CURRICULUM VITAE and LIST of PUBLICATIONS
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Afe Adogame College: Humanities and Social Science School: Divinity Current Status: Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) Contact Address: School of Divinity The University of Edinburgh New College, Mound Place Edinburgh, EH1 2LX United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0)131 650 8928 Fax. +44 (0)131 650 7952 Email: [email protected] http://www.div.ed.ac.uk/aadogame.html
University education:
1995–1998, University of Bayreuth, Germany 1989–1992, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria 1983–1987 Bendel State University, Ekpoma. Nigeria
Degrees awarded University of Bayreuth, Germany, PhD Religious Studies (specializing in the Social Scientific Study of Religion), 1998. Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, M.A. Religious Studies, 1992. Bendel State University, Ekpoma, Nigeria, B.A. Hons. Religious Studies (Second Class Upper Division, 1987.
Career since graduation
2011-, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), School of Divinity, The University of Edinburgh, UK August-December 2011, Guest Professor, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana. 2005-2010, Lecturer (Assistant Professor), School of Divinity, The University of Edinburgh, UK 1998- 2005, Lecturer/Senior Research Fellow, Department for the Study of Religion / Institute of African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany 2003/2004, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Major research interests Indigenous African Religions Religions of the African Diaspora African Christianities Migration, religion and globalization Religion, Conflict and Violence Religion and youth identities Religion and Sports Religion and Development The globalization of indigenous religions and spiritualities
Research supervision experience
Postgraduate supervision 2005-2014 Principal Supervisor – PhD (11) MTh/MSc. (17) Second Supervisor – PhD (14) MTh/MSc. (13)
Appointments as external examiner for the award of doctoral degrees External Examiner, SOAS University of London, UK 2011 (PhD) External Examiner, University of Birmingham, UK, since 2006 (M.Phil./PhD) External Examiner, University of Sheffield, UK, since 2007 (PhD) External Examiner, University of Manchester, UK 2010 (PhD) External Examiner, Liverpool Hope University, UK since 2007 (PhD) External Examiner, University of Gloucestershire, UK since 2007 (PhD) External Examiner, University of Lampeter, Wales UK since 2008 (PhD) External Examiner, University of Exeter, UK since 2008 (PhD) External Examiner, Queens University, Belfast since 2008 (PhD) External Supervisor, Utrecht University, The Netherlands since 2007 (PhD) External Examiner, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana 2009 (PhD) External Examiner, University of Pretoria, South Africa 2010 (PhD) External Examiner, University of Zimbabwe, Harare 2011 (PhD) External Examiner, University of Sydney, Australia 2012 (PhD) External Examiner, Kings College, London, UK 2012 (PhD) External Examiner, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa 2012 (PhD) External Examiner, University of Bayreuth, Germany 2014 (PhD)
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Teaching experience
2011- Senior Lecturer (Asso. Professor) School of Divinity, The University of Edinburgh, UK Aug-Dec 2011 Guest Professor Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon 2005-2010 Lecturer (Asst. Professor) School of Divinity, The University of Edinburgh, UK 2000-2005 Lecturer/Senior Research Fellow Dept. for the Study of Religion/ Institute of African Studies University of Bayreuth, Germany 2003-2004 Senior Fellow Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 1998-2002 Lecturer 1 Dept. of Religions Lagos State University, Ojo. Lagos, Nigeria Nov-Dec. 1999 Guest Lecturer Institute of African Studies University of Bayreuth, Germany Oct. 98-Mar. 99 Guest Lecturer Institute of African Studies University of Bayreuth, Germany 1995-1998 Teaching/Research Fellow Dept. for the Study of Religion University of Bayreuth, Germany 1993-1995 Lecturer III Dept. of Religious Studies, Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo. Nigeria. 1990-1991 Postgraduate Fellow Dept. of Religious Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
Administrative experience, including experience as Head of Department/School Director International, School of Divinity (2014-), responsible for institutional linkages and collaboration; international student recruitment and exchanges with the School. I serve as a Member of the School of Divinity Management Committee (since 2014-) in my capacity as the School’s Director International
3 As a Member of the University Committee on African Studies as well as the Africa Strategy Group, I am playing a leadership role in initiating and consolidating institutional collaboration, exchange, liaison and furthering linkages with Africa-based institutions such as the Universities of Pretoria, Kwazulu-Natal, UNISA (South Africa); University of Ghana; Ibadan, Nigeria. Based on my leadership I was part of a high-powered University team led by Prof. Stephen Hillier, Vice-Principal International, who met the Vice Chancellor and management council of the University of Ghana, Legon in October 2013 and April 2014 respectively. As a core staff of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the non-Western World and Religious Studies Subject Area, I have undertaken administrative role and functions that vary from convening Religious Studies Seminar Series; convening School Ethics in Research Committee; overseeing the Andrew Walls Library while the Centre Director was on research leave; engage in student recruitment; mentoring and advisory roles to undergraduate and postgraduate students, promoting collegiality between the Centre and the rest of the School and university at large, coordinating and chairing guest lectures; initiating institutional collaboration, exchange, liaison and furthering linkages with other related institutions such as the University of South Africa, University of Pretoria and University of Kwazulu-Natal (South Africa); University of Ghana, Legon; University of Ibadan, Nigeria. I am on the supervising and teaching staff of the Centre of African Studies where I undertake supervisory and advisory roles to students, and involved in the planning and execution of conferences and public seminars. I was the Convener and Principal organiser of the Centre of African Studies Annual Conference ‘Africa in Scotland, Scotland in Africa’ (29 April – 1 May 2009) in which over 120 participants attended. Apart from distinguished scholars and researchers, the conference included policy makers and politicians such as Jack McConnell MSP, First Minister of Scotland 2001-2007 / High Commissioner Designate to Malawi; Michael Russell MSP, former Scottish Minister for Culture, External Affairs and the Constitution; The Right Hon Baroness Valerie Amos, British Labour Party Politician & Former Leader of the British House of Lords. As a Director of Studies (DoS) since 2005/2006 and now Personal Tutor till date, I have provided general academic advice and guidance to directees on matters relating to their degree programme and choice of courses, appeal, examination and assessment matters. I have also discussed and advised students on non- routine matters such as personal crises, major changes of courses and degree programmes, transfer of degree programmes and concessions; international linkages and student exchange programmes; while also providing general advice on pastoral concerns. As a lecturer/senior research fellow at the University of Bayreuth from 1995-2005 I acquired considerable administrative experience in addition to my teaching and research. Apart from serving as a student adviser in the department for the study of religion, I have served in many capacities as committee member in the special research project on Africa (SFB/FK 560) of the University of Bayreuth under whose auspices I designed and co-convened some scientific conferences, symposium, and workshops. I served on the Editorial Board of the Newsletter of African Studies at Bayreuth University from 2000-2005. I was President of the Association of African Scholars at Bayreuth University from 2001-2005. As part of my administrative role, I designed a research project ‘Afrikaner in Oberfranken, Bavaria, Germany’ (Africans in Upper Frakonia, Bayern, Germany). It was sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD) and supported
4 by the University of Bayreuth in 2003. The DAAD grant enabled six (6) African and German research students and a Senior Research Fellow to work on the project. Some of the research findings were exhibited at the Iwalewa House, Africa Centre of the University of Bayreuth in 2003-4.
Membership of societies where academic distinction is the criterion of membership Member, four (4) Steering Committees of the American Academy of Religion (AAR): 1. African Religions Group 2. Indigenous Religions Group 3. Religion and Migration 4. World Christianity Group Secretary/Treasurer, Board Member & Representative for Africa, Research Committee on Sociology of Religion RC22, International Sociological Association. General Secretary, African Association for the Study of Religions (AASR). Secretary and Board Member, African Trust Fund, International Association for the History of Religion (IAHR) Chair and Member, International Student Bursary Award Committee, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) 2011/12 Chair and Member, International Liaison Committee, Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) 2010/11 Member, African Studies Association (ASA) Member, British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR) Member, German Association for the History of Religions (DVRG)
Membership of committees, both University and external, where relevant University/School University Central Committee on Africa College of Humanities and Social Science Research Ethics Committee CHSS Contribution Reward Panel Convener, School of Divinity Ethics in Research Committee Convener, Religious Studies Seminar Series Member, School of Divinity Research Committee Member, School of Divinity Scholarship (2008-2011) Member, Centre for the Study of World Christianity Committee Member, School Board of Examiners Member, School Board of Studies Member, School Planning and Resources Member, Edinburgh Research on Religion and Society
5 Deputy Editor, Journal of Religion in Africa (Brill Publishers) Associate Editor, Studies in World Christianity (Edinburgh University Press). Coordinator, University of Edinburgh-University of Bayreuth Student Exchange Programme.
