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MONDAY - MARCH 11, 2024
Time Event Location
Institute of Statistical,
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Registration Social and Economic
Research (ISSER)
Opening Ceremony

Welcome by Chair of Local Organizing Committee - Rose Mary Amenga-Etego

Cultural Performance by Abibigoroma - School of Performing Arts, University of

Ghana

Opening and Welcome by Provost - Daniel Ofori - College of Humanities,

University of Ghana
9:00 – 9:50 a.m. Main Auditorium
Opening and Welcome by Conveners - Afe Adogame, Raimundo Barreto, Soojin
Chung

Goodwill Message - Wazi Apoh - Dean School of Arts, University of Ghana

Orientation by Conference Secretariat - Felicity Apaah / Caitlin Barton

Cultural Performance by Abibigroma

GERALD H. ANDERSON LECTURE I
Kwok Pui Lan (Hong Kong/USA) || Paradigm Shifts in the Study of
10:00 – 11:20 a.m. Women and Gender in World Christianity Main Auditorium

Chair: Soojin Chung (Korea/USA)

11:30a.m.–1:00p.m. Lunch
1:00–2:10 p.m. PAPER SESSION 1
Virtual: Gender and Church Leadership in Pentecostal and
Neo-Pentecostalism
Chair: J Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu (Ghana)

*Oyeronke Olademo (Nigerian) || A Study of Men’s Roles In Churches/Ministries

Founded By Women In Yorubaland, Nigeria

*Mangaliso Matshobane (South Africa) || Pastor’s Wives Succeeding Their

Deceased Husbands in Independent Pentecostal Churches During Covid-19 Main Auditorium
Pandemic

*Olujobi Adeleke & Jude Akanbi (Nigeria) || Reimagining the ‘Deborah’ Portrait and
Quest for Women’s Spiritual Authority in Selected Neo-Pentecostal Movements of
Southwest Nigeria

*Solange Swiri Tumasang (Cameroon) || A Sociolinguistic Profile of Gender and

Power Structures Within Selected New Pentecostal Churches in Cameroon
Virtual: Women, Wives, and Witnesses: The Role of Korean and
Burmese Women in Asian Christianity
Chair: *Thomas Hastings (USA)

*David Moe (Myanmar/USA) || Warriors, and Witnesses: The Role of Burmese

Women in World Christianity Before and After the 2021 Coup
Breakout Room 1
*Heekyung Jeong (Korea/Germany)|| Korean Women in a Challenging
Theo-graphical Landscape

*Ngwa Cherry (Myanmar/USA ) || Gender and Democracy in Myanmar: Redefining

the Role of Women through Political Transformation, Resulting in the Emergence
of Equity within Religious and Cultural Communities
 Virtual: Theological Currents on Gender and Race
Chair: Sean Thomas(USA)

*Robbie Bendelius (USA) || Empress as Theologian, Theodora’s Impact on the

Miaphysite Controversy in The Christian East and a Pluralistic Understanding of
Medieval Orthodoxy
Breakout Room 2
*Travis Williams (USA) || Suicidal Thoughts: Huey P. Newton, Biggie Smalls, Martin
Luther King, Jr., and Black Male Life as a Theological Crisis

*Naomi François (Haiti/USA) || Mary and Martha as a Chiastic Parable

*Loreen Maseno (Kenya) || Women Theologians Gendering African Theology: The

Case of Teresia Mbari Hinga
Women and Missions I
Chair: Michele Sigg (USA)

*Naomi Thurston (USA) || Women Missionaries as Ethnographers and Chroniclers

*Terence Mupangwa (Zimbabwe) || Unveiling the Dynamics: Exploring Women’s

Influence in the Schism of the Apostolic Faith Mission of Zimbabwe Breakout Room 3

Joshua Heikkila (US/Ghana)|| Empowering African Presbyterian Women for

Mission: The Example of Rev Alice Kyei-Anti

Ini Dorcas Dah (Burkina Faso)|| Hidden Women Leaders in Christian Mission:
Case Study of Ministry of Suzanna Yirilo in Northern Ghana
2:10 – 2:30 p.m. Coffee Break

