Religion and difference in everyday life

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

Projects