External Expert Peer Reviewer, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) UK 2013 Expert Peer Review, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) UK 2014 Expert Scientific Reviewer & Evaluator, Swiss National Science Foundation, 2012. Research Project Evaluator, The Israel Science Foundation, 2010. Expert Reviewer, Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative, Templeton Foundation 2008. Expert Peer Reviewer, Swedish National Bank, 2004. Chair, International Conference Committee, 5th AASR/IAHR Regional Conference ‘Sports, Leisure, Religion and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora’, Egerton University, Njoro. Kenya. 18-23 July 2012. Convener, ISA/RC22 midterm International Conference ‘Religion, Conflict, Violence and Toleration in global perspectives’, Abuja. Nigeria 27-31 January, 2012. Convener, Edinburgh 2010 Study Group 7: Christian Communities in Contemporary Context. Sub-section Chair, Historical Section, International Association for the History of Religion XXth World Congress, Toronto, Canada. 15-22 August, 2010. Secretary/Treasurer, Board Member and Representative of Africa, Research Committee on Sociology of Religion RC22, International Sociological Association. Editor-in-Chief, African Association for the Study of Religion (AASR) E-Journal Member, Editorial Advisory Board, International Studies in Religion and Society (Brill Academic Publishers). Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Religion in Africa (Brill). Member, International Advisory Board, Journal of Africana Religions (The Penn State University Press) Member, International Advisory Board, African Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global World (Brill). Member, International Advisory Board, Ashgate Publication Series, Vitality of Indigenous Religious Traditions.
6 Member, International Advisory Board, Ashgate/INFORM Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements. Member, Free University Amsterdam, Institute for the Study of Religion, Culture and Society (VISOR) Editorial Associate, Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae: Journal of the Church History Society of South Africa. Member, Editorial Board, Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology General Secretary, African Association for the Study of Religion Consultant, Living Religions Book Project (Mary Pat Fisher), Pearson, Prentice Hall External Evaluator, Department of Church History, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, South Africa Core Faculty/Lecturer, Faculty Development Institute, ‘Ecologies of Learning Project - Religious Movements and Global Cities’. New York Theological Seminary, New York, USA Member, Scottish Refugee Research Network
GRANTS (Received and attempted)
Awarded the University of Edinburgh College of Humanities and Social Science (CHSS) Knowledge Exchange Small Grant, May 2014. Workshop topic: “Indigeneity Goes Global”
Awarded the American Academy of Religion Collaborative International Research Grant, April 2014. Research topic: “The Feminization of New Immigrant African Pentecostal Diasporic Religious Cultures”
Awarded the Scottish Government's Climate Challenge Fund, Greatway Foundation [£95,026.00] in December 2013. As Head of Research and Advisory, and principal Initiator of the research project, Greatway Foundation [http://www.greatwayfoundation.org.uk/index.php] will work with the African and Caribbean Community in Edinburgh to reduce carbon emissions, save money and take action on climate change. The Low Carbon Edinburgh African and Caribbean Community Scheme will provide workshops on energy efficiency and climate change and also circulate information via Radio Kilimanjaro. These initiatives will help the community save money and reduce fuel poverty while also reducing carbon emissions. See: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Environment/climatechange/howyoucanhelp/co mmunities/ClimateChallengeFund/CCF16
Principal Applicant: Exploratory Workshop ‘International Perspectives on Sports, Peace, Religion and Well-Being’, 01/08–02/08/14. European Science Foundation. Total estimated budget requested £15,000.00. (not awarded).
Awarded the Carnegie Research Illustration Grant towards the publication of the edited book: Afe Adogame and Andrew Lawrence (eds.) Africa in Scotland,
7 Scotland in Africa: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Hybridities in global contexts (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming)
Principal Investigator, “Translation and Transmission: Religious and Cultural Brokering by African Youth in UK, Sweden, Germany and Ireland”. A 4-year (2013- 2017) AHRC Large grant under the ‘Translating Cultures’ theme. Estimated total budget requested £1,384,462. [Submitted in January 2013. Not awarded].
Principal Investigator, “Negotiating Youth Identities in a Cultural Mix: Case Studies of African Religious Groups and Cultural Associations in the UK, Sweden and Germany”. A 3-year (2013-2016) HERA JRP – Humanities in the European Research Area Joint Research Programme under the ‘Cultural Encounters’ theme. Estimated total budget requested €988,297.00 [not successful].
Principal Investigator “Pentecostalism, Social Capital and Civic Role in sub- Saharan Africa”. A Two-year (2010-2012) Regional Centre Grant to the Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative, Templeton Foundation Grant (was successful in the first round but not approved; total estimated budget was $499,594.700) Joint research project (A. Adogame, J. Cox & A. Ugba) to AHRC Large Research Grants, Religion and Society, UK. 3-Year (2009-2011) estimated total budget of £600,000.00. **We were successful in the first evaluation phase, having being selected as one of 28 proposals out of 56 project proposals. Small projects awarded by the Moray Fund; Carnegie Trust Fund for Research Publications; Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (£8000)
LIST of PUBLICATIONS
1. Books published (sole-authored)
*2013a, The African Christian Diaspora: New Currents and Emerging Trends in World Christianity. London, New Delhi, New York and Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic (259pp). *1999, Celestial Church of Christ: The Politics of Cultural Identity in a West African Prophetic-Charismatic Movement, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. (251pp.)
2. Books edited **2014a: Afe Adogame (ed.) The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora: Imagining the Religious ‘Other’. Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate (289pp.). **2014b: Afe Adogame & Andrew Lawrence (eds) Africa in Scotland, Scotland in Africa: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Hybridities. Leiden & Boston: Brill (363pp.)
8 **2014c: Afe Adogame, Janice MacLean and Anderson Jeremiah (eds) Engaging the World: Christian Communities in Contemporary Global Societies. Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series. Oxford: Regnum. (235pp.) 2014d: Afe Adogame, Giselle Vincent, Elijah Obinna, and Elizabeth Olson (eds) Christianity in the Modern World: Changes and Controversies. Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate. (196pp.) **2013a: Afe Adogame, Magnus Echtler, Oliver Freiberger (eds) Alternative Voices: A Plurality Approach for Religious Studies. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. (347pp). **2013b: Afe Adogame and Shobana Shankar, (eds) Religion on the Move! New Dynamics of Religious Expansion in a Globalizing World. Leiden and Boston: Brill. (470pp.) **2013c: Afe Adogame, Ezra Chitando, Bolaji Bateye (eds) African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora, and Gendered Societies. Surrey & Burlington: Ashgate. (192pp.) **2012: Afe Adogame, Ezra Chitando, Bolaji Bateye (eds) African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa: Emerging trends, Indigenous Spirituality and the Interface with other World Religions. Surrey & Burlington: Ashgate. (264pp.) **2011, Afe Adogame (ed) Who is Afraid of the Holy Ghost: Pentecostalism and Globalization in Africa and Beyond. Religion in Contemporary Africa Series. Trenton/Asmara/Ibadan et al: Africa World Press. (268pp.) **2010, Afe Adogame & James Spickard (eds) Religion Crossing Boundaries. Transnational Religious and Social Dynamics in Africa and the New African Diaspora. Religion and the Social Order Series 18, Leiden and Boston: Brill. (280pp.) **2008a, Afe Adogame, Roswith Gerloff & Klaus Hock (eds) Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora: The Appropriation of a Scattered Heritage. London and New York: Continuum (368pp.) **2008b, Afe Adogame, Magnus Echtler & Ulf Vierke (eds) Afe Adogame, Magnus Echtler and Ulf Vierke (eds), Unpacking the New: Critical Perspectives on Cultural Syncretization in African and Beyond. Zurich and Berlin, Lit Verlag (384pp.) **2005, Adogame Afe & Cordula Weisskoeppel (eds.) Religion in the context of African Migration, Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies Series, No. 75. (366pp.) ***2004, Frieder Ludwig & Afe Adogame (eds.) European Traditions of the Study of Religion in Africa, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. (404pp.)
9 **[The edited books above are peer-reviewed (and not conference proceedings). As Chief Editor of the edited works, I was the convener of the conferences that led to these books, but I also have chapter contribution in each of the books)
***[One of the fifteen Outstanding Books of 2004 for Mission Studies selected for special recognition, see International Bulletin of Missionary Research, vol. 29, No.1, January 2005]
Articles published as sole author 2014. ‘Putting God in Place! Religious Continuities and Mutations in Classic and Diasporic Communities’ in Social Compass, vol. 61(2); pp. 207-218. 2014, ‘Transnational Africana Christianity: A Response’ in Journal of Africana Religions. Vol. 2, No. 1: pp. 117-124. 2014, ‘Reinventing Africa? The Negotiation of Ethnic Identities in the New African Religious Diaspora’ in S. Grodz and G. G. Smith (eds) Religion, Ethnicity and Transnational Migration between West Africa and Europe. Leiden: Brill. 2014, ‘African New Religious Movements’ in G.D. Chrysiddes & B.E. Zeller (eds) The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements. London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic. Pp. 235-251. 2013, ‘Reconfiguring the Global Religious Economy: The Role of African Pentecostalism’ in D. Miller, K. Sargeant and R. Flory (eds) Spirit and Power: The Growth and Global Impact of Pentecostalism. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 185-203. 2013, ‘Toward a Christian Disneyland? Negotiating Space and Identity in the New African Religious Diaspora’ in A. Kane and T.H. Leedy (eds) African Migrations: Patterns and Perspectives. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Pp. 173-194. 2013, ‘If God is for Us, Who can be Against Us? Theologizing Survival, Hope and Mobility in the African Christian Diaspora’ in Isabel Phiri and Dietrich Werner (eds) Handbook of Theological Education in Africa. Oxford: Regnum. 2013, Guest Editor and Editorial: ‘Insiders’ and ‘Outsiders’ in African Christianities. Studies in World Christianity (Vol. 19, 2013): 1-4. 2012, ‘AIDS, Religion, and the Politics of Social Justice in Sub-Saharan Africa’ in Michael Palmer and Stanley Burgess (eds) The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 482-495.
