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Papers by Anja Finger

Sociological Research Online, Aug 31, 2010

Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality, 2011

Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, 2017

This chapter looks at both what New Atheism has to say about gender and how it is itself performi... more This chapter looks at both what New Atheism has to say about gender and how it is itself performing gender. In order to explore these questions, we will first examine what New Atheism has had to say on gender by scrutinising each of the ‘four horsemen’s’ main publications on religion. This is followed by a discussion of Ayyan Hirsi Ali’s public introduction to the circle of four at the 2012 Melbourne Global Atheist Convention and the contribution made by this female face of New Atheism. We then go on to contextualise this by pondering the relationship between gender and atheism in general as well as New Atheism in particular. The ways in which the New Atheist protagonists perform masculinities invite us to reflect on the fact that these are specifically intellectual masculinities. Finally, some elements for an answer to the question of New Atheism’s gender are assembled—along with more questions for future research.

Review of:King, E. Frances (2009 Material Religion and Popular Culture (Routledge Studies in Reli... more Review of:King, E. Frances (2009 Material Religion and Popular Culture (Routledge Studies in Religion). Routledge: London

Sociology, 2007

tantly, sociologists interested in a specific topic-led field, such as age, emotion, music, occup... more tantly, sociologists interested in a specific topic-led field, such as age, emotion, music, occupation or visual methodologies, may find the detailed index and author index helpful in identifying relevant passages scattered throughout the handbook. Expert performers are teachers. The implication of this handbook is that new research in this field will enable refinement in education and training programs, such that all individuals will learn to adopt specifically expert characteristics of performance. Thus, in browsing this text, sociologically-minded readers will be able to inform both their research and professional practice.

Methods of controlling and subjecting actually and potentially dormant bodies can be analysed as ... more Methods of controlling and subjecting actually and potentially dormant bodies can be analysed as sleep disciplines. This study is concerned with the ways in which this type of discipline has worked as ideology by subjecting its addressees, with God, the ever wakeful, as ultimate Subject. Aspects of sleep discipline as ideology are traced in religious discourses, which are reconstructed as a series of wake-up calls. These are systematised here as biblical, anthropological and ascetic calls. They are not mutually exclusive but highlight different facets of Christian sleep discipline. Contemporary discourses on sleep, whether religious or not, still interpellate their sleeping and waking addressees as subjects. This has also been done by material culture. Contemporary fiction has much more to say about dystopian sleep than about alternative hopes for a sleep utopia. Yet, it may be precisely in the sense of negatively preserving the utopian imagination that we can momentarily imagine ourselves beyond what ideological sleep disciplines have done to our and our forebears' bodies.

European Journal of Sociology, 2005

Toward a Reconciled Society, 2007

The subject matter addressed in this chapter is the apparently contradictory views on religion he... more The subject matter addressed in this chapter is the apparently contradictory views on religion held by the early British socialist Robert Owen: condemning all of religion while yet proposing a new religion at the same time. A couple of remarks on Robert Owens' life, also indicating the religious surroundings of his time, are made and the difficulties of putting Owen into one of those neat categories at hand in the Sociology of Religion are named. Lenin's version of the metaphor and its context is presented, to be compared with Marx's, which is then structured according to its units of meaning. Then, the chapter shows how this metaphorical concept can be applied to Owen, including an excursus on the sigh as a crystallization of ambivalence. Finally, it is asked in which ways the Ambivalence of metaphorical opium offers insights concerning the contemporary religious situation.Keywords: Lenin; Marx's opium metaphor; religion; Robert Owen; sociology

Sociological Research Online, Aug 31, 2010

Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality, 2011

Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, 2017

This chapter looks at both what New Atheism has to say about gender and how it is itself performi... more This chapter looks at both what New Atheism has to say about gender and how it is itself performing gender. In order to explore these questions, we will first examine what New Atheism has had to say on gender by scrutinising each of the ‘four horsemen’s’ main publications on religion. This is followed by a discussion of Ayyan Hirsi Ali’s public introduction to the circle of four at the 2012 Melbourne Global Atheist Convention and the contribution made by this female face of New Atheism. We then go on to contextualise this by pondering the relationship between gender and atheism in general as well as New Atheism in particular. The ways in which the New Atheist protagonists perform masculinities invite us to reflect on the fact that these are specifically intellectual masculinities. Finally, some elements for an answer to the question of New Atheism’s gender are assembled—along with more questions for future research.

Review of:King, E. Frances (2009 Material Religion and Popular Culture (Routledge Studies in Reli... more Review of:King, E. Frances (2009 Material Religion and Popular Culture (Routledge Studies in Religion). Routledge: London

Sociology, 2007

tantly, sociologists interested in a specific topic-led field, such as age, emotion, music, occup... more tantly, sociologists interested in a specific topic-led field, such as age, emotion, music, occupation or visual methodologies, may find the detailed index and author index helpful in identifying relevant passages scattered throughout the handbook. Expert performers are teachers. The implication of this handbook is that new research in this field will enable refinement in education and training programs, such that all individuals will learn to adopt specifically expert characteristics of performance. Thus, in browsing this text, sociologically-minded readers will be able to inform both their research and professional practice.

Methods of controlling and subjecting actually and potentially dormant bodies can be analysed as ... more Methods of controlling and subjecting actually and potentially dormant bodies can be analysed as sleep disciplines. This study is concerned with the ways in which this type of discipline has worked as ideology by subjecting its addressees, with God, the ever wakeful, as ultimate Subject. Aspects of sleep discipline as ideology are traced in religious discourses, which are reconstructed as a series of wake-up calls. These are systematised here as biblical, anthropological and ascetic calls. They are not mutually exclusive but highlight different facets of Christian sleep discipline. Contemporary discourses on sleep, whether religious or not, still interpellate their sleeping and waking addressees as subjects. This has also been done by material culture. Contemporary fiction has much more to say about dystopian sleep than about alternative hopes for a sleep utopia. Yet, it may be precisely in the sense of negatively preserving the utopian imagination that we can momentarily imagine ourselves beyond what ideological sleep disciplines have done to our and our forebears' bodies.

European Journal of Sociology, 2005

Toward a Reconciled Society, 2007

The subject matter addressed in this chapter is the apparently contradictory views on religion he... more The subject matter addressed in this chapter is the apparently contradictory views on religion held by the early British socialist Robert Owen: condemning all of religion while yet proposing a new religion at the same time. A couple of remarks on Robert Owens' life, also indicating the religious surroundings of his time, are made and the difficulties of putting Owen into one of those neat categories at hand in the Sociology of Religion are named. Lenin's version of the metaphor and its context is presented, to be compared with Marx's, which is then structured according to its units of meaning. Then, the chapter shows how this metaphorical concept can be applied to Owen, including an excursus on the sigh as a crystallization of ambivalence. Finally, it is asked in which ways the Ambivalence of metaphorical opium offers insights concerning the contemporary religious situation.Keywords: Lenin; Marx's opium metaphor; religion; Robert Owen; sociology