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Religion and difference in everyday life
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DASA researchers have led and participated in large collaborative research projects that explore religious practices in Africa and its diasporic communities, with a special focus on Muslim-Christian relations, and religion in everyday life.
These projects have utilised innovative and interdisciplinary research methods, including a combination of a large-N ethnographic survey and computer-led corpus linguistics to shed new light of religious pluralism in intimate, domestic and local contexts.
Researchers
Academic staff
- Leslie Fesenmyer: transnational migration, kinship, belonging, and religion (especially Pentecostalism)
- Juliet Gilbert: youth studies, religion, insecure livelihoods, and aspects of popular culture
- Insa Nolte: Yoruba history, culture and politics
Recent selected publications
- 2022. Leslie Fesenmyer. Ambivalent belonging: Born-again Christians between Africa and Europe. Journal of Religion in Africa 52 (1-2): 119-145.
- 2019. Insa Nolte. Introduction: Learning to be Muslim in West Africa. Islamic engagements with diversity and difference. Islamic Africa 10 (1-2): 11-25.
- 2018. Leslie Fesenmyer, Pentecostal pastorhood as calling and career: migration, religion, and masculinity between Kenya and the United Kingdom Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24 (4): 749-746.
- 2018 Insa Nolte, Rebecca Jones, Clyde Ancarno, Inter-religious relations in Yorubaland, Nigeria: corpus methods and anthropological survey data
- 2017. Insa Nolte, Olukoya Ogen, Rebecca Jones, Beyond Religious Tolerance. Muslim, Christian & Traditionalist Encounters in an African Town
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2016. Juliet Gilbert. The Heart as a Compass: Preaching Self-Worth and Success to Single Young Women in a Nigerian Pentecostal Church. Journal of Religion in Africa 45 (3-4): 307-333.