10 2012, ‘African Initiated Churches in the Diaspora’, in Elias Bongmba (ed.) The Wiley- Blackwell Companion to African Religions, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 310- 322. 2012, ‘Dealing with Local Satanic Technology: Deliverance Rhetoric in the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries’, The Journal of World Christianity, 5, 1. pp. 75-101. 2012, ‘New Religions in Africa’, Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Religion. Los Angeles: Sage. Pp. 895-900. 2012, ‘Kingship’, Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Religion. Los Angeles: Sage. Pp. 668-670. 2011, ‘Online for God: Media Negotiation and African New Religious Movements’ in A. Adogame (ed.) Who is Afraid of the Holy Ghost: Pentecostalism and Globalization in Africa and Beyond. Religion in Contemporary Africa Series. Trenton / Asmara / Ibadan et al: Africa World Press. Pp. 223-238. 2011, ‘Introduction’ in Afe Adogame (ed) Who is Afraid of the Holy Ghost: Pentecostalism and Globalization in Africa and Beyond. Religion in Contemporary Africa Series. Trenton/Asmara/Ibadan et al: Africa World Press. Pp. ix-xxiii 2011, ‘Kampfen fuer Gott oder Kampfen im Namen Gottes! Die Politik religioser Gewalt im heutigen Nigeria’ in George M. Hoff and Ulrich Winkler (Hg.) Religionskonflikte: Zur lokalen Topografie eines Globalisierungsphaenomens. Innsbruck-Wien: Tyrolia- Verlag. Pp. 177-197. 2010, ‘Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in a Global Perspective’ in Byran S. Turner (ed) The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion. Chichester: Willey-Blackwell, pp. 498-518. 2010, ‘How God became a Nigerian: Religious Impulse and the Unfolding of a Nation’, in Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2. pp. 479-498. 2010. ‘Transnational Migration and Pentecostalism in Europe’, in PentecoStudies. An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements. Vol 9, 1. 56-73. 2010, ‘From House Cells to Warehouse Churches? Christian Church Outreach Mission International in Translocal Contexts’, in Hüwelmeier, Gertrud, & Kristine Krause (eds.), Traveling Spirits: Migrants, Markets and Mobilities. New York & London: Routledge, pp. 165-185. 2010, ‘Online for God: Media Negotiation and African New Religious Movements’ in A. Adogame (ed.) Who is Afraid of the Holy Ghost? Pentecostalism and Globalization in Africa and Beyond, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. 2010, Editorial ‘Religion in African Literary Writings’, Special Issue on Religion and New African Literary Writers, Studies in World Christianity, vol. 16, 1, pp. 1-5.
11 2010, ‘African Christianity in Diaspora’, in Diane B. Stinton (eds) African Theology on the Way. Current Conversations. London: SPCK. Pp. 161-171. 2009, ‘Fighting for God or Fighting in God’s Name! The Politics of Religious Violence in Contemporary Nigeria’ in Religions/Adyan, Journal of the Doha International Centre for Interfaith Dialogue, vol.1, Issue 0. pp. 174-192. 2009, 'Ranks and Robes: Art Symbolism and Identity in the Celestial Church of Christ in the European Diaspora' in Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, (Berg Publishers) vol. 5, No. 1, March 2009. pp. 10-32 (23) 2009, 'To God Be the Glory! Home Videos, the Internet, and Religio-Cultural Identity in Contemporary African Christianity', in Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture, No. 3/4, Spring 2009. pp. 147-159. 2009, 'The 419 Code as Business Unusual: Youth and the Unfolding of the Advance Fee Fraud Online Discourse', in Asian Journal of Social Science, vol. 37, No. 4. pp. 551-573. 2009, 'African Christians in a Secularizing Europe', in Religion Compass, Vol. 3, Issue 4, pp. 488-501 2009, 'Practitioners of Indigenous Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora' in Graham Harvey (ed.) Religions in Focus: New Approaches to Tradition and Contemporary Practices, London and Oakville, CT: Equinox, 2009. pp. 75-100. 2009, 'Cosmology', 'Diaspora', 'Healing', and 'Naming' in Molefi K. Asante and Ama Mazama (eds) Encyclopedia of African Religion, London: Sage, 2009. pp. 178-180; 199-201; 309-310; 439-440 *2008. “Up, Up Jesus! Down, Down Satan! African Religiosity in the former Soviet Bloc – the Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations” in Exchange: Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research, 37, 3: 310-336. *2008. “I am married to Jesus! The feminization of new African diasporic religiosity” in Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, 143 (juillet-September), pp. 129-148. 2008. “Who do they think they are? Mental Images and the Unfolding of an African Diaspora in Germany” in Adogame et al. Christianity in Africa and the Africa Diaspora: The Appropriation of a Scattered Heritage. London and New York: Continuum, pp. 248-264. *2008. “Globalization and African New Religious Movements in Europe” in Ogbu Kalu & Alaine Low (eds) Interpreting Contemporary Christianity: Global Processes and Local Identities, Grand Rapids, Michigan & Cambridge: Eerdmans, pp. 296-316.
12 2008. “Claiming the Continent for Christ: The Civic Role of Christian Church Outreach Mission International in global contexts” in Katharina Kunter and Jens Holger Schjorring (ed.) Changing Relationships between Churches in Europe and Africa: The Internationalization of Christianity and Politics in the 20th Century. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pp. 225-240. *2008. “Mapping Globalization with the Lens of Religion: African Migrant Churches in Germany” in Armin Geertz & Margit Warburg (eds) New Religions and Globalization. Empirical, Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. pp. 189-213. 2008. "The 419 Code as Business Unusual: The Advance Fee Fraud Online Discourse", in International Journal of Humanistic Studies, 5: pp. 54-72. 2007. “Clearing New Paths into an Old Forest: Aladura Christianity in Europe” in Jacob K. Olupona and Terry Rey (eds) Orisa Devotion as World Religion: The Globalization of Yoruba Religious Culture. Madison: Wisconsin University Press, pp. 247-262. *2007 “HIV/AIDS Support and African Pentecostalism: the case of the Redeemed Christian Church of God”, in Journal of Health Psychology, 12, 3. pp. 475-484. 2007 “Whose Religion is Christianity? African Christian communities and the negotiation of German religious landscapes” in Dokumentation. Frankfurt am Main: Gemeinschaftswerk der Evangelischen Publizistik. pp. 15-22. *2007 “Raising Champions, Taking Territories: African churches and the Mapping of New Religious Landscapes in Diaspora” in Theodore Louis Trost (ed.) The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 21-46. *2007 “Religion in Sub-Saharan Africa” in Peter Beyer and Lori Beaman (eds) Religion, Globalization and Culture. Leiden: Brill. Pp. 533-554. 2006 “Africa, East”, in Stanley M. Burgess (ed.) Encyclopedia of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity, New York and London: Routledge. pp. 1-4. 2006 “Celestial Church of Christ”, in Peter Clarke (ed.) Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements, New York and London: Routledge. 2005 “African Instituted Churches in Europe. Continuity and Transformation” in Klaus Koschorke (ed.) African Identities and World Christianity in the Twentieth Century, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pp. 225-244. ***2005 “African Christian Communities in Diaspora” in Ogbu Kalu (ed.) African Christianity: An African Story, Pretoria: University of Pretoria, pp. 494-514. *** [Associate Editor for the edited book volume; and one of the fifteen Outstanding Books of 2005 for Mission Studies selected for special recognition, see International Bulletin of Missionary Research, January 2006]
13 2005 “To be or Not to be? Politics of Belonging and African Christian Communities in Germany” in Afe Adogame & Cordula Weisskoeppel (eds.) Religion in the context of African Migration, Bayreuth: BASS, No. 75, pp. 95-112. 2005 “Prayer as Action and Instrument in the Aladura Churches” in Ulrich Berner, Christoph Bochinger and Rainer Flasche (eds) Opfer und Gebet in den Religionen. Gutersloh: Bertelsmann, pp. 96-110. 2005 “A Walk for Africa: Combating the Demon of HIV/AIDs in an African Pentecostal Church – The Case of the Redeemed Christian Church of God”, Scriptura, 89: 396- 405. 2005 “Yoruba”, in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Band 8, Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 1767-1771. 2005 “Tecumseh”, in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Band 8, Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, p. 114. 2005 “Zulu”, in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Band 8, Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 1917-1920. *2004 “Contesting the Ambivalences of Modernity in a Global Context: The Redeemed Christian Church of God, North America” in Studies in World Christianity, 10, 1: 25- 48. *2004 “Engaging the Rhetoric of Spiritual Warfare: The Public Face of Aladura in Diaspora” in Journal of Religion in Africa, 34, 4: 493-522. 2004 Conference Report “The Berlin-Congo Conference 1884: The Partition of Africa and Implications for Christian Mission Today”, in Journal of Religion in Africa 34, 1-2: 186-190. 2004 “The Use of European Traditions of the Study of Religion in Africa – West African Perspectives” in Frieder Ludwig & Afe Adogame (eds.) European Traditions of the Study of Religion in Africa, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pp. 375-381. 2004 “The Politicization of Religion and the Religionization of Politics in Nigeria” in Chima Korieh and Ugo Nwokeji (eds.) Religion, History and Politics in Nigeria. Lanham: University Press of America, pp. 137-153. 2004 “Nigeria” in Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Religion and War, New York: Routledge, p. 328-332. 2003 “Old Wine in New Bottles: Prophetic Experiences in the Celestial Church of Christ” in Gerrie ter Haar & Jim Cox (ed.), Uniquely African? African Christian Identity from cultural and historical perspectives. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, pp. 241-260.
