Rijk van Dijk

Rijk van Dijk is an anthropologist. He is an expert on Pentecostalism, globalisation and transnationalism, diaspora-studies, youth and healing. He is an Emeritus Professor of Religion in Contemporary Africa and its Diaspora at the ASCL, University of Leiden. From 2019 up to and including 2025, he also served as Head of the ASCL Graduate Programme African Studies.
 
Rijk van Dijk has done extensive research on the rise of Pentecostal movements in the urban areas of Malawi, Ghana and Botswana. He is the author of Young Malawian Puritans (Utrecht, ISOR Press, 1993) and has co-edited a range of other books including The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma (Oxford, James Currey 2000) with Ria Reis and Marja Spierenburg, and Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa. Saving Souls, Prolonging Lives (London, Ashgate Publ. 2014) with Hansjoerg Dilger, Marian Burchardt and Thera Rasing. 
 
His research has been dealing with the religious, in particular Pentecostal, engagement with the domains of relationships and sexuality in Botswana. He has also conducted research on religion and the African diaspora in the Netherlands, Ghana, Botswana and more recently in Malta. He is also the co-founder and former editor-in-chief of the journal African Diaspora. A Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global World (published by Brill). 
 
He was appointed as guest professor of the Centre of Excellence and the Ethnology-programme at the University of Konstanz, Germany where he engaged with studies of religious activism. The Special Issue, co-edited with Thomas Kirsch and Franziska Duarte dos Santos, entitled  Family resemblances in action: an introduction to religiopolitical activism in Southern Africa (Journal of Religion 2021, vol. 49 (3-4)) was one of the publications resulting from this.

Keywords: African diaspora, pentecostalism, religion, youth, sexuality and relationships in Africa

Prof. Dr. R.A. (Rijk) van Dijk
Senior researcher, Retired research fellow
Botswana, Ghana, Malawi

r.a.van.dijk@asc.leidenuniv.nl
+31 (0)71 527 6607
Room number: 0.50

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Religion, culture and sexuality in Africa: critical ethnographic perspectives [editorial] (2025)
M. Burchardt; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article

African Studies is vibrant! And we need future generations to pass on the baton (2024)
A. Amha; M.E. de Bruijn; M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk; M. Ditmars; M.A. Kaag; A.H.M. Leliveld; C.T. Nijenhuis
Type of Publication: Other

Religious relevance interests: Pentecostalism and super-diversity in Gaborone, Botswana (2023)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: D. Pellow; S. Scheld
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Introduction: Hedging in demons and the uncanny (2022)
T.G. Kirsch; K. Mahlke; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: T.G. Kirsch; K. Mahlke; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Introduction: Hedging in demons and the uncanny (2022)
T.G. Kirsch; K. Mahlke; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: T.G. Kirsch; K. Mahlke; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Marriage and the ambiguities of ‘seeds’: an exploration of intentions and transparency in relations in Botswana (2022)
R.A. van Dijk; S.D. Seturne
Editors: T.G. Kirsch; K. Mahlke; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Marriage and the ambiguities of ‘seeds’: an exploration of intentions and transparency in relations in Botswana (2022)
R.A. van Dijk; S.D. Seturne
Editors: T.G. Kirsch; K. Mahlke; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Domestic demons and the intimate uncanny (2022)
Editors: T.G. Kirsch; K. Mahlke; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book

Conceptualizing the after-crisis through ethnographies of postcrisis situations in Africa (2022)
M. Bedert; A. Bochow; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article

Family resemblances in action: an introduction to religiopolitical activism in Southern Africa (2021)
R.A. van Dijk; T.G. Kirsch; F. Duarte dos Santos
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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Pentecostalism and the arts of insistence: examples from Botswana (2021)
R.A. van Dijk; K. Molenaar
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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Special issue: Religiopolitical activism in Southern Africa (2021)
Editors: F. Duarte dos Santos; T.G. Kirsch; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Other

Labour of love: secrecy and kinship among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in The Netherlands (2020)
A. Bakuri; R. Spronk; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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Religious sophistication in African pentecostalism: an urban spirit? (2020)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: H. Dilger; A. Bochow; M. Burchardt; M. Wilhelm-Solomon
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Professional and religious approaches to care for West African victims of human trafficking in The Netherlands: the challenge of new Pentecostalism (2020)
L.ten Kate; A.W. Braam; R.A. van Dijk; J. van Ravesteyn; F. Bergmans
Type of Publication: Journal Article

Miraculous unhappiness : does Botswana need a Ministry of Laughter? (2019)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Other

Introduction: new ethical fields and the implicitness/explicitness of ethics in Africa (2017)
A. Bochow; T.G. Kirsch; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article

Marriage as an end, or the end of marriage? : change and continuity in Southern African marriages (2017)
J. Pauli; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article

Ethics as ideals in practice (2017)
A. Bochow; Th. Kirsch; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Other

