Dr Johan Rasanayagam

Dr Johan Rasanayagam
Dr Johan Rasanayagam
Dr Johan Rasanayagam

Senior Lecturer

About
Email Address
johan.rasanayagam@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272191
Office Address

Room G18 Edward Wright Building University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 3QY

School/Department
School of Social Science

Biography

Johan Rasanayagam joined the department in 2005. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Uzbekistan, Central Asia on themes of Islam, citizenship, and moral selfhood. More recently, he has conducted research on Islam, illness and healing in Morocco. His current research focuses on developing an engagement between anthropology and Islamic traditions of thought. 

Latest Publications

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Research

Research Overview

Uzbekistan and Central Asia, postsocialist societies, Morocco, the anthropology of Islam, morality and subjectivity, healing practices and spirit possession, religion and the secular, politics and the state, post-secular anthropology.

Teaching

Programmes

Teaching Responsibilities

AT1502 Introduction to Anthropology: Questions of Diversity

AT3027 Anthropological Theory

AT3534 Religion, Power and Belief