Affordances and Audiences

Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes

“…Many authors, including myself, have indeed placed the rise and attraction of urban Pentecostalism in the context of the emerging middle classes, changing lifestyles, and changing aspirations and appetites, including increasing orientations toward consumerism (see, e.g., van Dijk 2010van Dijk , 2015bD. Freeman 2012;Haynes 2012Haynes , 2014. In this sense, Pentecostalism as a religious discourse and practice can be interpreted as embracing and coproducing sophistication in its socioeconomic understanding by pointing to how this faith encourages middle-class and elite styles, professes prosperity, proclaims God's abundance and (material) success for the confirmed believer, and creates notions of distinction in these particular ways as well, much as these distinctions include and espouse inequalities (the point of the Pentecostal embrace of inequality is well developed by Haynes [2012Haynes [ , 2014).…”

“…Freeman 2012;Haynes 2012Haynes , 2014. In this sense, Pentecostalism as a religious discourse and practice can be interpreted as embracing and coproducing sophistication in its socioeconomic understanding by pointing to how this faith encourages middle-class and elite styles, professes prosperity, proclaims God's abundance and (material) success for the confirmed believer, and creates notions of distinction in these particular ways as well, much as these distinctions include and espouse inequalities (the point of the Pentecostal embrace of inequality is well developed by Haynes [2012Haynes [ , 2014). Yet this is not the sole modality of sophistication the faith appears to foster; in the following sections I will draw attention to the manner in which Pentecostalism appears to foster a form of religiously inspired sophistication in which the inclusion and propagation of certain forms of knowledge, understanding, skills, and competences become part of the distinctiveness of the faith as a whole.…”

Community: In Christianity

“…So, for example, a woman who is trying to conceive will tell her friends that she will have a baby within the year. (p. 360) Haynes (2014) gives an example:…”

Affordances of Rupture and their Enactment: A Framework for Understanding Christian Change

“…In developing such a comparative framework, I will first draw on the concept of 'affordance', initially developed by the psychologist James Gibson, and more recently utilised in anthropology by Webb Keane (2013;2014a;2014b) and Naomi Haynes (2014). In brief, an affordance refers to 'the properties of something in light of what those properties offer to someone who perceives them' (Gibson 1977;quoted in Keane 2014a: S315).…”