SIMON COLEMAN

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Address

University: Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5R 2M8

Office phone: 416-978-4788; Email: simon.coleman@utoronto.ca

Degrees

1989 Ph.D. Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge

1988 M.A. Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge

1985 B.A. Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Employment

2010- present Chancellor Jackman Professor, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, (cross-appointed to Anthropology) (Associate Chair 2020-2)

Other appointments:

2004-2010       Full Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex (Associate Chair 2006-2008; Chair 2008-2010)

1993-2004       Lecturer, then Reader (2001), Department of Anthropology, University of Durham (Course Team Leader 2000-2002; Deputy Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Health, 2002-2004)

1990-1993       Junior Research Fellow, St. John’s College, Cambridge University

1989-1990       Junior Research Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge University

Research Interests

Anthropology of religion; globalization of Pentecostalism; theory and ethnography of pilgrimage; contemporary ritual forms; urban religion; religious infrastructures and urban development, sustainability.

Selected Books

2024                With Anna-Karina Hermkens, and Matthew Tomlinson (Eds.) Christian Temporalities: Living Between the Already Fulfilled and the Not Yet Completed. London: Palgrave Macmillan

2023                With David Garbin and Gareth Millington (Eds.) Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa: Remaking the City, London: Bloomsbury

2022                Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of Movement, New York: New York University Press

2022                With Marion Bowman (Eds.) Religion in Cathedrals: Pilgrimage, Place, Heritage, and the Politics of Replication, London: Routledge (book version of special issue)

2021                With Andreas Bandak (Eds.) Different Repetitions: Anthropological Engagements with Figures of Return, Recurrence and Redundancy, London: Routledge (book version of special issue)

2018                With John Eade (Eds.), Pilgrimage and Political Economy, Oxford: Berghahn

2000                The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity: Spreading the Gospel of Prosperity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

1995                With J. Elsner, Pilgrimage Past and Present: Sacred Travel and Sacred Space in the World Religions, London: British Museum Press and Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press

Selected Journal Articles

2024                With Gareth Millington, David Garbin ‘Neo-Pentecostal Urban Infrastructures in Lagos: Ontology, Politics, Poetics’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13242 1-21

2024                With Evgenia Mesaritou ‘Possessing and Being Possessed by the Past: On the Ambivalences of Heritage as Religious Return’ Cultural Studies https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2024.2363181?src=exp-la

2024                ‘On Hosting, Pilgrimage, and “Indirect Mission” Social Sciences and Missions 37: 1-22

2023                With Evgenia Mesaritou ‘Sacred Saliences?: Afterlives of Archeology in the Restoration of Medieval Shrines’ Eventum: A Journal of Medieval Art and Rituals 1: 106-127

2023                ‘Laterality: A Sideways Look at Ritual’ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 29 (4): 727-744

2023                A. Bandak and B. Thomassen interviewers ‘Powers of Religion: An Interview with Simon Coleman’ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 29 (2): 439-458

2022                ‘On Resisting plus ça change in the Anthropology of Religion’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology pp.1-12; DOI: 10.1111/taja.12453

2022                ‘Toward an Anthropology of Concepts? Forum on ‘Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life’ History and Anthropology DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2022.2119232

2020                ‘Closet Virtues: Ethics of Concealment in English Anglicanism’ Ethnos [https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2020.1721550]

2020                With John Dulin ‘Secrecy, Religion, and the Ethics of Discernment’ Ethnos [https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2020.1765831]

2020                With Evgenia Mesaritou and John Eade ‘Knowledge, Ignorance, and Pilgrimage’ Journeys 21 (1): 1-18

2019                ‘Communitas: A Trope Made to Travel’ Religion Studies/Estudos de Religião 30: 125-157

2019                ‘On the Productivity of Pilgrimage Palimpsests: Traces and Translocations in an Expanding Field’ Journal of Global Catholicism 3 (1): 2-11

2019                ‘The Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage: The Broadening Out of a Field’ Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies 11: 25-38

2018                ‘On Praying in an Old Country: Ritual, Heritage, and Powers of Adjacency in English Cathedrals’ Religion 49 (1): 120-141

2018                ‘From the Liminal to the Lateral: Urban Religion in English Cathedrals’ Tourism Geographies 21(3): 384-404, DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2018.1449236

2018                With Marion Bowman ‘Religion in Cathedrals: Pilgrimage, Place, Heritage, and the Politics of Replication’ Religion 49 (1): 1-23

2015                ‘Anthropological Tropes and Historical Tricksters: Pilgrimage as an “Example” of Persuasion’ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 21: 144-161

2014                ‘Pilgrimage as Trope for an Anthropology of Christianity’ Current Anthropology 55 (10): 281-291

2002                ‘Do you Believe in Pilgrimage?: From Communitas to Contestation and Beyond’ Anthropological Theory 2(3): 355-68