About the Journal
Utambuzi is a KiSwahili word which can be translated as ‘insight’, ‘diagnosis’ or ‘recognition’, which captures the journal’s central aim and objectives:
- to provide empirical and theoretical insight into the ever-changing landscape of religion on the African continent and its global diaspora, both historically and today.
- to diagnose, or critically an
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Current Issue
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2025): Christianity, Communality, and Resilience in the Wake of COVID-19 in African Religious Worlds
Published: 2025-12-03
Introduction
Christianity, Communality, and Resilience inthe Wake of COVID-19 in African Religious Worlds
Abstract 96 | PDF Downloads 95Page 1-5
Articles
Fictive Kinship as Social Capital in Jubilee Christian Church Nairobi
Abstract 104 | PDF Downloads 79Page 6-18
COVID-19 as a Call for Prophetic Education in South Africa
Abstract 103 | PDF Downloads 62Page 19-32
‘I Am Spiritual but Not Religious’
Abstract 133 | PDF Downloads 119Page 33-44
Christian Kinship in Urban Christianity
Abstract 88 | PDF Downloads 99Page 45-60
Sacred Spaces Online
Abstract 135 | PDF Downloads 80Page 61-72
Resilience of African Kinship Values amidst COVID-19 Pandemic Disruptions in Masvingo and Bikita Districts, Zimbabwe
Abstract 146 | PDF Downloads 96Page 73-85
The Bible as a Social Organizational Tool in African Urban Pentecostalism
Abstract 165 | PDF Downloads 209Page 86-97
Between Kinship and Individualism
Abstract 119 | PDF Downloads 62Page 98-110
“Unmasking” the Authenticity of the Values of Communality Post the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nomiya Church- Eastleigh
Abstract 103 | PDF Downloads 66Page 111-128
Book Reviews
Where Is Our God?: African Christianity and Responses to the Pandemic edited by J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Mark S. Aidoo, and Esther E. Acolatse
Abstract 45 | PDF Downloads 55Page 129-133
World Christianity and Covid-19: Looking Back and Looking Forward by Chammah J. Kaunda
Abstract 84 | PDF Downloads 75Page 134-139