David Westerlund
David Westerlund is associate professor at the department of comparative religion, Stockholm University, and senior lecturer in the history of religions at the faculty of theology, Uppsala University. His main scholarly interests are indigenous African religions, Islam in Africa, and issues of religion and politics. His recent publications include Questioning the Secular State: The Worldwide Resurgence of Religion in Politics, which he edited in 1996.
Editor of…
African Islam and Islam in Africa
Encounters between Sufis and Islamists
This interdisciplinary book focuses primarily on Sufism (“African Islam”), Islamism (“Islam in Africa”) and, in particular, on the interaction between these different forms of Islam. Previously, much interest has been concentrated on the critical Islamist views of Western or Western–influenced ideas and patterns of life, while the intra–Muslim relationship between Sufis and Islamists has attracted less attention.…
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Professor of philosophy at the Ruhr University, in Bochum, Germany… - Suzanne Waldman
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Professor and the head of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch… - Thomas W. Walker
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Associate professor of history at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa… - Susan Pratt Walton
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Associate professor in the department of sociology at the National University of Singapore… - Denton L. Watson
Associate professor at SUNY College at Old Westbury… - Ruth Watson
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Associate professor of American thought and language at Michigan State University… - Lisa Watts
Editor and writer who raised her family in a small Ohio town for ten years… - Frederick Way Jr.
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Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the author of many books, both fiction and nonfiction… - Dorothy Weil
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Assistant professor of music at the University of Pittsburgh… - Will Wells
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Legal affairs reporter with the Associated Press in Columbus, Ohio… - Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
Assistant Professor of English at Lousiana State University… - Ernest J. Wessen
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Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of more than fifty articles on subjects ranging from Homer to Joyce… - David Westerlund
Associate professor at the department of comparative religion, Stockholm University, and senior lecturer in the history of religions at the faculty of theology, Uppsala University… - Alice Weston
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Distinguished Professor of English at Illinois State University… - Mats Widgren
Professor in geography at Stockholm University… - Rudy Wiebe
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Chief justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island… - Michael Williams
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Senior associate and researcher at the department of history, University of Durham… - Meredith Sue Willis
Author of more than fifteen books, including novels for adults and children, collections of short stories, and nonfiction about the art of writing, most recently Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel… - Edmund Wilson
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Author of Uplifting the South—Mary Mildred Sullivan’s Legacy for Appalachia and Textile Art from Southern Appalachia: the quiet work of women… - Louis E. Wilson
Associate professor and chair of the African Studies Department at Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063… - Charles M. Wiltse
Professor of history at Dartmouth College and the editor of the sixteen-volume Papers of Daniel Webster… - John F. Winkler
Columbus lawyer with a civil litigation practice… - Yvor Winters
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