1st Edition
Religious Infrastructure
Introduction: Religious infrastructure: establishing a research agenda
Yanti Hölzchen and Benjamin Kirby
1. Religious infrastructure: designations, transformations, entanglements
Benjamin Kirby
2. Islam in the digital infrastructure: the rise of Islamic cyber practices in Northern Nigeria
Murtala Ibrahim
3. Chaotic charisma: religious noise, crowds, and infrastructural disruption in Dar es Salaam’s Sinza ward
Nelly John Babere, Aneth John Massawe and Matteo (Teo) Benussi
4. Religious infrastructuring in Ghana: the aesthetics and politics of infrastructural augmentation in Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity and the Indigenous Religious Tradition
Genevieve Nrenzah
5. Have you visited our monasteries? Serbian monastic heritage as religious infrastructure
Nicholas Lackenby
6. ‘Together we are strong!’ Infrastructures of community, safety and power on a Christian Mission Compound
Sophia Margarethe Schäfer
7. Hidden schemes and suspicious constructions. Inversive moments of occult infrastructures in Madagascar
Patrick Desplat
Afterword: religious infrastructure, or doing religion in the contemporary mode
Matteo (Teo) Benussi
Biography
Benjamin Kirby is Junior Professor of the Study of Religion with a focus on Global Entanglements at the University of Bayreuth. His research examines religious politics, urban transformation, and infrastructure from the vantage point of Dar es Salaam and other cities at the interface of Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Matteo (Teo) Benussi is an anthropologist specialising in religion, ethics, and power. Currently an assistant professor (RTDb) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, his current research interests include piety and the politics of Islamic virtue, political ontologies and theologies, and the ethics of war volunteering in postsocialist Eurasia.
Yanti Hölzchen is an anthropologist whose work spans north-eastern Kyrgyzstan and Ethiopia, focusing on religious knowledge, institutions and networks, and on burial and pilgrimage practices in interreligious settings. She is currently based at the College of Fellows, University of Tübingen.
