Afe Adogame
Biographic Data
| ID | 453060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Afe Adogame |
| GIVEN NAMES | Afe |
| FAMILY NAME | Adogame |
| SIGNATURE | ADOGAME A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9277-8853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Looking Back to the Future
The question of whether, how, and to what extent a church should innovate or grow seems an ambiguous one. Perhaps more complex is what shape such innovation should take, the attendant risks, and how far this can go without upending an assumed tradition. Yet, it remains a pertinent one to ask at a perceptibly secular global era in which we are in, a period characterized by the growing secularization of the church and society. Arguably, this is a t…
The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Indigenous Religions
Exciting developments in research among, with and by Indigenous scholars and communities are enriching a wide range of disciplines, methodologies and trans-disciplinary conversations. The growing field offers important insights and provocations about methods and approaches. Key issues such as relationality, decolonisation, research ethics, pedagogy and collaboration necessarily require improvements both in scholarly description and scholarly prac…
Leveraging African Spirituality and Popular Culture betwixt Africa and the African Diaspora
Ama McKinley’s article, ‘Beyoncé Serves African Spirituality in “Lemonade”’ in The Huffington Post (2016), depicts Beyoncé Knowles-Carter as ‘an artist of the Earth, using her stage and global influence to teach about the human condition, using symbology and language that is sacred and pronounced beyond a few approved circles’. This view partly epitomizes the resilience of African spirituality in the diaspora, where Beyoncé in ‘Lemonade’ invokes …
Religions, African
African religions embody the religions of the various African peoples, cultures, and societies. Since African religious collectivities are characterized by a complex diversity, it is problematic to homogenize them into a single whole. Although they are hardly monolithic, one can discern a common denominator in the affinities and dynamism that their historical specificities, cosmological traditions, and ritual dimensions exemplify. African religio…
Indigeneity in African Religions
Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and use of archival sources, Indigeneity in African Religions is the first book to explore the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual practice and symbolism of the indigenous Oza people in south-western Nigeria. In the context of enormous social, cultural, political, economic and religious change, the book provides crucial empirical insight. Engaging with methodological and theoreti…
The Anthropology of Evil
Global Perspectives on Sports and Christianity
This book provides a major contribution to the religious studies and theological study and understanding of sport. It explores the dialectical relationship between sports and Christianity across diverse global cultures, extending beyond a western centric perspective of Christianity. The volume contains contributions from leading experts within the field to provide ethnographic, theoretical and theological reflections on sport in Africa, Australas…
The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora
African Christianities and the politics of development from below
Religion and development are two ambiguous phenomena, yet we can map their creative interaction and intricate interconnectedness. In public discourse, ideas about development generally undermine the complex role of religion, or it is assumed that religion would be relegated to a matter of private belief in Africa, as secular states burgeoned, or even saw religion as an obstacle to development. Development was largely conceived of primarily in eco…
Christianity in the Modern World
African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe
Sighs and Signs of the Spirit
Africa in Scotland, Scotland in Africa
Christianity in the Modern World
Contents: Introduction, Giselle Vincett and Elijah Obinna Young people and golden rule Catholicism in the Philippines: the case of religiously involved Filipino students, Jayeel Serrano Cornelio The dis/embodied Church: worship, new media and the body, Tim Hutchings Refugees' encounters with Christianity in everyday life, Bereket Loul, John Willott and Simon Robinson African Christians in Scotland: contesting the rhetoric of reverse mission, Elij…
Putting God in Place! Religious continuities and mutations in classic and diasporic communities
Sociologists of religion have often focused on spiritual experiences within religious or quasi-religious organizations, which obscures possible traces of individual, collective religious and/or spiritual experiences, expressions and encounters in secular terrains and other perceptibly non-religious settings. Also less probed is whether, how and to what extent individuals consider such experiences and expressions to have an impact on their overall…
Religion on the Move!
