Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa

David Garbin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. Gareth Millington is Reader in Sociology at the University of York, UK. Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction, David Garbin (University of Kent, UK), Simon Coleman (University of Toronto, Canada) and Gareth Millington (University of York, UK)
Part I: Religious Infrastructures of ‘Development’: Visions, Discourses and Scales
2. Thickening Agents: Muslim Commons and Trajectories of Popular Urbanization in Dar es Salaam, Benjamin Kirby (University of Leeds, UK)
3. Territorialized Visions of Development and Urban Christianities in the Congo, David Garbin (University of Kent, UK) and Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot (GCRL/CNRS, France)
4. The Aspiration to Transform: Pentecostalism and Urban Citizenship in Cape Town, Marian Burchardt (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Part II: Territorialisation, urban change and religious time-spaces
5. Mouride Imaginaries of the Sacred and the Time-Spaces of Religious Urbanisation in Touba, Senegal, Kate Kingsbury (University of British Columbia, Canada)
6. Building Churches for the City-to-Come: Pentecostal Urbanization and Aspirational Place-Making in ‘Rurban’ Areas of Southwestern Benin, Carla Bertin (EHESS, France)
7. Religion, Urban Change and Planning Control in Lagos, Taibat Lawanson (University Lagos, Nigeria) and Gareth Millington (University of York, UK)
Part III: Moral subjects, Remoralised Spaces and the Politics of Knowledge
8. The Dark Side of the City: Urbanisation, Modernity and Moral Mapping in Zambia, Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
9.Religiously-Motivated Schools and Universities as ‘Moral Enclaves’: Reforming Urban Youths in Tanzania and Nigeria, Hansjörg Dilger (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) and Marloes Janson (SOAS, University of London, UK)
10. Managing the ‘Sensible Secular’: Disciplining the Urban in a Nigerian Christian University, Simon Coleman (University of Toronto, Canada) and Xavier Moyet (University of Toronto, Canada)
11. Notes on African Religious Everyday Life in an Urban (Post-)Pandemic World, David Garbin (University of Kent, UK), Simon Coleman (University of Toronto, Canada) and Gareth Millington (University of York, UK)
Afterword, Caroline Knowles (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
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