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Afe Adogame is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society at Princeton Theological Seminary. He holds a PhD in Religious Studies, specializing in History of Religions and Sociology of Religion, from the University of Bayreuth, Germany (1998), an MA in Religious Studies from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (1992), and a BA Honours (Second Class Upper Division) in Religious Studies from Bendel State University, Ekpoma, Nigeria (1987). His academic career includes positions as Associate Professor of World Christianity and Religious Studies and Director International at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh (2011-2015), Assistant Professor there (2005-2010), Lecturer/Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bayreuth's Department for the Study of Religion (1998-2005), and earlier roles at institutions in Nigeria such as Lagos State University and Obafemi Awolowo University. He also serves as Professor Extraordinaire at Stellenbosch University, South Africa (2016-2026), and has held visiting professorships at the University of South Africa, University of Bayreuth, and University of Ghana.

Adogame's research centers on new dynamics of religious experiences and expressions in Africa and the African diaspora, with particular emphasis on African Christianities and new indigenous religious movements, and the intersections between religion, migration, globalization, politics, economy, media, and civil society. A leading scholar in these areas, he has authored key books including Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), The African Christian Diaspora: New Currents and Emerging Trends in World Christianity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), and Celestial Church of Christ: The Politics of Cultural Identity in a West African Prophetic-Charismatic Movement (Peter Lang, 1999). He has edited or co-edited over twenty volumes, such as The Routledge Handbook of Megachurches (Routledge, 2024), Topographies of African Spirituality (Routledge, 2025), and Religion Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Religious and Social Dynamics in Africa and the New African Diaspora (Brill, 2010). His contributions have shaped scholarship on world Christianity and African religions. Adogame has secured major funding, including $2.4 million from the Templeton Religion Trust as Project Chair and co-Director for “Engaging African Realities: Integrating Social Science within African Theology” (2021-2024), $1.9 million from the John Templeton Foundation as Regional Project Leader for Africa on “Modernization, Megachurches and the Urban Face of Christianity in the Global South” (2020-2022), and a $70,000 PTS Trustee Fund grant for “Faith and Food: The Intersectionality of Belief, Politics, Security and Human Flourishing” (2024).