How do religions spread in today’s world, where Christian missions have lost influence and modern nations have replaced colonial empires? Religions on the Move is a collection of essays charting new religious expansions. Contemporary evangelists may be Nigerian, Korean, Brazilian or Congolese, working at the grassroots and outside the mainstream in Pentecostal, reformist Islamic, and Hindu spiritual currents. While transportation and media provid…
Alternative Voices
The African Christian Diaspora
The last three decades have witnessed a rapid proliferation of African Christian communities, particularly in Europe and North American diaspora, thus resulting in the remapping of old religious landscapes. This migratory trend and development bring to the fore the crucial role, functions and import of religious symbolic systems in new geo-cultural contexts. The trans-national linkages between African-led churches in the countries of origin (Afri…
Professor Alexander Alistair Kee
Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in a Global Perspective
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Historical Origins Characteristics of Pentecostal Churches Changing Contours of the Religious Situation Globalization and Religious Vitality Pentecostalism within the African Context Conclusion Bibliography
Introduction
This introductory chapter accomplishes two tasks. First, it identifies seven different approaches to the study of religion and immigration, outlining the ways that each of these both reveals and limits transnational religious dynamics in the current era. Second, it summarizes each of the chapters of this book, identifying their major themes and how they, together, reveal multiple aspects of African-based transnational religious phenomena.
Religion Crossing Boundaries
The Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) is an international scholarly society that seeks to advance theory and research in the sociology of religion. The aim of Religion and the Social Order is to publish edited volumes that center around a particular set of current interests within the sociology of religion. It specifically aims to advance theory and research within this field of study. Contributors to the series will be or are expec…
How God became a Nigerian
Nigeria, the most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa with a population of some 150 million people, is an embodiment of historical, cultural, ethnic, religious, social, and linguistic affinities and diversities. Its religious landscape is highly complex and dynamic, comprising a multiplicity of religious traditions, including the indigenous religions, the various strands of Christianity and Islam, as well as newer Spiritual Science movements. …
Unpacking the New
Religion in the context of African migration
Engaging the Rhetoric of Spiritual Warfare
One of the most striking examples of African indigenous religious creativity is the Aladura, a group of churches that emerged in Western Nigeria from the 1920s and 1930s. They are so called because of their penchant for prayer, healing, prophecy, exorcism, trances, visions and dreams. The Aladura made inroads into the European religious landscape in the late 1960s and have continued to grow in numbers. This paper examines their historical develop…
HIV/Aids Support and African Pentecostalism
International and African discourses on the HIV/AIDS pandemic and intervention neglect the role of religion and religious organizations. Social science perspectives in tackling health and disease neglect religious doctrines and faith central to worldviews and praxis of religious groups. Both aspects are important for religious groups and individuals affected by HIV/AIDS. Informed by a religious studies paradigm and through the religious ethnograp…
How God became a Nigerian
Nigeria, the most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa with a population of some 150 million people, is an embodiment of historical, cultural, ethnic, religious, social, and linguistic affinities and diversities. Its religious landscape is highly complex and dynamic, comprising a multiplicity of religious traditions, including the indigenous religions, the various strands of Christianity and Islam, as well as newer Spiritual Science movements. …
Contesting the Ambivalences of Modernity in a Global Context
A Home Away From Home
Doing Things with Water
I am married to Jesus
La dynamique complexe des migrations contemporaines à l'intérieur et hors de l'Afrique, se révèle en partie dans sa féminisation croissante. Les femmes assument de plus en plus des rôles de gestion, de décision ou de direction d'industrie. Certaines fondent des Églises, sont dirigeantes ou employées religieuses officielles sur les deux rives de l'Atlantique. Comment les dynamiques de pouvoir, les relations entre hommes et femmes s'épuisent-elles,…
Moving among Those Moved by the Spirit
The religious maps of Europe and North America have been profoundly altered by the growing presence of African religious communities in a way that further challenges the secularization thesis. The paper situates the new African religious diaspora within ongoing processes of globalization and transnationalism. We seek to interrogate how religious repertoires in Africa and the diaspora establish continuities with the past as well as engage in self-…