14 *2003 Betwixt Identity and Security: African New Religious Movements and the Politics of Religious Networking in Europe”, in Nova Religio: The Journal of Emergent and Alternative Religions, vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 24-41. 2003 “Sinn und Unsinn der Globalisierung – eine afrikanische Perspektive” (Making Sense and Nonsense of Globalization – an African Perspective), in Widerspruch: Münchner Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 23. pp. 10-25. 2002 “Traversing Local-Global Religious Terrain: African New Religious Movements in Europe”, in Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft, 10, pp. 33-49. 2002 “Engaged in the task of `Cleansing´ the World: Aladura Churches in 20th Century Europe” in Klaus Koschorke (ed.) Transkontinentale Beziehungen in der Geschichte des Außereuropäischen Christentums (Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika) / Transcontinental Links in the History of Non-Western Christianity, vol. 6, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Pp. 73-86. 2002 “Tomorrow's leaders as leaders for today: youth empowerment and African new religious movements” in B. Trudell, K. King, S. McGrath and P. Nugent (ed.) Africa's Young Majority. Edinburgh, Centre for African Studies. Pp. 207-227. 2002 Afrikanisch Initiierte Kirchen in Europa, Werkmappe Nr. 87, pp. 9-32. 2002 “Religion in Nigeria”, in J.G. Melton & M. Baumann (eds.) Religions of the World. A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices. Santa Barbara, ABC-Clio, pp. 950-956. 2002 “Celestial Church of Christ”, in J.G. Melton & M. Baumann (eds.) Religions of the World. A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices. Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, pp. 256. 2002 “Pentecostalism in Germany”, in: Stanley M. Burgess, Eduard M. van der Maas (eds.), The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements. Grand Rapids, Zondervan, 109-111. 2002 “African Initiated Churches (AICs) in Diaspora – Europe”, in: Stanley M. Burgess et al. (eds.), The New International Dictionary…, p. 309. 2002 “Bada, Alexander Adebayo Abiodun”, Stanley M. Burgess et al. (eds.), The New International Dictionary..., p. 351. 2002 “Oschoffa, Samuel Bileóu Joseph”, in: Stanley M. Burgess et al. (eds.), The New International Dictionary..., p. 951. 2002 “Deeper Christian Life Mission International”, in: Stanley M. Burgess et al. (eds.), The New International Dictionary..., p. 574. 2002 “Brotherhood of the Cross and Star”, in: Stanley M. Burgess et al. (eds.), The New International Dictionary..., p. 442.
15 2000 “Doing Things with Water: Water as a Symbol of Life and Power in the Celestial Church of Christ” in Studies in World Christianity, The Edinburgh Review of Theology and Religion 6, I. pp. 59-77. *2000 ‘Aye loja, orun nile - The Appropriation of Ritual-Spatial Time in the cosmology of the Celestial Church of Christ’ in Journal of Religion in Africa, 30, 1, pp. 3-29. 2000 “The Quest for Space in the Global Religious Marketplace: African Religions in Europe”, International Review of Mission 89, No. 354. pp. 400-409. 2000 “Mission from Africa: The case of the Celestial Church of Christ in Europe” in Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft, 84, I, pp. 29-44. 1999 “Religion and Economic Development in Nigeria”, The Nigerian Journal of Economic History, No. 2. pp. 22-45. 1999 Art. "Afrika II: Zentral- und Südafrika", in Christoph Auffarth (Hg.), Metzler Lexicon Religion, Tübingen, pp. 27-31. 1998 “A Home Away from Home: The Proliferation of Celestial Church of Christ in Diaspora – Europe” in EXCHANGE - Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research, vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 141-160. 1998 “Building Bridges and Barricades” in Marburg Journal of Religion, vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1- 13. 1998 Art. "Aladura", in Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 4. Aufl., Bd. 1, Tübingen, pp. 263-264. 1998 Art. "Benin", in Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 4. Aufl., Bd. 1, Tübingen, pp. 1300-1301. 1997 “A Home Away from Home: The Proliferation of Celestial Church of Christ in Diaspora – Europe” in Africana Marburgensia, vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 3-23. 1994 “Religious Pluralism and Democracy in Contemporary Nigeria” in Oyo Journal of Religions, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-7.
Joint articles published **2014b: ‘Introduction’ in Afe Adogame, Janice MacLean and Anderson Jeremiah (eds) Engaging the World: Christian Communities in Contemporary Global Societies. Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series. Oxford: Regnum. pp. 1-12. 2013: A.Adogame, M.Echtler, O.Freiberger, ‘Introduction’. In Afe Adogame, Magnus Echtler, Oliver Freiberger (eds) Alternative Voices: A Plurality Approach for Religious Studies. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Pp. 1-17. 2013: Afe Adogame and Shobana Shankar, ‘Exploring New Frontiers in Global Religious Dynamics’ in A. Adogame and S. Shankar, (eds.) Religion on the Move! New
16 Dynamics of Religious Expansion in a Globalizing World. Leiden and Boston: Brill. Pp. 1-17. 2013, Afe Adogame, Ezra Chitando, Bolaji Bateye, African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa: Contending with Gender, the Vitality of Indigenous Religions and Diaspora’ in A. Adogame, E. Chitando, B. Bateye (eds) African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora, and Gendered Societies. Surrey & Burlington: Ashgate. Pp. 1-9. 2012: Afe Adogame, Ezra Chitando, Bolaji Bateye, African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa’ in A. Adogame, E. Chitando, B. Bateye (eds) African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa: Emerging trends, Indigenous Spirituality and the Interface with other World Religions. Surrey & Burlington: Ashgate. Pp. 1-13. 2011, Afe Adogame and Asonzeh Ukah, Viewing a masquerade from different spots? Conceptual Reflections on the “Globalization” and “Pentecostalism” discourses’ in A. Adogame (ed.) Who is Afraid of the Holy Ghost? Pentecostalism and Globalization in Africa and Beyond, pp. 11-35. 2010, James Spickard and Afe Adogame, ‘Africa, the New African Diaspora, and Religious Transnationalism in a Global World’ in Afe Adogame & James Spickard (eds) Religion Crossing Boundaries. Transnational Religious and Social Dynamics in Africa and the New African Diaspora. Religion and the Social Order Series 18, Leiden and Boston: Brill. Pp. 1-28. 2008. ‘Introduction’ in Adogame et al. Christianity in Africa and the Africa Diaspora: The Appropriation of a Scattered Heritage. London and New York: Continuum, pp. 1-5 (with R. Gerloff & K. Hock) 2008. ‘Introduction’ in Adogame et al. Unpacking the New: Critical Perspectives on Cultural Syncretization in African and Beyond. Zurich & Berlin: Lit, pp. 1-23 (with M. Echtler & U. Vierke) *2008. ‘Spiritual Terrorism beyond Borders: African Pentecostalism, Cultural Synthesis within Local-Global Space’ in Adogame et al. Unpacking the New: Critical Perspectives on Cultural Syncretization in African and Beyond. Zurich & Berlin: Lit, pp. 305-330 (with Kuponu, Selome) *2005 Afe Adogame & Ezra Chitando, “Moving among those moved by the Spirit: Conducting Fieldwork within the New African Religious Diaspora”, Fieldwork in Religion, 1, 3: 253-270. 2005 Afe Adogame & Lizo Jafta, “Zionists, Aladura and Roho: African Instituted Churches” in Ogbu Kalu (ed.) African Christianity: An African Story, Pretoria: University of Pretoria, pp. 309-329.
