Call for online submission of articles to Alternation

 

Johannes Andreas Smit, editor of the online open access journal Alternation: Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa, invites submission of articles in the area Religion and Social Transformation in Africa, or on Religion and Social Responsibility in Africa. He shall also consider submissions in important topical issues such Gender, Ecology/Environment, Religion and/ in Education, IT/Social Media and Religion in Africa, and other relevant and topical issues

In March 2018, Alternation will start using the OJS online managing system. Articles may be submitted for publication in Alternation by first registering as author or reviewer (or reader) at ) at http://journals.ukzn.ac.za/index.php/soa/user/register. Then, to submit an article, click, http://journals.ukzn.ac.za/index.php/soa, then click LOGIN, enter Username and Password, and click the Login button. Then click Author, and follow the steps.

Alternation, founded in 1994, is a peer reviewed journal, approved by our South African Department of Higher Education and Training, in 1996. Its archive is available at http://alternation.ukzn.ac.za/archive.aspx.

Of special interest to scholars of religions in Africa and elsewhere  are:
Alternation Special Edition No 2 (2005) The Study of Religion in Southern Africa: Essays in Honour of G.C. Oosthuizen

Alternation Special Edition No. 3 (2009) Religion and Diversity

Alternation Special Edition No 10 (2013) Research in Religion and Education

Alternation Special Edition No 11 (2013) Research in Religion and Society

Alternation Special Edition No 14 (2015) Empire Religions, Theologies, and Indigenous Knowledge Systems

Alternation 23,2 (2016) HIV, AIDS, Sex and Sexualities in Africa

and to appear soon: Alternation Special edition 19 (2017) on Religion and Social Responsibility with contributions by authors from Kenya (1), Zambia (2) and Zimbabwe (2).

 

Stephen Ellis Bibliography

 

Two countries and a continent: In remembrance of Stephen Ellis (1953-2015)
by Jos Damen 
(ASC Librarian)

Stephen Ellis had roots in two European countries, but he was fascinated by a much larger continent, Africa. The fascination started as early as 1971, when he was a teacher in Cameroon. The two countries were the UK and the Netherlands: born and raised in Britain, Stephen worked much of his professional life in The Netherlands where he lived with his Dutch partner Gerrie ter Haar. […] I hope that this bibliography makes all his works even more accessible to readers.

A New Book (co-edited) by Jim Cox

 

Cox, James. L., & Adam Possamai (eds.), 2016, Religion and Non-Religion among Australian Aboriginal Peoples. Abingdon [OX]: Routledge, 210 pp., ISBN 9781472443830 (hbk), £95

This volume, in the series Vitality of Indigenous Religions, edited by Graham Harvey, Afeosemime Adogame & Ines Talamantez, offers a significant contribution to the new and strongly emerging field of non-religion and secularity studies. That field that has mainly been developed in the last decade for secularising Europe and North America, but hardly yet for the rest of the world. Religion and Non-Religion among Australian Aboriginal Peoples is, therefore, a pioneering study. It draws on Australian 2011 Census statistics to ask whether the indigenous Australian population, like the wider Australian society, is becoming increasingly secularised or whether there are other explanations for the surprisingly high percentage of Aboriginal people in Australia who state that they have ‘no religion’. Contributors from a range of disciplines consider three central questions: How do Aboriginal Australians understand or interpret what Westerners have called ‘religion’? Do Aboriginal Australians distinguish being ‘religious’ from being ‘non-religious’? How have modernity and Christianity affected Indigenous understandings of ‘religion’? These questions re-focus Western-dominated concerns with the decline or revival of religion, by incorporating how Indigenous Australians have responded to modernity, how modernity has affected Indigenous peoples’ religious behaviours and perceptions, and how variations of response can be found in rural and urban contexts.

The study of non-religion and secularity is as yet a virgin field in the study of the religions of Africa and its Diaspora. This volume on the rise of non-religion and secularity among indigenous peoples of Australia will likely serve as an eye-opener for students of the religions of Africa and its Diaspora

Jan G. Platvoet Website

The personal website of Jan G. Platvoet is now online. It includes a wealth of resources related to the study of religion in Africa and elsewhere. Visit the site here: Jan Platvoet Website

Jan-Platvoet

Feminist Africa journal

 

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