Society and Religion Research Centre (SORRECE), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Dar es Salaam
Centre for Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations, Radboud University
Religion, Elections and Conflicts in East Africa
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, January 15-16, 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference on Religion, Elections and Conflicts in East Africa provides a platform for sharing recent research on the intersection between religion, politics, and conflicts in the changing contexts of East Africa.
The aim of the conference is to examine the role of religion in shaping electoral discourses and practices in East Africa. It also intends to tease out the political dimensions of religious conflicts in the region. Central questions to be addressed by the conference include:
Why does religion continue to influence electoral processes and practices in East Africa despite persistent attempts to keep religion outside the political sphere?
What forms do religious conflicts take and what are the factors behind the conflicts?
How are these religious conflicts related to local and global socio-political forces?
Are religious conflicts purely religious or do they embody other social and political agenda?
What are key religious, social, economic and cultural issues behind religious tolerance/intolerance?
Why do certain forms of religious conflict emerge in particular areas/settings, but not in others during electoral processes?
How do different actors use (or how are they used by) religion during the electoral processes and practices?
The conference organizers invite papers that trace the multiplicity of motives and ways through which different actors use religion as a space to articulate claims or demands that transcend the religious sphere with cases from recent general elections in East Africa. Both theoretical and empirical approaches are welcome.
You are hereby invited to submit papers on any of the following topics;
Religion as a space used to negotiate economic and political interests/agenda
The influence of religion in party politics (nomination of candidates, campaign etc)
Religious discourse produced by aspirants of political positions
Electoral discourses and practices enacted by religious leaders
The role of religion as social institution in shaping electoral processes and practices
Mobilizing religious identity as political capital
Religion and voting patterns
Religion and electoral violence
Religious conflict
The conference is hosted by the Society and Religion Research Centre (SORRECE) of the University of Dar es Salaam in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations, Radboud University.
Submission details:
Abstracts (maximum of 700 words) should be submitted by 30th October 2015. Full papers should be submitted by 15 December 2015. The length of the papers should be between 5000 and 8000 words. The organizers aim at publishing selected papers in the peer-reviewed open access AASR journal: http://www.a-asr.org/journal/.
Submit your abstract/paper to the following:
Richard Sambaiga (richsambaiga@gmail.com) and Thomas Ndaluka
(nkarangot@yahoo.com).
See also:
www.sorrece.org
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