Barbara Bompani
Biographic Data
| ID | 191303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Bompani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Bompani |
| SIGNATURE | BOMPANI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8086-1887 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“Intercultural Encounters”: Mentorship Relations as Spaces for Critical Intercultural Learning in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
There are growing numbers of African international students studying at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in North America and the United Kingdom. Intercultural mentoring is one response to supporting students in navigating the complex cultural, social, and academic transitions from home to host countries. This article examines the experiences of 18 participants who had recently mentored African international students attending higher educatio…
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa
When Ugandan parliamentarians passed a new Anti-Homosexuality Bill in March 2023, they reportedly did so under pressure from, and with the enthusiastic support of, religious leaders.1 In other African countries, too, recent legal and political struggles around LGBTIQ rights often feature religious leaders as key actors in campaigns that incite hate speech against, and contribute to the marginalization of, LGBTIQ communities and actively support o…
A New Journal for a New Space: Introducing Religion & Development: Introductory Article
This article introduces Religion & Development as a new transdisciplinary journal focusing on the nexus between religion and development. It outlines the motivation for establishing the new periodical along three central themes: the move towards sustainable development as dominant development paradigm; the reinvigoration of the post-development debate; and the emerging academic, policy and practice field of religion and development. The discussio…
The memory of persecution is in our blood: Documenting loyalties, identities and motivations to political action in the Ugandan Pentecostal Movement
Much attention has been paid to the growth of Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity in Uganda and the way it has shifted over the past decades from being a minority religion to influencing and shaping the Ugandan public and political spheres. Most of the literature, however, associates the Pentecostal-charismatic dynamic public action with its motivation to promote conservative Christian values, especially around issues of sexuality, HIV/AIDS, rep…
Religion and development: Tracing the trajectories of an evolving sub-discipline
Religion and development (RaD) has emerged as a new academic sub-discipline since the turn of the 21st century, following decades of secular assumptions and attitudes dominating development studies, and international development more broadly. In 2019, there was a little doubt that religion has been incorporated into development studies and it is therefore timely to re-appraise RaD. Recent scholarship suggests that RaD increasingly informs, engage…
Christian Citizens and the Moral Regeneration of the African State
Decolonising online development studies? Emancipatory aspirations and critical reflections – a case study
Academics in high-income countries are increasingly launching development studies programmes through online distance learning to engage practitioner-students in low-income countries. Are such initiatives providing opportunities to critically tackle social injustice, or merely ‘mirroring’ relations of global inequality and re-entrenching imperial practices? Building on recent scholarship addressing efforts to ‘decolonise development studies’ and t…
Sexualizing politics: The Anti-Homosexuality Bill, party-politics and the new political dispensation in Uganda
The internationally 'famed' Anti-Homosexuality Bill (AHB) represents an interesting and peculiar case through which to understand and unpack national political events, evolution within the ruling party and emerging power dynamics in Uganda. Amongst several coexisting interpretative discourses that explain the recent emergence of sexuality within politics in the country, this article provides an examination of the Museveni administration, the Nati…
Local Religious Organisations Performing Development: Refugees in the Central Methodist Mission in Johannesburg
This article presents the situation of the Central Methodist Mission in inner‐city Johannesburg and the role played by its religious leadership in defining, shaping and supporting relief and longer‐term development projects. Following a series of xenophobic attacks in 2008 the number of migrants and refugees assisted by the church increased exponentially. Despite the difficulties that this organisation encountered, the work of assistance to those…
A "religious revolution"? Print media, sexuality, and religious discourse in Uganda
Recently, Uganda has made international headlines for the controversial Anti-homosexuality Bill and for a set of tight measures that have limited the freedom of sexual minorities. This article argues that Uganda's growth of Pentecostal-charismatic churches (PCCs) is playing a major role in influencing and defining the Ugandan public sphere, including (but not limited to) the ways in which sex and sexuality are conceptualized by and within Uganda'…
Development and Politics from Below: Exploring Religious Spaces in the African State
Religion and Development from Below: Independent Christianity in South Africa
Most of the literature on African independent churches (AICs) in South Africa has not paid much attention to their economic and developmental role. In contrast, this article will show how AICs are involved in important economic activities such as voluntary mutual benefit societies, savings clubs, lending societies, stokvels (informal savings funds), and burial societies that control millions of South African rand. In light of firsthand empirical …
African Independent Churches in Post-Apartheid South Africa: New Political Interpretations