The critical fence : a Dietzian reflection on divergent fieldwork (2017)
R.A. van Dijk; M. Spierenburg; H. Wels
Editors: W.E.A. van Beek; J.C.M. Damen; D.W.J. Foeken
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

The strings, strains and strides of transnational competence: complex ambiguities (2014)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: N. Beckmann; A. Gusman; C. Shroff
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Introduction: Strings attached: AIDS and the rise of transnational connections in Africa (2014)
N. Beckmann; A. Gusman; C. Shroff; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: N. Beckmann; A. Gusman; C. Shroff
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Introduction: Religion and AIDS-treatment in Africa: the redemptive moment (2014)
H. Dilger; M. Burchardt; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: R.A. van Dijk; H. Dilger; M. Burchardt; T. Rasing
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Introduction: Religion and AIDS-treatment in Africa: the redemptive moment (2014)
H. Dilger; M. Burchardt; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: R.A. van Dijk; H. Dilger; M. Burchardt; T. Rasing
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Religion and AIDS treatment in Africa: saving souls, prolonging lives (2014)
Editors: R.A. van Dijk; H. Dilger; M. Burchardt; T. Rasing
Type of Publication: Book

Connecting ourselves: a Dogon ethnic association and the impact of connectivity (2013)
W.E.A. van Beek
Editors: R.A. van Dijk; M.E. de Bruijn
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Editorial introduction: sexuality, intimacy and counselling: perspectives from Africa (2013)
E. Moyer; M. Burchardt; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article

Special issue: Counselling, sexuality and intimacy: perspectives from Africa (2013)
Editors: E. Moyer; M. Burchardt; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book

Connectivities compared: transnational Islamic NGOs in Chad and Senegal (2012)
M.A. Kaag
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Geboorte in een Ghanese Pinksterkerk: postmodern vieren in Den Haag (2012)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: I. Stengs
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

'Dal campo all' inclusione: discorsi di trans-soggttivita nella diaspora pentecostale ghanese (2012)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: P. Schirripa
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

The social cocktail: weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Botswana (2012)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: J.B. Gewald; A.H.M. Leliveld; I. Peša
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Connecting and change in African societies: examples of 'ethnographies of linking' in anthropology (2012)
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article

A ritual connection: urban youth, marrying in the village in Botswana (2012)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

A ritual connection: urban youth, marrying in the village in Botswana (2012)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Connectivity and the postglobal moment: (dis)connections and social change in Africa (2012)
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Connectivity and the postglobal moment: (dis)connections and social change in Africa (2012)
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

The social life of connectivity in Africa (2012)
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book

Special issue: Ideologies of youth (2011)
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; C. Cardoso; I.C. Butter
Type of Publication: Book

Medicinal knowledge and healing practices among the Kapsiki/Higi of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria (2011)
W.E.A. van Beek
Editors: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Milking the sick: Medical pluralism and commoditization of healthcare in contemporary Nigeria (2010)
A. Akinyoade; B. Oyeniyi
Editors: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Introduction: economic ethnographies of the marketization of health and healing in Africa (2010)
M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Introduction: economic ethnographies of the marketization of health and healing in Africa (2010)
M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Individual or shared responsibility: who finances treatment of illnesses in households in rural Ethiopia? (2010)
M. Dekker
Editors: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Can't buy me health: financial constraints and health seeking behaviour among rural household members in Central Togo (2010)
M. Dekker; A.H.M. Leliveld; C. 't Hart; J. Gnimadi
Editors: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

The redemptive moment: antiretroviral treatment (ART's) and the production of new religious spaces in Africa:an introduction (2010)
Editors: R.A. van Dijk; H. Dilger; M. Buchardt
Type of Publication: Journal Article

Marriage, commodification and the romantic ethic in Botswana (2010)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Marriage, commodification and the romantic ethic in Botswana (2010)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Pentecostals moving South-South: Brazilian and Ghanaian transnationalism in Southern Africa compared (2010)
R.A. van Dijk; L. van de Kamp
Editors: A. Adogame; J. Spickard
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Cities and linking hot spots: subjective rescaling, Ghanaian migration and the fragmentation of urban spaces (2010)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: N. Glick Schiller; C. Caglar
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Market forces threatening school feeding: the case for school farming in Nakuru town, Kenya (2010)
D.W.J. Foeken; A.M. Mwangi; W. Klaver
Editors: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Dashed hopes and missed opportunities: anti-malaria policy in Kenya, 1896-2009 (2010)
M.M.E.M. Rutten; K. Ombongi
Editors: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa (2010)
Editors: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book
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Gloves in times of AIDS: Pentecostalism, Hair and Social Distancing in Botswana (2009)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: F. Becker; P.W. Geizzler
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Social catapulting and the spirit of the entrepreneurialism: migrants, private initiative and the pentecostal ethic in Botswana (2009)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: G. Hüwelmeier; K. Krause
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Questioning social security in the study of religion in Africa: the ambiguous meaning of the gift in African Pentecostalism and Islam (2009)
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: C. Leutloff-Grandits; A. Peleikis; T. Thelen
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Introduction and Editorial (2008)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article