17 2005 Afe Adogame & Cordula Weisskoeppel, “Locating Religion in the Context of African Migration”, in Afe Adogame & Cordula Weisskoeppel (eds.) Religion in the context of African Migration, Bayreuth: BASS, No. 75, pp. 1-22. 2004 Frieder Ludwig & Afe Adogame, “Historiography and European Perceptions of African Religious History” in Frieder Ludwig & Afe Adogame (eds.) European Traditions of the Study of Religion in Africa, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pp. 1-22. 2000 Afe Adogame & Wolfgang Weiss, 'The Interplay of Religion and Law in Germany', in Revue Pro Religionistiku, VIII, I, pp. 41-64. 1998 Afe Adogame & Akin Omoyajowo, ‘Anglicanism and the Aladura Churches in Nigeria’ in A. Wingate, K. Ward, C. Pemberton and W. Sitshebo (ed.) Anglicanism: A Global Phenomenon, London: Mowbray. pp. 90-97.
Important notes, reviews and review articles 2012 Review: Religion and Poverty. Pan-African Perspectives. Edited by Peter Paris (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009) in Anthropos 107. Pp. 652-654. 2008 Review: African Immigrant Religions in America. Edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Regina Gemignani (New York University Press, 2007), in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, pp. 1-4. 2006 Review: African Charismatics: Current Developments within Independent Indigenous Pentecostalism in Ghana, by J.K. Asamoah-Gyadu (Leiden: Brill, 2005), in Journal of Religion in Africa, 36, 1, pp. 122-124. 2003 Review: Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba, by John D.Y. Peel, (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000), in Culture and Religion 4, 2. 2002 Review: Faith and Praxis in a Postmodern World, ed. Ursula King, (London: Cassell, 1998) in British Association for the Study of Religions. Bulletin No. 96, pp. 28-30. 2003 Review: Between Babel and Pentecost: Transnational Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America (eds. Corten, A., and Marshall-Fratani, R.), in Journal of Religion in Africa, 33, 1. pp. 118-120. 2000 Review: J.L. Cox, Rational Ancestors: Scientific Rationality and African Indigenous Religions, Cardiff: Cardiff Academic Press, 1998, in Numen 47, pp. 211-212. 1999 Review: V.Y. Mudimbe, Tales of Faith: Religion as Political Performance in Central Africa, London: The Athlone Press, 1997, in Numen 46, pp. 337-338.
18 1997 Review: Roland Hallgren, The Vital Force - A Study of Ase in the Traditional and Neo-traditional Culture of the Yoruba People, Lund Studies in African and Asian Religions, Volume 10, 1995, in Temenos, Studies in Comparative Religion, vol. 33, pp. 279-282.
*Symposia/Congresses/Conferences attended and papers presented 9-10 May 2014: Navigating Fluid, Fuzzy Edges! Ethnography and Etic/Emic Enigma Within the New African Religious Diaspora, International Workshop ‘A Matter of Perspective: Disentangling the Emic/Etic Debate in the Scientific Study of Religions’. University of Bern, Switzerland. 25 April 2014: Go to the Land I will show you! African Religiosity and the Sacralizing of Immigrant Narratives in the former Soviet Bloc, 11th ISORECEA Conference ‘Religious Diversification Worldwide and in Central and Eastern Europe, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. 05 September 2013: The glocalization of African religions and spiritualities in diaspora. EASR/BASR Conference ‘Religion, Migration, Mutation’, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK. 20 February 2013: Doing Things on Earth for Heaven’s Sake: The Public and Civic Role of Religions in Nigeria and the Nigerian Diaspora. 2nd Faculty of Arts Public Lecture, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria. 13 October 2012: ’60 Years of the Redeemed Christian Church of God and Its Global Missionary Agenda: An Evaluation’. The 2012 RCCG/CRBC Annual Academic Lecture at the 15th Graduation Ceremony of the Christ the Redeemer College, London, UK. 18-22 June 2012: ‘Questing for the Good Things in Life: The Public Face of new African Christianities’. Keynote lecture read at the Joint Conference of Academic Societies in the fields of Religion and Theology. University of Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. 30 May 2012: ‘Plunder Hell to Populate Heaven! Pentecostalism, Religious Capital and Social Responsibility in Nigeria’ Guest Lecture at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo. Norway. 16-17 March 2012: ‘Europe needs us but does not want us’ Christianity in the context of Migration and the African Diaspora. Keynote paper read at the Voices from the Diaspora: African and Caribbean Christianity in Britain. University of Winchester, UK
19 10 March 2012: African Christianity and Mission in Britain: A Cross-cultural Critique. Keynote paper read at the Mission in Britain: Prospects and Challenges Conference, RCCG Mission Forum, The Hub Studios, London, UK. 15-17 November 2011: New African Diaspora Christianity. Mission of the Church Lecture Series. Emmanuel College, Johnson City, TN. USA. 3-4 February 2011: Deconstructing indigenous African epistemologies within global religious maps of the universe. Paper read at the Writers Workshop ‘Knowledges, Frames and Locations - Explorations in Africa-Centred Epistemology’ (organised by the University of Cape Town Research Office), Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch, South Africa. 11 January 2011: Keynote lecture ‘Spirit on the Move: Spirit and Spirituality in African Christianities’. Annual Conference of the Scottish Church Theology Society, Crieff Hydro, Scotland, UK. 8-10 December 2010: General Panels Discussant at the International Conference “African Churches in Europe - Mediating Imaginations”, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels. Belgium.
. 1-2 November 2010: Chairing the Indigenous Religions Group session at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Atlanta Georgia, USA. . 30 October 2010: The Glocal Face of a new African Religious Movement: The Case of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). Paper read at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Conference’, G-8 Thematic Session on “Religious and Social Movements around the World”. City Sheraton Hotel, Baltimore, MD, USA. . 15-22 August 2010: Globalizing African religious culture in a run-away world. Paper read in the Panel: Interpreting Globalization: Is there a Global Culture of Contemporary Religious Movements? XXth International Association for the History of Religions Quinquennial World Congress ‘Religion: A Human Phenomenon’, University of Toronto, Toronto. Canada. . 12-15 August 2010: Panelist, ‘Author-Meets-Critic Session’. Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. . 11-17 July 2010: International Sociological Association Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden. . 2-6 June 2010: Convener: Parallel sessions ‘Christian Communities in Contemporary Contexts’ at the Edinburgh 2010 - Centenary of the 1910 World Missionary Conference, Pollock Halls, University of Edinburgh, UK.
20 . 6-8 April 2010: God Became an African? Towards Historicizing Reverse Mission. Paper read at the British Sociological Association Reading Group on Religion (SOCREL) Conference 'The Changing Face of Christianity in the 21st Century', University of Edinburgh, UK. . 16-20 January 2010: Sacralizing a Motorway! The Ecological and Social Import of Religious Emplacement and Competition in western Nigeria. Paper read at the African Association for the Study of Religion Regional Conference ‘Religion, Environment and Sustainable Development’, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. . 28-29 December, 2009: God is an African? Decolonization and Religion in Africa. International Conference “Fifty Years to European Decolonization in Africa”, Ben Gurion University, Beer sheva, Israel. . 11-12 December 2009: Visualizing God Online: New Religious Imaginaries, Media Emplacement and Religious Mobility in Africa and the African Diaspora. Paper read at the ‘Religion and Mobility in Africa and in the African Diaspora’ Conference. Organized by the Belgian Association of Africanists and the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren. Belgium. . American Academy of Religion, Nov. 2009, AAR Montreal, Canada . 7-8 November 2008: ‘We are Citizens of Heaven! Discourses of Citizenship within African-led churches in the UK’. Paper read at the ‘Transnational Citizenship and the African Diaspora Conference’. University of Calgary, Canada. . 1-3 November 2008: ‘Digitizing God and Mediatizing Religion: African religiosity and media appropriation in trasnational spaces’. Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Religion, Chicago, USA. . 10-11 October 2008: ‘Show me your friend and I will tell you who you are! Negotiating Fluid Pentecostal Identities in the African religious Diaspora.’ Paper read at the International Conference on ‘Religion and Religious Identities in Africa and the African Diaspora’, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA. . 25-27 September 2008: ‘I am an African with a British Passport: Reconstructing Citizenship within the new African religious Diaspora’. Paper read at the ESRC End-of-Award Conference ‘Beyond Plurality in the African Diaspora: Ethnicity, Congregation, Networking and Citizenship’, Keele University, UK. . 5-8 September 2008: ‘Towards a Christian Disneyland! Emplacement and the Politics of Religious Place-making in the new African Diaspora’. Paper read at the First ISA Forum of Sociology, Sociological Research and Public Debate, Barcelona, Spain.
