CURRENT ISSUE
Religious Suasion
April 2024 | Volume 30, Issue S1 | Guest Editors: Sam Victor & Danny Cardoza
Developing a conversation about religious forms of ‘suasion’ is important because it provides a vocabulary for comparing parallel practices of religious influence across different religious communities, allowing for more nuanced understandings of what might commonly – and negatively – be termed ‘proselytizing’.
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Contents
Religious suasion: introduction to the special issue
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Epiphenomenal suasion: Jehovah’s Witnesses and the politics of preaching against the state
Danny Cardoza
Self-suasion: agents of Jewish conversion in Israel in search of religious sincerity
Michal Kravel-Tovi
Silent suasions: interpersonal mediation in Thai meditation
Julia Cassaniti
Restoring that which has never been: Hmong millenarianism and the reinvention of tradition
Jacob R. Hickman
Afterword: Suasion, circulation, and an anthropology of influence
Courtney Handman
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Previous Special Issues
AFTER FAILURE: TEMPORALITIES AND TRACES
Volume 29, Issue S1
April 2023
ON IRRECONCILIATION
Volume 28, Issue S1
April 2022
TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF DATA
Volume 27, Issue S1
April 2021
MIND AND SPIRIT: A COMPARATIVE THEORY
Volume 26, Issue S1
April 2020
ENERGY AND ETHICS?
Volume 25, Issue S1
April 2019
DISLOCATING LABOUR: ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECONFIGURATIONS
Volume 24, Issue S1
April 2018
MEETINGS: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS, BUREAUCRACY, AND ASSEMBLY
Volume 23, Issue S1
April 2017
ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURES
Volume 22, Issue S1
April 2016
THE POWER OF EXAMPLE: ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN PERSUASION, EVOCATION, AND IMITATION
Volume 21, Issue S1
May 2015
DOUBT, CONFLICT, MEDIATION: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MODERN TIME
Volume 20, Issue S1
April 2014
BLOOD WILL OUT: ESSAYS ON LIQUID TRANSFERS AND FLOWS
Volume 19, Issue S1
May 2013
THE RETURN TO HOSPITALITY: STRANGERS, GUESTS, AND AMBIGUOUS ENCOUNTERS
Volume 18, Issue S1
June 2012
THE AESTHETICS OF NATIONS: ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL APPROACHES
Volume 17, Issue S1
May 2011
MAKING KNOWLEDGE
Volume 16, Issue S1
May 2010
ISLAM, POLITICS, ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume 15, Issue S1
May 2009
THE OBJECTS OF EVIDENCE: ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE
Volume 14, Issue S1
April 2008