Publications

2019

Johnson, Greg (forthcoming) Indigenous sacred objects after NAGPRA. In The Wiley-Blackwell companion to material religion (ed) M. Vásquez & V. Narayanan. 

Longkumer, Arkotong 2019. 'Of India But Apart' in India Today, August 19 2019. Available online: https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/independence-day-special/story/20190819-of-india-but-apart-1578648-2019-08-09, accessed 14.08.2019. 

Longkumer, Arkotong 2019. 'Along Kingdom's Highway': the proliferation of Christianity, education, and print among the Nagas in Northeast India. Contemporary South Asia 27 (2), 160-178.

2018

Aasmundsen, HG, J. Porsanger & Bjørn Ola Tafjord (eds) 2018. openness / rabasvuohta [openness]. Dīn: Journal of Religion and Culture 2 (5-6).

Adogame, Afe. 2018. Remembering to forget, forgetting to remember: memory, trauma, and religious imagination in Africa. In The healing of memories: African Christian responses to politically induced trauma (ed) Mohammed Girma, 17-35. Lanham: Lexington.

Adogame, Afe. 2018. Introduction. In Global perspectives on sports and Christianity (eds.) A. Adogame, NJ Watson & A. Parker, 1-10. Routledge research in sports, culture and society. Oxford and New York: Routledge.

Adogame, Afe, NJ Watson & A. Parker (eds) 2018. Global Perspectives on Sports and Christianity. Routledge research in sports, culture and society. Oxford and New York: Routledge. (285pp.)

Alles, Gregory D. & Bjørn Ola Tafjord (eds) 2018. Performances and mediations of indigenous religion (s). Numen: International Review for the History of Religions 65 (5-6).

Alles, Gregory D. & Bjørn Ola Tafjord 2018. Introduction. Special issue, Performances and mediations of indigenous religion (s). Numen: International Review for the History of Religions 65 (5-6) (eds) Gregory D. Alles & Bjørn Ola Tafjord, 457-466.

Hackett, Rosalind IJ 2018. The experience of Alinesitoué and African women's prophecy. Journal of Africana Religions 6 (1), 142-145.

Hackett, Rosalind IJ 2018. Gender and religion: too quiet a field of study? Journal of the British Association of the Study of Religion 19: 75-82 (Open access). 

Johnson, G. 2018. Introduction: destabilizing the sacred: a critical history of religions. In Irreverence and the Sacred: Critical Studies in the History of Religions (eds) H. Urban & G. Johnson. New York & London: Oxford University Press.

Johnson, G. 2018. Ritual, advocacy, and authority: the challenge of being an irreverent witness. In Irreverence and the Sacred: Critical Studies in the History of Religions (eds) H. Urban & G. Johnson. New York & London: Oxford University Press.

Johnson, G. & Siv Ellen Kraft. 2018. Protective occupation, emergent networks, rituals of solidarity: comparing Alta (Sápmi), Mauna Kea (Hawai`i), and Standing Rock (North Dakota). In Elements of Religion and Nature (eds) W. Bauman & L. Hobgood, 185-198. New York: Bloomsbury.

Johnson, G. & Siv Ellen Kraft. 2018 Standing Rock religion (s): ceremonies, social media, and Music videos. Numen 65, 499-530.

Kraft, Siv Ellen. 2018. Shamanism as a Sami Heritage. Ottar No. 321, 4-11.

Kraft, Siv Ellen. & G. Johnson, 2018. Protective occupation, emergent networks, rituals of solidarity: Comparing Alta (Sápmi), Mauna Kea (Hawaii), and Standing Rock (North Dakota). In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature (eds) L. Hogbood & W. Bauman. Bloomsbury Academic Series. 

Longkumer, Arkotong. 2018. 10/40 window: Naga missionaries as spiritual migrants and the Asian experience. In Asian Migrants and Religious Experience: From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility (eds) B Brown & B Yeoh. New Mobilities in Asia, Amsterdam University Press.

Longkumer, Arkotong. 2018. Bible, guns, and land: Sovereignty and nationalism among the Nagas of India. Nations and Nationalism, 24 (4), 1097-1116. 

Longkumer, Arkotong 2018. 'Spirits in a material world: Mediation and revitalization of woodcarvings in a Naga village. Numen 65 (5-6), 467-498.

Tafjord, Bjørn Ola 2018. Waiting as a method. Dīn: Journal of Religion and Culture 2, 158-165.

Tafjord, Bjørn Ola 2018. Review of alternative voices: A plurality approach for religious studies (eds) A. Adogame, M. Echtler & O. Freiberger. Numen: International Review for the History of Religions 65 (2-3): 322-325.

2017

Adogame, Afe 2017. The anthropology of evil. In Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa (eds) KR Ross et al, 433-444. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Alles, Gregory D. 2017. Are Adivasis Indigenous? In The Handbook of Indigenous Religion (s) (eds) Greg Johnson & Siv Ellen Kraft. Brill Handbook Series. Leiden: Brill.

Hackett, Rosalind IJ 2017. Women, rights talk, and African Pentecostalism. Religious Studies and Theology 36, 2: 244-257.

Hackett, Rosalind IJ 2017. Sounds Indigenous. In The Handbook of Indigenous Religion (s) (eds) Greg Johnson & Siv Ellen Kraft. Brill Handbook series. Leiden: Brill.

Hackett, Rosalind IJ 2017. Sound. In The Oxford Handbook for the Study of Religion (eds) Steven Engler & Michael Stausberg, 316-328. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Kraft, Siv Ellen. & Greg Johnson (eds) 2017. The Brill Handbook of Indigenous Religion (s). Leiden: Brill.

Johnson, Greg. 2017. Materialising and performing Hawaiian religion (s) on Mauna Kea. The Handbook of Indigenous Religion (s) (eds) In G. Johnson & Siv Ellen Kraft. Brill Handbook Series. Leiden: Brill.

Kraft, Siv Ellen 2017. UN Discourses on Indigenous Religion. The Handbook of Indigenous Religion (s). In: Greg Johnson and Siv Ellen Kraft (eds.) Brill Handbook series. Leiden: Brill.

Kraft, Siv Ellen & Greg Johnson. 2017. Field Notes. Standing on the sacred: ceremony, discourse, and resistance in the fight against the Black Snake. The Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture 11 (1), 131-147.

Longkumer, Arko 2017. Is Hinduism the World's Largest Indigenous Religion? In The Handbook of Indigenous Religion (s) (eds) Greg Johnson & Siv Ellen Kraft. Brill Handbook series. Leiden: Brill.

Longkumer, Arkotong 2017. Moral geographies: the problem of territoriality, sovereignty and indigeneity among the Nagas. In Rethinking Social Exclusion in India: Caste, Communities and the State (eds) A. Dasgupta & M. Mio, 147-167. New Dehli: Routledge.

Tafjord, Bjørn Ola. 2017. Mediating Indigenous Religions: By Way of Introduction. Co-authored with Gregory D. Alles. Religious Studies and Theology 36, 1: 9-20.

Religious Studies and Theology 36, 1. Special issue on mediations of indigenous religions, guest edited by Gregory D. Alles & Bjørn Ola Tafjord.

Tafjord, Bjørn Ola 2017. Norwegian mission in Latin America: from sailors and Pentecostals to development projects and politics. In Norway in Latin America: Relations and Performances (ed) L. Marstein's speech, 221-249. Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk.

Tafjord, Bjørn Ola. 2017. "Towards a Typology of Academic Uses of Indigenous Religion (s), or Eight (or Nine) Language Games That Scholars Play with This Phrase". In: Greg Johnson and Siv Ellen Kraft (eds.) Brill Handbook series. Leiden: Brill.

Popular dissemination 2017

Johnson, Greg & Siv Ellen Kraft. 2017. Indigenous protective occupation and emergent networks of spirited refusal. Posted online July 21, The Immanent Frame. Secularism, Religion and the Public Sphere https://tif.ssrc.org/author/siv-ellen-Kraft/ .

Interview with Rosalind IJ Hackett on Religion and Digital Media Trends in Africa. (with Frédérick Madore and Pamela Millet-Mouity)  Emulations: Revue de sciences sociales  (open access) 24 (2017): 125-133. Special issue on "Les actors religious africains à l'ère du numérique."

Longkumer, Arkotong, Bjørn Ola Tafjord & D. Robertson. 2017. What do we mean by indigenous religion (s)? (October 7) Podcast The Religious Studies Project:   http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/what-do-we-mean-by-indigenous-religions/?utm_source=Religious+Studies+Project&utm_campaign=d260652c63-Weekly_Digest&utm_mdium=term = 0_809ff0fba

2016

Johnson, Greg. 2016. Sacred places in urban spaces: comparing Kawaiaha'o and the Newark Earthworks "(ed) Lindsay Jones, 262- 276. University of Virginia Press. 

Kraft, Siv Ellen 2016. Cultural heritage of rituals. Shamanism in Norwegian Sápmi. Chaos. Danish-Norwegian Journal of Religious History Studies 65, 53-73.

