Afeosemime Adogame
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Afeosemime Unuose Adogame | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Scholar of Religion |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Bayreuth, Germany |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Religion and Society |
| Sub-discipline | World Christianity, African Christianity, African Christian diasporas, indigenous religions, new religious movements, migration and transnationalism |
| Institutions | Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Ambrose Alli 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, United States. 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]
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
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
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.[4] 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.[3] His multifaceted disciplinary engagement with World Christianity, African Christianity, and new Indigenous religious movements implores a transdisciplinary methodology in engaging with Religion across continents.