Verdeeld Afrika. Etniciteit, conflict en de grenzen van de staat (2008)
G.J. Abbink; R.A. van Dijk; A. van Dokkum
Editors: G.J. Abbink; A. van Dokkum
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Negotiating the memory of Fulbe hierarchy among mobile elite women (2007)
L. Pelckmans
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; J.B. Gewald; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Dreams and agency during Angola's war of independence (2007)
I. Brinkman
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

The safe and suffering body in transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism: towards an anthropology of vulnerable agency (2007)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

The safe and suffering body in transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism: towards an anthropology of vulnerable agency (2007)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Testing Nightscapes: Ghanian Pentecostal politics of the nocturnal (2007)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article

Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa : an introduction (2007)
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa : an introduction (2007)
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Agency in and from the margins : street children and youth in N'Djaména, Chad (2007)
M.E. de Bruijn
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa (2007)
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Editors: P. Chabal; U. Engel; L.J. de Haan
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa (2007)
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book
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The African neighbourhood: an introduction (2006)
P.J.J. Konings; D.W.J. Foeken; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: P.J.J. Konings; D.W.J. Foeken
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Transnational images of Pentecostal healing: comparative examples from Malawi and Botswana (2006)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: T.J. Luedke; H.G. West
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

'Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia': Pentecostal Pan-Africanism and Ghanaian identities in the transnational domain (2004)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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'Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia': Pentecostal Pan-Africanism and Ghanaian identities in the transnational domain (2004)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Global media and violence in Africa: The case of Somalia (2004)
J.B. Gewald
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Editorial (2004)
R.A. van Dijk; G. Sabar
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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Transcending the nation. Explorations of transnationalism as a concept and phenomenon (2004)
R.A. van Dijk; V. Mazzucato; C. Horst; P. de Vries
Editors: D. Kalb; W.G. Pansters; H. Siebers
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Transnationalisme en identiteit: de Ghanese gemeenschap in Den Haag (2004)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: L.A.C.J. Lucassen
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Creating and contesting urban space through audotiry strategies in Accra (2004)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and Issues of citizenship in Botswana (2004)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture : an introduction (2004)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture : an introduction (2004)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Can ICT belong in Africa, or is it owned by the North Atlantic Region? (2004)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture (2004)
Editors: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald
Type of Publication: Book
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Een schijn van voodoo : culturele achtergronden van de handel in Nigeriaanse meisjes voor de Nederlandse prostitutie : een verkenning (2003)
R.A. van Dijk; T. Rasing; N. Tellegen; W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of Publication: Book
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Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and the stranger's beauty in Botswana (2003)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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Pentecostalism and the politics of prophetic power: religious modernity in Ghana (2003)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: N. Kasfelt
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Transnationalisme en Identiteit: de Ghanese gemeenschap in Den Haag (2003)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: L.A.C.J. Lucassen
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands : religion mediating a tense relationship (2002)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: W.M.J.van Kessel
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Religion, reciprocity and restructuring family responsibility in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (2002)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: D.F. Bryceson; U. Vuorela
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Modernity's limits: Pentecostalism and the moral rejection of alcohol in Malawi (2002)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: D.F. Bryceson
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Population mobility in Africa: an overview (2001)
J.W.M. van Dijk; D.W.J. Foeken; K. van Til
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; D.W.J. Foeken; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Multi-spatial livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: rural farming by urban households - the case of Nakuru town, Kenya (2001)
D.W.J. Foeken
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; D.W.J. Foeken
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Time and transcultural technologies of the self in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: A. Corten; R. Marshall-Fratani
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy : Pentecostalism and laughter in urban Malawi (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: H. Moore; T. Sanders
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

African pentecostalism in the Netherlands (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: S.D. Glazier
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Sociale en culturele achtergronden van vrouwenhandel (2001)
R.A. van Dijk; J. Nijboer; J. Vocks
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands: religion mediating a tense relationship (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Ghanaian Pentecostal churches and the politics of a transcultural identity (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Interrogating individuality in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (2001)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Cultures of travel : Fulbe pastoralists in central Mali and Pentecostalism in Ghana (2001)
M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; D.W.J. Foeken; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Cultures of travel : Fulbe pastoralists in central Mali and Pentecostalism in Ghana (2001)
M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; D.W.J. Foeken; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Mobile Africa : an introduction (2001)
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; D.W.J. Foeken
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; D.W.J. Foeken
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Mobile Africa : an introduction (2001)
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; D.W.J. Foeken
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; D.W.J. Foeken
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Mobile Africa : changing patterns of movement in Africa and beyond (2001)
Editors: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; D.W.J. Foeken
Type of Publication: Book
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Introduction : beyond the confinement of affliction : a discursive field of experience (2000)
R.A. van Dijk; R. Reis; M. Spierenburg
Editors: R.A. van Dijk; R. Reis; M. Spierenburg
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Introduction : beyond the confinement of affliction : a discursive field of experience (2000)
R.A. van Dijk; R. Reis; M. Spierenburg
Editors: R.A. van Dijk; R. Reis; M. Spierenburg
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Ngoma, born-again fundamentalism and contesting representations of time in urban Malawi (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: R.A. van Dijk; R. Reis; M. Spierenburg
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Ngoma, born-again fundamentalism and contesting representations of time in urban Malawi (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: R.A. van Dijk; R. Reis; M. Spierenburg
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Secret worlds, democratization and election observation in Malawi (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: G.J. Abbink; G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Conflicts of individuality of Ghanaian migrants in the Netherlands (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Interrogating individuality: Ghanaian Pentecostalism and Dutch identity-politics (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

