Contributors
- Contributors
Chanfi Ahmed is a researcher at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin. He specializes in Islamic Studies and Social Anthropology. He completed his Ph.D. in the discipline of Histoire et Civilisations at the EHESS in Paris in 1996. In addition to various articles in specialist international periodicals, he has published in L'Harmattan (Paris) three monographs: Islam et Politique aux Comores (1999); Ngoma et Mission islamique (Da'wa) aux Comores et en Afrique orientale (2001); Reconvertir le converti: Les conversions à l'Islam fondamentaliste en Afrique au Sud du Sahara. Le cas de la Tanzanie et du Kenya (2008).
Matthias Krings is Junior-Professor of Anthropology and African Popular Culture at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from University of Frankfurt, Germany in 2002. He has published on spirit possession, internal migration, and popular media of Northern Nigeria. His current research interests include popular culture and audio-visual media in Africa and beyond.
Marc-Antoine PéRouse De Montclos is a researcher at the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), Paris. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the Institut d'études politiques of Paris (IEP), where he now teaches. He lived several years in Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya. He has published numerous journal articles on armed conflicts, forced migrations and humanitarian aid in English-speaking Africa South of the Sahara. He is the author of Le Nigeria (1994), Violence et sécurité urbaines (1997), L'aide humanitaire, aide à la guerre? (2001), Villes et violences en Afrique subsaharienne (2002), Diaspora et terrorisme (2003), Guerres d'aujourd'hui (2007) and Etats faibles et sécurité privée en Afrique noire (2008). He also runs a database on violence in Nigeria: http://www.nigeriawatch.org/.
Dorothea E. Schulz is Assistant Professor at the Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from Yale University (1996) and her Habilitation from the Free University, Berlin, Germany (2005). Her publications on Islam in Africa, the anthropology of religion, gender studies, media studies, and public culture have appeared in journals such as American Ethnologist, Journal of Religion in Africa, Fashion Theory, Islamic Law and Society, and Visual Anthropology. In her recently finished book manuscript (Pathways to God: Islamic Revival, Mass-mediated Religiosity, and the Moral Negotiation of Gender Relations in Urban Mali), she explores Muslim revivalist groups in Mali that beyond the confines of the nation-state and promote a relatively new conception of publicly enacted religiosity (significantly displayed in feminized [End Page 121] signs of piety). This work draws on the anthropology of religion and on media studies, as well as on scholarship that examines gender and religion as modes of producing difference in a transnational context. [End Page 122]
