The cityscape of Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, is dominated by two houses of worship known as the National Mosque…
Faith in the nation: Nigerian publics and their religions
African traditional religion
Traditional, African, religious, freedom?
I have been observing and analyzing religious trends in various parts of sub-Saharan Africa for several decades, with a particular…
Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa
In his new publication, Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa, David Chidester explores South African indigenous religious heritage…
Colonialism’s religious domain
Recently I am struck by the ambiguity of the concept of the religious. Reading Linda Heuman’s review of Robert Bellah’s…
Freeing religion at the birth of South Sudan
If you had the opportunity to start from scratch, without the burden of a permanent constitution or an entrenched legal…