21 . 31 July – 2 August 2008: ‘The Rhetoric of Reverse Mission: African Christianity and the Changing Dynamics of Religious Expansion’. Paper read at the Association for the Sociology of Religion 70th Annual Conference, Boston, MA, USA. . 17 July 2008: ‘Declaring War, Making Peace: Religion and Social Order in Contemporary Africa’. Guest Lecture, Summer Academy 2008 “Religion and Order in Africa”, University of Bayreuth, Germany. . 15 July 2008: ‘Religious Capital and the Ambivalences of Conflict and Order in African Public Spheres’ Guest Lecture, Summer Academy 2008 “Religion and Order in Africa”, University of Bayreuth, Germany. . 27-28 June 2008: ‘Fighting for God or Fighting in God’s Name! The Politics of Religious Violence in contemporary Nigeria’. Paper read at the International Conference ‘Religionskonflikte: Zur lokalen Topografie eines Globalisierungs- phänomens’ University of Salzburg, Austria. . 23-24 May 2008: ‘What (Who) is Migration Good for? African Christianity and New Dynamics of Migration’. Paper read at the Colloquium “The Significance of African and Asian Christianity”, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool. UK . 15-16 February 2008: Towards a Christian Disneyland? Negotiating Space and Identity in the New African Religious Diaspora’. Paper read at the Center for African Studies, Gwendolen M. Carter Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. . 14 February 2008: ‘Religions on the Move? Africans and the Making of Global Religions’. Public Lecture presented at the Africana-New World Studies Program Series, Florida International University, Miami. USA. . 17-20 November 2007: ‘Because He Lives, I can face tomorrow! Narratives of Empowerment and Identity grid-making within new African immigrant religiosity’. Paper read at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA. . 27 September 2007: ‘Europe as a Prodigal Continent! Contesting mission and emergent theologies through the prism of new African Christianity’. Paper read at the Conference ‘South moving North: Theological implications of the shift of Christianity’s centre of gravity’ Jacobikerk, Utrecht. The Netherlands. . 26 September 2007: ‘The Rhetoric of Reverse Mission: African Christianity and the changing dynamics of religious expansion in Europe’ Guest Lecture presented at the Conference “South moving North: revised mission and its implications” Protestant Landelijk Dienstencentrum, Utrecht. The Netherlands.
22 . 3-6 September 2007: ‘Doing Things with Words: African immigrant religiosity and the dynamics of ritual experience’. Paper read at the British Association for the Study of Religion Annual Conference ‘Religious Experience in Global Contexts’, School of Divinity, The University of Edinburgh, UK.
. May 4-5, 2007: ‘To God Be the Glory! Home Videos, Art Symbology and Religio- Cultural Identity in contemporary African Christianity’. Paper read at the 2007 Mbanefo Foundation Conference ‘Interrogating African Modernity: Art, Cultural politics and Global Identities’. University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.. . April 26-28, 2007: ‘Fluid Identities, Idioms of Cultural Parallax: African Religious Communities in Global Contexts’. Paper read at the “Agency and Changing Worldviews in Africa” Symposium of the SFB560/FK, University of Bayreuth, Germany. . March 28 – April 1, 2007: ‘Ranks and Robes: Art Symbology, Identity in the Celestial Church of Christ in Diaspora-Europe’. Paper read at the “Christian Art in Africa and the African Diaspora Panel” of the 14th Triennial Conference on African Art. Gainesville, Florida. USA. . March 23-25, 2007: ‘Traversing the United Kingdom of God: The transnationalization of the new African religious diaspora’. Paper read at the International conference “African Christianity and the Neo-Diaspora at the Luther Seminary, St. Paul. MN (USA). . November 18-21, 2006: Chair, African Religions Group – African Indigenous Religions in the Twenty-First Century, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA. . November 16-19, 2006: ‘Out of Africa, Back to Africa! The Transnationalization of the New African Religious Diaspora’, Paper read at the African Studies Association 49th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA. . 5-7th October, 2006: ‘Will a Man Rob God? African Pentecostal rhetoric, transnationalism and the reconfiguring of a global religious economy’. Paper read at the ‘Spirit in the World: An International Conference on the Dynamics of Pentecostal Growth and Experience’. University of South California, Los Angeles, USA. . 23-29 July, 2006: ‘It is not yet over until it is over! Locating new African Pentecostalism in Diaspora between religious trans-nationalism and internationalism’. Paper read at the World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa.
23 . November 19-22, 2005: Up, Up Jesus! Down, Down Satan! African Religiosity in the Former Soviet Bloc: The Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations. Paper read at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Philadephia, USA. . November 17-20, 2005: Health is Wealth, Poverty is a Curse: Perspectives of Prosperity Discourse in African Pentecostalism. Paper read at the African Studies Association 48th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C, USA. . June 2-5, 2005: Dealing with Local Satanic Technology: Deliverance Rhetoric in the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries. Paper read at the CESNUR International Conference “Religious Movements, Globalization, and Conflict: Transnational Perspectives”, Palermo, Sicily, Italy. . September 25-28, 2005: Rethinking African Religions: Reflexivity and the Critique of Religion. Paper read at the “Religion and Criticism – The Critical Potential of Religions and Religious Studies”, XXVIIth Biannual Congress of the DVRG, University of Bayreuth, Germany. . July 21-22, 2005: Out of Africa, Back to Africa: The Transnationalization of African Pentecostalism in Germany. Paper read at the Workshop “African Pentecostal Churches in Germany and Africa“, Institute of Ethnology, Free University, Berlin, Germany. . April 7-8, 2005: Raising Champions, Taking Territories: African Churches and the Mapping of New Religious Landscapes in Diaspora. Paper read at “The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion” Conference, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA. . 24-30 March 2005: Why worry when you can pray to Daddy? African Churches on Spiritual Warpath in Germany. Paper read at the XIXth World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Tokyo, Japan. . 20-23 November 2004: “A Walk for Africa”: Combating the Demon of HIV/AIDS in an African Pentecostal church – the case of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. Paper read at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, USA. . 18 November 2004: “Witches need no visas to the US”: Religious mapping and the new African Diaspora. Guest Lecture at the Religious Studies Program, University of Texas at Austin, USA. . 11-14 November 2004: Appropriating Malachi Rhetoric in African Pentecostalism: The Case of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Nigeria and the US. Paper read at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting “The Power of Expression: Identity, Language and Memory in Africa and the Diaspora”, New Orleans, LA, USA.
24 . 28-30 September 2004: Spiritual terrorism beyond Borders: African Pentecostalism, Cultural Synthesis within Local-Global Space. Paper read at the International Conference “Questioning the New: Explorations in Processes of Cultural Syncretization in Africa and Beyond”, University of Bayreuth, Germany. . 15-17 September 2004: African Instituted Churches in Europe: Continuity and Transformation. Paper read at the International Conference “African Identities and Global Christianity in 20th century”, University of Munich, Munich-Freising, Germany. . 10-12 June 2004: Doing Things on earth for heaven´s sake: Negotiated Pentecostal Identity and African religious diaspora in Germany. Paper read at the International Conference “Migration and Identity”, University of Heidelberg, Germany. . 4-6 June 2004: Demons of Poverty and Spiritual Warfare: African migrant churches and the reshaping of German religious maps. Paper read at the VAD Annual Conference, University of Hannover, Germany. . 19-22 May 2004: African Religiosity in a European Context. Paper read at the Leucorea Kolloquium “Expansion und Destruktion in Lokalen und regionalen Systemen koexistierender Religionsgemeinschaften”, Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. . 10 February 2004: ‘Locating African Migrant Religions and Organized Crime within local-global theaters’. Guest Lecture, Harvard African Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. USA. . 30 October – 2 November 2003: The 419 Code as Business Unusual? Youth and the unfolding of the Advance Fee Fraud Online Discourse. Paper read at the “Youthful Africa in the 21st Century” African Studies Association 46th Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston Massachusetts, USA. . 11-15 September 2003: Who do they think they are? Mental Images and the Unfolding of an African Diaspora in Germany. Paper read at “The Berlin-Congo Conference 1884 – The Partition of Africa and Implications for Christian Mission”, 3rd International Conference of the African Christian Diaspora in Europe, Hirschluch, Berlin. Germany. . 27-28 June 2003: Moving from comfort into combat zones: Spiritual Immunization and African migrant churches in Germany. Paper read at the “Colonial Heritage, Colonial Trauma and Reparations” Conference, Heinrich Boll Foundation, Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin. Germany.
