Bernard Coyault is an anthropologist (EHESS) and affiliated researcher at the Institut des Mondes africains (IMAf). He is also an associate researcher at the international joint laboratory Movida. His research and publications focus on the religious dynamics of migratory paths, religious pluralization (Christianity and Islam) in sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb, and the expansion of Christianities from the Global South in Europe. He teaches the anthropology of religions and Global Christianity at the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Brussels and at the Al Mowafaqa Institute in Rabat, where he was one of the founding members and the first director in 2012.