2:30 – 3:50 p.m. PAPER SESSION 2

Gender and Methodology in World Christianity

Chair: Aminta Arrington (USA)

*Kenneth Ofula (Kenya/UK) || Afua Kuma in Retrospect: Indigenous

Methodologies in World Christianity

*Benson Igboin (Nigeria) || Mary Mark’s Gift to African and World Christianity
Main Auditorium
Through the Eyes of Thomas Oden

*Itohan Idumwonyi (Nigeria/USA) || Crashed Reality? Revisiting Women

(In)visibility and Gender Dynamics in World Christianity

Gina Zurlo (USA) || Women in World Christianity: Global Perspectives on the

Gendered Christian Participation Gap

Feminizing Catholicism
Chair: Deanna Womack (USA)

Anna Niedźwiedź (Poland) || Catholic Women in Ghana – Between

Marginalization and Empowerment
Breakout Room 1
Sean Thomas (USA) || The Hands of Christ are Female! A Comprehensive
Empirical Examination of African Women and Catholic Development Initiatives

Kerry San Chirico (USA) || Mira and Her Sisters

 Gendered Exegetical Considerations
Chair: Stian Sorlie Eriksen (Norway)

Agnes Adeyeye & Tosin Abolaji (Nigeria) || The Salvific Role Of Women In The Old
Testament: An Exegetical Study Of 1 Samuel 25:23-27

Ca-Asia Lane (USA) || An Organizational Leadership Response For Women in

Breakout Room 2
Leadership: An Analysis of Romans 16:1-16

Godibert Kelly Gharbin (Ghana) || Revisiting Women’s Role in World Christianity: A

Narrative Analysis of John 4:1-42

*Micah Moenga (Kenya) || Rethinking Women’s Involvement in Ministry in the

African Context: A Socio-Rhetorical Analysis of Galatians 3:28

Women Negotiating Religious Spaces

Chair: Briana Wong (USA)

Niza Joy Santiago (Philippines) || Navigating Spaces Towards Women Ordination.

A Case of the Convention of Philippine Baptist Church

*Lyndon Santos (Brazil) || Protestantism, Women and Gender in Brazil: The

Experiences of Sarah Kalley, Rufina Mattos, Frida Vingren and Henriqueta Rosa Breakout Room 3

*James Kwateng-Yeboah & *Anita Ansah (Ghana) || The ‘Immigrant Religion’

Script: A Case of Ghanaian Christian Immigrant Women in the United States and
Canada

*Yenny Delgado (Peru /USA)|| Women Doing Theology in Abya Yala : From a
Womanist and Decolonial Perspectives

PLENARY SESSION 1
Elizabeth Amoah (Ghana) || Revisiting the Teaching of Women and
4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Gender in the University of Ghana: My Story Main Auditorium

Chair: Rose Mary Amenga-Etego (Ghana)

PLENARY SESSION 2
Graduate Student Panel
4:30 – 6:20 p.m. Main Auditorium
Chair: Ruth Amwe (Nigeria/USA) & Haruna Mogtari (Ghana)

Graduate Student Panelists:

Lorraine Efua Eyison (Akrofi-Christaller Institute)

Maggie Finch (Asbury Theological Seminary)
4:30 – 5:20 p.m. Stephen Di Trolio (Princeton Theological Seminary)
Joseph Kwado Asuming (University of Ghana)
Haruna Yussif Mogtari (University of Ghana)
*John Nwangi (Laikipia University)
*Elorm Ama Stiles-Ocran (VID Specialized University)

5:20 – 5:30 p.m. Break

Graduate Student Panelists:

Morgan Crago (Boston University)

Ojo Joseph Rapheal (University Ghana)
5:30 – 6:20 p.m. Patricia Akpene (University Ghana)
Amelia Doddoo (University Ghana)
*Yenny Delgado (University of Lausanne)
*Kevin Grane (University of Denver / Iliff School of Theology)
*Shu Wan (University at Buffalo)
TUESDAY - MARCH 12, 2024
Time Event Location

8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. PAPER SESSION 3

Engendering Pentecostalism I: Power and Leadership

Chair: Stephen Di Trolio (Costa Rica/USA)

J Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu (Ghana) || The Beauty, The Beast and the Pastor: Gender
in Contemporary African Pentecostal Experiences and Discourses
Main Auditorium
*Francis Falako (Nigeria) || Daddy And Mummy G.O.: Nigerian Pentecostals And Power
Balancing In A Patriarchal Context

Stian Sorlie Eriksen (Norway) || A Silent Gender Resolution? Gender and Leadership
Among International/migrant Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches in Norway

Women and Interfaith Relations

Chair: Retief Müller (South Africa)

*Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo, Ernestine Novieto & Grace Adasi (Ghana) || Faith, Gender, and
Career Wellbeing: Perceptions of Christian Female Early-Careers in Ghana’s Public
Universities
Breakout Room 1
*Effungani Salli (Cameroon) || Am I A Lesser Christain? The Demeanor Of The Church
Towards Christian Women In Interfaith Marriage In Maroua, Cameroon

*Sam Bussey (United Kingdom) || Becoming a Living Sacrifice: Women’s Agency,

Gender Dynamics and Hope in African Christianity

Patricia Tegbe-Agbo (Ghana) || Women and Interfaith Relations in Ghana

Gender and Church Tradition

Chair: Okelloh Ogera (Kenya)

Henry Marcus Garba (Nigeria) || African Women Spirituality: An Examination of the

Role of Women in Nigeria’s Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA)
Breakout Room 2
*Elizabeth Anderson (USA) || The Decline and Rebirth of Women’s Monastic
Communities in the Anglican Tradition

Edwin Buertey & Abraham Kwakye (Ghana) || Breaking the Iron Bars of Patriarchy in
Christian Ministry: Life and Ministry of Rev Dora Ofori Owusu – Pioneer Woman
Minister of the PCG

Author-Meets-Critics Session: Alterity and the Evasion of Justice:

Explorations of the “Other” in World Christianity. Fortress Press,
Series World Christianity and Public Religion, vol. 5 edited by Deanna
Womack and Raimundo Barreto (Augsburg Fortress Press, 2023)
Chair/Respondents: Deanna Womack (USA) & Raimundo Barreto (Brazil/USA)
Breakout Room 3
*Ana Ester Padua Freire (Brazil)
Jay Paul Hinds (USA)
Fulata Moyo (Malawi)
*Moses Biney (USA)

10:00 – 11:20 a.m. PAPER SESSION 4

Revisiting Women and Gender in World Christianity: A Focus on
African Women
Chair: Ca-Asia Lane (USA)

Damaris Parsitau (Kenya/USA) || Digital Voices or Digital Theologies: Young Christian

Women in Kenya Contesting Religious Power, Authority and Agency on Social Media

Janice Mclean-Farrell (Jamaica/USA) || If it Wasn’t for a Woman: Revisiting the Legacy

Main Auditorium
and Impact of Rev. Lurline May Larmond in the Church of the United Brethren Church in
Christ in Jamaican and the African Diaspora

Telesia Musili (Kenya) || Embracing Womanhood in Sacred Spaces: In Pursuit of

Agency Among Women in Nomiya Church

Ruth Amwe (Nigeria/USA) || Reading African Women’s Theology in Light of World

Christianity: (Re)Centering Afua Kuma

Women and Missions II

Chair: Kerry San Chirico (USA)

Pascal Pienaar (South Africa) || Navigating Vocation: Utilizing Social Cognitive Career
Theory in Historical Analysis of Women Missionaries by Means of a Case Study of
Huguenot Seminary

Haruna Mogtari (Ghana) & Rose Mary Amenga-Etego (Ghana) || Zora Frances Breakout Room 1
Greenway: The Missionary to the Fulani in Ghana

Xiaoli Yang (Australia) || “Revive, Sisters!”: Chinese Women in Ministry Through the
Lens of the Canaan Hymns

*Manpreet Kaur (India/USA) || ‘(De)constructing the Traditional Indigenous Midwife [

dai ] in Colonial Punjab: Attempts by Women Medical Missionaries’

Women and Christianity in Africa

Chair: Niza Joy Santiago (Philippines)