Scholars continue to debate the issue of how African Independent Churches (AICs) relate to politics. Rather than evaluating AICs according to a literal, Eurocentric definition of politics, this article argues for a holistic interpretation of African Christianity that treats politics, like other aspects of the realities of religious communities, as integral to religious discourse. Drawing on a study – including participant-observation and intervie…
Mandela Mania’: Mainline churches in post-apartheid South Africa
This paper investigates the public role of mainline churches in post-apartheid South Africa and their interaction with the political discourse. The action of churches in the public sphere in the 1990s has been commonly defined as ‘critical solidarity’ and their voice was of support and alignment with the African National Congress ( anc ) position in the process of nation building. Through an analysis of political and religious discourse this pape…
A "religious revolution"? Print media, sexuality, and religious discourse in Uganda
Recently, Uganda has made international headlines for the controversial Anti-homosexuality Bill and for a set of tight measures that have limited the freedom of sexual minorities. This article argues that Uganda's growth of Pentecostal-charismatic churches (PCCs) is playing a major role in influencing and defining the Ugandan public sphere, including (but not limited to) the ways in which sex and sexuality are conceptualized by and within Uganda'…
Religion and development: Tracing the trajectories of an evolving sub-discipline
Religion and development (RaD) has emerged as a new academic sub-discipline since the turn of the 21st century, following decades of secular assumptions and attitudes dominating development studies, and international development more broadly. In 2019, there was a little doubt that religion has been incorporated into development studies and it is therefore timely to re-appraise RaD. Recent scholarship suggests that RaD increasingly informs, engage…
African Independent Churches in Post-Apartheid South Africa: New Political Interpretations
Scholars continue to debate the issue of how African Independent Churches (AICs) relate to politics. Rather than evaluating AICs according to a literal, Eurocentric definition of politics, this article argues for a holistic interpretation of African Christianity that treats politics, like other aspects of the realities of religious communities, as integral to religious discourse. Drawing on a study – including participant-observation and intervie…
Sexualizing politics: The Anti-Homosexuality Bill, party-politics and the new political dispensation in Uganda
The internationally 'famed' Anti-Homosexuality Bill (AHB) represents an interesting and peculiar case through which to understand and unpack national political events, evolution within the ruling party and emerging power dynamics in Uganda. Amongst several coexisting interpretative discourses that explain the recent emergence of sexuality within politics in the country, this article provides an examination of the Museveni administration, the Nati…
Decolonising online development studies? Emancipatory aspirations and critical reflections – a case study
Academics in high-income countries are increasingly launching development studies programmes through online distance learning to engage practitioner-students in low-income countries. Are such initiatives providing opportunities to critically tackle social injustice, or merely ‘mirroring’ relations of global inequality and re-entrenching imperial practices? Building on recent scholarship addressing efforts to ‘decolonise development studies’ and t…
Religion and Development from Below: Independent Christianity in South Africa
Most of the literature on African independent churches (AICs) in South Africa has not paid much attention to their economic and developmental role. In contrast, this article will show how AICs are involved in important economic activities such as voluntary mutual benefit societies, savings clubs, lending societies, stokvels (informal savings funds), and burial societies that control millions of South African rand. In light of firsthand empirical …
Mandela Mania’: Mainline churches in post-apartheid South Africa
This paper investigates the public role of mainline churches in post-apartheid South Africa and their interaction with the political discourse. The action of churches in the public sphere in the 1990s has been commonly defined as ‘critical solidarity’ and their voice was of support and alignment with the African National Congress ( anc ) position in the process of nation building. Through an analysis of political and religious discourse this pape…
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa
When Ugandan parliamentarians passed a new Anti-Homosexuality Bill in March 2023, they reportedly did so under pressure from, and with the enthusiastic support of, religious leaders.1 In other African countries, too, recent legal and political struggles around LGBTIQ rights often feature religious leaders as key actors in campaigns that incite hate speech against, and contribute to the marginalization of, LGBTIQ communities and actively support o…
Mandela Mania’: Mainline churches in post-apartheid South Africa
This paper investigates the public role of mainline churches in post-apartheid South Africa and their interaction with the political discourse. The action of churches in the public sphere in the 1990s has been commonly defined as ‘critical solidarity’ and their voice was of support and alignment with the African National Congress ( anc ) position in the process of nation building. Through an analysis of political and religious discourse this pape…
African Independent Churches in Post-Apartheid South Africa: New Political Interpretations
