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Comparative Heritage Project Featured in Forthcoming Book, For the Sake of Peace
February 11, 2020/by headadminComparative Heritage at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association Conference: Being, Belonging and Becoming in Africa, November 21 – 23, 2019
December 1, 2019/by headadminCHP Represented at the 6th International Conference on Africa and Its Diaspora of African Studies Institute, November 13-16, 2019
November 28, 2019/by headadminFaith, Power, and Scripture: Contexts, Gestures of Psycho-Social Phenomena
Many stories of abuses from and within churches, especially…
August 2, 2019/by comparativeheritageA Scriptural Economy: Magics, Meanings, and Massages of Lagos (Abstract)
Definitions of “scripture” fetishize and sacralize the phenomenon.
December 28, 2018/by comparativeheritageAAR Review of Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa, by editors Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita, and Marie Rodet
In Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa, the editors provide a timely intervention for media studies in the study of religion.
July 14, 2018/by comparativeheritageComparative Study of the Ruins and La Fortuna Estates: A Glimpse of 21st Century Heritage Mansion Restoration and Preservation–written By Estelita Valdeavilla-Llanita
The Ruins is a local attraction in the city of Talisay.
May 5, 2018/by comparativeheritageHeritage as Life-Values: A Study of the Cultural Heritage Concept — By Johan Josefsson and Inga-Lill Aronsson
This piece is a summary of an original research.
January 26, 2018/by comparativeheritageReading Scriptures: Gender and Class in the “A Witch for Jesus’ Saga
The unpalatability of evil finds expression through ritual establishment of a scapegoat.
January 13, 2018/by comparativeheritageCraft “Witch”: Interconnective Scripturalizations and Identity Economies
This paper uses frameworks from ethnographies of interconnection”…
January 12, 2018/by comparativeheritageScriptures and Fury: The Yoruba Sango and Jesus in Judgement
Users of holy texts arm and equip themselves with scriptures.
January 11, 2018/by comparativeheritage“President” Oprah Winfrey Takes Charge, Pushes the Button
The “sacred” seat of American president is one of awe and wonder.
January 9, 2018/by comparativeheritageReading Scripture in the New American Age of Donald J. Trump
January 9, 2018/by comparativeheritageIslam, Identity, and Postcolonial Politics in Nigeria
Proselytization proclivities downplay the historical and cultural…
December 24, 2017/by comparativeheritageDavid Olali Defends “Die, Die, Die” Dissertation Defense
November 10, 2017/by comparativeheritageRosemary Graham-Naigba and the Feminization of Niger Delta Activism
More often than not, media representations and social portrayals…
November 6, 2017/by comparativeheritageMildred Bond Roxborough Oral History Video Interview conducted by Julian Bond in New York, New York, 2010-10-29
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October 9, 2017/by comparativeheritageAmerican Heritage through the Lens and Mobilities of Confederate Icons
In this piece, David Olali examines the seeming innocuousness…
August 25, 2017/by comparativeheritageDavid Olali’s Review of Divining the Woman of Endor: African Culture, Postcolonial Hermeneutics, and the Politics of Biblical Translation by Jeanne Kabamba Kiboko
Biblical scholar Jeanne Kabamba Kiboko offers a compelling…
August 4, 2017/by comparativeheritageWhy Comparative Heritage is Important
The reasons why “Comparative Heritage” is important are…
June 22, 2017/by comparativeheritage