Union Académique Internationale

Rosalind I. J. Hackett is Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She was a Distinguished Professor in the Humanities from 2017-20 and 2003-08. As a specialist on the religions of Africa, she has published widely on new religious movements in Africa, religious pluralism, art, gender, the media, and religion in relation to human rights, She published two co-edited works in 2015: (with Simon Coleman) The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism and (with Benjamin Soares) New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa . Her current research is on sound as religion (particularly in relation to gender, as well as indigenous religions), and on the regulation of religious diversity in Africa. She is a member of the Global Indigenous Religions (INREL) project (2014-19), which has taken her to arctic Norway, Nagaland in N.E. India, the Costa Rican rainforest, and Big Island, Hawai’i.