Afe adogame

Afeosemime Unuose Adogame (* 1964 in Ojah , Nigeria ) is a Nigerian religious scholar at the School of Divinity Institute at Edinburgh University . He is general secretary of the African Association for the Study of Religions , the African society for religious studies.

He studied at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife (Nigeria) and received his doctorate in 1998 from the University of Bayreuth . After various teaching positions at the Africa Institute of the University of Bayreuth and the Lagos State University (Nigeria), he accepted a permanent teaching position at the University of Edinburgh for religious studies and world Christianity in 2005 .

Research and Teaching

Adogame's research focus is on African Christianity in times of globalization. He examines charismatic movements and so-called independent African churches in Africa and in the diaspora . In doing so, he researches the interactions between the Western Christian mission and the religious heritage of Africa. In extensive field projects he often delivers pilot studies on current strategies of cultural self-assertion of African diaspora communities as well as on the ever more clearly manifesting African mission in Europe. His dissertation on the Heavenly Church of Christ , one of the largest independent African churches in West Africa, is the first comprehensive study of religious studies that gives insights into the complex cosmology and teaching of this church and the Aladura movement .

Fonts

• as editor with Roswitha Gerloff and Klaus Hock : Christianity in Africa and the Africa Diaspora. The Appropriation of a Scattered Heritage. Continuum, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-8470-6317-5 .
• as editor with Magnus Echtler and Ulf Vierke: Unpacking the New. Critical Perspectives on Cultural Syncretization in African and Beyond (= Contributions to Africa Research. Vol. 36). Lit, Vienna et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-0719-1 .
• as editor with Cordula Weissköppel: Religion in the context of African Migration (= Bayreuth African Studies Series . No. 75). Breitinger, Bayreuth 2005, ISBN 3-927510-89-0 .
• as editor with Frieder Ludwig: European Traditions of the Study of Religion in Africa. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-447-05002-0 .
• Celestial Church of Christ. The Politics Of Cultural Identity In A West African Prophetic-charismatic Movement (= Studies on the Intercultural History of Christianity. Vol. 115). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1999, ISBN 3-631-34849-5 (also: Bayreuth, University, dissertation, 1998).

Web links

• Adogame at the University of Edinburgh ( Memento June 21, 2009 on the Internet Archive )
• Complete list of publications ( Memento from November 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )