Dr Johan Rasanayagam
Senior Lecturer
- Email Address
- johan.rasanayagam@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272191
- Office Address
Room G18 Edward Wright Building University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 3QY
- School/Department
- School of Social Science
Biography
Johan Rasanayagam joined the department in 2005. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Uzbekistan, Central Asia on themes of Islam, citizenship, and moral selfhood. More recently, he has conducted research on Islam, illness and healing in Morocco. His current research focuses on developing an engagement between anthropology and Islamic traditions of thought.
Latest Publications
Post-secular anthropology as recognition and the limits of understanding: responding to experiences of jinn possession in Morocco
Rasanayagam, J.Social Analysis, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 23–40Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMahalla as State and Community
Rasanayagam, M. J.Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding. Montgomery, D. (ed.). University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 344-347, 4 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersDialogues: anthropology and theology
Havea, J., Tomlinson, M., Al-Azem, T., Rasanayagam, J., Venerable Juewei, , Mair, J., Kifon Bongmba, E., Haynes, N., Lamb, R., Sivakumar, D., Furani, K., Moosa, E.Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 297-347Contributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesAnthropology in conversation with an Islamic tradition: Emmanuel Levinas and the practice of critique
Rasanayagam, J.Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 90-106Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBook reviews: Fragile conviction: changing ideological landscapes in urban Kyrgyzstan
Rasanayagam, J.Central Asian Survey, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 491-493Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2018.1445594
Research Overview
Uzbekistan and Central Asia, postsocialist societies, Morocco, the anthropology of Islam, morality and subjectivity, healing practices and spirit possession, religion and the secular, politics and the state, post-secular anthropology.
Programmes
- Postgraduate, 3 stage, September start
Teaching Responsibilities
AT1502 Introduction to Anthropology: Questions of Diversity
AT3027 Anthropological Theory
AT3534 Religion, Power and Belief
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Post-secular anthropology as recognition and the limits of understanding: responding to experiences of jinn possession in Morocco
Rasanayagam, J.Social Analysis, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 23–40Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMahalla as State and Community
Rasanayagam, M. J.Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding. Montgomery, D. (ed.). University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 344-347, 4 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersDialogues: anthropology and theology
Havea, J., Tomlinson, M., Al-Azem, T., Rasanayagam, J., Venerable Juewei, , Mair, J., Kifon Bongmba, E., Haynes, N., Lamb, R., Sivakumar, D., Furani, K., Moosa, E.Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 297-347Contributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesAnthropology in conversation with an Islamic tradition: Emmanuel Levinas and the practice of critique
Rasanayagam, J.Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 90-106Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBook reviews: Fragile conviction: changing ideological landscapes in urban Kyrgyzstan
Rasanayagam, J.Central Asian Survey, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 491-493Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2018.1445594
Counter-extremism, secularism and the category of religion in the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan: should we be studying Islam at all?
Rasanayagam, J.Constructing the Uzbek State: Narratives of Post-Soviet Years. Laruelle, M. (ed.). Lexington Books, pp. 151-168, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAuthor-critic forum
Kamp, M., Zanca, R., Shahrani, N., Biard, A., Rasanayagam, J.Contributions to Specialist Publications: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2014.995923
The politics of culture and the space for Islam: Soviet and post-Soviet imaginaries in Uzbekistan
Rasanayagam, J.Central Asian Survey, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 1-14Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIntroduction: Performances, Possibilities, and Practices of the Political in Central Asia
Rasanayagam, J., Beyer, J., Reeves, M.Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and PostscriptsEthnographies of the State in Central Asia: Performing Politics
Reeves, M. (ed.), Rasanayagam, J. (ed.), Beyer, J. (ed.)Indiana University Press, Indiana. 344 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Beyond Islam: Tradition and the Intelligibility of Experience
Rasanayagam, J.Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds. Marsden, M., Retsikas, K. (eds.). Springer, pp. 101-118, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersOrdinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language and Action
Rasanayagam, J.Ethnos, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 572-573Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesConversion after socialism: disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the Former Soviet Union
Rasanayagam, J.Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 427-428Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2011.01698_27.x
Informal economy, informal state: the case of Uzbekistan
Rasanayagam, J.International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, vol. 31, no. 11/12, pp. 681-696Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIslam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: The Morality of Experience
Rasanayagam, J.Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 296 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511719950
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Asia: Central
Rasanayagam, J.Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and DictionariesMorality, Self and Power: The Idea of the Mahalla in Uzbekistan
Rasanayagam, J.The Anthropology of Moralities. Heintz, M. (ed.). Berghahn Books, pp. 102-117, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersEveryday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Rasanayagam, J.Central Asian Survey, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 447-449Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02634930701702795
'I Am Not a Wahhabi’: State Power and Muslim Orthodoxy in Uzbekistan
Rasanayagam, J.The Postsocialist Religious Question: Faith and Power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe. Hann, C. (ed.). Lit Verlag, pp. 99-124, 25 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersIslam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia
Rasanayagam, J.Central Asian Survey, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 157-159Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02634930701423657
Post-Soviet Islam: An Anthropological Perspective - Introduction
Rasanayagam, J.Central Asian Survey, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 219-233Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02634930601022500
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/709/1/Introduction.pdf
Post-Soviet Islam: An Anthropological Perspective
Rasanayagam, J. (ed.)Central Asian Survey, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 217-371Contributions to Journals: Special IssuesHealing with spirits and the formation of Muslim selfhood in post-Soviet Uzbekistan
Rasanayagam, J.Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 377-393Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00296.x
An Anthropology of Morality
Rasanayagam, J., Heintz, M.Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Report 2004-2005. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, pp. 51-60, 9 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] http://www.eth.mpg.de/
Etnichnost, gosudarstvennaya ideologiya i ponyatie “obshina” v Uzbekistanye
Rasanayagam, J.Ferganskaya dolina: Etnichnost, Etnicheskie protsessy, Etnicheskie konflikty. Abashin, S., Bushkov, V. (eds.). Nauka, pp. 145-163, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters