DAAS Africa Workshop: Spirit, Movement, and the Religious Imagination: Decolonial impulses in African Pentecostal Worship

Kyama Mugambi joins the YDS faculty as an Assistant Professor of World Christianity, focusing on Africa. Prof. Mugambi comes to us from Africa International University, where he has been serving as a senior researcher and faculty member at the university’s Centre for World Christianity. He specializes in ecclesial, social, cultural, theological, and epistemological themes within African urban Christianity. His 2020 book, A Spirit of Revitalization: Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya, which traces the history of Pentecostalism in Kenya, has been hailed as a singular contribution to the fields of mission studies, world Christianity, and intercultural theology.