Over the last two decades scholars have devoted a significant amount of time to uncovering and theorizing what has been termed the resurgence, renewal, revival, or even the return of religion in the public sphere. Scholars may disagree on how to appropriately term these developments, but part of their consensus is that we can no longer afford to overlook such phenomena in our attempts to make sense of contemporary Africa. This process has challenged many of the assumptions scholars have made about religion and the public sphere, but it has also drawn attention to a number of issues among which three seem to be the most crucial here. What are the markers of this renewed and dynamic presence of religion? What are the forms this visibility and audibility have taken? What does this development give us anew to observe and theorize? A significant effort is still needed to grasp the scope of these processes, their sociology, political implications, and what they reveal about religion and religiosity today. This special issue seeks to contribute to this effort by focusing on Christian and Muslim preaching in Ghana, Niger, and Nigeria. It is grounded in the October 2014 conference ‘Sermon in the City’, co-organized by the editors together with Marloes Janson and Kai Kresse, at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. The conference focused on the way in which preaching lends itself to speaking to and intervening in urban dynamics and reverberates with everyday religious experience, discursive practices, politics, and interactions in sub-Saharan Africa. The topic of the conference itself came out of the realization of the growing significance of new styles of preaching among Christians and Muslims in Africa, and thus of the need to engage with this development

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简介：城市布道：西非的基督教和伊斯兰教布道

在过去的二十年里，学者们投入了大量时间来揭示和理论化所谓的宗教在公共领域的复兴、更新、复兴甚至回归。学者们可能不同意如何恰当地称呼这些发展，但他们的部分共识是，在我们试图理解当代非洲的过程中，我们不能再忽视这些现象。这一过程挑战了学者们对宗教和公共领域所做的许多假设，但它也引起了对许多问题的关注，其中三个似乎是最关键的。宗教的这种更新和动态存在的标志是什么？这种可见性和可听性采取了什么形式？这种发展让我们重新观察和理论化什么？仍然需要付出巨大的努力来把握这些过程的范围、它们的社会学、政治影响，以及它们对当今宗教和宗教信仰的揭示。本期特刊旨在通过关注加纳、尼日尔和尼日利亚的基督教和穆斯林传教，为这一努力做出贡献。它以 2014 年 10 月的“城市布道”会议为基础，由编辑与 Marloes Janson 和 Kai Kresse 在柏林的 Zentrum Moderner Orient 共同组织。会议的重点是讲道有助于对城市动态进行对话和干预，并与日常宗教经历产生回响，撒哈拉以南非洲的话语实践、政治和互动。会议本身的主题来自于认识到非洲基督徒和穆斯林之间新式讲道的重要性日益增加，因此需要参与这一发展