Umar Habila Dadem Danfulani

Umar Habila Dadem Danfulani is Reader, (History of Religions), Department of Religious Studies, University of Jos, Nigeria, where he served as Dean of Students, Directorate of Students' Affairs from August 1999 to 2005. He has been teaching ATR, Phenomenology of Religion, Neo-Traditional NRMs, Interaction of Religions and World Religions at the University of Jos since 1984. His BA and MA in Religious Studies are both from Jos, Nigeria (1982, 87), while his PhD is from Uppsala, Sweden (1994), where he wrote Pebbles and Deities, a dissertation on Divination.He participated in the project: The Shari'a Debate and the Shaping of Muslim-Christian Identities in Northern Nigeria (2001-2003) sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation, Kastanienallee, Hannover, Germany, a research, which was jointly undertaken by scholars from the Universities of Bayreuth, Germany and Jos in Nigeria. He had the Humboldt Research Fellowship in 1996 and the STINT Fellowship in 1999. While the former was administered in 1997 in Bayreuth University, Germany, the latter was spent doing research in Uppsala, Sweden, from Febraury to August, 2000. He was in Bayreuth University from October to December, 2006 on an AVH extension for three months.