11:00 - 12:30
Religion and Spirituality in African Urban Economies
Room: Aston Webb – Senate Chamber
Stream: Inhabiting Paradoxes: Religion in African urban Worlds
Chair/s:
Adriaan van Klinken
11:00 - 11:15
Th-A22 Inhabiting Paradoxes 2-P-001
Urban Misnomers: The Agency of Contemporary Nigerian Pop Music in Stimulating Religious Obsession
Daniel Chukwuemeka
Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu, Nigeria
11:15 - 11:30
Th-A22 Inhabiting Paradoxes 2-P-002
'You will never lose your shadow.' How stories about ngozi spirits provide the best way of making sense of neoliberal social and economic relations in urban Zimbabwe.
Diana Jeater1, Jairos L. Mashinge, Jr.2
1University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2Independent Researcher, Harare, Zimbabwe
11:30 - 11:45
Th-A22 Inhabiting Paradoxes 2-P-003
Urban uncertainties, immaterial connections and spiritual healing places outside the metropolis of Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)
Boris Koenig
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada
11:45 - 12:00
Th-A22 Inhabiting Paradoxes 2-P-004
Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe
Kuziwakwashe Mary Emma Zigomo
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom