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Prof. Dr. Benjamin Kirby_2022 Prof. Dr. Benjamin Kirby
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Kirby_2022

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion


Academic

  • Since March 2022: Junior Professor for the Study of Religion with focus on global entanglements at the University of Bayreuth.
  • 2018-2022: British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. Project title: “The Politics of Religious Infrastructure: Christian and Muslim Urban Worlds in Africa.”
  • 2013-2017: Ph.D. (University of Leeds). Thesis title: “Muslim Mobilisation, Urban Informality, and the Politics of Development in Tanzania: An Ethnography of the Kariakoo Market District.”
  • 2012-2013: M.A. Religion and Public Life (University of Leeds).
  • 2007-2010: B.A. Theology (Pembroke College, University of Oxford).

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Kirby_2022

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion


Fields of research

  • Religion in African settings (and beyond), particularly Islam and Christianity
  • Religion and politics
  • Religion and economics
  • Infrastructure
  • Urban environments and processes
  • Globalisation
  • Conspiracy thinking
  • Ethnography
  • Self-presentation and everyday social interaction

Regional foci

  • Tanzania
  • South Africa
  • Indian Ocean
  • Hong Kong SAR
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Kirby_2022

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion


Publications

2024

Benjamin Kirby, Erik Meinema, Hans Olsson: Muslim political dissent in coastal East Africa : complexities, ambiguities, entanglements. In: Journal of Eastern African Studies, (2024). - .
doi:10.1080/17531055.2023.2300021

2023

Benjamin Kirby: Dilger, Hansjörg: Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith : Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania. Cambridge, 2022. In:Anthropology Book Forum, S. : 2023

2022

Benjamin Kirby, Adriaan van Klinken: Religions and masculinities in Africa : Power, politics, performance. In: Caroline Starkey, Emma Tomalin (Hrsg.): The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society. - London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Benjamin Kirby: Thickening Agents : Muslim Commons and Popular Urbanization in Dar es Salaam. In: David Garbin, Simon Coleman, Gareth Millington (Hrsg.): Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa : Remaking the City. - London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. - S. 19-33.

2021

Benjamin Kirby, Francis Sibanda, Fred Charway: Disarming the xenophobic everyday : Muslim migrants and the horizons of urban mutuality in Durban. In: Africa, 91 (2021). - S. 296-316.
doi:10.1017/S0001972021000073

2020

Yanti Hölzchen, Benjamin Kirby: Introduction: Conceptualising Religious Infrastructures. - (speechpap), Veranstaltung: Conceptualising Religious Infrastructures, 24. September 2020, online.

Benjamin Kirby, Josiah Taru, Tinashe Chimbidzikai: Pentecostals and the spiritual war against coronavirus in Africa. In: The Conversation, 2020-04-30

Benjamin Kirby: Flags and Shields : Muslim Socialities and Informal Livelihoods in Dar es Salaam. In: City & Society, 32 (2020). - S. 556-578.
doi:10.1111/ciso.12353

2019

Adriaan van Klinken, Benjamin Kirby: Religious politics and the 'crisis of masculinity' in Zambia and Tanzania. In: Africa at LSE, 2019-10-09

Silvianne Aspray, Benjamin Kirby, Judith Lieu, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad: Theology and Religious Studies : new inspirations?. In: British Academy Review, (2019). - S. 8-11.

Benjamin Kirby: Pentecostalism, economics, capitalism : putting the Protestant Ethic to work. In: Religion, 49 (2019). - S. 571-591.
doi:10.1080/0048721X.2019.1573767

2017

Benjamin Kirby:Muslim Mobilisation, Urban Informality, and the Politics of Development in Tanzania : An Ethnography of the Kariakoo Market District. - Leeds: 2017.
(Dissertation, 2017, University of Leeds)

Benjamin Kirby: Occupying the Global City : Spatial Politics and Spiritual Warfare among African Pentecostals in Hong Kong. In: David Garbin, Anna Strhan (Hrsg.): Religion and the Global City. - London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. - S. 62-77.
doi:10.5040/9781474272414.0009

2016

Benjamin Kirby: Ndzovu, Hassan J.: Muslims in Kenyan Politics : Political Involvement, Marginalization, and Minority Status. Evanston, 2014. In:Journal of Religion in Africa, 46, S. 93-95: 2016
doi:10.1163/15700666-12340065

2014

Benjamin Kirby: Perspectives on Pentecostalism and Socio-Economic Transformation. In: Exchange, 43 (2014). - S. 291-300.
doi:10.1163/1572543X-12341329

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Kirby_2022

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion


Prof. Dr. Benjamin Kirby
Junior Professor for the Study of Religion with Focus on Global Entanglement

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4160 | Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-844156
E-Mail: benjamin.kirby@uni-bayreuth.de

Office hours: by arrangement

Room: 1.13 (GW II)

Study of Religion with Focus on Global Entanglement
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
University of Bayreuth
95440 Bayreuth
​Germany

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