Benedikt Pontzen is an anthropologist and writer. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin. In his research, he focuses on lived Islam, so-called ‘African Traditional Religions’, religious diversity, and religious encounters in West Africa. He is conversant in Asante Twi and has been carrying out ethnographic and historiographic research in Ghana’s Asante region since the early 2000s. He is the author of Islam in a Zongo: Muslim Lifeworlds in Asante, Ghana (Cambridge University Press, 2021; Ghanaian edition forthcoming). He has co-edited a special issue on religious minorities in Muslim Africa (Islamic Africa, 2022) and an edited volume on religious plurality and encounters in Africa (forthcoming with James Currey). His essays have been published in edited volumes and various journals including Africa, Islamic Africa, The Journal of Religion in Africa, and Religions.
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