2017
Job Opening: Cleveland State University
Cleveland State University invites applications for the position of Director of the Black Studies Program. The successful candidate will be a senior faculty at the rank of associate or full professor. A complete job description may be found at: http://hrjobs.csuohio.edu/postings/7101.
2017
AASR Bulletin 45 (November 2016) now available
AASR Bulletin 45 (November 2016) is now available on the website at: https://www.a-asr.org//bulletin/
2017
Inaugural lecture from Prof. Danoye Oguntola-Laguda
The AASR expresses congratulations to Prof. Danoye Oguntola-Laguda on his inaugural lecture at Lagos State University on Tuesday, 31 January 2017. A copy of the lecture is available for download here: inaugural lecture.
2017
Basel scholarship in African Christianity
The Basel Graduate Network African Studies (affiliated to the Centre of African Studies) at the University of Basel offers a new scholarship program (3 years, PhD standards) including ONE scholarship in the field of African Christianity.
Applications of excellent students holding a masters degree will be welcomed!
Some areas of interest are for instance: (Basel) Mission History / Pentecostalism / African Initiated Churches / Public Theologies
Deadline: 19 February!
For further informations please follow this link: https://zasb.unibas.ch/jobs/jobdetails/article/15684/job-three-phd-scholarships-at-the-centre-for-african-studies-basel/
2017
Joint ARG and AASR Statement on US Immigration Ban
Statement Issued by the African Religions Group in the American Academy of Religion, and the African Association for the Study of Religions, on U.S. Executive Order “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”
January 31, 2017
The African Religions Group (ARG) in the American Academy of Religion (AAR), and the African Association for the Study of Religions (AASR), denunciate the US Executive Order “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.”
In addition to the statement recently issued by the AAR Board, which we fully support, we wish to specifically foreground the fact that three of the seven countries currently targeted by the immigration ban are on the African continent: Libya, Somalia, and Sudan. We are deeply concerned about the fact that colleagues from these countries will not be able to attend the AAR annual meeting, and to participate in ARG and AASR activities during this meeting, as long as the ban is intact. We are equally concerned about students from these countries who are currently studying in the US, or are planning to study in the US, and are directly affected by the ban.
The ARG and AASR are strongly committed to the academic study of all religious traditions found on the African continent, including Islamic traditions, as well as to the active collaboration and the free exchange of ideas between scholars of African religions regardless of their national or religious affiliation. Clearly, the ban hinders us in achieving this mission. Moreover, this ban is in conflict with the decolonial, intersectional frameworks which underpin our academic inquiry and our commitment to epistemic and other forms of justice.
Hence we call upon the members and sympathizers to join the global protests against the ban as a way of expressing their commitment to our mission and core values.
On behalf of the AAR African Religions Group,
Mary Nyangweso and Adriaan van Klinken, co-chairs
On behalf of the African Association for the Study of Religions,
Elias Bongmba, President