Michele Sigg (USA) || For Generations to Come: Writing the Stories of Women into the
History of African Christianity

Okelloh Ogera (Kenya) || Female Fraternities as the Essence of African Christianity:

Case Studies from Kenya Breakout Room 2

Osaisonor Ekhator-Obogie (Nigeria) & *Itohan Idumwonyi (Nigeria) || Women and the
Development of Christianity in Nigeria, 1902 – 2020

Grace Adasi & Abena Kyere (Ghana) || Do Women Still Matter? Interrogating the
Continual Significance of Women to the Renewal of the Church in Africa: A Case of
Three Ghanaian Prophetesses

Feminist and Womanist Decolonial Theologies and Theologians

Chair: Anna Niedźwiedź (Poland)

Aminta Arrington (USA) || The Centrality of the Oppressed: Reading the Bible with Elsa
Tamez

Frederique Ndatirwa (Canada) || Unstoried: Toward a Decolonial Theology of Moral

Breakout Room 3
Injury

Joseph Soko (Zambia) || Women In World Christianity: Pioneers In Decolonizing

Biblical Interpretation, A Case of Alice Lenshina and the Lump Mission Church

Toya Richards (USA) || WomanistCare and SisTheology: A Divine Movement by Black

Women to Care for Themselves and Each Other in Community
 GERALD H. ANDERSON LECTURE II
*Ivone Gebara (Brazil)|| A Lenta Destruição Dos Templos
Patriarcais No Interior da ‘Boa Nova’ das Mulheres/The Slow
Destruction of the Patriarchal Temples in the “Good News” of
11:30a.m.–12:50p.m. Women Main Auditorium

Translated by *Guilherme Brasil de Souza (Brazil/USA)

Chair: Raimundo Barreto (Brazil/USA)

12:50–1:50 p.m. Lunch
2:00 – 3:20 p.m. PAPER SESSION 5
Author-Meets-Critics Session: Crashed Realities? Gender Dynamics in
Nigerian Pentecostalism by Itohan Idumwonyi
Chair: Ruth Amwe (Nigeria/USA)

Ekhator Osaisonor Godfrey (Nigeria)

Main Auditorium
Janice McLean-Farrell (Jamaica/USA)
Telesia Kathini Musili (Kenya)
Carine Amo-Nyampong (Ghana)

Respondent: *Itohan Idumwonyi (Nigeria/USA)

Virtual: Politics and Religion in Brazil and Christian Nationalism
Chair: João B. Chaves (USA/Brazil)

*Guilherme Brasil de Souza (Brazil/USA) || The Rise of An Ultramontane Concept of

Religion in Brazil

*Jorge William Falcão Junior (Brazil) || What to do with Adulterers? Presbyterian

Breakout Room 1
Suggestions to the Authorities of the Empire of Brazil (1864-1867)

*Wanderley Pereira de Rosa (Brazil) || Proto-Charismatism in Brazilian Protestantism:

The Case of Miguel Vieira Ferreira and the Brazilian Evangelical Church

*Kevin Grane (USA)|| Disease or Defense? Learning to See Past the Moral Repugnance
of White Christian Nationalism
Virtual: Gender and Agency in African Christianity
Chair: Grace Adasi (Ghana)

*Priccilar Vengesai & Tobias Marevesa (Zimbabwe) || African Initiated Churches and
Gender Equality: Interpreting the Concept of Wife Submission in the Context of Marital
Equality in Zimbabwe

*Kumo Ruphus Numfor (Cameroon) || Degrading Widowhood Rituals and Practices in

Breakout Room 2
Some Communities of the Northwest Region of Cameroon: The Cry of the Women and
the Silence of the Churches

*Samuel Ajose (Nigeria) || Gendering Soundscape in Nigerian Christianity: CAC Good

Women Choir in Perspective

*Exradallenum Olusegun Akinsanya (Nigeria) || Feminity Coloration of African Prayer

Mountains
Perspectives from Asia I: Woman and Womanhood in Korea
Chair: Jesudas Athyal (India/USA)

Soojin Chung (South Korea/USA) || Woman’s Work for Woman: The Controversial Role
of Female Missionaries in Korea, 1885–1945