The anatomy of mobility in Africa. Some research questions (2000)
R.A. van Dijk; J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Voodoo on the doorstep and the trafficking in young Nigerian girls in the Netherlands (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Voodoo on the doorstep. magic policing in the Netherlands and explosions in anthropology (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy. Pentecostal rhetorics of self-making in urban Malawi (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Afrikaanse gemeenschappen, religie en identiteit. Ghanese pinksterkerken in Den Haag (2000)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: W.M.J.van Kessel; N. Tellegen
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Traditional chiefs and modern land tenure law in Niger (1999)
C. Lund; G.S.C.M. Hesseling
Editors: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape (1999)
Editors: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book

Modernity on a shoestring : dimensions of globalization, consumption and development in Africa and beyond (1999)
R. Fardon; W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book

Introduction: the domestication of chieftaincy in Africa: from the imposed to the imagined (1999)
E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Introduction: the domestication of chieftaincy in Africa: from the imposed to the imagined (1999)
E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Editors: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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The 'anglophone problem' and chieftaincy in anglophone Cameroon (1999)
P.J.J. Konings
Editors: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

The Pentecostal gift : Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence of the global economy (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: R. Fardon; W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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The Pentecostal gift : Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence of the global economy (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: R. Fardon; W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Confronting the past and post-colonial identities in Africa: the case of pentecostalism (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

The musical politics of transnational pentecostalism in Ghana (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Globalization, consumption, development (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: R. Fardon; W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Nkoya royal chiefs and the Kazanga Cultural Association in western central Zambia today : resilience, decline, or folklorisation? (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Mary's room : a case study on becoming a consumer in Francistown, Botswana (1999)
W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Editors: R. Fardon; W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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The production of 'primitiveness' and identity : Surma-tourist interactions (1999)
G.J. Abbink
Editors: R. Fardon; R.A. van Dijk; W.M.J. van Binsbergen
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

The Elusive Chief: Authority and Leadership in Surma Society (Ethiopia) (1999)
G.J. Abbink
Editors: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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"One chief, one vote" : the revival of traditional authorities in post-apartheid South Africa (1999)
W.M.J.van Kessel; B.M. Oomen
Editors: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Pentecostalism, cultural memory and the state: contested representations of time in postcolonial Malawi (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: R. Werbner
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Spiegeling en verwonding. Enkele bespiegelingen over Schoffeleers' tijdloosheid (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: M. Elias; R. Reis
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Charismatic Pentecostalism in Africa: a comparison of cases from Malawi and Ghana (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Fine young cannibal (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Ghanaian Pentecostalism in The Hague and the national order of things (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Modalities of fundamentalism in Malawi (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Pentecostalism and the politics of prophetic power: ambivalences of modernity in Ghana (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

The alternative economy of pentecostal churches in Ghana (1998)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Christian fundamentalism and the moral rejection of alcohol in Malawi (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Discourses of transubjectivity in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Time and transcultural technologies of the self in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1997)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

Contested authorities and the politics of perception: deconstructing the study of religion in Africa (1996)
R.A. van Dijk; P. Pels
Editors: R. Werbner; T. Ranger
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
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Ngoma, born-again fundamentalism and contesting representations of time in urban Malawi (1996)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Conference Paper

La guérisseuse du docteur Banda au Malawi (1993)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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Young Born-Again preachers in post-independence Malawi: the significance of an extraneous identity (1992)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: P. Gifford
Type of Publication: Book Chapter

Young puritan preachers in post-independence Malawi (1992)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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Domestic demons and the intimate uncanny
 London: Routledge, 2022
Editors: T.G. Kirsch; K. Mahlke; R.A. van Dijk

