Yanti Hölzchen Editor

Benjamin Kirby is Junior Professor of the Study of Religion with a focus on Global Entanglements at the University of Bayreuth. His research examines religious politics, urban transformation, and infrastructure from the vantage point of Dar es Salaam and other cities at the interface of Africa and the Indian Ocean.

Matteo (Teo) Benussi is an anthropologist specialising in religion, ethics, and power. Currently an assistant professor (RTDb) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, his current research interests include piety and the politics of Islamic virtue, political ontologies and theologies, and the ethics of war volunteering in postsocialist Eurasia.

Yanti Hölzchen is an anthropologist whose work spans north-eastern Kyrgyzstan and Ethiopia, focusing on religious knowledge, institutions and networks, and on burial and pilgrimage practices in interreligious settings. She is currently based at the College of Fellows, University of Tübingen.