objects of evidence: anthropological approaches to the production of knowledge. Wiley, Chichester, UK. ISBN 9781405192965 Engelke, Matthew (2009) Strategic secularism: bible advocacy in England. Social analysis, 53 (1). pp. 39-54. ISSN 0155-977X Engelke, Matthew (2008) The objects of evidence. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 14 ISSN 1467-9655 Engelke, Matthew (2007) A problem of presence : beyond scripture in an African Christian church. University of California Press, Berkeley, USA. ISBN 9780520249035 Engelke, Matthew (2006) Clarity and charisma: on the uses of ambiguity in ritual life. In: Engelke, Matthew and Tomlinson, Matt, (eds.) The limits of meaning: case studies in the anthropology of Christianity. Berghahn Books, New York, US, pp. 63-84. ISBN 978184545170-7 Engelke, Matthew and Tomlinson, Matt, (eds.) (2006) The limits of meaning: case studies in the anthropology of Christianity. Berghahn Books, New York. ISBN 1845451708 Engelke, Matthew (2005) Sticky subjects, sticky objects: The substance of African Christian healing. In: Miller, Daniel, (ed.) Materiality. Duke University Press, Durham, pp. 118-139. ISBN 9780822335429 Engelke, Matthew (2005) The early days of Johane Masowe: Self-doubt, uncertainty, and religious transformation. Comparative studies in society and history, 47 (4). pp. 781-808. ISSN 0010-4175 Engelke, Matthew (2004) Text and performance in an African church: The Book, "live and direct".. American ethnologist, 31 (1). pp. 76-91. ISSN 0094-0496 Engelke, Matthew (2004) Discontinuity and the discourse of conversion. Journal of religion in Africa, 34 (1). pp. 82-109. ISSN 0022-4200 Engelke, Matthew (2004) The endless conversation: fieldwork, writing, and the marriage of Victor and Edith Turner. In: Handler, Richard, (ed.) Significant others: interpersonal and professional commitments in anthropology. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, USA, pp. 6-50. ISBN 0299194701 Engelke, Matthew (2003) The book, the church, and the "incomprehensible paradox": Christianity in African history. Journal of southern African studies, 29 (1). pp. 297-306. ISSN 0305-7070 Engelke, Matthew (2002) The problem of belief: Evans-Pritchard and Victor Turner on "the inner life.". Anthropology today, 18 (6). pp. 3-8. ISSN 0268-540X Engelke, Matthew (2001) Books can be deceiving: Edith Turner and the problem of categories in anthropology. Anthropology and humanism, 26 (2). pp. 124-133. ISSN 1559-9167 Engelke, Matthew (2001) The idiom of spirit: possession and ngoma in Africa. African affairs, 100 (398). pp. 143-150. ISSN 0001-9909 Engelke, Matthew (2000) An interview with Edith Turner. Current anthropology, 41 (5). pp. 843-852. ISSN 0011-3204
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AwardsMajor Review Teaching Award, 2007; Clifford Geertz Prize, Society for the Anthropology of Religion, 2008; The Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, 2009
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