Adriaan van Klinken
- Position
- Professor of Religion and African Studies
- Areas of expertise
- Religious studies
- [email protected]
- Faculty
- Arts, Humanities and Cultures
- School
- Philosophy, Religion and History
- Website
- Faculty profile
Countries
Nigeria, Zambia, Uganda, Kenya
My expertise is in religion as a critical part of socio-cultural and political life in contemporary African societies.
I am particularly interested in the intersections of religion, gender and sexuality, and have done extensive research on the role of religion in contestations over gender and sexual diversity, specifically in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia.
An emerging area of interest is in religion and African cultural production, as well as in religion, ecology and the environment.
Recent publications
- Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature.
- Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa.
- Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa.
- Religions in Contemporary Africa: An Introduction.