Prof Jörg Haustein

Selwyn College
  • MPhil in African Studies Option Course Convenor
Prof Jörg Haustein

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About

Prof Haustein joined the Faculty of Divinity in 2019 after teaching Religions in Africa at at the School of Oriental and African Studies (2013–2019), and Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology at the University of Heidelberg (2003–2013). He earned his PhD at Heidelberg with a study of Ethiopian Pentecostalism (2009), and completed his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg with a study of German colonialism and Islam in East Africa (2020).

Research

Research interests

  • Africa
  • Pentecostal
  • World Christianites

Dr Haustein's research encompasses three main fields:

  1. Pentecostal and Charismatic movements
    • Pentecostalism in Ethiopia and other parts of Africa
    • Global history of Pentecostalism
    • Theory and method in the study of Pentecostal/Charismatic movements
  2. Colonialism and religions in Africa
    • Colonialism and Islam in German East Africa
    • Christian missions and colonialism in Africa
    • Post-colonial approaches to missionary archives and colonial history of religions
  3. Religion and international development
    • History of religions and development
    • Religions and the sustainable development goals
    • Religious polarisation in Ethiopia

Teaching and supervision

Dr Haustein is the interim MPhil in African Studies Programme Director in MT 2024. He is also the co-convenor of the MPhil option course, 'Christianity, Identity, and Politics in Modern Africa: Themes & Sources' in MT 2024. 

Teaching and supervision in the Faculty of Divinity: 

  • Paper coordinator/Lecturer: World Religions in Comparative Perspective (A7)
  • Paper coordinator/Lecturer: Decolonising Christendom (C24)
  • Coordinator/Lecturer: MPhil World Christianity
  • Lecturer: Understanding Contemporary Religion (A6)
  • Lecturer: Themes in World Christianity (B7)

Research supervision: 

Topics of current and past PhD students include:

  • The reception of Chinese Christian ideas in American evangelicalism
  • Islam and Pentecostalism in communal Nigerian politics
  • The Changes and Evolution of Edi Festival in Ile-Ife From 1930 Until Now
  • The Edinburgh Missionary Society in the Caucasus: Scot Caught Between Europe and Asia
  • The End of ISEDET and the Crisis of Historic Argentine Protestantism, 1970-2015
  • Hybrid Christianity: The Creation and Development of Indigenised religion in Nias, Indonesia
  • The Evangelical debate about Christian conversion in Muslim ‘insider movements’
  • Pentecostalism and Sustainable Development in Nigeria
  • The Ecoles Franco-Arabes in Burkina Faso
  • Evangelical missions and the history of sanitation in Ethiopia
  • Methodist missions and the history of abolitionism in Sierra Leone and Liberia
  • Domestic abuse and Orthodoxy in Tigray, Ethiopia
  • Caribbean Oneness Pentecostalism in the UK
  • Missionaries and the history of ethnicity in Malawi