Dr. Iliyana Angelova
Dr. Iliyana Angelova
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (PostDoc)
Raum: SpT C6160
E-Mail: angelovaprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de
| Seit 04/2021 | Post-Doc, Universität Bremen Projekt “Surviving the mega-city: the experiences of minority Christian migrants in New Delhi, India” |
| 09/2018 - 03/2021 | Dozentin für Religionswissenschaft Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford |
| 10/2017 - 08/2018 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Irish Research Council Department of Anthropology, Maynooth University |
| 06/2017 - 09/2017 | Post-Doc, Excellenz Initiative Abteilung für Ethnologie, Universität Tübingen |
| 04/2016 - 03/2017 | Teach@Tübingen Postdoctoral Fellow, Excellenz Initiative Abteilung für Ethnologie, Universität Tübingen |
| 04/2016 | DPhil Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford Dissertation: “Baptist Christianity and the politics of identity among the Sumi Naga of Nagaland, Northeast India” Vollstipendium: School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Okita Bursary: Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies |
| 09/2009 | MSc Social Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford Masterarbeit: Perceptions of the divine and expressions of religious belief among some Naga groups Vollstipendium: Weidenfeld Leadership and Scholarship Programme |
| 10/2005 - 09/2008 | Dozentin für Hindi Indology Department, St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University (Bulgarien) |
| 02/2006 - 09/2007 | Dozentin für Englisch Faculty of Primary and Pre-school Pedagogy, St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University (Bulgaria) |
| 10/2007 | Eastern European Scholar Visiting Research Fellowship St John’s College (Oxford) and the Open Society Institute (Sofia) |
| 07/2005 | MA Indology (profile: Cultural and Social Studies of India) Indology Department, St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University (Bulgarien) Masterarbeit: Aspects of Christianity in the State of Nagaland, Northeast India |
| 2002 – 2003 | Diplom in Literature and Applied Hindi Linguistics Central Institute of Hindi, Agra (Indien) Vollstipendium: Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) |
| 1998 – 2002 | BA Indologie (Hauptfach), BA Englische Sprache und Literatur (Nebenfach) Indology Department, Department of English and American Studies, St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University (Bulgarien) |
Buchkapitel:
- (2021) Baptist Christianity as a form of indigenous religious expression among the Sumi Naga of Northeast India, in Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Religions of the Indigenous Peoples of South Asia. Brill.
- (2020) Identity change and the construction of difference: colonial and post-colonial conversions among the Sumi Naga of Nagaland, Northeast India, in Peter Berger and Sarbeswar Sahoo (eds.) Godroads: modalities on conversion in India. Cambridge University Press.
- (2017) Colonial rule, Christianity and socio-cultural (dis)continuities among the Sumi Naga, in Jelle Wouters and Michael Heneise (eds.) Nagas in the 21st century. The Highlander Books (reprint of journal article).
- (2015) ‘Something like wind, unusual thing came’: the Great Evangelical Revivals of the 1950s and 1970s in the memories of some Sumi Naga, in Michael Heneise (ed.) Passing things on: ancestors and genealogies in Northeast India. Heritage Publishing House.
Zeitschriftenartikel:
- (2017) Colonial rule, Christianity and socio-cultural (dis)continuities among the Sumi Naga. The South Asianist, Special Issue on ‘The Nagas in the 21st century’,5 (1): 20-45.
- (2015) Building a ‘home’ away from home: the experiences of young Naga migrants in Delhi. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 7 (2): 153-167.
- (2015) Tribal communities’ adjustment to modernity: a comparative study of post-Independence tribal responses to social change in India. Manas: Electronic Journal of the Centre for Eastern Languages and Cultures, St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, vol. 2.
In Vorbereitung
- ‘God’s chosen people’: Baptist Christianity and the politics of identity in the Indo-Burma borderlands (book manuscript).
- ‘Catch them young’: church strategies for socializing children and adolescents into Baptist Christian life in Nagaland, Northeast India (journal article).
- ‘Shout to the Lord’: Christian music and the mediation of religious experience in Naga Baptist churches (journal article).
Forschungsinteressen: Religionsanthropologie, Anthropholgie des Christentums (besonders Christentum in Süd- und Südostasien), Religion und Identität, Religion und Politik, Religion und Kulturerbe, religiöser Nationalismus, diasporische Religion, urbane Religion
Ethnographischer Schwerpunkt: Naga (Northeast India)
Seit 2020 – Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute
Seit 2015 – Mitglied, British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR)
Seit 2015 – Mitglied, European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR)
Seit 2014 – Mitglied, European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Anthropology of Religion Network
Dissertation:
‘Baptist Christianity and the politics of identity among the Sumi Naga of Nagaland, Northeast India’, Oxford 2016
Laufendes Forschungsprojekt:
“Surviving the mega-city: the experiences of minority Christian migrants in New Delhi, India”