*Shalon Park (South Korea) || Performing Sacraments: Three Stories of Korean

Breakout Room 3
Celibate Women

Rachel Crilley (USA/ Korea) || Formation of Ideal Christian Womanhood in Korea and
the United States: Case Study of Lillias Horton Underwood

Eunjin Jeon & Byung Ho Choi (South Korea/USA) || Beyond the Glass Ceiling:
Migration of Female Pastors within the Korean Protestant Church
3:20 – 3:40 p.m. Coffee Break

PLENARY SESSION 3
Author-Meets-Critics Session: Joel Cabrita, Written Out: The
Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala (2023)
Chair: Afe Adogame (Nigeria/United Kingdom)

Janice McLean-Farrell (Jamaica/USA)

3:50 – 4:50 p.m. Damaris Parsitau (Kenya/USA) Main Auditorium
*Amidu Elabo (Nigeria/USA)
Telesia Kathini Musili (Kenya)
Felicity Apaah (Ghana)
Kenneth Ofula (Kenya/UK)

Respondent: *Joel Cabrita (USA)

5:00 – 6:20 p.m. PAPER SESSION 6

Gendered Bodies and Peacebuilding

Chair: Easten Law (USA)

Joseph Evans & Ngoc Nguyen (USA) || Women as Religious Peacebuilders in Asia:
Historical Examples that Contradict Prevailing Cultural Assumptions
Main Auditorium
Joseph Kwadwo Asuming (Ghana) || Religion and Peacebuilding Initiatives in Ghana’s
Fourth Republic

*Wanjiku J. Mwangi (Kenya) || Interrogating the Pattern of Inclusion, Exclusion and

Consequences for Women – The Case of “The Code of Conduct for the Church in
Kenya” by Hesabika Trust

Negotiating Gender and Sexuality

Chair: Klaus Koschorke (Germany)

*Nathália Sousa Martins & Tânia Oliveira (Brazil) || Gender And Sexuality At School,
Where To Start?
Breakout Room 1
David Smith (USA) || ‘Nothing Manly in Him…’ Hegemonic Masculinities, Asymmetrical
Dependencies, and the Early Penitentials

*Joseph Hachintu (Zambia) || Equal Yet at Variant: The Voice of Women on their
Status in a Gendered Worship Space in Kabwe Urban, Zambia

Gender and Agency in African and African American Politics and

Spirituality
Chair: Godfred Nsiah (Ghana)

*Moses Moore (USA) || The Women of The Back to Africa Movement

Maggie Finch (USA) || The Wives of the Civil Rights Movement: Coretta Scott King and
Betty Shabazz’s Friendship and Activism Breakout Room 2

Benjamin Doe (Ghana) || Women Agency In Church And Civil Society-The Case Of St.
Catherine Senior High School, Agbakope-Ghana

*Alphine C. Ojiambo (Kenya) || Patriarchy and African Christian Women: A Theological

Reflection on African Cultural Practices as Sources of Liberation in Contemporary
African Cultures and Churches
 Indigenous Women, Indigenous Churches
Chair: Telesia Musili (Kenya)

Lorraine Efua Eyison (Ghana) || Bridging the Gap for the Contemporary Christian
Woman: Exploring Similarities in Gender and Power Dynamics in the Life Events of
Saint Perpetua, Aimee Semple McPherson (Founder of the Four Square Gospel Church)
and (Selected) Female Founders of African Instituted Churches
Breakout Room 3
Stephen Di Trolio (Costa Rica/USA) || Dayuma the Huaorani: Christian Americanism,
Women Missionaries, and the Public Life of Indigenous Women in the US

Carine Amo-Nyampong (Ghana) || Hearing and Knowing the Woman: A Comparative

Study of Mercy Amba Oduyoye and Amina Wadud in Rethinking the Symbolism of the
Akan Queenmother’s Stool

WEDNESDAY - MARCH 13, 2024

Time Event Location

4:30 a.m. –
Optional Excursion to Elimina Castle and Cape Coast Castle
6:00 p.m.

