AASR Bulletin 35 - The African Association for the Study of Religions

AASR BULLETIN 35 (NOVEMBER 2011)
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not only interaction at the societal level, but even informal interpersonal relations involving
two persons. Against this background, the paper posits a theory of rhetoric – i.e. ‘an Harambee
Theory’ – which can serve as a model for analysing critical social action and interaction in
Africa.]
Chitando, Ezra, 2010, ‘Sacred Struggles: The World Council of Churches and the HIV Epidemic
in Africa’, in Bompani & Frahm-Arp 2010: 218-238
Cochrane, James R., 2010, ‘Health and the Uses of Religion: Recovering the Political Proper’, in
Bompani & Frahm-Arp 2010: 175-196
Comaroff, Jean, & Eric Morier-Genoud 2011, 'Twenty Years After Of Revelation and Revolution:
An Interview With Jean Comaroff', in Social Sciences and Missions 24, 2-3: 148-170
[Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff's acclaimed Of Revelation and Revolution (Vol. I) has
reached its 20th anniversary. SSM editor Eric Morier-Genoud takes this as an opportunity to
conduct an interview with Jean Comaroff, in which they discuss Jean's intellectual trajectory
and her views of the present. The interview elicits Jean Comaroff's reflections on the origins
and heritage of Revelation and Revolution, and it discusses her and her husband's recent book
about the privatisation of identities and religion.]
Cooper, Barbara M., 2006, Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 480 pp., ISBN: 978-0-253-34739-8 (hbk), $49
[Barbara M. Cooper looks closely at the Sudan Interior Mission, an evangelical Christian
mission that has taken a tenuous hold in a predominantly Hausa Muslim area on the southern
fringe of Niger. The book is based on sustained fieldwork, personal interviews, and archival
research. Cooper’s involvement in a violent religious riot provides a backdrop for introducing
other themes such as Bible translation, medical outreach, public preaching, tensions between
English-speaking and French-speaking missionaries, and the Christian mission’s changing
views of Islam.]
Cooper, Barbara M., 2011, ‘The Implications of Reproductive Politics for Religious Competition
in Niger’, in Englund 2011: 89-108
Cox, Jim, 2010, ‘The Invention of the Christian God in Africa: Geoffrey Parrinder and the Study
of God in African Indigenous Religions’, in Charles Guitard (ed.) 2010, Le monothéisme: diversité,
exclusivisme ou dialogue; Association Européene pour l'étude des religions (EASR)
Congrès de Paris, 11-14 Septembre 2002. [Paris:] Société Ernest Renan: Société française
d’histoire des religions, 315-328
Dangor, Suleman Essop, 2009, ‘Said Nursi’s Approach to Interfaith Dialogue’, in Alternation: Interdisciplinary
Journal for the Study of the Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa 16, 3: 270-
300; full text at:
http://alternation.ukzn.ac.za/docs/Alternation%20Spec%20Ed%203%20Pdfs/14%20Dangor%
5B1%5D.pdf
[This article investigates Said Nursi’s approach to interfaith dialogue. It commences with an
outline of the established trends in dialogue between faiths (exclusivism, inclusivism, pluralism),
and then identifies major factors that contributed to Nursi’s thinking (e.g. his ‘shift’ from
political activism to contemplation). It then explores Nursi’s approach: his rationale for promoting
interfaith dialogue; what he considered as necessary conditions for dialogue; why he
proposed Islamic civilisation as the foundation for such dialogue and, finally, what he perceives
to be the objectives of dialogue.]
Dipio, Dominica, 2007, ‘Religion in Nigerian Home Video Films’, in Westminster Papers in Communication
and Culture 4, 1: 65-82; full text at:
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/20100/WPCC-Vol4-No1-
Dominica_Dipio.pdf
[Religion, in a broad sense, is prevalent in Nigerian home video films. The focus of this paper
is to examine the religious questions that these films address, and whether these representations
facilitate audiences in their search. The paper also explains what accounts for the popularity
of these films.]