Author: Benedikt Pontzen

Benedikt Pontzen is an anthropologist and writer. He is interested in the anthropology of Islam and in the ethnography and historiography of West Africa, in particular of Ghana and Asante where he has traveled several times and conducted fieldwork. He is currently writing his PhD on the diverging conceptions, practices and imaginaries of Islam among Muslims in Asante.

Benedikt Pontzen

Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes, An Anthropology of Everyday Religion – Edited by Samuli Schielke & Liza Debevec

October, 2014 / By Benedikt Pontzen

The reviewed volume tackles the question of “how to account for the complex duality of religion as an everyday practice […]