2015
Welcome Our New AASR Members
We would like to welcome the following new members who have recently joined the AASR:
Abigail Kerubo Osoro
Adjunct Lecturer in Kisii and Laikipia Eldoret Town Compus
Kisii University, Kenya
Reverend Jacob Chirchir
Kapsabet Bible College, Kenya
Ullrich Relebogilwe kleinhempel
Independent Researcher, Fuerth, Germany
Susan J. Too
PhD Student
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Moi University, Kenya
Samuel Kehinde Fabunmi
Department of Christian Religious Studies, Federal College of Education, Abeokuta, Nigeria
Nandi Ogodo Manyasa Jacob, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Sciences
Kaimosi University College, Kenya
Mobolaji Oyebisi Ajibade, PhD
Lecturer II, Department of Religious Studies, Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo, Nigeria.
Blessing Nyauma
Lecturer, Solusi University, Zimbabwe
Mesaki, Simeon, PhD (anthropology)
University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Ndaluka, Thomas Joseph, PhD
Department of Sociology, University of Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Nyanto, Salvatory Stephen
Department of History and Archaeology, University of Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Ngozi Emeka-Nwobia, PhD
Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria
Ckikas Danfulani, PhD
University of Jos, Nigeria
Adeoluwa Okunade, PhD
University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Atinuke Okunade, PhD
Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Lagos, Nigeria
Pauline Mark Lere, PhD
University of Jos, Nigeria
For those interested in joining the AASR, check out: How to Join the AASR
2015
New Membership Dues Structure from 2016
The AASR General Meeting held in Erfurt approved a motion that revises the structure of AASR membership fees. Members in Europe, America and other western or stronger economy countries will now pay a minimum annual fee of 60 US dollars from 2016 while other members will pay a minimum of 30 US dollars. Student and retired persons will continue to pay half of the standard annual fee for their country or region.
Please read the following letter from AASR Treasurer, Abel Ugba: 2016 Membership Dues
2015
Congratulations on your ordination, Dr. Esther Acolatse!
Dr. Esther Acolatse, AASR North American Representative and Assistant Professor at Duke University was ordained into the Ministry of the Presbyterian Church on Sunday, 28 September 2015.
2015
New Book by Veena Sharma
Advaita Vedanta and Akan: Inquiry into an Indian and African Ethos (Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2015), by Veena Sharma, places the yet unexamined consonances and dissonances between two disparate world views – one Indian and the other African – under a comparative lens. It seeks to set up a cross-cultural dialogue even as it aims to understand the two on their own terms through their own epistemological constructs. Through an exploration of the concepts of God and the Human Person, it unravels the aspirational goals framed by each, the degrees of ultimate perfection sought by it and the contributions the two traditions make to human civilization.
The book foregrounds the fact that there are many ways of approaching fundamental questions regarding the human condition, each valid in its own historical and geographical context. It provides an insight into how each world view points to a different approach to the universe; to relations between the Divine and the world, and between humans and humans, leading to different types of social formations and related issues and having far reaching influence on their understanding of morality, ethics, justice, group cohesion and how they deal with defaulters. An understanding of those approaches can enable sharper insights and deeper reflections into the strong and weak points of one’s own particular tradition.
The field work shows that despite sustained and pervasive exposure to other belief systems – especially the colonial intervention – the two indigenous systems continue to deeply impact the mindsets of their followers.
In a global environment of increased social interactions the book seeks to showcase freshly negotiated relations that transcend traditional prejudices and biases.
