Prof Eugene Baron

Professor in Christian Studies 
Name: Eugene Baron 
Location: Room 608, A-Ring, Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
Faculty of Humanities, Religion Studies Staff  Staff Members

Contact Details:
Tel: + 27 72 5970655

Email: eugeneb@uj.ac.za

About Prof Eugene Baron

Prof Eugene Baron (Ph.D.) is a Full Professor of Christian Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His academic experience spans more than a decade (since 2010) of tutoring, facilitating, and teaching and supervising at various public and private higher education institutions (UWC, UNISA, SATS, TEEC, NWU, UFS). He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), completing part of the research at the Katholieke University of Leuven in Belgium. He also obtained his BA Honours degree in Psychology at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He is both an Erasmus Mundus scholar (European Scholarship) and a South African NRF-rated researcher.

He has published more than forty (40) research outputs, both in the form of academic articles and book chapters in local and international publications. He published his peer-reviewed monograph in 2020 and has another in press, scheduled for publication in 2026. He has been appointed as Research Associate for short periods (one month) at the Protestant Theological University (PTh.U) (Netherlands) and Åbo Akademi University in Finland. He served and is currently serving in editorial positions of high-impact academic journals. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the UFS Theological Explorations book series, the former Sub-editor of Acta Theologica, the Online Editor of Missionalia (Southern African Journal of Missiology), and currently the Editor-in-Chief of HTS Theological Studies (listed on the Web of Science) and Assistant Editor of Mission Studies (published by Brill in the Netherlands), the journal of the International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS). He is also currently the Series Editor of the HTS Religion & Society Book Series at AOSIS Publishers.

He served for more than two years on the highest decision-making body (Council) of the University of the Free State, in which he represented the academic staff. He served in myriad leadership positions, i.e., Acting Head of Department (UFS), a decolonization committee member (a specialized senate committee of the University of the Free State), and Teaching and Learning portfolio manager at UNISA, and lately managing the research portfolio in the Department of Religion Studies at the University of Johannesburg. He was appointed as the first General Secretary of the African chapter of the International Association of Mission Studies (IAMS-Africa) in 2024.

His latest international book publication (in press) is with Amos Yong in the USA on Pentecostal Mission and Environmental Degradation, and his latest monograph is on mission theology, co-authored with Finnish scholar Mika Vähäkangas, that will be published during 2026 by Brill Publishers, Netherlands. His research is in the field of liberation theologies, mission theologies, Pentecostalism, and narrative missiology.

Qualifications :

• PhD (Theology) University of the Western Cape, South Africa, 2016
• MA (Theology) University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2010
• BA Honours (Psychology) University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, 2015
• BA Honours (Theology) University of the Western Cape, South Africa, 2009

Selected publications:

Baron, E. 2025. A postcolonial analysis between theological methods: Osmer and the praxis cycle. Theologia Viatorum, 49(1):1–10.

Keet, E.E. & Baron, E. 2024. Exploring the concept of Fatherhood in addressing Moral Decline of Young People: A case study on Fatherhood among Christian believers. Missionalia, 52(0):42–62.

Aldous, B.J. & Baron, E. 2024. Fresh Expressions or Expressions of Whiteness? A Black Ecclesiological Reflection on the 20th Anniversary of the Fresh Expressions of Church (FXoC) movement. Verbum et Ecclesia, 45(1):1–9.

Solomons, T.J. & Baron, E. 2024. Striving for effective social development interventions in South Africa: A conceptual assessment of religion–state partnerships. Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 10(2):1–21.

Baron, E. 2023. The Future of Black Theology of Liberation: Narrative as Epistemological resource. Verbum et Ecclesia, 45(1):1–9.

Baron, E. 2022. ‘Coloured’, you’re on your own? A dialectic between Biko’s black consciousness thought and the post-apartheid conditions of the ‘coloured’ people in South Africa. Black Theology, 20(2):125–148. (WOS).

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