Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa

This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival of cultural and religious identities across the African continent, stretching from post-apartheid South Africa to Islamist groups in parts of West Africa. In the early twenty-first century, Africa appears to be witnessing a historical moment characterized by a resurgence of a politics of difference that, regardless of the heterogeneous forms in which it materializes, shares an uncanny ability to produce and sustain identities based on a politics of difference

Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa

This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival of cultural and religious identities across the African continent, stretching from post-apartheid South Africa to Islamist groups in parts of West Africa. In the early twenty-first century, Africa appears to be witnessing a historical moment characterized by a resurgence of a politics of difference that, regardless of the heterogeneous forms in which it materializes, shares an uncanny ability to produce and sustain identities based on a politics of difference

Religião e Mídia: notas sobre pesquisas e direções futuras para um estudo interdisciplinar

Este artigo apresenta uma visão geral da temática de “religião e mídia”, um campo interdisciplinar de investigação e de pesquisa que reúne estudiosos em antropologia, comunicação, história da arte e ciências da religião, entre outros. O artigo fornece um relato do estado atual do campo e também delineia alguns dos principais temas, questões e debates que determinaram a pesquisa nesta área. O artigo conclui colocando algumas questões e propostas para novas direções de pesquisa em religião e mídia