51cg

People

Dr Johan Rasanayagam

Dr Johan Rasanayagam
Dr Johan Rasanayagam
Dr Johan Rasanayagam

Senior Lecturer

51cg
Email Address
johan.rasanayagam@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272191
Office Address

Room G18 Edward Wright Building 51cg 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. 23–40
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Mahalla as State and Community

    Rasanayagam, M. J.
    Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding. Montgomery, D. (ed.). University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 344-347, 4 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
    • [ONLINE]

  • Dialogues: 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. 297-347
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Anthropology 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. 90-106
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Book reviews: Fragile conviction: changing ideological landscapes in urban Kyrgyzstan

    Rasanayagam, J.
    Central Asian Survey, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 491-493
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

View My Publications

Research

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

Programmes

Teaching Responsibilities

AT1502 Introduction to Anthropology: Questions of Diversity

AT3027 Anthropological Theory

AT3534 Religion, Power and Belief

Publications

Page 1 of 2 Results 1 to 25 of 27

  • 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. 23–40
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Mahalla as State and Community

    Rasanayagam, M. J.
    Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding. Montgomery, D. (ed.). University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 344-347, 4 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
    • [ONLINE]

  • Dialogues: 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. 297-347
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Anthropology 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. 90-106
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Book reviews: Fragile conviction: changing ideological landscapes in urban Kyrgyzstan

    Rasanayagam, J.
    Central Asian Survey, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 491-493
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • 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 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Author-critic forum

    Kamp, M., Zanca, R., Shahrani, N., Biard, A., Rasanayagam, J.
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • 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. 1-14
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Introduction: 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 Postscripts
    • [ONLINE]
    • [ONLINE]

  • Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia: Performing Politics

    Reeves, M. (ed.), Rasanayagam, J. (ed.), Beyer, J. (ed.)
    Indiana University Press, Indiana. 344 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
    • [ONLINE]

  • 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 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
    • [ONLINE]
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [ONLINE]

  • Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language and Action

    Rasanayagam, J.
    Ethnos, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 572-573
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
    • [ONLINE]
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Conversion 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. 427-428
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • Informal economy, informal state: the case of Uzbekistan

    Rasanayagam, J.
    International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, vol. 31, no. 11/12, pp. 681-696
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE]
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: The Morality of Experience

    Rasanayagam, J.
    Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 296 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [ONLINE]

  • Asia: Central

    Rasanayagam, J.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

  • Morality, 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 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia

    Rasanayagam, J.
    Central Asian Survey, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 447-449
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • '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 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia

    Rasanayagam, J.
    Central Asian Survey, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 157-159
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • Post-Soviet Islam: An Anthropological Perspective - Introduction

    Rasanayagam, J.
    Central Asian Survey, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 219-233
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Post-Soviet Islam: An Anthropological Perspective

    Rasanayagam, J. (ed.)
    Central Asian Survey, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 217-371
    Contributions to Journals: Special Issues
    • [ONLINE]

  • Healing 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. 377-393
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • 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 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
    • [ONLINE]

  • 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 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
Show 10 | 25 | 50 | 100 results per page

Refine

Books and Reports

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Contributions to Journals

Contributions to Specialist Publications

Working Papers

Update