Gez, Dr. Yonatan N.

E-Mail:

yonatan.gez [at] graduateinstitute.ch

Forschungsbereiche:

Religion and international development; religion and society in East Africa; self-accomplishment in East Africa; theorizing religious mobility; the 'afterlives' of development projects in Sub-Saharan Africa; the internationalization of private education

Regionale Schwerpunkte:

East Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

Ausbildung:

Berufserfahrung / Forschungsfelder:

2019-2022	Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow Division of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Konstanz Project title: “Local Phenomenologies and Legacies in the Afterlife of Development Interventions: Empirical and Theoretical Explorations”
2019-2022	Deputy PI Project SALMEA (Self-Accomplishment and Local Moralities in East Africa) IHEID and Aix-Marseille Université; funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (henceforth SNSF) and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
2016-2019	Research Associate Haute Ecole Pédagogique, Fribourg Part of an SNSF Ambizione project titled “Transnationalisation of Swiss Private Education” (https://www.phfr.ch/forschung/projekt-edutrans)
2015-2019	Postdoctoral Fellow The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2017-2018	Head of Africa Unit The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace (henceforth the Truman Institute), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

List of publications

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Publikationen

Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)

African and Not Religious: The State of Research on Sub-Saharan...

Dickow, Dr. Helga / Dr. Yonatan N. Gez / Nadia Beider

Africa Spectrum

https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397211052567

Sub-Saharan African societies are widely seen as highly religious. However, at least 30 million Sub-Saharan Africans identify themselves as “religious nones” and are supposedly not affiliated with any religious tradition. While research interest in religious nones has been growing in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, there is a dearth of literature on nones in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we offer an overview of this understudied subject and dwell on key challenges for studying African nones, including preconceived notions and structural oppositions.

2021