Scholars continue to debate the issue of how African Independent Churches (AICs) relate to politics. Rather than evaluating AICs according to a literal, Eurocentric definition of politics, this article argues for a holistic interpretation of African Christianity that treats politics, like other aspects of the realities of religious communities, as integral to religious discourse. Drawing on a study – including participant-observation and intervie…
Development and Politics from Below: Exploring Religious Spaces in the African State
Religion and Development from Below: Independent Christianity in South Africa
Most of the literature on African independent churches (AICs) in South Africa has not paid much attention to their economic and developmental role. In contrast, this article will show how AICs are involved in important economic activities such as voluntary mutual benefit societies, savings clubs, lending societies, stokvels (informal savings funds), and burial societies that control millions of South African rand. In light of firsthand empirical …
Local Religious Organisations Performing Development: Refugees in the Central Methodist Mission in Johannesburg
This article presents the situation of the Central Methodist Mission in inner‐city Johannesburg and the role played by its religious leadership in defining, shaping and supporting relief and longer‐term development projects. Following a series of xenophobic attacks in 2008 the number of migrants and refugees assisted by the church increased exponentially. Despite the difficulties that this organisation encountered, the work of assistance to those…
A "religious revolution"? Print media, sexuality, and religious discourse in Uganda
Recently, Uganda has made international headlines for the controversial Anti-homosexuality Bill and for a set of tight measures that have limited the freedom of sexual minorities. This article argues that Uganda's growth of Pentecostal-charismatic churches (PCCs) is playing a major role in influencing and defining the Ugandan public sphere, including (but not limited to) the ways in which sex and sexuality are conceptualized by and within Uganda'…
Sexualizing politics: The Anti-Homosexuality Bill, party-politics and the new political dispensation in Uganda
The internationally 'famed' Anti-Homosexuality Bill (AHB) represents an interesting and peculiar case through which to understand and unpack national political events, evolution within the ruling party and emerging power dynamics in Uganda. Amongst several coexisting interpretative discourses that explain the recent emergence of sexuality within politics in the country, this article provides an examination of the Museveni administration, the Nati…
Christian Citizens and the Moral Regeneration of the African State
Decolonising online development studies? Emancipatory aspirations and critical reflections – a case study
Academics in high-income countries are increasingly launching development studies programmes through online distance learning to engage practitioner-students in low-income countries. Are such initiatives providing opportunities to critically tackle social injustice, or merely ‘mirroring’ relations of global inequality and re-entrenching imperial practices? Building on recent scholarship addressing efforts to ‘decolonise development studies’ and t…
Religion and development: Tracing the trajectories of an evolving sub-discipline
Religion and development (RaD) has emerged as a new academic sub-discipline since the turn of the 21st century, following decades of secular assumptions and attitudes dominating development studies, and international development more broadly. In 2019, there was a little doubt that religion has been incorporated into development studies and it is therefore timely to re-appraise RaD. Recent scholarship suggests that RaD increasingly informs, engage…
A New Journal for a New Space: Introducing Religion & Development: Introductory Article
This article introduces Religion & Development as a new transdisciplinary journal focusing on the nexus between religion and development. It outlines the motivation for establishing the new periodical along three central themes: the move towards sustainable development as dominant development paradigm; the reinvigoration of the post-development debate; and the emerging academic, policy and practice field of religion and development. The discussio…
The memory of persecution is in our blood: Documenting loyalties, identities and motivations to political action in the Ugandan Pentecostal Movement
Much attention has been paid to the growth of Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity in Uganda and the way it has shifted over the past decades from being a minority religion to influencing and shaping the Ugandan public and political spheres. Most of the literature, however, associates the Pentecostal-charismatic dynamic public action with its motivation to promote conservative Christian values, especially around issues of sexuality, HIV/AIDS, rep…
Religious Leaders as Agents of Lgbtiq Inclusion in East Africa
When Ugandan parliamentarians passed a new Anti-Homosexuality Bill in March 2023, they reportedly did so under pressure from, and with the enthusiastic support of, religious leaders.1 In other African countries, too, recent legal and political struggles around LGBTIQ rights often feature religious leaders as key actors in campaigns that incite hate speech against, and contribute to the marginalization of, LGBTIQ communities and actively support o…
“Intercultural Encounters”: Mentorship Relations as Spaces for Critical Intercultural Learning in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
There are growing numbers of African international students studying at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in North America and the United Kingdom. Intercultural mentoring is one response to supporting students in navigating the complex cultural, social, and academic transitions from home to host countries. This article examines the experiences of 18 participants who had recently mentored African international students attending higher educatio…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (4 works) · Law (4 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)