Arguably the most profound change taking place in Africa is neither political nor economic but socioreligious. In the last three decades following the liberalisation and deregulation of the media market, media have lent themselves to a new regime of religious identity never before witnessed. The real "Africa Rising" narrative is not how or about Africa …
Religious Studies and Jewish Studies Professor Steven Weitzman (UPenn) will speak on Monday, January 27th at 5:30 pm in the Judaica Library about The FBI, Jews, and Muslims: A History of Suspicion. This event is sponsored by the Shorstein Endowment for American Jewish Culture and the Center for Global Islamic Studies.
Abstract: The talk is about how Sunni ulama initially put aside their theological differences to start a sharia censorship project against the emerging local Muslim cinema in northern Nigeria, and how they subsequently imported their ideological contestations into it. The objective is not only to show how the actors differently respond to, adapt, and contest …
ABSTRACT Over the last couple of decades, the religious map of northern Europe has been redrawn. In Scandinavia, people previously formed by Lutheran state-church systems have today become among the most secular in the world. At the same time, immigration has pushed these countries in an opposite direction, making them multi-religious in an unprecedented way. …
The 2011 revolution unleashed passionate public concern about how to create a “New Egypt.” Islamic channels were important sites of these debates as rival television preachers gave media form to their competing visions of what a virtuous life entails and what an ethical polity looks like. Based on fieldwork in Cairo with the “New Preachers” …
