CfP for the Workshop
"Christian and Muslim Development Organizations in Urban Africa: New
Challenges for Researchers and Practitioners"
To be held at the Cape Town Lodge Hotel in Cape Town, 8 November 2018
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: October 5, 2018
Theme:
Conventional assumptions hold that secularization and development -
understood as modernization and progress - lead to a decline in
religion, or at least its relegation to the realm of private life.
However, in the early 21st century a new political and scholarly concern
with the ways in which religious organizations have come to (re)occupy
the public sphere has emerged. This workshop explores how the growing
presence of religious actors in various domains of collective life might
be (re)shaping societal and political concerns with notions of
'modernization', 'development', and 'progress' in novel ways.
We call for papers which look at the ways in which Christian and Muslim
organizations have become involved in development activities, and how
the challenges arising from this involvement can be analyzed in a
comparative perspective in African urban settings. Paper proposals are
invited to investigate the various roles that faith-based organizations
(FBOs) from diverse Christian and Muslim backgrounds play for the
provision of social services in contemporary urban Africa, especially in
the areas of health care, gender-related issues, and education. The
workshop will also provide opportunities to discuss perspectives for
future collaboration between FBO practitioners and researchers, and the
various expectations they have in relation to each other's work.
_Organized by:_
* Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town & the
project "Religious Reform, Faith-Based Development and the Public Sphere
in Sub-Saharan Africa (Lagos, Dar es Salaam and Cape Town)", a research
collaboration between Freie Universität Berlin, University of Cape Town,
University of Dar es Salaam, and the School of Oriental and African
Studies (SOAS), University of London.
* Project website:
http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/ethnologie/forschung/arbeitsstellen/fbo_africa/index.html
* Twitter: @FBO_Africa
Please submit your abstract of no more than 200 words to the following
email address: [log in to unmask]
The deadline for the submission of abstracts has been extended to
OCTOBER 5, 2018.
If you wish to attend the workshop without presentation, please register
under the same email address by OCTOBER 20, 2018.
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Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Freie Universität Berlin
Landoltweg 9-11
14195 Berlin
Twitter: @H_DILGER [1]
Tel.: +49-(0)30-83856505, Durchwahl: -56872
Fax: +49-(0)30-83852382
email: [log in to unmask]
Links:
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[1] https://twitter.com/h_dilger
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