Writing
A route through current research and influential earlier work, followed by a chronological selection.
A reading route
Six entry points across companion AI, technological futures, and the anthropology of Christianity.
With Naomi Haynes and Joel Robbins
With Girish Daswani
(co-authored with James Bielo). In Reforming Scriptures: Theories, Transformations, and Experiences, edited by Matthew Bowman, Heather Burrow, Rebekah Call, and James Yuile. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
In special issue “Kinship at the End of Death: Rethinking Relatedness in the Contexts of Technoscientific Immortality,” edited by Annelin Eriksen and Anya Bernstein. Social Analysis 70(2).
In Handbook of Religion and AI, edited by Robert M. Geraci. Edward Elgar Publishing.
In The Oxford Handbook of the Anthropology of Religion, edited by Joel Robbins and Simon Coleman, 611–624. Oxford University Press.
Comparative Studies in Society and History.
(A dialogue with Eloise Meneses). Religion and Society 14: 60-73.
Part of special section (Review Symposium on William Pietz's The Problem of the Fetish). History of European Ideas 50(4): 674-676.
In Paolo Heywood and Matei Candea, eds. Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Part of special section Special Section (‘Trolley Problem’ anthropology: stylized ethical dilemmas and the response of ethnography). Social Analysis 67(3): 109-117.
In Humanity: An Endangered Idea? Clairemont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Conference 2019. Edited by Ingolf U. Dalferth and Raymond E. Perrier. Mohr Siebeck.
In Against Better Judgment: Akrasia in Anthropological Perspective. Edited by Patrick McKearney and Nicholas H.A. Evans. Berghahn Books.
Part of special issue on ‘Rapid Religious Change.’ In The Australian Journal of Anthropology.
Special section on ‘Magic and Technology’ in Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft. 17(2): 190-200.
In The Dynamic Cosmos: Paradox, Movement, and Theoretical Experimentation in the Anthropology of Spirit Possession. Edited by Diana Espirito Santos and Matan Shapiro. Bloomsbury Press, 133-148.
Religions. 11(11):612.
In J. Derrick Lemons, ed., Theologically Engaged Anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 156-188.
Religion and Society: Advances in Research 8: 42-61.
(co-authored with Girish Daswani) Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 5 (1): 271–294. Part of a Special Section “The anthropology of personhood, redux: Views from Christianity,” Jon Bialecki and Girish Daswani, special editors.
Current Anthropology 55(S10): S193-S204.
The Journal of the Anthropology of Consciousness 25(1):32-52.
Anthropological Theory 12(3): 295–319.
(Lead author; co-author Eric Hoenes del Pinal). Anthropological Quarterly 84(3): 575-593. Part of a special issue “Beyond Logos, Extensions of the Language Ideology Paradigm in the Study of Global Christianity(-ies),” E. Hoenes del Pinal and J. Bialecki, special editors.
Anthropological Quarterly 84(3): 679-703. Part of a special issue “Beyond Logos: Extensions of the Language Ideology Paradigm in the Study of Global Christianity(-ies),” E. Hoenes del Pinal and J. Bialecki, special editors.
(Lead author; co-authors Naomi Haynes and Joel Robbins). Religion Compass 2(6): 1139-1158.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 14(2): 372-390.