Eric Morier-Genoud (University of Oxford, UK)

Submitted: Sun, March 16, 2008


Dr. Eric Morier-Genoud
Research Fellow, Oxford Research Network on Government in Africa
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Oxford
Oxford
United Kingdom

e-mail:   emorier@yahoo.com
Web site: http://orenga.politics.ox.ac.uk


Education: B.A. (Lausanne), M.Sc. (SOAS), M.A. and Ph.D. (SUNY-Binghamton)

I have published on contemporary Islam and politics in Mozambique as well 
as on Swiss churches and Apartheid South Africa. My PhD was on Catholic 
politics in colonial Mozambique.

I have started a new comparative project on state mediation of religion in 
South-East Africa. I am also doing a project on the memory and 
commemoration of the last war in Mozambique and some work on "marginal 
nationalisms" in Lusophone Africa.

I have taught several courses in African Politics, in the Sociology of 
Religion, and on Theory, Methods & Research Strategies.

 
Research Activities and Interests:

- Co-Editor of Social Sciences & Missions, Leiden: Brill (http://www.brill.nl/ssm); http://www.unil.ch/lefaitmissionnaire

- Editorial board of Lusotopie, Leiden: Brill (http://www.brill.nl/luso)

- Editorial board of the H-Luso-Africa discussion list, Michigan State 
University, USA (http://www.h-net.org/~lusoafri/)

 
Publications:

- Swiss Churches, Apartheid and South Africa, Münster: LIT Verlag, 
2008, forthcoming (with Didier Péclard and Caroline Jeannerat)

- "A Prospect of Secularization? Muslims and Political Power in Mozambique Today,"
Journal for Islamic studies (Cape Town), no. 27, 2007, pp. 233-266.

- "Point d'appui : L'Afrique moderne, côté cour, 
côté jardin," Nouveaux 
Cahiers de l'IUED, Paris/Genève : Presses Universitaires de 
France, no 15, 2004, pp. 255-282.

- "Sant'Egidio et la Paix. Interview de Don Matteo Zuppi et Riccardo 
Cannelli," LFM. Missions & Sciences Sociales, no 13, October 2003, 
pp. 119-145.

- "L'Islam au Mozambique après l'indépendance. Histoire 
d'une montée en puissance," L'Afrique politique, Paris: 
Karthala, 2002, pp. 123-146.

- "Arquivos, historiografia e igrejas evangélicas em Moçambique,"
Estudos Moçambicanos, Maputo: CEA/UEM, no 19, 2001, 
pp. 127-154.

- "The Vatican vs. Lisbon. The relaunching of the Catholic church in 
Mozambique, ca. 1875-1940," BAB Working Papers. (Basle, 
Switzerland), no 4, 2002, 16 p.

- "The 1996 'Muslim holiday' affair. Religious competition and state 
mediation in contemporary Mozambique," Journal of southern African 
studies, Oxford, vol. 26, no 3, Sept. 2000, pp. 409-427.

- "Wie stabil ist die Demokratie in Mosambik., Der Überblick, 
(Hamburg, Germany), vol. 2, Juin 1998, pp.60-63.

- "Y a-t-il une spécificité protestante au Mozambique? 
Discours du pouvoir post-colonial et Histoire des églises 
Chrétiennes," Lusotopie. Paris: Karthala, 1998, 
pp.407-420.

- "Of God and Caesar. The relation between Christian Churches and the 
state in post-colonial Mozambique, 1974-1981," Le fait 
missionnaire. (Lausanne, Switzerland) no 3, sept. 1996, 96 p.