Preachers & Teachers: (filming) ideological performance, orders and disorders among/between Salafi, pentecostal students and teachers on the university campuses of Niamey, Niger, and Ibadan, Nigeria.

 This thesis focuses on religiosity and its manifestations among students and teachers on the university campuses of Niamey, Niger and Ibadan, Nigeria. It examines how the interactions between socio-religious groups, mainly Salafi and Pentecostals, and between them and the teachers, as representatives of the university institution, affect the production of knowledge. It investigates how these students appropriate academic knowledge, behave within a complex of relationships, communicate, and, in turn, make and perform their ideology. The theoretical framework comes within the anthropology of religion and its social aspects,  especially focussing on religiosity, on its functionalism and rationalism, in relation to another social institution, i.e. the university. Complementary to the written thesis, an ethnographic film is projected, conceptualizing the thesis within the field of visual anthropology. Through a situational approach reflecting an alternation of orders and disorders, the film will provide a general account of campus life, university classes and students religiosity.

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai Kresse