Evolving relations between religion and politics in the Horn of Africa: media use and public identity discourse of religious communities/elites in Northeast Africa

This is a study of the evolving public role of religion in societies in the Horn of Africa, and the tenuous relations or religious communities/elites with state politics. Religious allegiances are reinvented via new (social) media and forms of collective self-representation, both ‘at home’ and trans-nationally (in migrant communities abroad). The research project will study these tendencies and processes and link them to issues of security and civic order.