diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
index 5da165b6..637cab68 100644
--- a/NOTICE
+++ b/NOTICE
@@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ Revision ID: 5fc50a00491616d5cd0cbce3abd8b699838e25ca
  toml                3012a1dbe2e4bd1     https://github.com/BurntSushi/toml       
                      391d42b32f0577c                                              
                      b7bbc7f005                                                   
- jwt                 e87a84e0681e206     https://github.com/kataras/jwt      
-                     f3733932450e25d                                              
-                     7747daf215                                                                                                         
+ jwt                 933b4a74659b074     https://github.com/kataras/jwt      
+                     00070920d0700b9                                              
+                     63fa545d6c                                                                                                                            
  uuid                cb32006e483f2a2     https://github.com/google/uuid       
                      3230e24209cf185                                              
                      c65b477dbf
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 93e5e106..c9ee4e1e 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/dgraph-io/badger/v2 v2.2007.2
 	github.com/eknkc/amber v0.0.0-20171010120322-cdade1c07385
 	github.com/fatih/structs v1.1.0
-	github.com/flosch/pongo2/v4 v4.0.0
+	github.com/flosch/pongo2/v4 v4.0.1
 	github.com/go-redis/redis/v8 v8.4.0
 	github.com/google/uuid v1.1.2
 	github.com/hashicorp/go-version v1.2.1
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.10
 	github.com/kataras/blocks v0.0.4
 	github.com/kataras/golog v0.1.5
-	github.com/kataras/jwt v0.0.6
+	github.com/kataras/jwt v0.0.7
 	github.com/kataras/neffos v0.0.18
 	github.com/kataras/pio v0.0.10
 	github.com/kataras/sitemap v0.0.5
diff --git a/view/django.go b/view/django.go
index 2f8bc4c8..9922f363 100644
--- a/view/django.go
+++ b/view/django.go
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/kataras/iris/v12/context"
 
+	"github.com/fatih/structs"
 	"github.com/flosch/pongo2/v4"
 )
 
@@ -261,15 +262,19 @@ func getPongoContext(templateData interface{}) pongo2.Context {
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	if contextData, isPongoContext := templateData.(pongo2.Context); isPongoContext {
-		return contextData
-	}
+	switch data := templateData.(type) {
+	case pongo2.Context:
+		return data
+	case context.Map:
+		return pongo2.Context(data)
+	default:
+		// if struct, convert it to map[string]interface{}
+		if structs.IsStruct(data) {
+			return pongo2.Context(structs.Map(data))
+		}
 
-	if contextData, isContextViewData := templateData.(context.Map); isContextViewData {
-		return pongo2.Context(contextData)
+		panic("django: template data: should be a map or struct")
 	}
-
-	return templateData.(map[string]interface{})
 }
 
 func (s *DjangoEngine) fromCache(relativeName string) *pongo2.Template {