Aiye Loja, Orun Jvile-the Appropriation of Ritual Space-Time in the Cosmology of the Celestial Church of Christ
AIYE LOJA, ORUN JVILE-THE APPROPRIATION OF RITUAL SPACE-TIME IN THE COSMOLOGY OF THE CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST BY AFE ADOGAME (Lagos State University, Nigeria) Prelude Yoruba English Awa ja, Awa ja We come to market, we come to market Awa'ja ninu Aiye (2ce) We come to market in the world (2ce) (Yoruba Hymn No. (Y.H.N.) 647/English Version (E.V.) 90) ... Bo ti wu kile aiye dun to ... No matter how sweet the world may be A o faiye sile nigbakan ..…
The 419 Code as Business Unusual
Up, Up Jesus! Down, Down Satan! African Religiosity in the former Soviet Bloc — the Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations
African religions are increasingly engaging the diaspora as new abodes and promising 'mission fields' particularly in the last decades. At least two genres of Christian movements can be clearly mapped: those existing as branches of mother churches headquartered in Africa; and those founded by new African immigrants with headquarters in diaspora, from where they are expanding within and back to Africa and elsewhere. The paper deals with an example…
Indigeneity in African Religions
Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and use of archival sources, Indigeneity in African Religions is the first book to explore the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual practice and symbolism of the indigenous Oza people in south-western Nigeria. In the context of enormous social, cultural, political, economic and religious change, the book provides crucial empirical insight. Engaging with methodological and theoreti…
A Home Away From Home
Doing Things with Water
Aiye Loja, Orun Jvile-the Appropriation of Ritual Space-Time in the Cosmology of the Celestial Church of Christ
AIYE LOJA, ORUN JVILE-THE APPROPRIATION OF RITUAL SPACE-TIME IN THE COSMOLOGY OF THE CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST BY AFE ADOGAME (Lagos State University, Nigeria) Prelude Yoruba English Awa ja, Awa ja We come to market, we come to market Awa'ja ninu Aiye (2ce) We come to market in the world (2ce) (Yoruba Hymn No. (Y.H.N.) 647/English Version (E.V.) 90) ... Bo ti wu kile aiye dun to ... No matter how sweet the world may be A o faiye sile nigbakan ..…
Aiye loja, orun nile
Traversing Local-Global Religious Terrain
Article Traversing Local-Global Religious Terrain: African New Religious Movements in Europe was published on September 1, 2002 in the journal Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft (volume 10, issue 1).
Betwixt Identity and Security
African New Religious Movements (ANRMs) are creating local-global religious networks to further their self-insertion (self-assertion) in the European religious landscape. Intrareligious engagement of ANRM members derives not so much from doctrinal affinities or leadership preferences, but from the quest for spiritual satisfaction, religious identity, and a place to feel at home. The complexity of the motives for participating in networks is due t…
Contesting the Ambivalences of Modernity in a Global Context
The Berlin-Congo Conference 1884
Engaging the Rhetoric of Spiritual Warfare
One of the most striking examples of African indigenous religious creativity is the Aladura, a group of churches that emerged in Western Nigeria from the 1920s and 1930s. They are so called because of their penchant for prayer, healing, prophecy, exorcism, trances, visions and dreams. The Aladura made inroads into the European religious landscape in the late 1960s and have continued to grow in numbers. This paper examines their historical develop…
Moving among Those Moved by the Spirit
The religious maps of Europe and North America have been profoundly altered by the growing presence of African religious communities in a way that further challenges the secularization thesis. The paper situates the new African religious diaspora within ongoing processes of globalization and transnationalism. We seek to interrogate how religious repertoires in Africa and the diaspora establish continuities with the past as well as engage in self-…
Raising Champions, Taking Territories
The African diaspora as an academic field of study has grown considerably in recent years and scholarship on the subject is burgeoning, particularly in the United States. An emphasis upon the earliest phase of migration dominates the literature. Until recently, however, the contemporary phase of African migration—now described as the second phase of African diaspora—has not attracted much scholarly scrutiny. To what extent can the African communi…
HIV/Aids Support and African Pentecostalism
International and African discourses on the HIV/AIDS pandemic and intervention neglect the role of religion and religious organizations. Social science perspectives in tackling health and disease neglect religious doctrines and faith central to worldviews and praxis of religious groups. Both aspects are important for religious groups and individuals affected by HIV/AIDS. Informed by a religious studies paradigm and through the religious ethnograp…