Faith in romance : towards an anthropology of romantic relationships, sexuality and responsibility in African Christianities
 Amsterdam: Faculteit der Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Inaugural lecture series / Amsterdam University 536, 2015
R.A. van Dijk
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Een schijn van Voodoo. Culturele achtergronden van de handel in Nigeriaanse meisjes voor de Nederlandse prostitutie: een verkenning (vierde druk)
 Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, 2006
R.A. van Dijk; T. Rasing; N. Tellegen; W.M.J. van Binsbergen
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Een schijn van voodoo : culturele achtergronden van de handel in Nigeriaanse meisjes voor de Nederlandse prostitutie : een verkenning
 Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, 2003
R.A. van Dijk; T. Rasing; N. Tellegen; W.M.J. van Binsbergen
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Modernity on a shoestring : dimensions of globalization, consumption and development in Africa and beyond
 Leiden [etc.]: EIDOS, 1999
R. Fardon; W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk

Plunder hell, to populate heaven : the extractive and the insertive in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora
 The Hague: WOTRO, Working paper, ISSN 1386-9515 ; 9 1999
R.A. van Dijk

Chieftaincy in West Africa: an extended proposal of an international colloquium
 1998
R.A. van Dijk

Young Malawian puritans : young born-again preachers in a present-day African urban environment
 Utrecht: ISOR, 1992
R.A. van Dijk

Van hegemonisch tot demonisch gezag : jonge puriteinse predikers en iconoclastisch verzet
 Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam, Antropologisch-Sociologisch Centrum, 1992
R.A. van Dijk

'To the source of an intellectual icon: being an account of an ethnological tour to the mouth of the Rhine, the headwaters of De Vliet, and the banished residence of Baruch Spinoza'
 In: A. van Dokkum; A. Meckelburg; S. LaTosky: 'Ethnography, history, and the politics of knowledge in Africa: essays in honour of Jon Abbink', Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2025.

'Religious relevance interests: Pentecostalism and super-diversity in Gaborone, Botswana'
 In: D. Pellow; S. Scheld: 'Africa and urban anthropology: theoretical and methodological contributions from contemporary fieldwork', London, New York: Routledge, 2023.

'Introduction: Hedging in demons and the uncanny'
 In: T.G. Kirsch; K. Mahlke; R.A. van Dijk: 'Hedging in demons and the uncanny', London: Routledge, 2022.

'Marriage and the ambiguities of ‘seeds’: an exploration of intentions and transparency in relations in Botswana'
 In: T.G. Kirsch; K. Mahlke; R.A. van Dijk: 'Domestic demons and the intimate uncanny', London: Routledge, 2022.

'Religious sophistication in African pentecostalism: an urban spirit?'
 In: H. Dilger; A. Bochow; M. Burchardt; M. Wilhelm-Solomon: 'Affective trajectories: religion and emotion in African city-scapes', Durham, London: Duke University Press, 2020.

'The critical fence : a Dietzian reflection on divergent fieldwork'
 In: W.E.A. van Beek; J.C.M. Damen; D.W.J. Foeken: 'The face of Africa: essays in honour of Ton Dietz', Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2017.

'The strings, strains and strides of transnational competence: complex ambiguities'
 In: N. Beckmann; A. Gusman; C. Shroff: 'Strings attached: AIDS and the rise of transnational connections in Africa', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

'Introduction: Strings attached: AIDS and the rise of transnational connections in Africa'
 In: N. Beckmann; A. Gusman; C. Shroff: 'Strings attached: AIDS and the rise of transnational connections in Africa', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

'Introduction: Religion and AIDS-treatment in Africa: the redemptive moment'
 In: R.A. van Dijk; H. Dilger; M. Burchardt; T. Rasing: 'Religion and AIDS treatment in Africa: saving souls, prolonging lives', London: Ashgate, 2014.

'Geboorte in een Ghanese Pinksterkerk: postmodern vieren in Den Haag'
 In: I. Stengs: 'Nieuw in Nederland: feesten en rituelen in verandering', Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012.

''Dal campo all' inclusione: discorsi di trans-soggttivita nella diaspora pentecostale ghanese'
 In: P. Schirripa: 'Terapie religiose: neoliberismo, cura, cittadinanza nel pentecostalismo contemporaneo', Rome: CISU Press, 2012.

'The social cocktail: weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Botswana'
 In: J.B. Gewald; A.H.M. Leliveld; I. Peša: 'Transforming innovations in Africa: explorative studies on appropriation in African societies', Leiden: Brill, 2012.

'Pentecostalism and post-development: exploring religion as a developmental ideology in Ghanaian migrant communities'
 In: D. Freeman: 'Ghanaian migrant communities: churches, ngo's and social change in Africa', Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012.

'A ritual connection: urban youth, marrying in the village in Botswana'
 In: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk: 'The social life of connectivity in Africa', Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

'Connectivity and the postglobal moment: (dis)connections and social change in Africa'
 In: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk: 'The social life of connectivity in Africa', Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

'Introduction: economic ethnographies of the marketization of health and healing in Africa'
 In: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk: 'Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2010.

'Marriage, commodification and the romantic ethic in Botswana'
 In: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk: 'Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2010.

