Adriaan van Klinken

(he/him)

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I'm a scholar of religion and African studies. My broad interest is in the role of religion in contemporary African social, cultural and political life, with a focus on themes of gender and sexuality, ecology, and social activism.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Extraordinary Professor, University of the Western Cape
  • 2020–present
    Chair professor, University of Leeds
  • 2015–2019
    Associate professor, University of Leeds
  • 2013–2015
    Lecturer, University of Leeds

Education

  • 2011 
    Utrecht University, PhD

Publications

  • 2025
    Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature, Penn State University Press
  • 2021
    Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa (co-authored with Ezra Chitando), Hurst & Co / Oxford University Press
  • 2019
    Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa, Penn State University Press
  • 2019
    Religions in Contemporary Africa: An Introduction (co-authored with Laura Grillo and Hassan Ndzovu), Routledge
  • 2016
    Christianity and Controversies over Homosexuality in Contemporary Africa (co-edited with Ezra Chitando), Routledge
  • 2016
    Public Religion and the Politics of Sexuality in Africa (co-edited with Ezra Chitando), Routledge
  • 2013
    Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity: Gender Controversies in Times of AIDS, Ashgate

Professional Memberships

  • African Studies Association of the UK
  • African Association for the Study of Religions

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