Rijk A. van Dijk (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)

Submitted:  Tues, April 26, 2011


Dr. Rijk A. van Dijk
Afrika-Studiecentrum
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB
Leiden
The Netherlands

phone:   +31-71-5276607
fax:     +31-71-5273344
e-mail:  dijkr@ascleiden.nl


Afrika-Studiecentrum Web site: http://www.ascleiden.nl


Mr. Rijk van Dijk, an anthropologist, works as a researcher on the growth 
of Pentecostalism in Ghana and its relationship with the Ghanaian diaspora 
to the Netherlands. This project follows on previous extensive research on 
the spread of Pentecostalism in Malawi. Van Dijk is an expert on African 
Pentecostalism and has published extensively on the subject. His current 
research focuses on the relationship between Pentecostalism and migration 
from and within Africa. By studying transnational dimensions of Ghanaian 
Pentecostalism and its connection with the migration of Ghanaians to the 
Netherlands (The Hague) and to Botswana (Gaborone), issues of 
multiculturalism, xenophobia and social capital are addressed.

 
Publications -- Selected Books and Articles:

Edited with M.E. de Bruijn and J.B. Gewald 
Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of 
agency in Africa. Leiden: Brill, African dynamics ; vol. 6, 2007.

Edited with Ria Reis & Marja Spierenburg
The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma. The Political Aspects of Healing 
in Southern Africa. Oxford: James Currey, 2000.

"Secret Worlds, Democratization and Election Observation in Malawi." 
In: Jon Abbink and Gerti Hesseling (eds.) Election Observation and 
Democratization in Africa, pp 180-210, Hampshire: MacMillan Press 
Ltd., 2000.

"The Pentecostal gift: Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence
of the global economy." In: R. Fardon et al. (eds.) Modernity on a
Shoestring. Dimensions of Globalization, Consumption and Development in
Africa and Beyond, pp 71-90, London; Leiden: EIDOS, ASC, CAS, 1999.

"From Camp to Encompassment: Discourses of Transsubjectivity in the Ghanaian
Pentecostal Diaspora," Journal of Religion in Africa, 1997.