The vast prayer camps challenge stereotypes of Nigerian cities as chaotic, dysfunctional, and driven by religious tension.
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To secure health and wealth, many people combine elements from different religious traditions. One such movement is Chrislam.
Buddhist meditation and Pentecostal speaking in tongues could hardly look more different. But not to the brain.
In most churches, religious life forms around friendships, love, emotional support and social events.
Men and women who took part in an interfaith programme experienced a remarkably lower incidence of violence, even years later.
‘Prophetpreneurship’ is a strategic blend of prophecy, charisma and business.
Gold was the first attraction, but late in the 1500s the Portuguese became obsessed with the idea that there were silver mines in Africa.
Nigeria’s Christian population grew by 25% to 93 million from 2010 to 2020. Today’s novels reflect its social complexity.
South Africans report greater inner peace, hope, forgiveness, and engagement with faith than the global norm.
African artists are not only present on the global stage but are shaping the languages of art itself.
In the Lamu Archipelago, the mention of maulidi elicits a sense of happiness.
From demon-possessed killers to charismatic cultists, it can sometimes seem as though South Africa is at war with evil itself.
What would Jesus do? Chatbots generated by artificial intelligence bring a new kind of challenge to religion.
Gunned down on Saturday morning, the man dubbed the world’s first openly gay Imam was as loved as he was controversial. A friend and scholar reflects.
Women’s emotions are celebrated when it comes to the spiritual battlefield – but these expressions aren’t welcomed in leadership.
It isn’t easy to leave a gang, but some people do. Patrick and Emersons are two examples and both used the church to help guide them – and help them perform a new role on the streets.
He had enormous charisma and love for South Africa - he also had enormous wealth and made some questionable political choices.
Christianity is evolving. Mainstream churches like the Methodists and the Catholics are losing ground to indigenous and pentecostal groups.
Over the past 15 years there’s been a revival of young people - mostly Christians - participating in traditional masquerades, despite these being branded as pagan.
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Professor of West African Anthropology, SOAS, University of London
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Emeritus Professor in History, King's College London
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Professor of Public Theology in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Theology, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University of Amsterdam), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Lecturer, University of Nigeria
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Senior Research Associate, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Honorary research affiliate, Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Islam and Head of Department, University College Cork
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Research Assistant, Media and Communication, Nelson Mandela University
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Senior Lecturer and head of the Department of Media and Communication, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Management, Western Washington University
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Professor of Religion and African Studies, University of Leeds
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Department of Kiswahili, University of Nairobi
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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Lecturer, School of Theology, Pan Africa Christian University