Conference "Spirit and Sentiment: Affective Trajectories of Religious Being in Urban Africa"
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International Conference of the Research Network on Religion, AIDS and Social
Transformation in Africa (RASTA)
Date: 28-30 May 2015
Venue: Freie Universität Berlin
With keynote speeches by:
· Prof. Dr. Filip de Boeck, University of Leuven
· Prof. Dr. AbdouMaliq Simone, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Organizing Team:
· Hansjörg Dilger (Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology)
· Astrid Bochow (Georg-August University Göttingen, Institute for Cultural and Social
Anthropology)
· Marian Burchardt (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious
Diversity, Göttingen)
· Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon (African Center for Migration and Society, Wits University)
The conference will be co-sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation Program
“Knowledge for Tomorrow – Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Dr. Marian Burchardt
Editor-in-Chief of Diversities
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Hermann-Föge-Weg 11
37073 Göttingen
Fon: +49 (551) 4956-113
NEW BOOK: Topographies of Faith. Religion in Urban Spaces, edited by Irene Becci, Marian Burchardt & José Casanova.