Journal of Religion in Africa - Volume 46, Issue 2-3 (Feb 2016): Religion and Masculinities in Africa
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
: A - 22A Anthropology
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies : A - 22A Anthropology
- Output identifier
- 34768
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Brill
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The special issue of Journal of Religion in Africa on Religion and Masculinities in Africa began as a two-day workshop co-convened by Marloes Janson and Dorothea Schulz (University of Cologne, Germany) with seedcorn funding provided by SOAS in 2014. The six strongest papers presented at the workshop were revised and, after editing by Janson and Schulz, submitted to the journal as a group. They underwent a peer-review process. After receiving the review reports, the contributors to the special issue revised their papers, which were edited by Janson and Schulz for a second time. Additionally, Schulz and Janson co-authored an introduction to the special issue that called for bringing together three lines of enquiry that Africanist research has tended to treat separately: 1) the study of gender; 2) masculinity studies; and 3) the study of religious reformist trends and the interface between Christianity and Islam.
Janson’s single-authored article ‘Male Wives and Female Husbands: Reconfiguring Gender in the Tablighi Jamaʿat in The Gambia’ is the culmination of work over a decade. It combines in-depth ethnography on an under-studied West African country with theoretical and methodological innovation. Extended field research gave Janson a unique insight into women’s active engagement in the Tablighi Jamaʿat, thereby redressing the male bias in the literature on fundamentalism. By adopting a comparative approach, the article shows the dialectics between global Islam and local religious and cultural expressions, as well as between religious agency and submission.
Whereas defining the topic of the workshop and its convening, the editing of the workshop papers, and the authorship of the introduction to the special issue were shared by Janson and Schulz; Janson was 100% responsible for her single-authored article in the special issue.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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