MIASA Working Papers
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Item Religious Diversity through the Life Trajectories of Northern Migrants in Madina, Accra(Merian Institute for Advances Studies in Africa (MIASA), 2023) Zaami, M.In this paper, I explore the interrelatedness of individual migration and religious conversion stories, both temporal and permanent. Through two contrastive case studies, I analyze the role of migration in religious diversity among Christians, Muslims, and practitioners of African Religious Traditions in Accra’s urban settings. I illustrate how the life trajectories of Aisha and Solomon provide some critical and insightful perspectives on how migration and urban settings intersect in shaping individual social actors’ lived religious experiences in a multi-religious field and help them navigate between different familial and societal demands, as well as how individuals’ upbringings can impact religious diversity.Item Religious Diversity in Sharia-Compliant Cities in Northern Nigeria(Merian Institute for Advances Studies in Africa (MIASA), 2023) Ibrahim, M.This paper examines religious diversity through everyday life experiences of various religious or not-so religious groups and how they negotiate cultural and theological differences in the context of the sharia implementation in urban northern Nigeria. More specifically, it analyses how the sharia (implementation of Islamic law) reconfigures inter-faith relations, especially between Muslim and Christian minorities. Initially in tended to reinforce strict conservative practices in urban centres, the reform has equally facilitated religious pluralism and hybrid practices such as the invention of Jesus Mawlid, which is observed by both Muslims and Christians as well as the blending of religion with previously considered irreligious urban cultures.Item Conceptual Reflections on Approaches to Religious Diversity and Modes of Coexistence in Urban West Africa*(Merian Institute for Advances Studies in Africa (MIASA), 2023) Ibrahim, M.; Sieveking, N.This article introduces the research of MIASA’s IFG 7 project titled “Religious Diversity in Urban West Africa: Exploring Modes of Coexistence for Sustainable Governance”. It conceptualises the methodological approach of the group by identifying three main thematic axes that emerged from the overlapping individual approaches to the study of religious diversity in urban centres, namely 1) migration, mobilities, entrepreneurship, and trans-nationalism; (2) territoriality, power, and configurations of religious minorities and majorities; and (3) urban infrastructure(s).