THURSDAY - MARCH 14, 2024

Time Event Location
8:30 – 9:50 a.m. PAPER SESSION 7

Gendering Christian History: The Hebrew Bible, Early

Christianity, and Contemporarily
Chair: Kenneth Ofula (Kenya)

*Jasmine Jimenez (USA) || Women in Medieval Monastic and Anchorite

Communities

Emmanuel Adetunji (Nigeria) || The African Perspective(S) on the Inclusion Of

Non-Israelite Women In The Genealogy Of Jesus Christ
Main Auditorium
Amelia Dodoo (Ghana) & Nicoletta Gatti (Ghana) || Re-defining Christology:
Women and Jesus’ Identity

Michael Mensah, Comfort Max-Wirth & Alexander Salakpi (Ghana) || “Forget Your
People and Your Father’s House” (Ps 45:11): The Hebrew Bible, Marriage Rites and
Spousal Abuse in Contemporary Ghana

Lynn Holmes (USA) || I Do Not Hear the Voice of the Devil”: How Agnes Okoh
Negotiated Patriarchy and Culture to Found and Lead a Thriving Ministry in Nigeria

Biographical Imageries
Chair: Eric Williams (USA)

Brittany Long (USA) || Willa B. Player: Beacon for Reconciliation and Flourishing

Emily C. Alexander (USA) || Female Networks in the Life and Vocation of Anna
Breakout Room 1
Howard Shaw

Mishael Ampofo (Ghana) || Breaking Boundaries: Rosemond Kyereko and the

Pioneering Spirit of Women in Ghanaian Christianity

*Candace Laughinghouse (USA) || From Hamer to Maathai: Radical Warriors

 Engendering Pentecostalism II: Violence and Entrepreneurship
Chair: David Smith (USA)

*Babatunde Adedibu (Nigeria) || Beauty and Beast: The ‘Pastor’ as Sexual Object
in Nigerian Pentecostalism

Christian Tsekpoe (Ghana) || The Role of Ghanaian Pentecostal-Charismatic

Breakout Room 2
Churches in Fighting Sexual Violence Against Women

Samuel Adjornor (Ghana) || A Study of African Neo-Pentecostalism as Space for

Entrepreneurship in Ghana

John Nwangi (Kenya) || New Testament Lived Theological Experience by Kenyan

Pentecostal Pioneer Women of Mega Churches

Perspectives from Asia II: Feminizing Missions, Education, and

Change in India and Indonesia
Chair: Easten Law (USA)

Jesudas Athyal (India) || Bible Women: The Invisible Pioneers in the Feminization
of Indian Christianity

Klaus Koschorke (Germany) || “Wherever Christianity has Spread There the

Emancipation of Women has Followed.” Indian Christians in Madras Around 1900 Breakout Room 3
as a “Progressive Community” and the Issue of Female Education

Byung Ho Choi (South Korea/USA) || Women as Agents of Change in

Contemporary Toraja Christianity

*Hendrawan Wijoyo (Indonesia/USA) || Tamar in the Streets of Indonesia:

Womanist Approach to the Biocapital Tragedy among Indonesian Female Sex
Workers

PLENARY SESSION 4
Author-Meets Critics Session: Gina Zurlo, Women in World
Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2023)
Chair: Afe Adogame (Nigeria/United Kingdom)

10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Briana Wong (USA) Main Auditorium

Corey Williams (USA/Netherlands)
Kimberly Akano (Nigeria/USA)
*Naomi Elaine Thurston (USA)
*Christina Wai Yin Wong (Hong Kong)

Respondent: Gina Zurlo (USA)

11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Coffee Break

PLENARY SESSION 5
Introducing the Sanneh Institute
1:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m Main Auditorium
Chair: John Azumah (Director, Sanneh Institute)

GERALD H. ANDERSON LECTURE III

Egodi Uchendu (University of Nsukka, Nigeria)
12:10 – 1:30 p.m. Women and Gender in African Christianity Main Auditorium

Chair: John Azumah

1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Lunch

 PLENARY SESSION 6
Honoring Dana L. Robert
Scholar and Teacher of World Christianity,
Williams Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor,
Boston University
Chair: Soojin Chung (Korea/USA)

Bonnie Sue Lewis, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary

2:40 – 3:40 p.m. Main Auditorium
Ruth Padilla DeBrost, Western Theological Seminary
Brian Stanley, University of Edinburgh
Haruko Nawata Ward, Columbia Theological Seminary
Joel Carpenter, Calvin University
Casely Essamuah, Global Christian Forum
Gina Zurlo, Harvard Divinity School

Respondents: * Dana L. Robert

3:50 – 4:30 p.m. Break/Commute to Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon

PLENARY SESSION 7
Honoring Mercy Amba Oduyoye
Director, Institute of African Women in Religion and Culture,
Trinity Theological Seminary
Chair: Rose Mary Amenga-Etego
Trinity Theological
4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Dorothy Akoto, Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Ghana
Seminary
Helen Labeodan, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Aishe Abdul-Kadir, Retired Educationist
Nasiba Taahiru, Hayaht Foundation
Grace Sintim-Adasi, Presbyterian Women’s Training College, Agogo, Ghana
Agnes Quansah, PhD Student, Missionsakademie, University of Hamburg,
Germany

Trinity Theological
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Reception
Seminary

7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Conference Banquet GIMPA Center

FRIDAY - MARCH 15, 2024

Time Event Location
PLENARY SESSION 8
The Making of a ‘Woman King’: Interview with Nana Kow Ackon V
9:00 – 9:50 a.m. Main Auditorium
Chair: Felicity Apaah (Ghana) & Afe Adogame (Nigeria/United Kingdom)
10:00 – 11:20 a.m. PAPER SESSION 8
Virtual: Migration, Leadership, and Intersectionality
Chair: Janice Mclean-Farrell (Jamaica/USA)

*Enoch Wong (Canada) & Vivian Chan (Canada) || Where the East Meets the
West: An Empirical Study on Female Pastors’ Demographics in Chinese Canadian
Churches

*Dane Litchfield (USA) || Wrapped in Her Mantle: The Reception of Our Lady of
Main Auditorium
Kibeho in South Bend, Indiana

*Christina Wai Yin Wong (Hong Kong) || Reflecting Historiography: An Imaginative

Claim of a Transnational Cooperation of the Christian Women Community in
Canton, South China

*Osamamen Oba Eduviere (Nigeria/USA) || Intersectionality: A Praxis For

Examining The Life Of R. Evon Benson-Idahosa
 Virtual: Gender and Liberation Movements
Chair: Jay Paul Hinds(USA)

*David Chrisna (Indonesia) || Birthing a Movement: the Indispensable and

Inseparable Part of the Women in Shaping the History of Christianity in Central
Java

*Samaila Ayuba (Nigeria/USA) || From Rescued Sex Workers to Social Reformers:

Rethinking the History of Social Reformation in Meiji Japan 1886 – 1921 Breakout Room 1

*Ngwa Cherry (Myanmar) || Gender and Democracy in Myanmar: Redefining the

Role of Women through Political Transformation, Resulting in the Emergence of
Equity within Religious and Cultural Communities

*Sanjana Das (Singapore/India) || Sacred Voices of Subaltern and Diasporic

Women from the Global South: Exploring Intersectional Experiences of Women’s
agency, Empowerment and Solidarity
Virtual: Unearthing Faith and Feminism from the Margins
Chair: Mary Kihuha (Kenya)

*Yanan Lu (China) || Zeng Baosun: Bridging Confucian Tradition, Christian Faith,

and Feminism for Women’s Rights in China

*Shu Wan (China) || Women Interwove a Trans-local History of Hwa Nan College in
Breakout Room 2
the 20th Century

*Jonathan Seitz (USA)|| The Convert, the Runaway, the Widow: Liang Fa’s
(1789-1855) Three Wives

*Todd John Wallenius (USA) || An Overlooked Woman in Nepal’s Church History:

The Story of Chandra Leela

11:20 – 11:40 a.m. Coffee Break

11:40a.m.–12:50p.m PAPER SESSION 9

Sexual Violence and Transnational Erasure in World Christianity:

A Panel Discussion on Mikeal Parsons’ and João B. Chaves’
Remembering Antônia Teixeira: A Story of Missions, Violence, and
Institutional Hypocrisy (Eerdmans, 2023)
Main Auditorium
Chair: João B. Chaves’ (USA/Brazil)

