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Book/Monograph

Bourdieu in Africa : Exploring the Dynamics of Religious Fields
publ: Echtler, Magnus; Ukah, Asonzeh
Leiden : Brill, 2016. - XII, 274 pp. . - (Studies of Religion in Africa; 44)
doi:10.1163/9789004307568 ...

Alternative Voices : A Plurality Approach for Religious Studies
publ: Adogame, Afe; Echtler, Magnus; Freiberger, Oliver
Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. - 347 pp. . - (Critical Studies in Religion : Religionswissenschaft; 4)
doi:10.13109/9783666540172 ...

Adogame, Afe; Echtler, Magnus; Vierke, Ulf
Unpacking the New : Critical Perspectives on Cultural Syncretization in Africa and Beyond
Münster : LIT, 2008. - 373 pp. . - (Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; 36)

Complete issue of a journal

Special Issue: Afrotopia
publ: Daniel, Antje; Echtler, Magnus; Kalfelis, Melina C.
Utopian Studies vol. 36 (2025) issue 2
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/uto ...

Article in a journal (peer-reviewed)

Daniel, Antje; Echtler, Magnus; Kalfelis, Melina C.
Reconsidering Afrotopia: An Introduction
in Utopian Studies vol. 36 (2025) issue 2. - pp. 365-379
doi:10.5325/utopianstudies.36.2.0365 ...

Echtler, Magnus
Call of the mountain : modern enchantment on and off the screen
in Culture and Religion vol. 21 (2020) issue 1. - pp. 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 vol. 66 (2020) . - pp. 49-74

Echtler, Magnus
Rituale und Kognition : Zum Nutzen des kognitiven Erklärungsmodells von Harvey Whitehouse ...
in Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft vol. 22 (2014) issue 1. - pp. 66-97
doi:10.1515/zfr-2014-0004 ...

Article in a book (peer-reviewed)

Echtler, Magnus
Redeeming Zululand : Emplacing cultural resonances in the Nazareth Baptist Church, South A ...
In: Clart, Philip ; Jones, Adam (ed.): Transnational religious spaces : religious organizations and interactions in Africa, East Asia, and beyond - Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020. - pp. 84-106 . - (Dialectics of the Global; 8)

Echtler, Magnus
Shembe, the Black Messiah : A postcolonial intervention
In: Konz, Britta ; Ortmann, Bernhard ; Wetz, Christian (ed.): Postkolonialismus, Theologie und die Konstruktion des Anderen : Erkundungen in einem Grenzgebiet = Postcolonialism, theology and the construction of the other : exploring borderlands - Leiden: Brill, 2020. - pp. 133-169 . - (Studies in Theology and Religion; 26)
doi:10.1163/9789004417434 ...

Echtler, Magnus; Ukah, Asonzeh
Introduction : Exploring the dynamics of religious fields in Africa
In: Echtler, Magnus ; Ukah, Asonzeh (ed.): Bourdieu in Africa : Exploring the Dynamics of Religious Fields - Leiden: Brill, 2016. - pp. 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 dis ...
In: Echtler, Magnus ; Ukah, Asonzeh (ed.): Bourdieu in Africa : Exploring the Dynamics of Religious Fields - Leiden: Brill, 2016. - pp. 236-266 . - (Studies of Religion in Africa; 44)
doi:10.1163/9789004307568_011 ...

Echtler, Magnus
Scottish Warriors in KwaZulu-Natal : Cultural Hermeneutics of the Scottish Dance (Isikoshi ...
In: Adogame, Afe ; Lawrence, Andrew (ed.): Africa in Scotland, Scotland in Africa : Historical Legacies and Contemporary Hybridities - Leiden: Brill, 2014. - pp. 326-348 . - (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies; 14)
doi:10.1163/9789004276901_017 ...

Echtler, Magnus
"The clitoris is indeed your sweet" : Negotiating gender roles in the ritual setting of th ...
In: Hüsken, Ute ; Neubert, Frank (ed.): Negotiating Rites - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. - pp. 59-80 . - (Oxford Ritual Studies)

Article in a book (not peer-reviewed)

Echtler, Magnus
Pissing the sacred : Schlingensief's African Opera Village as a fundraising heterotopia
In: Lehmann, Fabian ; Siegert, Nadine ; Vierke, Ulf (ed.): Art of Wagnis : Christoph Schlingensief's Crossing of Wagner and Africa - Wien: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2017. - pp. 134-150

Adogame, Afe; Echtler, Magnus; Freiberger, Oliver
Introduction
In: Adogame, Afe ; Echtler, Magnus ; Freiberger, Oliver (ed.): Alternative Voices : A Plurality Approach for Religious Studies - Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. - pp. 9-18 . - (Critical Studies in Religion : Religionswissenschaft; 4)
doi:10.13109/9783666540172.9 ...

Echtler, Magnus
A real mass worship they will never forget : Rituals and cognition in the Nazareth Baptist ...
In: Chaniōtēs, Angelos ; Weinhold, Jan ; Samuel, Geoffrey (ed.): Body, Performance, Agency, and Experience - Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010. - pp. 371-397 . - (Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual; 2)

Echtler, Magnus; Ukah, Asonzeh Franklin-Kennedy
Born-again witches and videos in Nigeria
In: Westerlund, David (ed.): Global Pentecostalism : encounters with other religious traditions - London: Tauris Verlag, 2009. - pp. 73-92 . - (Studies on Inter-religious Relations; 45) (Library of modern religion ; 5)

Adogame, Afe; Echtler, Magnus; Vierke, Ulf
Introduction
In: Adogame, Afe ; Echtler, Magnus ; Vierke, Ulf (ed.): Unpacking the New : Critical Perspectives on Cultural Syncretization in Africa and Beyond - Münster: LIT, 2008. - pp. 1-23 . - (Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; 36)

Echtler, Magnus
The recent changes of the New Year's festival in Makunduchi, Zanzibar : a reinterpretation
In: Loimeier, Roman ; Seesemann, Rüdiger (ed.): The Global Worlds of the Swahili : Interfaces of Islam, Identity and Space in 19th and 20th-Century East Africa - Hamburg: LIT-Verlag, 2006. - pp. 131-160 . - (Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; 26)

Echtler, Magnus
They bewitched the generator : State power and religious authority at the New Year's festi ...
In: Ahlbäck, Tore (ed.): Exercising Power : The Role of Religions in Concord and Conflict - Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell, 2006. - pp. 51-68 . - (Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis; 19)

Master's, Magister, Diploma, or Admission thesis

Echtler, Magnus
Die Wittfogel-Hypothese und das Problem der politischen Organisation im alten Hawaii
Bayreuth, 1999. - 134 pp.
((magister) thesis, , Universität Bayreuth, Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät)

Review

Echtler, Magnus
Ballard, Martin: White Men's God : The Extraordinary Story of Missionaries in Africa. Oxfo ...
Numen
2011

Doctoral thesis

Echtler, Magnus
Changing rituals : The New Year's festival in Makunduchi, Zanzibar, since colonial times
2008
(thesis, , Universität Bayreuth)