'Pentecostals moving South-South: Brazilian and Ghanaian transnationalism in Southern Africa compared'
 In: A. Adogame; J. Spickard: 'Religion crossing boundaries: transnational religious and social dynamics in Africa and the New African Diaspora', Leiden: Brill, 2010.

'Cities and linking hot spots: subjective rescaling, Ghanaian migration and the fragmentation of urban spaces'
 In: N. Glick Schiller; C. Caglar: 'Locating migration: rescaling cities and migrants', Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010.

'Gloves in times of AIDS: Pentecostalism, Hair and Social Distancing in Botswana'
 In: F. Becker; P.W. Geizzler: 'Aids and Religious Practice in Africa', Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2009.

'Social catapulting and the spirit of the entrepreneurialism: migrants, private initiative and the pentecostal ethic in Botswana'
 In: G. Hüwelmeier; K. Krause: 'Traveling spirits: migrants, markets and mobilities', Abingdon: Routledge, 2009.

'Questioning social security in the study of religion in Africa: the ambiguous meaning of the gift in African Pentecostalism and Islam'
 In: C. Leutloff-Grandits; A. Peleikis; T. Thelen: 'Social security in religious networks: anthropological perspectives on new risks and ambivalences', New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009.

'Verdeeld Afrika. Etniciteit, conflict en de grenzen van de staat'
 In: G.J. Abbink; A. van Dokkum: 'Verdeeld Afrika. Etniciteit, conflict en de grenzen van de staat', Diemen: Uitgeverij AMB, 2008.

'The safe and suffering body in transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism: towards an anthropology of vulnerable agency'
 In: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2007.

'Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa : an introduction'
 In: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2007.

'Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa'
 In: P. Chabal; U. Engel; L.J. de Haan: 'African Alternatives', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2007.

'The African neighbourhood: an introduction'
 In: P.J.J. Konings; D.W.J. Foeken: 'Crisis and creativity: exploring the wealth of the African neighbourhood', Leiden: Brill, 2006.

'Transnational images of Pentecostal healing: comparative examples from Malawi and Botswana'
 In: T.J. Luedke; H.G. West: 'Borders & healers. Brokering therapeutic resources in Southeast Africa', Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006.

''Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia': Pentecostal Pan-Africanism and Ghanaian identities in the transnational domain'
 In: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture', Leiden: Brill, 2004.
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'Transcending the nation. Explorations of transnationalism as a concept and phenomenon'
 In: D. Kalb; W.G. Pansters; H. Siebers: 'Globalization & development; Themes and concepts in current research', Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004.

'Transnationalisme en identiteit: de Ghanese gemeenschap in Den Haag'
 In: L.A.C.J. Lucassen: 'Amsterdammer worden, migranten, hun organisaties en inburgering, 1600-2000', Amsterdam: Vossiuspers UvA, 2004.

'Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture : an introduction'
 In: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2004.
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'Pentecostalism and the politics of prophetic power: religious modernity in Ghana'
 In: N. Kasfelt: 'Scriptural politics : the Bible and the Koran as political models in the Middle East and Africa', London: Hurst & Co, 2003.

'Transnationalisme en Identiteit: de Ghanese gemeenschap in Den Haag'
 In: L.A.C.J. Lucassen: 'Amsterdammer worden', Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2003.

'Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands : religion mediating a tense relationship'
 In: W.M.J.van Kessel: 'Merchants, missionaries & migrants : 300 years of Dutch-Ghanaian relations', Amsterdam: KIT/Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2002.
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'Religion, reciprocity and restructuring family responsibility in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora'
 In: D.F. Bryceson; U. Vuorela: 'The transnational family : new European frontiers and global networks', Oxford [etc.]: Berg, 2002.
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'Modernity's limits: Pentecostalism and the moral rejection of alcohol in Malawi'
 In: D.F. Bryceson: 'Alcohol in Africa : mixing business, pleasure, and politics', Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2002.
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'Time and transcultural technologies of the self in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora'
 In: A. Corten; R. Marshall-Fratani: 'Between Babel and Pentecost : transnational Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America', 2001.

'Witchcraft and scepticism by proxy : Pentecostalism and laughter in urban Malawi'
 In: H. Moore; T. Sanders: 'Magical interpretations, material realities : modernity, witchcraft and the occult in postcolonial Africa', London: Routledge, 2001.

'African pentecostalism in the Netherlands'
 In: S.D. Glazier: 'Encyclopedia of African & African-American religion', London: Routledge, 2001.

