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Dr. phil. Asonzeh Ukah

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Ukah

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Raum:212 (Hugo-Rüdel-Str. 10)
Telefon:+49 (0)921/55-5431
Fax:+49 (0)921/55-844149
E-Mail:asonzeh.ukah@uni-bayreuth.de

Research Interest and Competence

Religion and Globalisation; Transnational Religion; Media and Material Culture of African Pentecostalism; Popular Culture of Pentecostalism; Pentecostal Advertising; Images of Religion in the Media; Audiences of Religious Images and Media in Africa; Religion, Health and Healing Processes in Africa; History and Taxonomy of Pentecostalism in Nigeria; Faith and Films.

Field Research Experiences:

Nigeria (1998-1999), Ghana (2000; 2002), Nigeria (2001; 2002; 2005; 2006), Germany (2000-2007), England (2004), Uganda (2004), Cameroon (2005),  Lesotho (2006) and South Africa (2007; 2008; 2009; 2011).

Publikationen

    Monographien
  • A New Paradigm of Pentecostal Power - The Redeemed Christian Church of God in Nigeria, New Jersey & Asmara: Africa World Press/Red Sea Press, 2008
  • The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Nigeria - Local Identities and Global Processes in African Pentecostalism, Doctoral Thesis, http://opus.ub.uni-bayreuth.de/volltexte/2004/73/pdf/Ukah.pdf., University of Bayreuth, 2003
  • Poster Publicity and Religious Proselytization - A Study of Pentecostalism in Ibadan, M.Sc. Dissertation, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1999
  • Religion and Mass Media - A Sociological Perspective, M.A. Dissertation, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1997
  • Religion and Truth-Telling - A Christian Perspective, B.A. Project, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1994
    Beiträge in Zeitschriften
  • Banishing Miracles: Politics and Policies of Religious Broadcasting in Nigeria, in: Journal of Politics and Religion, vol. V, No. 1, 2011, S. 39 - 60
  • Los Pastores Y La Responsabilidad En El Manejo De Las Finanzas en La Iglesia Pentecostal Del África Occidental, in: Antípoda, Número. 6, 2008, Enero-Junio: 41-70
  • Roadside Pentecostalism - Religious Advertising in Nigeria and the Marketing of Charisma, in: Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture, Number 2, 2008, Spring: 125-141
  • The ‘Messiah’ and His Critics - Obasanjo, Religion and Politics in Nigeria (1999-2007), in: LIWURAM: Journal of the Humanities, 2008
  • Piety and Profit - Accounting for Money in West African Pentecostalism (Part 2), in: Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif, Vol., 48 Nrs 3 & 4 September & December, 2007, S. 633 - 648
  • Piety and Profit - Accounting for Money in West African Pentecostalism (Part 1), in: Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif, vol. 48 Nrs 3 & 4 September & December, 2007, S. 621 - 632
  • Branding God - Advertising and the Pentecostal Industry in Nigeria, in: LIWURAM: Journal of the Humanities, vol. 13, 2006, S. 83 - 106
  • Los Expertos en religión Y La Producción de Un Conocimiento (Religioso) Translocal - El Caso De La Iglesia Critiana Redimida De Dios (RCCG), Nigeria, in: Antipoda, Número 2, 2006, Enero – Junio: 179-207
  • Globalisation of Pentecostalism in Africa - Evidence from the Redeemed Christian Church of God, in: IFRA Ibadan Special Research Issue, vol. 1, 2005, S. 93 - 112
  • Conference Report - African Christianity in the 21st Century, in: African Association fort he Study of Religion (AASR) Bulletin no. 22, November, 2004, S. 11 - 12
  • Advertising God - Nigerian Christian Video-Films and the Power of Consumer Culture’, in: Journal of Religion in Africa, vol. XXX/2, 2003, S. 203 - 231
  • ’Werbung für den Rechten Glauben’, in: IFA: KulturAustauch 53, Nr. 3, 2003, S. 36
  • mit Deji Ayegboyin: Taxonomy of Churches in Nigeria - A Historical Perspective’, in: Orita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies, XXXIV/1-2 June & December, 2002, S. 68 - 86
  • mit Deji Ayegboyin: Typology of Christian Traditions in Nigeria, in: Castalia, vol. 5 (1), 2001
    Beiträge in Sammelbänden
  • Die Welt erobern, um das Himmelreich zu errichten. - Pfingstkirchen, Prayer Camps und Stadtentwicklung in Lagos, in: MetroZone (Hrsg.) , Urban Prayers. Die weltweite Renaissance religiöser Bewegungen in den Metropolen, Berlin: Assoziation A und metroZone, 2011, S. 109 - 127
  • God Unlimited: Economic Transformations of Contemporary Nigerian Pentecostalism, in: Lionel Obadia, Donald C. Wood (Hrsg.) , Economics of Religion: Anthropological Approaches (Research in Economic Anthropology), Vol. 31, London: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011, S. 187 - 216
  • Mediating Armageddon - Popular Christian Video-Films as a Source of Conflict in Nigeria, in: James Howard Smith, Rosalind I. J. Hackett (Hrsg.) , Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, S. 209 - 239
  • mit Afe Adogame PhD: Viewing a masquerade from different spots? Conceptual Reflections on the ?Globalization? and ?Pentecostalism? discourses, in: Afe Adogame (Hrsg.) , Who is Afraid of the Holy Ghost? Pentecostalism and Globalization in Africa and Beyond, Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2011, S. 11 - 36
  • God@eBay: - Nigerian Churches in South Africa, in: David Ogungbile & Akintunde E. Akinade (Hrsg.) , Creativity and Change in Nigerian Christianity, Lagos: Malthouse Press Limited, 2010, S. 333 - 348
  • mit Magnus Echtler: Born-again witches and videos in Nigeria, in: David Westerlund (Hrsg.) , Global Pentecostalism. Encounters with Other Religious Traditions, London: Tauris Verlag, 2009, S. 73 - 92
  • Contesting God - Nigerian Pentecostals and their Relations with Islam and Muslims, in: David Westerlund (Hrsg.) , Global Pentecostalism: Encounters with Other Religious Traditions, London and New York: I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2009, S. 93 - 114
  • Reverse Mission or Asylum Christianity? - African Christian Churches in Britain, in: Toyin Falola & Augustine Aguwele (Hrsg.) , Africans and the Politics of Popular Cultures, Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2009, S. 104 - 132
  • Seeing is more than Believing - Poster and Proselytization in Nigeria, in: Rosalind I.J. Hackett (Hrsg.) , Proselytization Revisited: Rights Talk, Free Markets and Culture Wars, London: Equinox Publishing Limited, 2008, S. 167 - 198
  • Mobilities, Migration and Multiplication - The Expansion of the Religious Field of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Nigeria, in: Afe Adogame & Cordula Weissköppel (Hrsg.) , Religion in the Context of African Migration Studies, Bayreuth African Studies Series, Bayreuth, 2005, S. 317 - 341
  • The Local and the Global in the Media and Material Culture of Nigerian Pentecostalism, in: Laurent Fourchard, André Mary & René Otayek (Hrsg.) , Entreprises religieuses transnationales en Afrique de l’Ouest, Paris: Karthala & Ibadan: IFRA, 2005, S. 285 - 313
  • ’Those Who Trade with God Never Lose’ - The Economics of Pentecostal Activism in Nigeria, in: Toyin Falola (Hrsg.) , Christianity and Social Change in Africa: Essays in Honor of John Peel, Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2005, S. 251 - 274
  • Pentecostalism, Religious Expansion and the City - Lesson from the Nigerian Bible Belt, in: Peter Probst & Gerd Spittler (Hrsg.) , Resistance and Expansion: Explorations of Local Vitality in Africa, Münster: Lit, 2004, S. 415 - 441
  • Religiös Propaganda in Afrika, in: Dieter Kramer & Wendelin Schmidt (Hrsg.) , Plakate in Afrika, Frankfurt/M.: Museum der Weltkulturen, 2004, S. 83 - 88
  • Reklame für Gott - Religiös Werbung in Nigeria, in: Tobias Wendl (Hrsg.) , Afrikanische Reklamekunst, Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag GmbH, 2002, S. 148 - 153
    Weitere Titel
  • Book Review: Terence Ranger O. (ed.), Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=22993, in: H-Pentecostalism, H-Net Reviews, 2009
  • Book Review: Harmione Harris, Yoruba in Diaspora - An African Church in London (New York: Macmillan Palgrave, 2006), in: Pneuma: Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, vol. 30, 2008, S. 178 - 179
  • African Christianities - Features, prospects and Problems, http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/workingpapers/AP79.pdf, 2007
  • mit Yann Lebeau, Ifeanyi Onyeonoru: Science in Africa at the Dawn of the 21st Century - Country Report on Nigeria, http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers07-09/010033552.pdf, 2000

