GRADUATE RESEARCH DEGREES SUPERVISED AT THE CENTRE FOR PENTECOSTAL AND CHARISMATIC STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

Photo: Dr Jeong Chong Hee (L) and Dr Jeong Jae Yong (R) (two of the first doctoral graduates) in Seoul, Korea, September 2002.

The following research scholars have graduated under Allan Anderson's and Mark Cartledge's supervision (in chronological order). These graduates come from the UK, France, Jamaica, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Hong Kong, Korea, and the Philippines. Current students being supervised hail from the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Romania, the USA, Canada, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, and Korea.

PhD/ThD

1. ROBERT SEYMOUR BECKFORD (Anderson, Ustorf) ‘Towards a Dread Pentecostal Theology: The context of a viable political theology within Black Pentecostal churches in Britain’. PhD, 1999.

2. JERISDAN HARTNA JEHU-APPIAH (Anderson, Ustorf) ‘The African Indigenous Churches in Britain: An investigation into their theology with special reference to the Musama Disco Christo Church and the Church of the Lord (Brotherhood)’. PhD, 2001.

3. JAE YONG JEONG (Anderson), ‘Filipino Pentecostal Spirituality: An Investigation into Filipino Indigenous Spirituality and Pentecostalism in the Philippines’. ThD, 2001. (see photo above)

4. CHONG HEE JEONG (Anderson), ‘The Formation and Development of Korean Pentecostalism from the Perspective of a Dynamic Contextual Theology’. ThD, 2001. (see photo above)

5. OPOKU ONYINAH (Anderson), ‘Akan Witchcraft and the Concept of Exorcism in the Church of Pentecost’. PhD, 2002.

6. JOHN ABEDU QUASHIE (Anderson, Lartey, Lynch), ‘Caring for Akan Marriages: A Critique of the Approach to the Pastoral Care of Marriages by Selected Christian Organisations in Ghana’, PhD, 2002.

7. CLIFTON ROY CLARKE (Anderson), ‘Faith in Christ in Post-Missionary Africa: Christology among Akan African Indigenous Churches in Ghana’, PhD, 2003.

8. TIMOTHY JOHN PADWICK (Anderson), 'Spirit, Desire and the World: Roho churches of Western Kenya in the era of globalization', PhD, 2003.

9. JONG FIL (ELIJAH) KIM (Anderson), ‘Contemporary Pentecostal/Charismatic Movements in Greater Metro Manila: An analysis in the light of a double-structured religious system’, PhD, 2004.

10. RICHARD JOHN BURGESS (Anderson), ‘The Civil War Revival and its Pentecostal Progeny: A Religious Movement among the Igbo People of Eastern Nigeria (1967-2002), PhD, 2004.

11. BONG-KEUN PARK (Anderson), ‘A Pneumatocentric Soteriology: A Study of the Christ Apostolic Church against the background of the Church Missionary Society in Yorubaland, Nigeria’, PhD, 2005. 

12. MICAIAH AKINYELE OLANIYI (Anderson), ‘The meaning of religious conversion in the Christ Apostolic Church of Nigeria: Towards the incarnation of Christianity in Yorubaland’, PhD, 2007.

13. WILMA WELLS DAVIES (Anderson), ‘The Embattled but Empowered Community: Comparing understandings of Spiritual Power in Argentine Popular and Pentecostal Cosmologies’, PhD, 2007.

14. JAMES OSMAR HARRIES (Anderson), ‘Pragmatic Theory applied to Christian Mission in Africa: with special reference to Luo responses to ‘bad’ in Gem, Kenya’, PhD, 2007.

15. PHILIP CLIFFORD OWEN (Anderson), 'The Ecumenical Nature of Charismatic Renewal: A Study of Anglican and Roman Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England’, PhD, 2007.

16. HO YAN AU (Cartledge), 'Grassroots Unity and the Fountain Trust International Conferences: A Study of Ecumenism in the Charismatic Renewal', PhD, 2008.

17. GERALD WAYNE KING (Anderson), ‘Disfellowshipped: Pentecostal Responses to Fundamentalism in the United States, 1906-1943’, PhD, 2009.

18. WESSLY LUKOSE (Anderson), ‘A Contextual Missiology of the Spirit: A Study of Pentecostalism in Rajasthan, India’, PhD, 2009.

MPhil

1. KAMUKAMA, WILBERFORCE W. (Anderson), ‘The socio-religious identity crisis among Anglicans in south western Uganda’. MPhil, 1997.

2. KAVULA JOSEPHINE JOHN (Anderson), ‘The Nature and Development of Kamba Spirituality within the Context of the Growth of the Christian Church in Ukambani, 1900-2000’. MPhil, 2003

3. PIERRE PHILIPPE ROLAND GHANDI BOULA DE MAREUIL (Anderson), ‘A Historical Analysis of the Birth and Spread of Christianity among the Toba People in Argentine Chaco’, MPhil, 2003.

4. JAMES KISSI-AYITTEY (Anderson),  ‘Global Processes and local realities: The Neo-Pentecostal Movement in Ghana and Media Appropriation’, MPhil, 2005.

5. BELISANA AUGUSTUS MILES (Anderson), ‘"When the Church of God Arises”: An Analysis of the Development of the Church of God of Prophecy in the English Midlands’, MPhil, 2005.

6. ANNA LOUISE LLOYD (Anderson), ‘Manifestations of the Spirit and their ethical/religious significance: An application to the believing community in Acts and contemporary church communities’, MPhil, 2006. 

7. LORD ABRAHAM ELORM-DONKOR (Cartledge), 'The Mission of the Elim Church of Pentecost in the United Kingdom', MPhil, 2007.

8. RICHARD ALLAN (Cartledge), 'Contemporary Pentecostal Hermeneutics: Toward a Critical Realist Epistemology', MPhil, 2008.

9. JOON HO LEE (Cartledge), 'The Role of Women in Korean Pentecostalism', MPhil, 2009.

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