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Benjamin Kirby
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Assistant Professor researching religious politics, (de)globalisation, infrastructure, urban life, Islam, Dar es Salaam, immersion, ethnography.

https://www.religion.uni-bayreuth.de/en/team/benjamin-kirby/index.php
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Benjamin Kirby @benjaminkirby.bsky.social · Mar 26
Call for Papers: Urban-religious Worldmaking in Africa (16-20 September 2025)—— bit.ly/3FDL2NT

An interdisciplinary Point Sud conference hosted by Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in Stellenbosch, South Africa
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📢 Join us this Thursday, 20 November, for a hybrid roundtable at the University of Bayreuth! Details can be found in the poster.
@unibayreuth.bsky.social @benjaminkirby.bsky.social @terrefebiruk.bsky.social @debele.bsky.social
#UrbanStudies #AfricanCities #Migration #AfricaMultiple #BayreuthEvents
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Join us on Thursday @africamultiple.bsky.social
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@benjaminkirby.bsky.social

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Meeting ID/PW below.
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Religion After Globalization? Infrastructure, Planetarity, and the Fate of the Global

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Religion After Globalization? Infrastructure, Planetarity, and the Fate of the Global
Abstract. Confidence in globalization is unraveling under the combined pressures of geopolitical realignment, infrastructural fragmentation, and ecological
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August 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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It seems interesting -> Volume 54 (2024): Issue 3 (Aug 2024): Special Issue: Multiple Secularities in Africa, edited by Marian Burchardt, Magnus Echtler and Katharina Wilkens: brill.com/view/journal...

#anthropology #sociology #ReligiousStudies #nonreligion #secularism #secular #atheism
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March 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Check out the latest AASR Researcher of the Month, featuring Dr. Jeffrey Haynes. Remember to join AASR in celebrating the Relaunch of the AASR Journal Utambuzi on 19 June 2025. @benjaminkirby.bsky.social @adriaan-vanklinken.bsky.social @aarweb.bsky.social www.a-asr.org/category/new...
Researcher of the Month – The African Association for the Study of ReligionsAccessibility ToolsIncrease TextDecrease TextGrayscaleHigh ContrastNegative ContrastLight BackgroundLinks UnderlineReadable ...
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June 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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The African Association for the Study of Religions (AASR) is delighted to announce the publication of its restyled journal, now renamed as Utambuzi: Journal for the Study of the Religions of Africa and its Diaspora!
Utambuzi: Journal for the Study of the Religions of Africa and its Diaspora
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April 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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#cfp urban-religious worldmaking in Africa
16-20 September 2025
Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa
Deadline: 30 April 2025. For more details click on the link www.a-asr.org/call-for-pap...
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Call for Papers: urban-religious worldmaking in Africa – The African Association for the Study of ReligionsAccessibility ToolsIncrease TextDecrease TextGrayscaleHigh ContrastNegative ContrastLight Bac...
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April 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Very happy to share the good news that our edited volume "Collections as Relations: Contestations of Belonging, Cultural Heritage, and Knowledge Infrastructures" is now #OpenAccess! You can download the book and the chapters here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
March 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Workshop on 'Ordinary Infrastructures' | Dakar, 21-25 Oct 2025 | I am excited to announce this #CfA for a roundtable workshop on #infrastructures in #African #cities, designed primarily but not exclusively for ECRs in #Africa and #Germany | More details here: bit.ly/3XOmAzB | Deadline: 31 Mar 2025
(PDF) Call for Abstracts - Ordinary Infrastructures: African Articulations of Urban Infrastructures beyond the Other
PDF | On Mar 3, 2025, Amadou Dramé and others published Call for Abstracts - Ordinary Infrastructures: African Articulations of Urban Infrastructures beyond the Other | Find, read and cite all the res...
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March 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Call for Papers: Urban-religious Worldmaking in Africa (16-20 September 2025)—— bit.ly/3FDL2NT

