The Future of African Religious Studies

This is a “meet the author” panel that discusses four recent books on African religions. It interrogates the methodological and theoretical relevance of these books to current and future study of African religions. The recent books include:

Itohan Idumwonyi - Crashed Realities?: Gender Dynamics in Nigerian Pentecostalism (Brill 2023)

Ayodeji Ogunnaike - Forms of Worship: How Oriṣa Worship Became Religion in Nigeria and Brazil (Duke University Press, 2026)

Sheila Otieno - Kin(Ethics): The Politics of Sharing a Public Sphere (Penn State Univ. Press, forthcoming)

David Ngong, Senghor’s Eucharist: Negritude and African Political Theology (Baylor University Press, 2023)