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Our department has highly qualified and professionally trained academic and administrative staff. To find out more about their individual research interests, or if you would like to make personal contact with someone, please click on their name in the list below for details and contact information.

For questions about Religion Studies at the University of Johannesburg and about the admissions process, please contact us by telephone (011 559-3259) or email (clouw@uj.ac.za). We invite prospective students to become part of our rich and stimulating learning and research environment!

Permanent Staff

 

NameTelephone NumberOffice NumberRoleCampusAreas of Specialization/Research
​Prof Zahraa McDonald+27 (0) 11 559 2737A-Ring Room 605Associate Professor: HODAuckland Park Kingsway CampusIslamic Education, Qualification Frameworks, Religion Education, Citizenship, RPL.
​Dr Mohamed Shahid Mathee+27 (0) 11 559 2751A-Ring Room 607Senior LecturerAuckland Park Kingsway CampusIslamic Law, Timbuktu Manuscripts (fatwas and chronicles), Social and Intellectual History; Muslim Textual Studies; Biblical Studies as Historiography.
​Prof Elina Hankela+27 (0) 11 559 2733A-Ring Room 606Associate ProfessorAuckland Park Kingsway CampusChristianity in Contemporary Contexts, Ethnographic Theology, Liberation Theologies, Religion and Social Justice (including xenophobia and migration), Qualitative Research Methods in Religion.
​Prof Eugene Baron+ 27 72 5970655A-Ring Room 608ProfessorAuckland Park Kingsway CampusLiberation Theologies, Mission Theologies and Missiology (including Narrative Missiology), Pentecostalism, Religion and Environmental Degradation (Eco-theology), Decolonial and Contextual Theologies in African Christianity.
​Ms Aaishah Lombard+2781 767 3780A-Ring Room 608LecturerAuckland Park Kingsway CampusIslamic Studies, Muslim Lived Realities in Contemporary South Africa, Islamic Liberation Theology, Religion and Social Justice, Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Methods in Religion.
​Prof Maria Frahm-Arp+27 (0) 11 559 2169/2170Library Room 305Executive DirectorAuckland Park Kingsway CampusPentecostalism in South Africa, Gender and Religion, Religion, Politics, and Economics, Prophetic Pentecostalism, Religion and Social Issues in Contemporary Africa.

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

 

NameTelephone NumberOffice NumberRoleCampusAreas of Specialization/Research
​Dr Anjofui Patience Anegub+27 784698578A-Ring Room 610Postdoctoral Research FellowAuckland Park Kingsway CampusMigration Studies, Community Development, Religion and Development, African Pentecostalism, Christianity and Social Integration.
​Dr Admire Thonje+2767 750 3715A-Ring Room 610Postdoctoral Research FellowAuckland Park Kingsway CampusSociology of Religion, Religion and Migration, African Pentecostalism, Affect Theory and Transnationalism in Religious Studies, Religion and Belonging in Marginalized Communities, and Sociology of Sport and Identity.
​Dr Ishaya Anthony+27 733199473A-Ring Room 610Postdoctoral Research FellowAuckland Park Kingsway CampusPractical Theology (especially Preaching), Religious Media, Religious Education, Ecumenism, Anglican Studies, Religion and African Socio-Political Development (e.g., AU Agenda 2063), Colonial and Postcolonial Religious Contexts.

Researchers

NameTelephone NumberOffice NumberRoleCampusAreas of Specialization/Research
​Dr George Nche+27 (0)81 076 5370A-Ring Room 610ResearcherAuckland Park Kingsway CampusReligion and Ecology, Environmental Ethics, Religion and Climate Change Communication, and African Indigenous Religion and Environmental Thought.

Tutors

NameTelephone NumberOffice NumberRoleCampusAreas of PhD Research
Ms ​Lungile Ngubane+27 (0)73 507 3577A-Ring Room 604Podcast and Social MediaAuckland Park Kingsway CampusAfrican Initiated Christianity and Liberation Theologies.
​Ms Karabo Rikhotso+27(0)812423034A-Ring Room 604TutorAuckland Park Kingsway CampusReligion and Identity Formation, and African Initiated Christianity.