Saint Mary's

Primary Field of Study
African Christianity, Migration, Development, Black and African Diasporic Religions

Secondary Field of Study
Religion and Sexuality, Black Canadian History,  

Education
PhD (Queen’s University)
MA (Queen’s University); MPhil (University of Oslo)
BA (University of Ghana)

Selected Publications
2022 “African Pentecostalism in a Changing Economic and Democratic Global Order.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order, edited by Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba and Toyin Falola, 911–29. (Palgrave Macmillan),

2021 “The Prosperity Gospel: Debating Modernity in Africa and the African Diaspora,” Journal of Africana Religions Vol 9. No. 1: 42-69,  

2021 “Migration” in Brill’s Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism, edited by Michael Wilkinson, Connie Au, Jörg Haustein, Todd Johnson, and Erica Ramirez (Leiden: Brill),  

2019 “‘Poverty Is of the Devil’: Pentecostal Worldviews and Development in Ghana.” In The Holy Spirit and Social Justice Interdisciplinary Global Perspectives: History, Race & Culture, edited by Antipas L. Harris and Michael D. Palmer: 180-207 (Lanham, MD: Seymour Press).

2019 “Frantz Fanon” in Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and TransGender (LGBTQ) History, edited by Howard Chiang, Anjali Arondekar, Marc Epprecht, Jennifer Evans, Ross G. Forman, Hanadi Al-Samman, et al. (Farmington Hill, MI:  Charles Scribner’s Sons).                        

Biography
James Kwateng-Yeboah is an Assistant Professor of Christianity in the African Diaspora in Canada at the Department for the Study of Religion. His research employs quantitative and qualitive methods to examine the nature and role of religion in migration and development processes. He has published on Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity and Development in Africa, particularly in Ghana and Nigeria. His current research examines the role of Christianity in the historic and contemporary migrations of African descended peoples to Canada. This project also explores how Christianity featured in the image of Canada as a haven, formerly for enslaved Africans, and presently for aspiring African migrants to Canada. Dr. Kwateng-Yeboah’s teaching approach emphasizes a multidisciplinary understanding of religion’s entanglement with social, economic, political, and cultural issues. He is committed to equipping students with skills that extend beyond the classroom and are applicable in real-world contexts. His current courses include Religion and Development, Religion and Migration, and Christian Religious Traditions.