Dr. Magnus Echtler
Religionswissenschaft
Wissenschaftliche Abschlüsse
- 2008 Promotion: Ethnologie, Universität Bayreuth
Beruflicher Werdegang
- 2014 – 2017: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im DFG-Forschungsprojekt „Sakraler Raum in Durban, Südafrika“
- 2005 – 2014: Wissenschaftlicher Assistent der Fachgruppe Religionswissenschaft, Universität Bayreuth
Religionswissenschaft
Regional:
- Südafrika
- Sansibar
Thematisch:
- Religionen in Afrika
- Kulturwissenschaftliche Religionsforschung
- Ritual- und Praxistheorien
- Religion und Raum, Macht, Kunst, Emotion, Transgression
- Ethnographische Methoden
Religionswissenschaft
Ausgewählte Publikationen
2020
Echtler, Magnus
Call of the mountain : modern enchantment on and off the screen
In: Culture and Religion Bd. 21 (2020) Heft 1. - S. 58-71
doi:10.1080/14755610.2020.1858548 ...
Echtler, Magnus
Power in the house : performing succession in the Nazareth Baptist Church (South Africa)
In: Paideuma Bd. 66 (2020) . - S. 49-74
Echtler, Magnus
Redeeming Zululand : Emplacing cultural resonances in the Nazareth Baptist Church, South Africa
Transnational religious spaces : religious organizations and interactions in Africa, East Asia, and beyond
Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020. - S. 84-106 . - (Dialectics of the Global; 8)
Echtler, Magnus
Shembe, the Black Messiah : A postcolonial intervention
Postkolonialismus, Theologie und die Konstruktion des Anderen : Erkundungen in einem Grenzgebiet = Postcolonialism, theology and the construction of the other : exploring borderlands
Leiden : Brill, 2020. - S. 133-169 . - (Studies in Theology and Religion; 26)
doi:10.1163/9789004417434 ...
2017
Echtler, Magnus
Pissing the sacred : Schlingensief's African Opera Village as a fundraising heterotopia
Art of Wagnis : Christoph Schlingensief's Crossing of Wagner and Africa
Wien : Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2017. - S. 134-150
2016
Bourdieu in Africa : Exploring the Dynamics of Religious Fields
Hrsg.: Echtler, Magnus; Ukah, Asonzeh
Leiden : Brill, 2016. - XII, 274 S. . - (Studies of Religion in Africa; 44)
doi:10.1163/9789004307568 ...
Echtler, Magnus; Ukah, Asonzeh
Introduction : Exploring the dynamics of religious fields in Africa
Bourdieu in Africa : Exploring the Dynamics of Religious Fields
Leiden : Brill, 2016. - S. 1-32 . - (Studies of Religion in Africa; 44)
doi:10.1163/9789004307568_002 ...
Echtler, Magnus
Shembe is the way : The Nazareth Baptist Church in the religious field and in academic discours ...
Bourdieu in Africa : Exploring the Dynamics of Religious Fields
Leiden : Brill, 2016. - S. 236-266 . - (Studies of Religion in Africa; 44)
doi:10.1163/9789004307568_011 ...
2014
Echtler, Magnus
Rituale und Kognition : Zum Nutzen des kognitiven Erklärungsmodells von Harvey Whitehouse für d ...
In: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft Bd. 22 (2014) Heft 1. - S. 66-97
doi:10.1515/zfr-2014-0004 ...
Echtler, Magnus
Scottish Warriors in KwaZulu-Natal : Cultural Hermeneutics of the Scottish Dance (Isikoshi) in ...
Africa in Scotland, Scotland in Africa : Historical Legacies and Contemporary Hybridities
Leiden : Brill, 2014. - S. 326-348 . - (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies; 14)
doi:10.1163/9789004276901_017 ...
2013
Alternative Voices : A Plurality Approach for Religious Studies
Hrsg.: Adogame, Afe; Echtler, Magnus; Freiberger, Oliver
Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. - 347 S. . - (Critical Studies in Religion : Religionswissenschaft; 4)
doi:10.13109/9783666540172 ...
Adogame, Afe; Echtler, Magnus; Freiberger, Oliver
Introduction
Alternative Voices : A Plurality Approach for Religious Studies
Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. - S. 9-18 . - (Critical Studies in Religion : Religionswissenschaft; 4)
doi:10.13109/9783666540172.9 ...
2012
Echtler, Magnus
"The clitoris is indeed your sweet" : Negotiating gender roles in the ritual setting of the Swa ...
Negotiating Rites
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. - S. 59-80 . - (Oxford Ritual Studies)
2010
Echtler, Magnus
A real mass worship they will never forget : Rituals and cognition in the Nazareth Baptist Chur ...
Body, Performance, Agency, and Experience
Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2010. - S. 371-397 . - (Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual; 2)
2009
Echtler, Magnus; Ukah, Asonzeh Franklin-Kennedy
Born-again witches and videos in Nigeria
Global Pentecostalism : encounters with other religious traditions
London : Tauris Verlag, 2009. - S. 73-92 . - (Studies on Inter-religious Relations; 45)
2008
Echtler, Magnus
Changing rituals : The New Year's festival in Makunduchi, Zanzibar, since colonial times
2008
(Dissertation, ,
)
Adogame, Afe; Echtler, Magnus; Vierke, Ulf
Introduction
Unpacking the New : Critical Perspectives on Cultural Syncretization in Africa and Beyond
Münster : LIT, 2008. - S. 1-23 . - (Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; 36)
Adogame, Afe; Echtler, Magnus; Vierke, Ulf
Unpacking the New : Critical Perspectives on Cultural Syncretization in Africa and Beyond
Münster : LIT, 2008. - 373 S. . - (Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; 36)
2006
Echtler, Magnus
The recent changes of the New Year's festival in Makunduchi, Zanzibar : a reinterpretation
The Global Worlds of the Swahili : Interfaces of Islam, Identity and Space in 19th and 20th-Century East Africa
Hamburg : LIT-Verlag, 2006. - S. 131-160 . - (Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; 26)
Echtler, Magnus
They bewitched the generator : State power and religious authority at the New Year's festival i ...
Exercising Power : The Role of Religions in Concord and Conflict
Stockholm : Almquist & Wiksell, 2006. - S. 51-68 . - (Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis; 19)
1999
Echtler, Magnus
Die Wittfogel-Hypothese und das Problem der politischen Organisation im alten Hawaii
Bayreuth, 1999. - 134 S.
(Magisterarbeit, ,
)
Religionswissenschaft
Dr. Magnus Echtler
Universität Bayreuth
Fachgruppe Religionswissenschaft
95440 Bayreuth
Telefon: +49 179 626 99 67
E-Mail: magnus.echtler@uni-bayreuth.de
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