Dr Ishaya Anthony

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Name: Ishaya Anthony
Location: Room 610, A-Ring, Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Contact Details:
Tel: +27 733199473

Email: ishayaa@uj.ac.za

About Dr Ishaya Anthony

Ishaya Anthony is an Anglican priest who serves as the Canon Theologian of the Diocese of Kwoi in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Ishaya is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Religion Studies. He completed a residency as the inaugural 2025 Commonwealth Theologian at Westminster Abbey in London, United Kingdom. His research interests and academic publications include practical theology (preaching), religious media, religious education, ecumenism, colonialism, Anglicanism, and African socio-political development (African Union Agenda 2063).

Qualifications:

Advanced Master’s in Ecumenical Studies, University of Geneva & Ecumenical Institute Switzerland, 2024

Joint PhD, Theological Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa and Educational Science, Ghent University, Belgium, 2023

MTh Practical Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2017

Bachelor of Divinity, Theological College of Northern Nigeria, affiliated with the University of Jos, Nigeria, 2008

Selected Publications:

I, Anthony, 2024. Reimagining Ecumenical Theology: Towards Promoting the African Union Agenda 2063. Accepted for publication by Journal of Religious and Theological Information – Taylor & Francis https://10.1080/10477845.2024.2413259

I, Anthony, S.U Lee-Shae, & K. Rutten, 2021. Media Trajectories of the Anglican Church in Nigeria from 1853-2020. Alternation Special Edition 38c pp122-151. https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38c08.

Anthony, & D.A. Forster, 2021. I Must Honestly Confess That I Am Afraid of You” Prophetic Preaching as Public Theological Engagement in a Context of Socio-Political Fear. International Journal of Public Theology 15 (2021) 369 – 384. https://doi.org/10.1163/15697320-0153000

I Anthony 2018, “New Nigeria”: A socio-religious dimension of prophetic envisioning, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 74(2).

For more publications, please visit: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hBdTmNAAAAAJ&hl=en