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Curriculum Vitae

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Earned Degrees and Qualifications

2004 Dr. phil., (Magna cum Laude) History of Religions, University of Bayreuth, Germany
1999   M.Sc. Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
1997 M.A. Sociology of Religion, Department of Religious Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
1994 B.A. Comparative Religion (1st Class Hons), Department of Religious Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Academic Prizes and Scholarships

1997 University of Ibadan Post-Graduate Scholarship Award
1995   University of Ibadan Post-Graduate Scholarship Award
1994 Faculty of Arts Best Student Prize
1994 Department of Religious Studies Best Student Prize
1994   The Bishop Kale Prize for the Best Graduate of Religious Studies of the Year
1994   The Chief T. T. Solaru Prize for the Best Original Essay

Academic Employment

2008
January – Present		 Research Fellow/Lecturer, Department for the History of Religions, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth/Germany
2007 July –
2007 December		 Guest Professor, Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth/Germany
2005 September –
2007 June		 Research Fellow (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), The Department for the History of Religions, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany. (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Sonderforschungsbereich/Forschungskolleg 560). University of Bayreuth/Germany
2005 June – August Guest Lecturer, Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth/Germany
2000 September –
2004 February		 Teaching/Research Assistant, The Department for the History of Religions, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany. (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Sonderforschungsbereich/Forschungskolleg 560)
2000 Research Consultant, Religious Institutions and Women's Reproductive Health/Rights Education: Religious Communication Strategies for Reproductive Health Promotion in Ibadan, (MacArthur Foundation Sponsored Project) Directed by Aminu Francis Taiwo, Ph.D.
2000 Research Fellow, Institute de Recherche pour le Development, (IRD) Paris, Project on Science in Nigeria: Institutions, Potentials, and Research Strategies, Directed by IFRA - Ibadan Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, Feb.-July
1999 Research Consultant, Church Peer Education: Reproductive Health in Rural Annangland, Ikot- Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, nigeria. Directed by Dr. Anthonia M. Essien (Rev. Sr.), Dept of Religious Studies, University of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
1998 Research Officer, for the project on The Media and New Religious Publics in Yorubaland, Directed by Profs. Karin Barber & Paolo Farias, Centre for West African Studies, University of Birmingham and Profs. JDY Peel & Louis Brenner, SOAS, University of London; supervised by Dr. Ruth Marshall-Fratani and Prof. Matthews A. Ojo, Department of Religious Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
1997 Lecturer, General Studies Programme, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
1994/95 Lecturer, Department of Christian Religious Studies, Federal College of Education (Special) Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria

 

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