An interdisciplinary Point Sud conference hosted by Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in Stellenbosch, South Africa
March 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Come work with a fabulous team (and me)! Open PhD position in "FABRIC: Faith-Based Refugee Relief in Europe: Connecting the Empirical and the Ethical". 4 years, potentially 5, 100 percent research.
Doctoral student in Global Christianity and Interreligious Relations within the project Faith-based Refugee Relief in Europe (FABRIC)
The doctoral programme The doctoral position is connected to the project “Faith-Based Refugee Relief in Europe: Connecting the Empirical and the Ethical (FABRIC)”, funded by a European Research Co
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March 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Hey, for you academics who have access to JSTOR, my book is now available in its entirety over there! Check it out (but also buy a copy if you feel the need) here:

www.jstor.org/stable/jj.22...
Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People's Defence Force, 1964–1979 on JSTOR
The immediate postcolonial moment brought both promise and perilfor the states of Africa and their security. The process ofdecolonization generated instability,...
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January 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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2 postdoctoral researchers in urban anthropology of Africa, based at the University of Helsinki. Deadline to apply: 23.1.2025. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #urbanism #sociology
Two Postdoctoral Researchers in Urban Anthropology of Africa
Two Postdoctoral Researchers in Urban Anthropology of Africa
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December 18, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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Edward Wilson-Lee, The Grammar of Angels harpercollins.co.uk/products/the...
Cover of Edward Wilson-Lee's The Grammar of Angels
January 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Non-traditional destinations can be emerging immigration countries, but also communities that so far have received few immigrants.
🗓️Application deadline (paper): Dec 21
🌍In Oslo 27 February 2025
🥗Meals, no fee
heidiha.bsky.social Heidi Østbø Haugen @heidiha.bsky.social · Dec 3
How do new pathways in international migration give rise to to new perspectives? Join international and Oslo-based migration researchers for a one-day conference 27 Feb 2025. Apply to attend with or without a paper:
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December 3, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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Open Access Alert!!
Religion and AI: An Introduction. Read my new book for free! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
Religion and Artificial Intelligence | An Introduction | Beth Singler
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rarely out of the news or the public imagination. Images of red-eyed Terminators illustrate press accounts of incremental
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December 2, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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Our article 'Becoming Humanist: Worldview Formation and the Emergence of Atheist Britain' was just assigned an issue. Sharing again for anyone who missed it! academic.oup.com/socrel/artic...
Becoming Humanist: Worldview Formation and the Emergence of Atheist Britain
Abstract. It is widely accepted that the growth of “non-religious” identification and “non-belief” in God(s) in many societies is linked to changing religi
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November 22, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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everyone should be following Alexander’s thread of amazing modernist German churches sorry it’s the law
aluckmann.bsky.social Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · Mar 11
Time to bring a twitter series to Bluesky: Given the incredible number of 20th-century churches in Northrhine-Westphalia (the topic of my dissertation), I’m going post one or two every day. None of these images are mine, they're all credited in the alt text, and I'll take any down if asked
November 21, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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Lovely to welcome Kai Kresse from ZMO Berlin to Bayreuth today. He introduced us to an excellent new volume which he co-edited, "Religious Plurality in Africa".
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November 21, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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Suppose I should share publication stuff on Bluesky!

This summer @edwardg-h.bsky.social and I published our edited volume, 'Cult' Rhetoric in the 21st Century, the first book of a new Bloomsbury/Inform series. Find out more and access a short sample here!

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New book on ‘cult’ rhetoric in the 21st century
The Centre for Religion and Public Life is pleased to announce the publication of ‘Cult’ Rhetoric in the 21stCentury: Deconstructing the Study of New Religious Movements
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November 21, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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The Rowan Williams review of the new Peterson book is wonderful for its incredibly understated panning of it:
November 20, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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The suburban frontier: middle class construction in Dar es Salaam

Hybrid book launch, 26th Nov, 18.30

Details here 👇🏻
The rise of Africa's suburban middle classes
6.30pm Tue 26 Nov | Deborah James, Claire Mercer, Susan Parnell, Ola Uduku | Free public event at LSE
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November 19, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social, Supernatural Bodies: Stigmata in Modern Britain and Ireland - @manchesterup.bsky.social, September 2024
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Manchester University Press - Supernatural bodies
Supernatural bodies - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Supernatural bodies by Kristof Smeyers
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November 20, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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The late Gillian Rose, author of Love's Work, recently reissued by Penguin and also available from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, interviewed by RTE's finest ever interviewer, Andy O'Mahony, now aged 90.
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The RTE interview of Gillian Rose
YouTube video by Great Books
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November 20, 2024 at 6:55 AM