Dr B.F. Soares

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Main researcher

Theme group:		SMPC theme group
Focus:		Mali; Mauritania; Nigeria; Senegal
Telephone:		+31 (0)71 527 3365
Fax:		+31 (0)71 527 3344
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Benjamin Soares is an anthropologist whose research interests include religion and 'modernity', Islam, and religious encounters in West Africa. In recent work, he has looked at the connections between changing modalities of religious expression, different modes of belonging, and emergent social imaginaries in colonial and postcolonial West Africa, especially in Mali. In addition to ongoing research on religion, the public sphere, and media, he is studying contemporary Muslim public intellectuals in West Africa.

4 Projects

& List of publications

Key publications

Benjamin F. Soares
Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town
Edinburgh/Ann Arbor: Edinburgh University Press, International African Library 32 & the University of Michigan Press, 2005.
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Filippo Osella and Benjamin Soares (eds)
Islam, Politics, Anthropology
Oxford/Malden: Wiley Blackwell, 2010

René Otayek and Benjamin Soares (eds)
Islam, État et société en Afrique
Paris: Karthala, 2009

Benjamin F. Soares and René Otayek (eds)
Islam and Muslim Politics in Africa
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Benjamin F. Soares (ed.)
Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa
Leiden: Brill, Islam in Africa, 6, 2006.
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