25 . 8-10 May 2003: Are we not joint heirs? African migrant churches in Germany within local-global space. Paper read at the “The globalisation and the localisation of religion” European Association for the Study of Religions 3rd Congress & International Association for the History of Religions Special Conference, University of Bergen, Norway. . 15-17 May 2003: From House cells to Warehouse churches: African migrant churches and the politics of religious syncretism in Germany. Paper read at the “On the Margins of Religion”, International Conference of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle / Saale. Germany. . 14-16 February 2003: To be or not to be? Politics of Belonging and African Christian Communities in Germany. Interdisciplinary Conference, Iwalewa House, University of Bayreuth. Germany. . 5-8 December 2002: Moving towards an e-religion? African migrant churches and media appropriation in Europe. Paper read at the “Africa in the Information and Technology Age”, 45th Annual International Conference of the African Studies Association, Marriot Wardman Park Hotel, Washington DC, USA. . 15-17 November 2002: New Media, Old Audiences? Self-packaging and recruitment strategies in African New Religious Movements. Paper read at the Conference “The Audience of Images: Visual Publics in Africa and Beyond”. Iwalewa House, University of Bayreuth, Germany. . 23-26 September 2002: Mapping Globalization with the Lens of Religion: African Migrant Churches in Germany. Paper read at the “New Religions and Globalization: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives”, RENNER Conference, University of Aarhus, Denmark. . 20-22 June 2002: Legal Imbroglios and the Post-charismatic Fate of the Celestial Church of Christ. Paper read at the “Minority Religions, Social Change, and Freedom of Conscience”, CESNUR 15th International Conference, Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah, USA. . 23-26 May 2002: Mediated Self-Representation: African religious communities in Europe. Paper read at “Africa’s Diversity: Ending the Monologues?”, the XVII International Biennial Conference, African Studies Association in Germany (VAD e.V), University of Hamburg, Germany. . 27 March 2002: Taking Champions, Raising Territories: African New Religious Movements and their mapping of religious scopes in Europe. Guest Lecture at the Departments of History / Religious Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
26 . 8 October 2001: African (Christian) New Religious Movements and the Internet. Paper read at the Workshop on “The Impact of New Communication Technologies on the Religions in West Africa”, Iwalewa House, University of Bayreuth, Germany . 4-7 October 2001: The Use of European Traditions for the Study of Religion in Africa: West African Perspectives. Paper read at the International Interdisciplinary Conference “European Traditions of the Study of Religion in Africa” Wissenschaftszentrum der Universität Bayreuth, Schloß, Thurnau, Germany. . 26-28 September 2001: Online for God: Media Negotiation and African New Religious Movements (ANRMs). Paper read at “Popularisierung und Mediatisierung von Religion” Jahrestagung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Religionsgeschichte, Universität Leipzig, Germany. . 10-13 September 2001: Towards building Spiritual Kinship: The case of the Christian Church Outreach Mission (CCOM) in Germany. Paper read at the “Religion and Community” Annual Conference of the British Association for the Study of Religions, The Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge, UK. . 23-24 May 2001: Tomorrow´s Leaders as Leaders for Today: Youth Empowerment and African New Religious Movements (ANRMs). Paper read at the “Africa´s Young Majority: Meanings, Victims, Actors”, Centre for African Studies International Conference, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. . 19-22 April 2001: Betwixt Identity and Security: African New Religious Movements (ANRMs) and the Politics of Religious Networking in Europe. Paper read at the International Conference: “The Spiritual Marketplace. Religious Pluralism and Globalisation in the 21st Century: the Expanding European Union and Beyond” London School of Economics, London, UK. . 7-8 September 2001: African New Religious Movements in Germany. Paper read at the Conference on New Religious Movements (Oekumenische Arbeitsgruppe “Neue religiöse Bewegungen in der Schweiz), Notre Dame de la Route, Fribourg. Switzerland. . 20-22 July 2001: Engaged in the task of “Cleansing” the World: Aladura Churches in 20th Century Europe. Paper read at the International Interdisciplinary Symposium “Transcontinental links in the History of Non-Western Christianity”, Freising, Germany. . 3-7 July 2001: Globalisation and African New Religious Movements (ANRMs) in Europe. Paper read at the International Conference “Interpreting Contemporary Christianity: Global Processes and Local Identities”, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
27 . 24-25 March 2001: (with Ukah. A.) Viewing a Masquerade from different spots?: Conceptual Reflections on the “Globalisation” and “Pentecostalism” Discourses. Paper read at the Workshop on “Pentecostalism and Globalization”, University of Bayreuth, Germany. . 5-12 August 2000: Traversing Local-Global Religious Terrain: African New Religious Movements in Europe. Paper read at the XVIII Quinquennial Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Durban, South Africa. . 9-12 December 1999: Clearing New Paths into an Old Forest: Aladura Christianity in Europe. Paper read at the International Conference "From Local to Global: Rethinking Yoruba Religious Traditions for the Next Millennium" Florida International University, Miami, Florida USA. . 21-24 September 1999: Religious Pluralism and Democratic Ethos: A Comparative Perspective on Nigeria and the United States. Paper read at the 6th Annual Conference of the American Studies Association of Nigeria at Whispering Palms, Iworo-Lagos, Nigeria. . 16-20 September 1999: The Quest for Space in the global spiritual marketplace: African Religions in Europe. Paper read at the Millenial Conference of the “Partnership of African Christian Communities in Europe", Westminster College, Cambridge, UK. . 2-5 March 1999: Prayer as Action and Instrument in the Aladura Churches. Paper read at the Conference on "Prayer and Sacrifice" (Fortsetzungstatung der Fachgruppe Missions- und Religionswissenschaften), Bad Orb. Germany. . 12 February 1999: Mission from Africa: The case of the Celestial Church of Christ in Europe. Guest Lecture at the Interuniversity Institute for Missiological and Ecumenical Research, Utrecht. The Netherlands. . 8-10 October 1998: "Afrika und die Globalisierung" Afrikanistentag und Swahilikolloquium, University of Bayreuth. Germany. . 23-25 April 1998: Singing the Lord’s Song in a Foreign Land: African Immigrants and their Spiritual Dimension in Germany. Paper presented at the ‘The Significance of Cultural Unity in Diversity - Sweden’ Conference, Västeras, Sweden. . 22 April 1998: Doing Things with Water: Water as a Symbol of Life and Power in the Celestial Church of Christ. Paper presented at the Departmental Seminar, History of Religions, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. . March 27-29, 1998: ‘Debating New Religions: the German Discussion in International Perspective’, International Conference, Alte Universität (Lahntor), Marburg/Lahn, Germany.
28 . 11-13 September 1997: Old Wine in New Wine Bottles - Prophetic Experiences in Celestial Church of Christ. Paper presented at the - British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR) Annual Conference ‘Religious Experience’, Harris- Manchester College, University of Oxford, UK. . 8-11 September 1997: A Home Away from Home: The Proliferation of Celestial Church of Christ in Diaspora - Europe. Paper presented at ‘The Significance of the African Religious Diaspora in Europe’ International Conference, Tetley Hall, University of Leeds, Leeds. UK. . 7-9 August 1997: Building Bridges and Barricades in Celestial Church of Christ. Paper presented at the CESNUR’s 11th International Conference ‘Magic, Milennium and New Religious Movements’ at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. . 20-21 June 1997: The Problem of Cultural Identity in African New Religious Movements. Paper presented at the bayerischen Missions- und Religionswissenschaftler Kolloquium, Sankt Ottilien. Germany. . 17 May 1996: Founders of Prophetic Churches in Nigeria - A Historical Introduction. Paper presented at the Institut für Kirchengeschichte, Universität München, München. Germany. . 16 May 1996: Old Spirits in New Church: Prophetic Experiences in Africa. Paper presented at the Collegium Oecumenicum, Des Martin-Luther Vereins in Bayern e.V, München. Germany. . 1-4 November 1994: Civil Faith and Religious Pluralism in Nigeria. Paper presented at the eighth Annual Conference of the Nigerian Association for the Study of Religions and Education (NASRED), Federal College of Education, Zaria. Nigeria. . 2 November 1993: The place of Medicine and Healing in Aladura Christianity. Paper presented at the seventh Annual Conference of the Nigerian Association for the Study of Religions and Education (NASRED), St. Andrews College of Education, Oyo. Nigeria.
Some recent national invitations:
. 1-2 October 2010: ‘Faith on the Move! Migration and Mission in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives’ Keynote lecture at the Study Day, “A World on the Move – Migration and Mission”. Organised by World Mission Committee of Board of Overseas Affairs, Irish Council of Churches, Belfast, UK /Dublin, Ireland. . 6-7 February 2009:‘Transnational Migration and Pentecostalism in Europe’. Keynote lecture at the 4th International Conference of the European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism, University of Birmingham, UK.
29 . 25-27 September 2008: ‘I am an African with a British Passport: Reconstructing Citizenship within the new African religious Diaspora’. Paper read at the ESRC End-of-Award Conference ‘Beyond Plurality in the African Diaspora: Ethnicity, Congregation, Networking and Citizenship’, Keele University, UK. . 23-24 May 2008: ‘What (Who) is Migration Good for? African Christianity and New Dynamics of Migration’. Paper read at the Colloquium “The Significance of African and Asian Christianity”, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool. UK . 3-6 September 2007: ‘Doing Things with Words: African immigrant religiosity and the dynamics of ritual experience’. British Association for the Study of Religion Annual Conference ‘Religious Experience in Global Contexts’, School of Divinity, The University of Edinburgh, UK. . 11-13 April 2007: ‘Because He Lives, We can face tomorrow! African Christian Communities and Emergent Theologies in Europe’. Keynote speech at the ESITIS Conference ‘The Resurgence of Religion in Europe. Exploring the implications of Religious Pluralism in Europe’, Fircroft Centre, Selly Oak, Birmingham, UK. . December 7, 2006: Panelist, A Symposium: James L. Cox, A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion, New College, University of Edinburgh. . 19 October 2006: ‘Europe needs us but do not want us! – African Immigrant Religiosity and the Politics of Immigration’. Public Lecture at the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics Research Seminar, St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK. . 25 January 2006: ‘Breaking Down Devil’s Stronghold’, Possessing your Possession! African Immigrant Religiosity in Europe. Public Lecture, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Major lectures given as Key note Speaker / Guest Lecturer . 7 November 2013: Social and Spiritual Capital in the New African Christian Diaspora. Guest Lecture at the “Rethinking Religion and Identity in Africa and the Diaspora” Series, Harvard University, USA,
. 8 May 2013: Africa Speaks Lectures ‘The nexus of religion, migration and globalisation’, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.
