David Westerlund
Impact in
- General Social Sciences top 1%
- Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria
- Anthropology top 5%
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
Papers in
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- Religion, Society, and Development 7
- Religion and Society Interactions 3
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- African history and culture analysis 9
- Co-authors
- Una Maclean (1 shared paper)Anita Jacobson‐Widding (1 shared paper)Greg Simons (3 shared papers)T. O. Beidelman (1 shared paper)Ingvar Svanberg (3 shared papers)Jan Platvoet (1 shared paper)Abdulaziz Yusuf Lodhi (1 shared paper)Rosalind I. J. Hackett (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Journal of Religion in Africa (10 papers)Studia Islamica (1 paper)The International Journal of African Historical Studies (1 paper)Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion (1 paper)Review of Religious Research (1 paper)
- Partner nations
- Sweden
In The Last Decade
David Westerlund
28 papers receiving 250 citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 57
- General Social Sciences 56
- Anthropology 135
- Religious studies 34
- Sociology and Political Science 234
- Political Science and International Relations 125
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Co-authors
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1998 | 80 | |
| 2 | Ujamaa na dini : a study of some aspects of society and religion in Tanzania, 1961-1977 | 1980 | 43 |
| 3 | 1993 | 41 | |
| 4 | 2006 | 33 | |
| 5 | 1986 | 22 | |
| 6 | 2003 | 20 | |
| 7 | African Indigenous Religions and Disease Causation: From Spiritual Beings to Living Humans | 2006 | 16 |
| 8 | 1997 | 15 | |
| 9 | Global Pentecostalism: Encounters with Other Religious Traditions | 2009 | 15 |
| 10 | Reaction and Action: Accounting for the Rise of Islamism | 1997 | 14 |
| 11 | 1999 | 12 | |
| 12 | African Religion in African Scholarship: A Preliminary Study of the Religious and Political Background | 1985 | 12 |
| 13 | 1983 | 11 | |
| 14 | 2016 | 11 | |
| 15 | African Islam in Tanzania | 1999 | 8 |
| 16 | 2016 | 8 | |
| 17 | 2016 | 6 | |
| 18 | En studie i islamofobi : [Recension av:] Jonas Otterbeck a Pieter Bevelander, Islamofobi: en studie av begreppet, ungdomars attityder och unga muslimers utsatthet | 2007 | 5 |
| 19 | 1992 | 3 | |
| 20 | Rec av Roland Hallgren, The Good Things in Life. A Study of the Traditional Religious Culture of the Yoruba People. Lund Studies in African and Asian Religions 2. Löberöd 1989, nytryck 1991 | 1997 | 2 |
About David Westerlund
David Westerlund is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Education, General Social Sciences and Anthropology, having authored 39 papers that have together received 392 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria (10 papers), African history and culture analysis (9 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (7 papers), Religion, Society, and Development (7 papers), African cultural and philosophical studies (5 papers), African history and culture studies (3 papers), Religion and Society Interactions (3 papers) and Religious Education and Schools (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in General Social Sciences (56 citations), Anthropology (135 citations), Religious studies (34 citations), Sociology and Political Science (234 citations) and Political Science and International Relations (125 citations). David Westerlund has collaborated with scholars based in Sweden. Frequent co-authors include Una Maclean, Anita Jacobson‐Widding, Greg Simons, T. O. Beidelman, Ingvar Svanberg, Jan Platvoet, Abdulaziz Yusuf Lodhi, Rosalind I. J. Hackett, Mikael Stenmark and Abdellah Hammoudi. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Religion in Africa, Studia Islamica, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion and Review of Religious Research.
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