Senior Lecturer
- About
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- 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
Social Analysis, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 23–40Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMahalla as State and Community
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
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
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
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
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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.
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Postgraduate, 3 stage, September start
Teaching Responsibilities
AT1502 Introduction to Anthropology: Questions of Diversity
AT3027 Anthropological Theory
AT3534 Religion, Power and Belief