Dr Stephen Kapinde

• Religion and Global Politics
• Religion and Public Life
• Christianity in Africa
• African Studies
•  Gender, sexuality and citizenship
• Peacebuilding, Reconciliation and Conflict studies,
•  Liberation and African Public Theologies including Pulpit theologies

Missiology (Religion and Public Life),

• S.A. Kapinde (2024). “Julius Gathogo: Emerging Anglican Theologians’’ In Burns, S & Tengatenga, J (eds.) Anglican Theology: Postcolonial Perspectives” SCM Press.

  S.A. Kapinde & A. van Klinken, (2023). What Makes a Queer Prophet? Charisma, Authority and Counter-Knowledges in the Ministry of a Kenyan Intersex Apostle. In: Classens, LJ, Davidson, SV, van der Walt, C and Thyssen, A, (eds.) Queering the Prophet: On Jonah, and Other Activists. SCM Press.

• “S.A, Kapinde, S., & E. Higgs, Global Anglican Discourse and Women’s Ordination in Kenya: The Controversy in Kirinyaga, 1979– 1992, and its Legacy. Journal of Anglican Studies, Vol 20:1 (May 2022) 22-39. Cambridge press.

• A, Kapinde, “The Church and Constitutional Reforms in Kenya, 1992- 2002: A Retrospective-Historical Analysis.” European Scientific Journal, Vol 14 (5) February, pp 216-240. ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e – ISSN 1857- 7431.

• M, Joshua & S.A, Kapinde, Pulpit Power in the Democratization of Kenya, 1986 and 1991. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, South Africa, 61(2), November 2016, pp 79-100

“Christian Mission in Kenya and its’ Colonial Antecedents” Abo Akademi University, Finland Invited Guest Lecturer in a course of Global Christian Mission Encounters.

“What Makes a Queer Prophet? Charisma, Authority, and Counter-Knowledges in the Ministry of a Kenyan Intersex Apostle." Invited Presenter, Centre for the Study of Christian Culture, University of Turku, Finland

“Ambivalent Images? Religious Actors, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding in Kenya” Polin International Research seminar, Polin Institute, Abo Akademi University, Finland

Member African Association for the Study of Religion (AASR)

Member Swiss Association of African Studies (SAAS)

Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa (ASRSA)

Best Dissertation PhD 2019/2020

• Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal in Africa, 2024-2027
• Building a Culture of Peace: Inter-Faith Bottom-Up Approaches to Peacebuilding in Conflicting Societies 2024/2025
• “Re-telling and Telling Her Stories”: The Rise of Dr. Agnes Regina Murei Abuom in the World Council of Churches (WCC) and Her Contribution to Peace and Justice in Africa, 1986-2020

• Religion and Public Life: Religion, Spirituality and Democratic Renewal in Africa

Invited Speaking Engagement

• 2023 “Christian Mission in Kenya and its’ Colonial Antecedents” Abo Akademi University, Finland Invited Guest Lecturer in a course of Global Christian Mission Encounters
• 2023 “What Makes a Queer Prophet? Charisma, Authority, and Counter-Knowledges in the Ministry of a Kenyan Intersex Apostle." Invited Presenter, Centre for the Study of Christian Culture, University of Turku, Finland
• 2022 “Ambivalent Images? Religious Actors, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding in Kenya” Polin International Research seminar, Polin Institute, Abo Akademi University, Finland

Professional positions

• Since-2020        Member African Association for the Study of Religion (AASR)
• Since-2018        Member Swiss Association of African Studies (SAAS)
• Since-2021        Member American Academy of Religion (AAR)
• Since-2022        Member Political Theology Network (PTN)

Academic Service

• Since 2024 Grant Reviewer, International Peace Research Association Foundation, USA.