'Cultures of travel : Fulbe pastoralists in central Mali and Pentecostalism in Ghana'
 In: M.E. de Bruijn; D.W.J. Foeken; R.A. van Dijk: 'Mobile Africa : changing patterns of movement in Africa and beyond', Leiden: Brill, 2001.
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'Mobile Africa : an introduction'
 In: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; D.W.J. Foeken: 'Mobile Africa : changing patterns of movement in Africa and beyond', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2001.
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'Introduction : beyond the confinement of affliction : a discursive field of experience'
 In: R.A. van Dijk; R. Reis; M. Spierenburg: 'The quest for fruition through ngoma : political aspects of healing in southern Africa', London: James Currey, 2000.
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'Ngoma, born-again fundamentalism and contesting representations of time in urban Malawi'
 In: R.A. van Dijk; R. Reis; M. Spierenburg: 'The quest for fruition through Ngoma. The political aspects of healing in Southern Africa', London: James Currey, 2000.
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'Secret worlds, democratization and election observation in Malawi'
 In: G.J. Abbink; G.S.C.M. Hesseling: 'Election Observation and Democratization in Africa', Hampshire: MacMillan Press Ltd., 2000.
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'Afrikaanse gemeenschappen, religie en identiteit. Ghanese pinksterkerken in Den Haag'
 In: W.M.J.van Kessel; N. Tellegen: 'Afrikanen in Nederland', Amsterdam / Leiden: KIT: KIT / African Studies Centre, 2000.
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'Introduction: the domestication of chieftaincy in Africa: from the imposed to the imagined'
 In: E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk: 'African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape', Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 1999.
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'The Pentecostal gift : Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence of the global economy'
 In: R. Fardon; W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk: 'Modernity on a shoestring : dimensions of globalization, consumption and development in Africa and beyond', Leiden [etc.]: EIDOS:, 1999.
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'Pentecostalism, gerontocratic rule and democratization in Malawi : the changing position of the young in political culture'
 In: J. Haynes: 'Religion, globalization and political culture in the Third World', New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
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'Pentecostalism, cultural memory and the state: contested representations of time in postcolonial Malawi'
 In: R. Werbner: 'Memory and the postcolony : African anthropology and the critique of power', London [etc.]: Zed Books:, 1998.
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'Spiegeling en verwonding. Enkele bespiegelingen over Schoffeleers' tijdloosheid'
 In: M. Elias; R. Reis: 'Getuigen ondanks zichzelf. Voor Jan Mathijs Schoffeleers bij zijn zeventigste verjaardag', Maastricht: Shaker Publishing, 1998.
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'Contested authorities and the politics of perception: deconstructing the study of religion in Africa'
 In: R. Werbner; T. Ranger: 'Postcolonial identities in Africa', London: Zed Books, 1996.
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'Young Born-Again preachers in post-independence Malawi: the significance of an extraneous identity'
 In: P. Gifford: 'New dimensions in African Christianity', Nairobi: All Africa Conference of Churches, 1992.

Religion and AIDS treatment in Africa: saving souls, prolonging lives
 R.A. van Dijk; H. Dilger; M. Burchardt; T. Rasing (editors)
London: Ashgate, 2014.

Christian creations of new spaces of sexuality, reproduction, and relationships in Africa : exploring faith and religious heterotopia: a special issue
 A. Bochow; R.A. van Dijk (editors)
Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 42, nr. 4 2013.

Special issue: Counselling, sexuality and intimacy: perspectives from Africa
 E. Moyer; M. Burchardt; R.A. van Dijk (editors)
Culture, health and sexuality, vol. 15, nr. 4 2013.

The social life of connectivity in Africa
 M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk (editors)
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Special issue: Ideologies of youth
 M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; C. Cardoso; I.C. Butter (editors)
Africa Development, ISSN 0850-3907, vol. 36, nr. 3 2011.

Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa
 M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk (editors)
Leiden: Brill, African dynamics 9, 2010.
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Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa
 M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald (editors)
Leiden: Brill, African dynamics 6, 2007.
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Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture
 W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 3, 2004.
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Mobile Africa : changing patterns of movement in Africa and beyond
 M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; D.W.J. Foeken (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 1, 2001.
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African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape
 E.A.B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; R.A. van Dijk (editors)
Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 1999.

'Religion, culture and sexuality in Africa: critical ethnographic perspectives [editorial]'
 in: Culture, health & sexuality, vol. preprint, pp. [1-4], 2025.

'Conceptualizing the after-crisis through ethnographies of postcrisis situations in Africa'
 in: Africa today, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 1-17, 2022.

'Family resemblances in action: an introduction to religiopolitical activism in Southern Africa'
 in: Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 49, no. 3-4, pp. 233-256, 2021.
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'Pentecostalism and the arts of insistence: examples from Botswana'
 in: Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 49, no. 3-4, pp. 257-287, 2021.
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'Afterword: the hodological challenge: exploring middle-class pathways and their biography'
 in: Africa today, vol. 66, no. 3-4, pp. 180-191, 2020.

'Labour of love: secrecy and kinship among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in The Netherlands'
 in: Ethnography, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 394-412, 2020.
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'Professional and religious approaches to care for West African victims of human trafficking in The Netherlands: the challenge of new Pentecostalism'
 in: Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, vol. ahead-of-print, pp. 1-15, 2020.