Kraft, Siv Ellen. 2016. Cultural heritage of rituals. Shamanism in Norwegian Sápmi (Heritagization of rituals. Shamanism in Norwegian Sápmi). Chaos: Scandinavian journal of religious history studies, no. 65.

Longkumer, Arkotong. 2016. ' Lines that speak': The Gaidinliu notebooks as language, prophecy, and textuality . Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6, 2. London: Hau. (Open access).

Longkumer, Arkotong. 2016. Visualizing national life: the Hornbill Festival as culture and politics. In Focus on world festivals: contemporary case studies and perspectives (eds) C. Newbold & J. Jordan. London: Goodfellow Publishers.

Longkumer, Arkotong. 2016. The power of persuasion: Hindutva, Christianity, and the discourse of religion and culture in Northeast India. Religion, 1-25.

Tafjord, Bjørn Ola. 2016. How talking about indigenous religion may change things: An example from Talamanca . Numen: International Review for the History of Religions 63, 5-6. Leiden: Brill. 

Tafjord, Bjørn Ola. 2016. Scales, translations, and siding effects: uses of indigenous and religious in Talamanca and beyond . Constructing the indigenous: First Peoples and the study of religion (Supplements to method & theory in the study of religion) (ed) C. Hartney & DJ Tower. Leiden: Brill.

Popular dissemination 2016

Kraft, Siv Ellen. 2016. Indigenous Religion. Contemporary: Journal of Politics, Literature and Society, Volume 3-4. 

Johnson, Greg. Group Work Sucks. Why Collaborate? Blog post in the series "If I Only Knew Then… Tenured Scholars on Professionalization." Bulletin for the Study of Religion (2016).

Kraft, Siv Ellen. 2016. There is talk of spiritual warfare by standing rock, Sagat [Newspaper] 2016-11-10.

Kraft, Siv Ellen. “Forgiveness is my bow, my prayers are my arrows. The protests at Standing Rock. philosophy seminar, Norwegian Philosophical Association. Tromsø 29.10. 2016 Standing Rock

Kraft, Siv Ellen 2016. "Religion, Indigeneity and Environmentalism". Brown-bag seminar, SESAM, UiT; October 19.

Kraft, Siv Ellen, 2016. "Fight in a Holy Land." Interview in Our Country November 6.

Kraft, Siv Ellen and Greg Johnson 2016. Interview on Standing Rock. NRK Samiradio. October 19.

Kraft, Siv Ellen and Greg Johnson. "They are fighting" the black snake. NRK Säpmi 2016. Interviewed on Standing Rock. NRK Sami TV [TV] 2016-10-13.

Kraft, Siv Ellen and Greg Johnson 2016. "Visiting professors draw similarity between the Sami and Naga people". The Morung Express December 23. Interview

2015

Fonneland, Trude, Siv Ellen Kraft and James Lewis (eds) 2015. Nordic Neo-shamanisms . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Kraft, Siv Ellen. 2015. Shamanism and indigenous soundscapes: the case of Mari Boine. In Nordic Neo-shamanisms (eds) Trude Fonneland, Siv Ellen Kraft & James Lewis, 235-262.

Fonneland, Trude. 2015. The rise of Neo-shamanism in Norway: local structures, global currents. In Nordic Neo-shamanisms. Palgrave studies in new religions and alternative spiritualities. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 291-309.

Fonneland, Trude. 2015. The Festival Isogaisa: Neoshamanism in New Arenas. In Nordic Neo-shamanisms. Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 215-234.

Kraft, Siv Ellen 2015. Sami Neo-shamanism: colonial grounds, ethnic revival and pagan pathways. In Contemporary pagan and native faith movements in Europe: colonialist and nationalist impulses. New York: Berghahn Books. 

Fonneland, Trude. “Approval of the Shamanistic Association: A Local Northern Norwegian Construct with Trans-Local Dynamics”. In Lewis, J. and I. T. Bårdsen (eds.) Handbook of Nordic New Religions Leiden 2015: Brill.

Johnson, Greg. 2015. Reflections on the Politics of Religious Freedom, with Attention to Hawai`i. Politics of Religious Freedom (ed) S. Mahmood, P. Danchin, W. Sullivan & E.S. Hurd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 78-88.

Longkumer, Arkotong. 2015. If Our Ancestors Once Lived ": Representation, Performance, and Constructing a National Culture among the Nagas of India. Himalayas, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies 35 (1).

Alles, Gregory D. 2015. Work and Play in Gamshahi Performing the Indigenous Village in Eastern Gujarat . International Asia Forum. International Quarterly for Asian Studies 46, 1/2.