Beyond Broken: Affective Spaces and the Study of American Religion

Journal Article Beyond Broken: Affective Spaces and the Study of American Religion Get access Kevin Lewis O'Neill Kevin Lewis O'Neill * *Kevin Lewis O'Neill, Department for the Study of Religion, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto, Jackman Humanities Building Rm. 301, Toronto, ON, Canada M5R 2M8. E-mail: kevin.oneill@utoronto.ca. This article draws on extended fieldwork in Guatemala City from 2001 to 2013 across a variety of church settings. The names and some details mentioned in this article have been changed to protect the identity of my informants. Fieldwork was supported by the Wenner Gren Foundation (2006–7, 2010–12); the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (2010–12); the Open Society Foundations (2012–13); the Social Science Research Council (2011–13); the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2010–13); and the American Council of Learned Societies (2013–14). Special thanks to Victoria Nguyen, Rebecca Bartel, and Basit Kareem Iqbal for research and editorial assistance as well as to those who read drafts of this article. Great appreciation to my colleagues in the Young Scholars of American Religion Workshop, especially Anne Braude and Mark Valeri. I am also grateful for the conversations enabled by the graduate students who took my Religion, Space and Globalization seminar in the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto in 2010 and 2011. Equal praise goes to those graduate students who took my Religion in North America seminar in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto in 2012 and 2013. Pamela Klassen co-taught this graduate course with me, adding considerable depth to my thoughts about religion in the Americas. Final thanks go to my former professors Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson. Their article "Beyond 'Culture'" (1992) helps to frame my approach to the study of religion and space. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 81, Issue 4, December 2013, Pages 1093–1116, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lft059 Published: 20 October 2013