'Worlds apart?: exploring the problematic irrelevance of a psy-therapy promoting happiness-as-norm in an African context'
 in: Current anthropology, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 214-215, 2019.

'Event ethics and their elasticity : weddings in Botswana and the exploration of the tacit extraordinary'
 in: Africa : journal of the International African Institute, vol. 87, no. 3, pp. 462 - 478, 2017.

'Introduction: new ethical fields and the implicitness/explicitness of ethics in Africa'
 in: Africa : journal of the International African Institute, vol. 87, no. 3, pp. 447 - 461, 2017.

'Marriage as an end, or the end of marriage? : change and continuity in Southern African marriages'
 in: Anthropology Southern Africa, vol. 40, no. VI, pp. 257 - 265, 2017.

'The tent versus Lobola marriage : monetary intimacies and the new face of responsibility in Botswana'
 in: Anthropology Southern Africa, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 29 - 41, 2017.

'The tent versus lobola: marriage, monetary intimacies and the new face of responsibility in Botswana'
 in: Anthropology Southern Africa, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 29 - 41, 2016.

'Editorial introduction: sexuality, intimacy and counselling: perspectives from Africa'
 in: Culture, health and sexuality, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 509 - 522, 2013.

'Counselling and Pentecostal modalities of social engineering of relationships in Botswana'
 in: Culture, health and sexuality, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 509 - 522, 2013.

'Connecting and change in African societies: examples of 'ethnographies of linking' in anthropology'
 in: Anthropologica, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 45 - 59, 2012.

'Introduction: Christian creations of new spaces of sexuality, reproduction, and relationships in Africa : exploring faith and religious heterotopia'
 vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 325 - 344, 2012.

'The redemptive moment: antiretroviral treatment (ART's) and the production of new religious spaces in Africa: special section on religion and antiretroviral therapy for the African Journal of AIDS Research (AJAR)'
 in: African Journal of AIDS Research, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 383 - 466, 2010.

'The redemptive moment: antiretroviral treatment (ART's) and the production of new religious spaces in Africa:an introduction'
 in: African Journal of AIDS Research, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 373 - 383, 2010.

'Introduction to special issue: engaging christianities: negotiating HIV/AIDS, health, and social relations in east and southern Africa'
 in: Africa today, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. v - xviii, 2009.
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'Introduction and Editorial'
 in: Journal of African Diaspora, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1 - 3, 2008.

'Testing Nightscapes: Ghanian Pentecostal politics of the nocturnal'
 in: Etnofoor, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 41 - 57, 2007.

'Negotiating marriage: questions of morality and legitimacy in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora'
 in: Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 438 - 467, 2004.
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'Editorial'
 in: Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 403 - 406, 2004.
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'Neuer Look und neuer Sinn. Wie Frisoerinnen aus Ghana ihre Kundinnen in Botsuana zu neuen Menschen machen'
 in: Der Ueberblick.Quartalsschrift des kirchlichen Entwicklungsdienstes, vol. 40, pp. 39 - 41, 2004.

'Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and the stranger's beauty in Botswana'
 in: Africa : journal of the International African InstituteAfrica, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 560 - 583, 2003.
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'The soul is the stranger. Ghanaian pentecostalism and the diasporic contestation of 'flow' and 'individuality'
 in: Culture and Religion, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 49 - 67, 2002.

''Voodoo' on the doorstep : young Nigerian prostitutes and magic policing in the Netherlands'
 in: Africa : journal of the International African InstituteAfrica, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 558 - 586, 2001.
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'Contesting silence : the ban on drumming and the musical politics of Pentecostalism in Ghana'
 in: Ghana studies, vol. 4, pp. 31 - 64, 2001.
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'Sociale en culturele achtergronden van vrouwenhandel'
 in: Tijdschrift voor criminologie, vol. 4, no. 43, pp. 390 - 401, 2001.
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'From camp to encompassment: discourses of transsubjectivity in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora'
 in: Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 135 - 159, 1997.
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'Foucault, hekserij en puritanisme in Malawi : een expressionistische kritiek op Douglas' 'grid/group' analyse'
 in: Focaal : tijdschrift voor antropologieFocaal, vol. 28, pp. 47 - 61, 1996.
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'Fundamentalism and its moral geography in Malawi : the representation of the diasporic and the diabolical'
 in: Critique of anthropology, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 171 - 191, 1995.
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'La guérisseuse du docteur Banda au Malawi'
 in: Politique africaine, vol. 52, pp. 145 - 150, 1993.
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'Young puritan preachers in post-independence Malawi'
 in: Africa : journal of the International African InstituteAfrica, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 159 - 181, 1992.
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African Studies is vibrant! And we need future generations to pass on the baton
Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2024.
‘A question of faith’ : an explorative pilot study on the relationship between West African religion, migration and human trafficking
Capelle aan den IJssel; Leiden; Utrecht: Centre against Child and Human Trafficking (CKM); African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL); University of Humanistic Studies Utrecht (UvH), 2021.
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