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BirgitMeyer is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Religious Studies at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She is Vice-Chair of the International African Institute and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences."A thoughtful and theoretically powerful study, culminating two decades of fieldwork and movie-watching, of mediatization and materialization... An important contribution to the anthropology of religion, of popular media, of invented tradition, and of the cultural formation of the senses and experience." Anthropology Review Database "A rich account... the most sustained and theoretically sophisticated treatment of Christian popular culture in Africa to emerge to date and an important contribution to studies of religion and media." American Ethnologist "A fascinating and engaged ethnography of a crucial period in the Ghanaian film world." Marginalia "...will be regarded as both foundational and pioneering across multiple disciplines for years to come... it is how [Meyer] evaluates and hypothesizes the development of this cultural movement that places her work at the forefront of interdisciplinary research in Africa." Material Religion
“Drawing together research on religion and media in a strikingly original way, Meyer argues that the image repertoire of Pentecostalism is central to the emergence of Ghanaian film. But more than this, she shows how popular cinema is key to how Pentecostalism goes public and becomes part of the everyday lives of religious subjects. This is a groundbreaking book that opens up fundamentally new questions about film, aesthetics, and the sensational life of images in contemporary Africa.”—Brian Larkin, Barnard College, Columbia University