Benjamin Kirby

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

Religion After Globalization? Infrastructure, Planetarity, and the Fate of the Global

Benjamin Kirby
@benjaminkirby.bsky.social

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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

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...

Utambuzi: Journal for the Study of the Religions of Africa and its Diaspora

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!

#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...
@benjaminkirby.bsky.social @aarweb.bsky.social @jsas-journal.bsky.social

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...

(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...

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

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

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

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.

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,...

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...

Two Postdoctoral Researchers in Urban Anthropology of Africa Two Postdoctoral Researchers in Urban Anthropology of Africa

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

Cover of Edward Wilson-Lee's The Grammar of Angels

Edward Wilson-Lee, The Grammar of Angels harpercollins.co.uk/products/the...

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

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

Open Access Alert!!
Religion and AI: An Introduction. Read my new book for free! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

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

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...

everyone should be following Alexander’s thread of amazing modernist German churches sorry it’s the law

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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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

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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The Rowan Williams review of the new Peterson book is wonderful for its incredibly understated panning of it:

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

The suburban frontier: middle class construction in Dar es Salaam

Hybrid book launch, 26th Nov, 18.30

Details here 👇🏻

Manchester University Press - Supernatural bodies Supernatural bodies - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Supernatural bodies by Kristof Smeyers

@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social, Supernatural Bodies: Stigmata in Modern Britain and Ireland - @manchesterup.bsky.social, September 2024
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177230/

YouTube video by Great Books The RTE interview of Gillian Rose

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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