J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu Explained

J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu or Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu is a Ghanaian scholar of African Pentecostalism.

Biography

Asamoah-Gyadu received a Certificate in Pastoral Ministry (1986) from Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, a BA in Religion and Sociology (1987) and a MPhil in Religion (1994) from the University of Ghana, and a PhD in Theology (2000) from the University of Birmingham. He is an ordained minister of the Methodist Church Ghana and, in 2015, was elected as a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[1] He has held teaching posts at Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon since 1994, and is currently Baëta-Grau Professor of African Christianity and Pentecostal/Charismatic Theology and, since 2018, President of the seminary.^[2]

Asamoah-Gyadu is known for his writings related to African Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity. He has also written a few articles related to digital media and digital religion.^{[3] [4]}

A festschrift has been prepared in his honor, entitled African Pentecostalism and World Christianity (2020).^[5]

Works

• Book: Asamoah-Gyadu . J. Kwabena . African Charismatics: Current Developments Within Independent Indigenous Pentecostalism in Ghana . Brill . 978-90-04-14089-9 . 2005 . en.
• Book: Asamoah-Gyadu . J. Kwabena . Contemporary Pentecostal Christianity: Interpretations From an African Context . 2013 . Wipf and Stock Publishers . 978-1-62032-898-9 . en.
• Book: Asamoah-Gyadu . J. Kwabena . Sighs and Signs of the Spirit: Ghanaian Perspectives on Pentecostalism and Renewal in Africa . 2015 . Wipf & Stock Publishers . 978-1-4982-3707-9 . en.

Further reading

• Book: Wariboko . Nimi . Afolayan . Adeshina . African Pentecostalism and World Christianity: Essays in Honor of J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu . 15 September 2020 . Wipf and Stock Publishers . 978-1-7252-6637-7 . en.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rev. Prof. Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu . Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences . 2 October 2020.
2. Web site: Opuni-Frimpong . Kwabena . Investiture of Very Rev Prof Johnson Kwabena Asamoah Gyadu as President of Trinity Theological Seminary . Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong . 2 October 2020 . 16 November 2018.
3. Asamoah-Gyadu . J. Kwabena . Anointing Through the Screen: Neo-Pentecostalism and Televised Christianity in Ghana . Studies in World Christianity . April 2005 . 11 . 1 . 9–28 . 10.3366/swc.2005.11.1.9.
4. Asamoah-Gyadu . J. Kwabena . '"Get on the Internet!" Says the LORD': Religion, Cyberspace and Christianity in Contemporary Africa . Studies in World Christianity . December 2007 . 13 . 3 . 225–242 . 10.3366/swc.2007.13.3.225. free .
5. Book: Wariboko . Nimi . Afolayan . Adeshina . African Pentecostalism and World Christianity: Essays in Honor of J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu . 15 September 2020 . Wipf and Stock Publishers . 978-1-7252-6637-7 . en.