Former PhD Theses

The Centre is proud of the approximately 150 students who have completed PhD studies with us, both in Edinburgh and in its earlier incarnation in Aberdeen. Those marked with a diesis (‡) can be found in hard copy form in the Centre archives, although some have subsequently been digitised.

2020s

2010s

2000s

1990s

1980s

  • B. Violet James (1989), ‘American Protestant missions and the Vietnam war’ ‡
  • Robert L. Kennedy (1989), ‘Best intentions: contacts between German Pietists and Anglo-American Evangelicals 1945-54’ ‡
  • Robert L. Kennedy (1988), ‘Turning westward. Anglo-American Evangelical and Pietist interactions through 1954’ ‡
  • Gerishon N. M. Kirika (1988), ‘Aspects of the religion of the Gikuyu of Central Kenya before and after the European contact, with special reference to prayer and sacrifice’ ‡
  • Samuel S. Simbandumwe (1988), ‘Israel in two African prophet movements: an inquiry into the Mount Zion-Jerusalem concept as reflected in the aspects of hymns and prayer-songs of the Kimbangu and Shembe prophet movements’ ‡
  • Philippa J. Baylis (1987), ‘Andrew Lang and the study of religion in the Victorian era with special reference to his high god theory’ ‡
  • Murumba Jem Oguogho (1987), ‘A critique of African liberation theologies from the perspective of Latin American liberation theology and North American black theology’ ‡
  • Theodore Paul Christian Gabriel (1986), ‘Inter-religious conflict in India: the dynamics of Hindu-Muslim relations in North Malabar 1498-1947’ ‡
  • Mark Onesosan Ogharaerumi (1986), ‘The translation of the Bible into Yoruba, Igbo and Isekiri languages of Nigeria, with special reference to the contributions of mother-tongue speakers’ ‡
  • Donald John Mackay (1985), ‘The once and future kingdom: Kongo models of renewal in the Church at Ngombe Lutete and in the Kimbanguist Movement’ ‡
  • John Mason Hitchen (1984), ‘Training ‘Tamate’: formation of the nineteenth century missionary worldview: the case of James Chalmers’ ‡
  • Aaron Chikwendu Owoh (1984), ‘Church growth and self-reliance in Zambia: the indigenous United Church in Zambia’ ‡
  • Ismail bin Ab-Rahman (1983), ‘Inter-religious controversy in India; the interpretation of Jesus in theworks of Rammohun Roy and Sayyid Ahmad Khan’ ‡
  • Kwame Bediako (1983), ‘Identity and integration: an enquiry into the nature and problems of theological indigenization in selected early Hellenistic and modern African writers’ ‡
  • Amran Bin Kasimin (1983), ‘Religion and social change amongst the indigenous peoples of the Malay peninsula’ ‡
  • Gerald John Pillay (1983), ‘A historico-theological study of Pentecostalism as a phenomenon within a South African community’ ‡
  • Jonathon James Bonk (1982), ‘“All things to all men”? Protestant missionary identification in theory and in practice, 1860-1910, with special reference to the London Missionary Society in Central Africa and Central China’
  • J. R. Cabbage (1982), ‘Order and chaos in Mende religion’ ‡
  • Daniel Iwayo Ilega (1982), ‘Gideon M. Urhobo and the God’s Kingdom society in Nigeria’ ‡
  • Cyril Chukwunqnyerem Okorqcha (1982), ‘Salvation in Igbo religious experience: its relation on Igbo Christianity’ ‡
  • David A. Shank (1980), ‘A prophet of modern times: the thought of William Wade Harris, West African precursor of the Reign of Christ’ ‡

1960s–1970s

  • Michael Bame Bame (1978), ‘Pastoral care and the ontic reality of the incorporeal components of man’s being’ ‡
  • Samuel Onwo Onyeidu (1978), ‘The African lay agents of the Church Missionary Society in West Africa 1810-1850’ ‡
  • William John Roxborough (1978), ‘Thomas Chalmers and the mission of the Church with special reference to the rise of the missionary movement in Scotland’ ‡
  • Chee Pang Choong (1977), ‘Doctrinal and exegetical issues in the Hindu-Christian debate during the nineteenth century Bengal renaissance with special reference to St. Paul’s teaching on the religions of the nations’ ‡
  • James Leland Cox (1977), ‘The development of A. G. Hogg’s theology in relation to non-Christian faith: its significance for the Tambaram meeting of the International Missionary Council, 1938’ ‡
  • David Chidiebele Okeke (1977), ‘Policy and practice of the Church Missionary Society in Igboland 1857-1929’ ‡
  • Samuel Prempeh (1977), ‘The Basel and Bremen missions and their successors in the Gold Coast and Togoland, 1914-1926: a study in Protestant missions and the First World War’ ‡
  • Gabre Ammanuel Mikre-Sellassie (1976), ‘Church and missions in Ethiopia in relation to the Italian war and occupation and the Second World War’ ‡
  • Godwin Onyemaechi Mgbechi Tasie (1969), ‘Christianity in the Niger Delta, 1864-1918’ ‡
  • J. M. Orr (1967), ‘The contribution of Scottish Missions to the rise of responsible churches in India’ ‡

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Indigenous Theologies: Relationality and Lived Cosmologies on Land and Sea

Guest Editors: Rathiulung Elias KC and Elia Maggang

After the final session of the Yale–Edinburgh Conference on 23 June 2023, a group of us working on Indigenous theologies gathered under the shadow of New College on the Mound, Edinburgh, to reflect on our papers and the responses they had generated. Over the past two days, we had presented on various aspects of Indigenous theology and now sought to process both the reception and the pushbacks we had encountered. Most of us were members of RISC (Researching Indigenous Studies and Christianity), a network that was then meeting monthly online since 2022 for seminars and had cultivated a year of sustained engagement with Indigenous theological discourse. Insights from these online seminars were reaffirmed at the Conference: Indigenous theology, in its diversity and contextual specificity, challenges the fundamental assumptions of dominant Western theological frameworks. Its claims often require a basic and elemental re-evaluation of Christianity as expressed in Western theology. This raises critical questions: What makes Indigenous theology ‘indigenous’? How is it distinct from merely contextual or local expressions of Christian thought? What, precisely, does the term ‘Indigenous’ signify in theological discourse? We are grateful to the editors of Studies in World Christianity for inviting us to collate a special issue on Indigenous Theologies. This issue offers an opportune forum to bring these latent questions to the fore and to explore the cosmological, relational and ethical contributions that Indigenous theologies make to World Christianity. The articles represent a varied and textured account of Indigenous theologies from Central America and Asia; from land to sea; and across disciplines and themes.

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