. 18-19 April 2013: The World Mission Institute 2013 Lectures on ‘African Immigrant Churches and Mission in North America and Europe’, McCormick Theological Seminary and Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, USA.
30 . 20 February 2013: Doing Things on Earth for Heaven’s Sake: The Public and Civic Role of Religions in Nigeria and the Nigerian Diaspora. 2nd Faculty of Arts Public Lecture, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria. . 13 October 2012: ’60 Years of the Redeemed Christian Church of God and Its Global Missionary Agenda: An Evaluation’. The 2012 RCCG/CRBC Annual Academic Lecture at the 15th Graduation Ceremony of the Christ the Redeemer College, London, UK. . 18-22 June 2012: ‘Questing for the Good Things in Life: The Public Face of new African Christianities’. Keynote lecture read at the Joint Conference of Academic Societies in the fields of Religion and Theology. University of Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. . 30 May 2012: ‘Plunder Hell to Populate Heaven! Pentecostalism, Religious Capital and Social Responsibility in Nigeria’ Guest Lecture at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo. Norway. . 16-17 March 2012: ‘Europe needs us but does not want us’ Christianity in the context of Migration and the African Diaspora. Keynote paper read at the Voices from the Diaspora: African and Caribbean Christianity in Britain. University of Winchester, UK . 10 March 2012: African Christianity and Mission in Britain: A Cross-cultural Critique. Keynote lecture read at the Mission in Britain: Prospects and Challenges Conference, RCCG Mission Forum, The Hub Studios, London, UK. . 15-17 November 2011: New African Diaspora Christianity. Mission of the Church Lecture Series. Emmanuel College, Johnson City, TN. USA. . 11 January 2011: Keynote lecture ‘Spirit on the Move: Spirit and Spirituality in African Christianities’. Annual Conference of the Scottish Church Theology Society, Crieff Hydro, Scotland, UK. . 20 October 2010 African Mental Images about Europe. Public Lecture “Europa und die Welt - Europa im Spiegel der Kontinente“. (Öffentliches Expertengespräch) . Institute for European History, University of Mainz, Germany. . 27 September 2010: ‘Faith on the Move: The Glocalization of African Christianities’, Keynote Lecture, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, Sweden. . 8 July 2010: The Politics of Religion, Violence and Conflict in Africa, Guest Lecture, Summer Academy 2010 “Religion and Order in Africa”, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
31 . 9 July 2010: Ritual, Order and Disorder within African immigrant religious communities in Europe, Guest Lecture, Summer Academy 2010 “Religion and Order in Africa”, University of Bayreuth, Germany. . 22-25 June, 2010: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly! Religious Vendors, Poverty and Social Capital Engineering in Africa and the African Diaspora. Keynote Lecture at the International Conference ‘Politics, Poverty and Prayer: Global African Spiritualities and Social Transformation’ Africa International University/NEGST, Nairobi, Kenya. . 3 March 2010: Say No to Premarital Sex, Keep Off the Devil’s Trap! African Pentecostalism and the Politics of Socio-religious Development from Below. Keynote lecture at the Ferguson Seminar, John and Elnora Ferguson Centre for African Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK. . 17 July 2008: ‘Declaring War, Making Peace: Religion and Social Order in Contemporary Africa’. Guest Lecture, Summer Academy 2008 “Religion and Order in Africa”, University of Bayreuth, Germany. . 15 July 2008: ‘Religious Capital and the Ambivalences of Conflict and Order in African Public Spheres’ Guest Lecture, Summer Academy 2008 “Religion and Order in Africa”, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
. 14 February 2008: ‘Religions on the Move? Africans and the Making of Global Religions’. Public Lecture presented at the Africana-New World Studies Program Series, Florida International University, Miami. USA. . 26 September 2007: ‘The Rhetoric of Reverse Mission: African Christianity and the changing dynamics of religious expansion in Europe’ Guest Lecture presented at the Conference “South moving North: revised mission and its implications” Protestant Landelijk Dienstencentrum, Utrecht. The Netherlands. . 28 March 2007: ‘I am married to Jesus! The Feminization of new African immigrant religiosity’. Guest Lecture at Brooklyn College, New York, USA. . 27 March 2007: Passion across Borders: The transnationalization of new African Christianity in glocal contexts’. Guest Lecture, New York Theological Seminary, New York, USA. . 17 January 2007: ‘African Christian communities and the negotiation of German religious landscapes’. Key note Lecture at the “Gemeinsam Kirche sein” Conference organised by the Oekumnischer Centrale der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christlicher Kirchen in Duetschland und Kirchenamt der EKD, Wuppertal, Germany.
32 . 18 November 2004: “Witches need no visas to the US”: Religious mapping and the new African Diaspora. Guest Lecture at the Religious Studies Program, University of Texas at Austin, USA. . 10 February 2004: ‘Locating African Migrant Religions and Organized Crime within local-global theaters’. Guest Lecture, Harvard African Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. USA.
Conferences/Workshop Convened/Co-convened:
Convener, ‘Indigeneity Goes Global’ Interdisciplinary Workshop, New College, The University of Edinburgh, UK (29 May 2014). Convener, ‘Religion and Sport: Past, Present and Future’. Seminar/Workshop, New College, University of Edinburgh, UK (27 March 2013). Co-Convener and Chair, International Conference Committee, 5th AASR/IAHR Regional Conference ‘Sports, Leisure, Religion and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora’, Egerton University, Njoro. Kenya (18-23 July 2012). . Convener, ISA/RC22 midterm International Conference ‘Religion, Conflict, Violence and Tolerance in Global Perspectives’, 3Js Hotels Limited, Abuja. Nigeria (January 27-31, 2012). . Convener, International Conference ‘Politics, Poverty and Prayer: Global African Spiritualities and Social Transformation’ Africa International University, Nairobi, Kenya (July 22-25, 2010) . Co-convener, The British Sociological Association’s Sociology of Religion Study Group (SOCREL) Annual Conference ‘The Changing Face of Christianity in the 21st Century’, University of Edinburgh (April 6-8, 2010) . Convener, Centre of African Studies, Annual International Conference ‘Africa in Scotland, Scotland in Africa’, (April 30 – May 2, 2009) . Convener, Commission 7: ‘Christian communities in contemporary contexts’, Towards Edinburgh 2010 Project. . Convener/Chair, Session Panel 7: Religious publics, social capital and diasporas, First International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology, Sociological Research and Public Debate, Barcelona, Spain (September 5-8, 2008). . Convener/Chair, Session Panel: ‘New Dynamics of Religious Expansion in a Globalizing World’ at the Association for the Sociology of Religion 70th Annual Conference, Boston, MA, USA (31st July – 2nd August, 2008)
33 . (with Sara Dorman) New Research on Religion and Politics in Africa. Workshop organised at the Centre of African Studies, The University of Edinburgh (19 July 2006). . (with A. Feldtkeller, R. Gerloff, K. Hock and A. Heuser) The Berlin-Congo Conference 1884 – The Partition of Africa and Implications for Christian Mission Today. Third International Interdisciplinary Conference of the African Christian Diaspora in Europe, Hirschluch, Berlin. (September 11-15, 2003). . (with Cordula Weisskoeppel) Religion in the Context of African Migration Studies (Feb. 2003). . (with Frieder Ludwig) European Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa. University of Bayreuth Conference Centre, Thurnau (October 4-7, 2001). Sponsored by Thyssen Foundation, Germany. . Pentecostalism and Globalization. Workshop organized under the auspices of the Graduate College of the Cultural Sciences, the Special Research project on Africa “Local Action in Africa in the Context of Global Influences”, University of Bayreuth and the Department of Religious Studies, University of Bayreuth, (24-25 March 2001).
. The use of new communication technologies on the religions in West Africa. Workshop organized under the auspices of the Graduate College of the Cultural Sciences, the Special Research project on Africa “Local Action in Africa in the Context of Global Influences”, University of Bayreuth and the Department of Religious Studies, University of Bayreuth, (October 8, 2001).
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NAMES AND CONTACT ADDRESSES OF THREE (3) REFEREES
Prof. Jacob K. Olupona Professor of African Religions and African-American Studies Department of African and African American Studies Harvard University 12 Quincy St. Barker Center Cambridge, MA02138, USA. Tel. (617) 496-0354 Fax. (617) 496-2871 Email: [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Berner Chair, Dept. for the Study of Religion University of Bayreuth D-95440 Bayreuth Germany. Tel. +921 554164 Fax. +921 5584 4149
Email: [email protected]
Emeritus Prof James Cox Department of Religious Studies School of Divinity The University of Edinburgh New College, Mound Place Edinburgh EH1 2LX UK Tel. +44 (0)131 650 8942 Fax. +44 (0)131 650 7952 Email: [email protected]
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