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Afeosemime Adogame

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Afeosemime Unuose Adogame
OccupationReligious Scholar
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Bayreuth, Germany
Academic work
DisciplineReligion and Society
Sub-disciplineWorld Christianity, African Christianity, African Christian diasporas, indigenous religions, new religious movements, migration and transnationalism
InstitutionsObafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Bendel State University, Ekpoma. Nigeria The University of Edinburgh University of Bayreuth

Princeton Theological Seminary

Afeosemime (Afe) Adogame is a Nigerian scholar and the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society at Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, USA. Afe is also a professor extraordinaire at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.[1][2] He is currently the chair of the Religion and Society at Princeton Theological Seminary.[1]

Education

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Adogame holds a PhD from the University of Bayreuth, Germany in History of Religions under the supervision of Ulrich Berner.[3] He received a bachelor's degree in Religious Studies from Bendel State University, Ekpoma, now Ambrose Alli University, and a master's in Religious Studies from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Career

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Adogame is currently the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society at Princeton Theological Seminary and professor extraordinaire at the Stellenbosch University, South Africa.[2][4] He was chair of the History and Ecumenics Department at Princeton Theological Seminary. He taught at the Department of Religions, University of Lagos, Nigeria, between 1998 and 2002. He later returned to the University of Bayreuth where he served as lecturer and senior research fellow before joining the University of Edinburgh in 2005.[5]

Research

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Afe Adogame researches world Christianity, African Christianity, and African Christian diasporas, interrogating multiple intersections that affect lived religion.[6][7] His research focuses on religious experiences in Africa, the African diaspora, and World Christianity.[8] He interrogates new dynamics of lived religious experiences in Africa and the African diaspora, especially the intersections of religion, migration and transnationalism, reverse mission, new religious movements, indigenous religions, globalization, politics, economy, media, and civil society.[9] His multifaceted disciplinary engagement with World Christianity, African Christianity, and new Indigenous religious movements implores a transdisciplinary methodology in engaging with Religion across continents.

Grants and Awards

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Selected Works

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Monographs

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  1. Adogame, A. (2021). Indigeneity in African religions: Oza worldviews, cosmologies and religious cultures. Bloomsbury Publishing.
  2. Adogame, A. (2014). The African Christian Diaspora: New Currents and Emerging Trends in World Christianity. Bloomsbury Academic.
  3. Adogame, A. (1999). Celestial Church of Christ: the politics of cultural identity in a West African prophetic charismatic movement. Lang.

Co-authored works

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  1. Adogame, A., Bauman, C. M., Parsitau, D., & Yip, J. (eds.). (2024). The Routledge Handbook of Megachurches. Taylor & Francis.
  2. Adogame, A., Aminta Arrington (eds.) (2023). Interconnectivity, Subversion, and Healing in World Christianity: Essays in Honor of Joel Carpenter. Bloomsbury.
  3. Adogame, A., Corey L. Williams, & Olufunke Adeboye, (eds) (2020). Fighting in God's Name: Religion and Conflict in Local-Global Perspectives. Lexington Books.
  4. Adogame, A., Barreto, R. C., & Da Rosa, W. P. (eds.) (2019). Migration and Public Discourse in World Christianity (Vol. 2). Fortress Press.
  5. Adogame, A., Nick J. Watson, & Andrew Parker, (eds.) (2018). Global Perspectives on Sports and Christianity. Routledge.
  6. Adogame, A., Giselle Vincett, Elijah Obinna, & Elizabeth Olson, (eds) (2014). Christianity in the Modern World: Changes and Controversies. Routledge.
  7. Adogame, A. (2014). The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora: Imagining the Religious ‘Other’ . Routledge.
  8. Adogame, A., & Lawrence, A. (eds.) (2014). Africa in Scotland. Brill.
  9. Adogame, A., Anderson Jeremiah, & Janice McLean (eds.) (2014). Engaging the World: Christian Communities in Contemporary Global Societies.
  10. Adogame, A., Ezra Chitando, Bolaji Bateye (eds.) (2013). African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora, and Gendered Societies. Essays in Honor of Jacob Kehinder Olupona. Routledge.
  11. Adogame, A., Magnus Echtler, Oliver Freiberger (eds.) (2013). Alternate Voices: A Plurality Approach for Religious Studies: Essays in Honor of Ulrich Berner. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
  12. Adogame, A. U., Chitando, E., & Bateye, B. (Eds.). (2012). African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa: Emerging Trends, Indigenous Spirituality and the Interface with Other World Religions. Essays in Honor of Jacob Kehinder Olupona. Routledge
  13. Adogame, A., & Shankar, S. (2012). Religion on the Move!: New Dynamics of Religious Expansion in a Globalizing World (Vol. 15). Brill.
  14. Adogame, A., & James V. Spickard (2010). Religion Crossing Boundaries: Transnational and Social Dynamics in Africa and the New African Diaspora. Brill.
  15. Adogame, A., Roswith Gerloff, & Klaus Hock (eds.) (2011). Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora: The Appropriation of a Scattered Heritage. Continuum.

Articles and Book Chapters

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  1. Afe Adogame, “Trumping the Devil: Engendering the Spirituality of the Marketplace within African and the African Diaspora.” Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Power, edited by Brian Steensland, Jaime Kucinkas, and Anna Sun, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 97–112.
  2. Afe Adogame and Ruth V. Amwe, “Leveraging African Spirituality and Popular Culture: Betwixt Africa and the African Diaspora” Journal for the Academic Study of Religion Special Issue: Religion, Spirituality and the New African Diaspora, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2022, pp. 242–266.
  3. Afe Adogame, “African New Religious Movements,” The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements edited by George Chryssides and Benjamin Zeller, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014: 235–252.
  4. Adogame, A. (2010). Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in a Global Perspective. The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion, 498–518.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Afe Adogame". Princeton Theological Seminary. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
  2. ^ a b "Dr. Adogame Appointed Professor Extraordinary at Stellenbosch University". Princeton Theological Seminary. 28 February 2018. Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  3. ^ "Afe Adogame". The Religious Studies Project. Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  4. ^ "Afe Adogame". Princeton Theological Seminary. Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  5. ^ "Afe Adogame". The Religious Studies Project. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
  6. ^ Bongmba, Elias (2014). "The African Christian Diaspora: New Currents and Emerging Trends in World Christianity". Religious Studies Review. 40 (1): 1 – via Ebscohost.
  7. ^ Ugba, Abel (2015). "The African Christian Diaspora: New Currents and Emerging Trends in World Christianity, written by Afe Adogame". Journal of Religion in Africa. 43 (3–4): 338–339. doi:10.1163/15700666-12340056 – via Brill.
  8. ^ "Afe Adogame". Princeton Theological Seminary. Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  9. ^ "Afe Adogame". The Religious Studies Project. Retrieved August 23, 2024.
  10. ^ a b "Afe Adogame". Social Science Research council. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
  11. ^ "Past Winners:Collaborative International Research Grants". American Academy of Religion. Retrieved August 30, 2024.