Thomas G. Kirsch

552 total citations
30 papers, 252 citations indexed

About

Thomas G. Kirsch is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas G. Kirsch has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 252 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 9 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Thomas G. Kirsch's work include Religion, Society, and Development (11 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 papers) and African history and culture analysis (6 papers). Thomas G. Kirsch is often cited by papers focused on Religion, Society, and Development (11 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 papers) and African history and culture analysis (6 papers). Thomas G. Kirsch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Thomas G. Kirsch's co-authors include Bertram Turner, Roy Dilley, Tilo Grätz, Rijk van Dijk, Tim Weitzel, Clair Webb and Evi Ziegler c o EDV Fotowerk Huber and has published in prestigious journals such as American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist and African Studies Review.

In The Last Decade

Thomas G. Kirsch

24 papers receiving 204 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas G. Kirsch Germany	7	193	93	37	34	22	30	252
Judy Rosenthal United States	3	193 1.0×	183 2.0×	21 0.6×	49 1.4×	28 1.3×	5	310
Abdulkader Tayob South Africa	9	196 1.0×	66 0.7×	73 2.0×	18 0.5×	74 3.4×	46	269
Ruth Marshall Canada	5	361 1.9×	184 2.0×	66 1.8×	73 2.1×	57 2.6×	5	426
Oscar Cole-Arnal Canada	10	179 0.9×	21 0.2×	59 1.6×	115 3.4×	27 1.2×	45	319
André Cortèn Canada	8	256 1.3×	81 0.9×	49 1.3×	66 1.9×	17 0.8×	40	320
Terry Rey United States	8	155 0.8×	52 0.6×	24 0.6×	50 1.5×	25 1.1×	27	233
André Droogers Algeria	10	183 0.9×	67 0.7×	26 0.7×	60 1.8×	21 1.0×	42	266
Marion Maddox Australia	7	201 1.0×	22 0.2×	54 1.5×	20 0.6×	61 2.8×	37	253
Malory Nye United Kingdom	8	129 0.7×	43 0.5×	32 0.9×	9 0.3×	41 1.9×	21	197
João José Reis Brazil	9	128 0.7×	207 2.2×	19 0.5×	28 0.8×	11 0.5×	43	326

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Dijk, Rijk van, et al.. (2021). Family Resemblances in Action. Journal of Religion in Africa. 49(3-4). 233–256. 2 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G.. (2019). Securing Security : Recursive Security Assemblages in South Africa. 122–140. 1 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G.. (2018). Practising Ecumenism Through Boundary Work and Meta-Coding. Journal of Southern African Studies. 44(2). 345–359. 3 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G., et al.. (2017). Introduction: new ethical fields and the implicitness/explicitness of ethics in Africa. Africa. 87(3). 447–461. 3 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G.. (2017). Performing the common good: volunteering and ethics in non-state crime prevention in South Africa. Africa. 87(3). 496–512. 4 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G.. (2016). Permutations of Order. 2 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G.. (2016). On the difficulties of speaking out against security. Anthropology Today. 32(5). 5–7. 3 indexed citations

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Dilley, Roy & Thomas G. Kirsch. (2015). Regimes of ignorance : anthropological perspectives on the production and reproduction of non-knowledge. 25 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G.. (2015). Secrecy and the Epistemophilic Other. 188–208. 4 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G.. (2015). The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa: a church of strangers. Anthropology Southern Africa. 38(3-4). 378–380. 21 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G.. (2014). The Precarious Center: Religious Leadership among African Christians. KOPS (University of Konstanz). 5(1). 1 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G. & Tilo Grätz. (2010). Vigilantism, State Ontologies and Encompassment : an Introductory Essay. 1–25. 6 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G.. (2009). Constitutionally Divine : legal hermeneutics in African Pentecostal Christianity. 165–184. 1 indexed citations

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Turner, Bertram & Thomas G. Kirsch. (2009). Law and religion in permutation of order : an introduction. Max Planck Digital Library. 1–24. 3 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G.. (2007). African Gifts of the Spirit: Pentecostalism and the Rise of a Zimbabwean Transnational Religious Movement. African Studies Review. 50(3). 205. 60 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G.. (2007). An appeal for principled symmetry: Anthropologies in South Africa and elsewhere. Anthropology Southern Africa. 30(3-4). 97–100. 1 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G.. (2005). »Illegal connections« : conflicts over electricity in Soweto, South Africa. 16. 195–210. 5 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G.. (2003). Church, bureaucracy, and the state : bureaucratic formalization in a pentecostal church of Zambia. 128(2). 213–231. 7 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G.. (2002). Performance and the Negotiation of Charismatic Authority in an African Indigenous Church in Zambia. Paideuma. 48. 57–76. 5 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Thomas G.. (1998). Lieder der Macht : religiöse Autorität und Performance in einer afrikanisch-christlichen Kirche Zambias.

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