Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Seesemann and Dr. Habibat Oladosu-Uthman on identity politics in the various Houses of God in West Africa
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- In this episode of the Cluster Conversations, fellow Dr. Habibat Oladosu-Uthman talks with her host Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Seesemann about her project on identity politics in the various Houses of God in West Africa. The research specifically scrutinizes gender politics and dynamics among Vodun worshippers in Lome, Togo, and Sango worshippers in Yoruba land, Nigeria, vis a vis the practices in the Mosques amongst the Muslims.
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- Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Seesemann and Dr. Habibat Oladosu-Uthman on identity politics in the various Houses of God in West Africa
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- English
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Cluster Conversations
- Date
- August 2, 2024
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- 30 minutes, 55 seconds
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- 25
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Speaker 1: Cluster Conversations, a podcast by Africa Multiple.
Speaker 1: Welcome, very warm welcome to our listeners for the latest episode of the Cluster Conversations. My name is Rüdiger Seesemann. I am the Dean of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, but today I am here in my capacity as a scholar of Islamic Studies and as the academic host of Doctor Habibat Oladosu Osman from the University of Ibadan where she is an associate professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies. And we are going to have a conversation today about her fellow project and also about some broader aspects of questions pertaining to Islam and gender. I am very honored and pleased to have her here. Doctor Habibat Oladosu Osman holds a PhD from the prestigious ISTAC, that's the Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilizations at the International Islamic University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. That thesis was on gender politics among Muslims in southwestern Nigeria. And it was eventually published also as a book, if I'm not mistaken. The title of the book is Muslim Women and the Politics of Emplacement: Re-reading Space, Sex and Gender, published in 2011 in Berlin by Lambert Academic Publishing. And apart from this book, Doctor Oladosu Osman is a speaker sought after by many audiences. She has a long record of speaking engagements and conference appearances and also publications, many of them revolving around the question of religion and gender, not just Islam and gender, and some of them also about sort of the hardcore topics of Islamic studies. In her master's thesis, she studied the notion of education in the works of Al-Ghazali, an important medieval scholar of Islam. And while she's done quite a few other things, very impressive CV. And I am, as I said, pleased and honored to be her host here in the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies. And we want to have a conversation about her fellow project and perhaps also some broader aspects regarding the study…
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