The Bayreuth International Summer School is jointly hosted by the International Office of the University of Bayreuth and the Campus Academy, the university’s institute for lifelong learning and corporate education. The programme provides an intercultural and dynamic setting reflecting UBT´s focus areas in research. It consists of several individual courses, each with interdisciplinary approach. The participants have the opportunity to participate in a rich programme that consists of theoretical seminars and discussions as well as practical elements such as lab courses and workshops. Scholars and students from around the globe will enrich the classrooms and labs with their own perspectives on the material.

There takes place a course in African Studies on the topic Islam and Christianity in Africa. Students will gain knowledge of Christianity/Islam in Africa and insights into religious change on the continent.

Among the topics that will be covered by the course there are:

• The forms, processes and agents of Islamization of the continent;
• The forms, processes and agents of Africanization of the religion;
• The Muslim Medieval kingdoms of  Western Africa;
• Africa and the “Islamic West” (The Almoravid and Almohad Empires)
• Islam, women and gender relations;
• Arabic and Islamic education;
• The Islamic Art  and literary tradition in Africa.;
• Islam face to colonialism; 
• The Islamic tradition of revival and reform in Africa;
• The “war  against terror” seen from Africa.
• Initial Christian missionary efforts and African responses
• African initiatives to found independent churches
• African adoption and transformation of charismatic expressions
• Christianity and post-colonial politics
• Christianity in religiously plural contexts.

Lecturers:

Prof. Fatima Harrak
Université Mohammed V, Morocco

Prof. John Hanson
Indiana University Bloomigton

Coordinators:

Dr. Franz Kogelmann
University of Bayreuth

Further information:Summer School Uni Bayreuth