Up, Up Jesus! Down, Down Satan! African Religiosity in the former Soviet Bloc — the Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations
African religions are increasingly engaging the diaspora as new abodes and promising 'mission fields' particularly in the last decades. At least two genres of Christian movements can be clearly mapped: those existing as branches of mother churches headquartered in Africa; and those founded by new African immigrants with headquarters in diaspora, from where they are expanding within and back to Africa and elsewhere. The paper deals with an example…
I am married to Jesus
La dynamique complexe des migrations contemporaines à l'intérieur et hors de l'Afrique, se révèle en partie dans sa féminisation croissante. Les femmes assument de plus en plus des rôles de gestion, de décision ou de direction d'industrie. Certaines fondent des Églises, sont dirigeantes ou employées religieuses officielles sur les deux rives de l'Atlantique. Comment les dynamiques de pouvoir, les relations entre hommes et femmes s'épuisent-elles,…
African Christians in a Secularizing Europe
African immigrants are contributing to the shape of Christianity in Europe by establishing independent church groups. This paper examines some of the historical and sociological factors behind the growth of such African Churches in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands and other European countries. It is suggested that the African immigrant communities from which African churches are growing in postcolonial Europe contribute to the…
The 419 Code as Business Unusual
Ranks and robes
The Celestial Church of Christ (CCC) represents one of the most popular African-instituted churches with a geo-ethnic, demographic spread in Africa and the African diaspora. Since its debut in Europe in the late 1960s, the new cultural context has posed significant challenges of expansion, mobility, and social relevance to the Church and its members. The CCC is often negotiating between resilience, change, and transformation of its ethos, worldvi…
Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in a Global Perspective
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Historical Origins Characteristics of Pentecostal Churches Changing Contours of the Religious Situation Globalization and Religious Vitality Pentecostalism within the African Context Conclusion Bibliography
Introduction
This introductory chapter accomplishes two tasks. First, it identifies seven different approaches to the study of religion and immigration, outlining the ways that each of these both reveals and limits transnational religious dynamics in the current era. Second, it summarizes each of the chapters of this book, identifying their major themes and how they, together, reveal multiple aspects of African-based transnational religious phenomena.
Religion Crossing Boundaries
The Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) is an international scholarly society that seeks to advance theory and research in the sociology of religion. The aim of Religion and the Social Order is to publish edited volumes that center around a particular set of current interests within the sociology of religion. It specifically aims to advance theory and research within this field of study. Contributors to the series will be or are expec…
How God became a Nigerian
Nigeria, the most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa with a population of some 150 million people, is an embodiment of historical, cultural, ethnic, religious, social, and linguistic affinities and diversities. Its religious landscape is highly complex and dynamic, comprising a multiplicity of religious traditions, including the indigenous religions, the various strands of Christianity and Islam, as well as newer Spiritual Science movements. …
Professor Alexander Alistair Kee
Religion on the Move!
How do religions spread in today’s world, where Christian missions have lost influence and modern nations have replaced colonial empires? Religions on the Move is a collection of essays charting new religious expansions. Contemporary evangelists may be Nigerian, Korean, Brazilian or Congolese, working at the grassroots and outside the mainstream in Pentecostal, reformist Islamic, and Hindu spiritual currents. While transportation and media provid…
Alternative Voices
The African Christian Diaspora
The last three decades have witnessed a rapid proliferation of African Christian communities, particularly in Europe and North American diaspora, thus resulting in the remapping of old religious landscapes. This migratory trend and development bring to the fore the crucial role, functions and import of religious symbolic systems in new geo-cultural contexts. The trans-national linkages between African-led churches in the countries of origin (Afri…
Sociology (33 works) · Political science (25 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (23 works) · Gender Studies (20 works) · History (20 works) · Philosophy (20 works) · Anthropology (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Diaspora (14 works) · Politics (12 works)