UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO | BA LEVEL | S 2024

“Religion and Popular Culture”: This course introduces ways in which religion and popular culture interact with a focus on experiential learning in student’s everyday environments.

 

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO | BA/MA LEVEL | F 2023

“Words and Worship in Christian Cultures”: In this course, instructed by Simon Coleman, I taught a session on the “The power of words: Pentecostal performative use of language”.

 

GOETHE UNIVERSITY | BA/MA LEVEL | S 2021

“African Indigenous Religious Traditions: Yoruba Religion”: The course introduced African Indigenous Religious Traditions with a focus on Yoruba Religion. Next to studying the complex net of religious practices within the system of Yoruba Religion, the course aimed to discuss Yoruba Religion in relation to current art perspectives.

 

GOETHE UNIVERSITY | BA/MA LEVEL | W 2020/21

“Glocal Pentecostalism”: The course introduced global Pentecostal movements, their historical genesis, and characteristics with a focus on African Pentecostal Movements. Empirical investigations were conducted in local Pentecostal communities that came with the introduction of qualitative research methods.

 

GOETHE UNIVERSITY | BA/MA LEVEL | S 2020

“Qualitative Research Methods in the context of Digital Religion”: The course introduced qualitative research methods with a focus on Participant Observation and Narrative Interview. An exploration in the context of digital religion gave students the opportunity to practice their method skills.

RESEARCH ARTICLES

 

[Forthcoming] Omokanye, Sophia (2024). Pentecostalism 2.0. Exploring the relationship between space, mobility, and sound as a trained Catholic theologian. Journal of Anthropological Research.

 

[in Press] Omokanye, Sophia (2024). Mobilitätsdynamiken nigerianischer Pfingstkirchen im Kontext transnationaler Netzwerke und prosperitätstheologischer Narrative [Nigerian Pentecostal Mobility in the context of Transnational Networks and Prosperity Narratives]. In: M. Delgado. & F. Gmainer-Pranzl (eds.), Religionen und Identitäten in Europa: Spannungsfelder und Wechselwirkungen (SID 24), Berlin: Peter Lang. 

 

[Forthcoming] Omokanye, Sophia (2024). Forschungstrend interdisziplinär. Vernetzungsmöglichkeiten und Herausforderungen interdisziplinären Arbeitens zwischen interkultureller Theologie und qualitativer Sozialforschung [Interdisciplinary Research Trends. Networking opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinary approaches between Intercultural Theology and Qualitative Social Research]. In: B. Bussmann & F. Gmainer-Pranzl (eds.), Wissenskulturen. Stile, Methoden und Vermittlung von Wissenschaft (SID 22), Berlin: Peter Lang. 

 

Omokanye, Sophia (2022). Identity-making in Nigerian Pentecostal networks. In: P. Jablonska & P. Szuppe, Around the concept of Religious Freedom. Warsaw: University Center for Religious Freedom Research, 179-192. 

 

Kremser, Sophia (2018). Christlich-islamische Beziehungen im europäischen Kontext [Christian-Muslim relations in the European context]. Studienwoche für Studierende und junge WissenschaftlerInnen. Cibedo-Beiträge. Zum Gespräch zwischen Christen und Muslimen 2,80-81. 

 

Kremser, Sophia (2018). Pourquoi? Des facteurs du terrorisme à caractère religieux. Kanien (6), 34-44. 

 

SCHOLARLY BOOK REVIEWS

 

Genese einer Religion. Der Kimbanguismus und sein Abschied von der Ökumene, Benjamin Simon, Anthropos 119 (1) (June 2024).

 

Breaking the Master’s S.H.I.T Holes. Doing Theology in the Context of Global Migration, Musa Dube & Paul Leshota. Theologische Literaturzeitung 147 (12), 1237-1238.

TORONTO, CANADA | 2023
Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA): “Transitions”. Panel: Transitions in the Anthropology of Global Christianity: The Next Generation?“ Presentation Title: Exploring Christian Heterogeneity and Place-making strategies of Nigerian Pentecostalism.

 

MONTRÉAL, CANADA | 2022
28th Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference (AGIC) at the Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University: “Religion performed. Insights at the Intersections of Religiosity, Performance, and Performativity“. Presentation Title: Performing mobility identities. Tracing collective identity constructions in Nigerian Pentecostal rituals.

 

ONLINE CONFERENCE | 2021
Interdisciplinary conference University Fribourg and Salzburg: “Religionen und Identitäten in Europa: Spannungsfelder und Wechselwirkungen“. [Religions and Identities in Europe: Fields of tensions and interactions]. Presentation Title: Mobility dynamics of Nigerian Pentecostal churches in the context of transnational church networks and prosperity narratives.

 

ONLINE CONFERENCE | 2020
PhD student Conference: “Migration research in Austria – current trends and challenges”. Presentation title: Transnational migration, mobility, and religious practices of Nigerian Pentecostalism.

 

SALZBURG, AUSTRIA | 2019
Podium discussion: “Migration from Africa to Europe. Complex Drama (Africae Munus 84) – global Mobility – sign of the times?”

 

SALZBURG, AUSTRIA | 2019
Interdisciplinary Conference: Wissenskulturen. Stile, Methoden und Vermittlung von Wissenschaft. Presentation Title: Religion and Migration interdisciplinary.

 

MOROGORO, TANZANIA| 2019
International Conference: “Changes & Identity in a globalizing World”. Jordan University College. Presentation Title: Identity Constructions within African-European transnational migration processes.

 

ABIDJAN, CÔTE D’IVOIRE | 2017
International Conference: “Mondalisation et fondamentalisme religieux. Un défi pour les relations entre l‘Afrique et l‘Europe. Presentation Title: Pourquoi? Des facteurs du terrorism à caractère religieux.

 

STUTTGART, GERMANY | 2017
Participation in the study week: “Christian Muslim relations in the European context”. Paper Title: The Art of Understanding. Art as a place of interreligious dialogue.

FRANKFURT, GERMANY | 2025 ➔
Conducting digital ethnography for the research project “The Digital Space as a Field of Mission,” focusing on the intersection of intercultural theology and online cultures, Institute for Global Church and Mission.

 

TORONTO, CANADA | 2022-2023
Junior Fellow at the Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto. At the beginning of 2023, I hosted a works in progress series centered around the theme of Mobile Practices.

 

TORONTO, CANADA | 2021-2022
International Visiting Graduate Student at the Department for the Study of Religion
University of Toronto

 

FRANKFURT, GERMANY | 2020-2021
Multiple field trips for qualitative data collection on dissertation project: “(De-) constructing mobility identities. Unpacking identity construction processes along Nigerian Pentecostal narratives and performances.”

 

LAGOS, NIGERIA | 2020-2021
Multiple field trips for qualitative data collection on dissertation project: “Religion, Identities and Migration. The shaping of migration aspirations and decisions by religious practices, narratives and identity constructions of Global Nigerian Pentecostal networks.”

 

KINSHASA, DR KONGO | 2019
Research visit on the topic of Religion and Migration in the social context of Kinshasa.

 

HAIFA, ISRAEL | 2018
Research semester at the University of Haifa, Israel.
Study of the Arabic language, courses on Arab thought and culture, Arab-Israeli Relations and Refugees Mental Health.