When: Monday 20 January, 5-7.15pm

Where: Virtual & In-person – B103, first floor Brunei Gallery, SOAS University of London

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SOAS Centre for African Studies and Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO, Berlin) are pleased to present a joint book launch, discussing the recent publication of two books by James Currey: Histories of Religious Thought and Practice in Africa: Thematic Perspectives by Louis Brenner, and Religious Plurality in Africa: Coexistence, Conviviality, Conflict, co-edited by Marloes Janson, Kai Kresse, Benedikt Pontzen, and Hassan Mwakimako.

Both books are studies of religious plurality, analysing the internal dynamics of, and interaction among, Christian, Muslim and endogenous religious traditions in Africa. The books speak to each other in their adoption of similar conceptual and analytical frameworks that focus on the lived experience of religious practitioners in Africa, and in how these frameworks are applied in detailed case studies from different regions of the continent.

The launch will include a brief introduction of each book by the authors and co-editors (Louis Brenner, Marloes Janson, Kai Kresse, and Benedikt Pontzen) and discussants (John Parker and Birgit Meyer), a discussion about how the books relate to one another, and questions from those in attendance, concluding with an informal reception.