Dr. Terry Rey
Department Chair
Associate Professor
613 Anderson Hall
(215) 204-8755
trey@temple.edu

Dr. Rey specializes in the anthropology and history of African and African diasporic religions, having over ten years of field experience in Zaire and Haiti . He is currently finishing two books on Caribbean immigrant religion in Miami , and writing another on the application of Pierre Bourdieu's social theory to the study of religion. After these, he intends to focus his research on the various roles of religion in the Second Congo War (1998-2003) and its aftermath, and on the history and development of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Selected Publications:

Our Lady of Class Struggle: The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Haiti (Trenton and Asmara: Africa World Press, 1999)

Orisha Devotion as World Religion: Globalized Yorùbá Religious Culture ( Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming 2007), co-edited with Jacob K. Olupona

“Habitus et hybridité: une interprétation du syncrétisme dans la religion afro-catholique d'apès Bourdieu.” Social Compass , v. 52, n. 4, 2005, 453-462.

“Marketing the Goods of Salvation: Bourdieu on Religion.” Religion , v. 34, n. 4, 2004, 331-343

“The Politics of Patron Sainthood in Haiti : 500 Years of Iconic Struggle.” The Catholic Historical Review , v. 81, n. 4, 2002, 519-545

“A Consideration of Kongolese Catholic Influences on dominguois/ Haitian Popular Religion.” In Linda Heywood, (ed.), Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the Atlantic Diaspora ( New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001), 265-285

"Junta, Rape, and Religion in Haiti , 1993-1994." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion , v. 15, n. 2, 1999, 73-100