Raimundo Barreto (Brazil/USA)

*Wanderley Pereira de Rosa (Brazil)

Gender and Emergent Christianity in Relation to Norwegian

Missions Globally
Chair: Corey Williams (USA)

Retief Müller (South Africa) || White on Black-South African Dutch Reformed white
Male Missionary Discourses on African Femininities in Malawi in Comparison with
the Norwegian Mission to South Africa in the Late 19th-Early 20th Century

Silje Dragsund Aase (Norway) || How to Redefine a Museum? The Story of a Pair
of Embroidered Silk Shoes for Bound Feet Breakout Room 1

Tom Sverre Bredal-Tomren (Norway) || Female Pastors in the Evangelical

Lutheran Church in Cameroon – Theology, Context and Experiences

Kristin Fjelde Tjelle (Norway) || The Service and Power of Healing: Female Nursing
in Norwegian Missions (1890-1930)

*Marina Xiaojing Wang (China) || Picturing the Other: Chinese Women in

Norwegian Missionary Photography (1902-1949)
 Consistencies and Contestations of Women’s Agency in Urban
African Pentecostalism
Chair: Damaris Parsitau (Kenya)

Okelloh Ogera (Kenya) || Gender and God-Talk: Positioning Women in African

Pentecostal Hermeneutics

*Kyama Mugambi (Kenya/USA) || Spiritual Mothers of the City: Theorizing the

Role of Pentecostal Women Leaders in the Secular Urban Environments

*Stephen Kioko (Kenya) || Re-reading of 1 Timothy 2:11-15 in Light of

Contestations of Women Ministry in African Pentecostalism Breakout Room 2

Edith Kayeli Chamwama (Kenya) || Staying in the Birthing Position: Religio-cultural

Constructs of Women and Authority in Selected Pentecostal Churches in Nairobi,
Kenya

Mary Kihuha (Kenya) || Caught in the Middle: Women Negotiating Leadership and
Subordination within Urban Pentecostalism

*Paul Mwangi (Kenya) || Cultural Imprints in Urban Pentecostal Gender Relations:

The Case of Discipleship and Leadership Formation Patterns at Christ is the
Answer Ministries Valley Road

12:50 – 2:30 p.m. Lunch

2:30 – 3:50 p.m. PAPER SESSION 10

Gender, Trans-local and Transnational Spirituality, and Healing

Among Migrant Communities
Chair: Godibert Kelly Gharbin (Ghana)

*Henrietta Nyamnjoh (Cameroon/South Africa) || Beyond Religious Healing:

Transnationalism and the Quest for Spiritual Wellness and Healing among
Cameroonian Female Migrants in Cape Town
Main Auditorium
Rose Mary Amenga-Etego (Ghana) || Indigenous Religion, Gender and Health:
Perspectives of the Urbanised Nankani in Accra

Felicity Apaah (Ghana) || Beyond Borders: Navigating Gender and Multiple

Religious Identities among Ghanaians in the Diaspora

Susanna Abraham (Ghana)|| Home and Abroad: Unearthing Healthcare Decisions

and Practices among Ghanaians in the Diaspora

Religion and Violence Against Women

Chair: Willy Mafuta (USA)

*Angelica Tostes (Brazil) || Unveiling Voices of Resistance: Interfaith Dialogue

among Women in Latin America Struggling with Gender Violence

*Uzunma Bell-Gam (Nigeria/USA) || The Church, Society and the Prevalence of the
Menace of Domestic Violence against Women in Nigeria Breakout Room 1

Christian Tsekpoe (Ghana) || The Role of Ghanaian Pentecostal-Charismatic

Churches in Fighting Sexual Violence Against Women

*Elorm Ama Stiles-Ocran (Ghana) || Church Response to Intimate Partner

Violence: A Case Study of the Family Life Education Program in a Protestant
Mainline Church in Ghana
 Gender, Representation, and Church Leadership
Chair: Abraham Kwakye (Ghana)

Joyce Mlenga (Malawi) || “From Inclusion to Active Participation”: Unveiling

Obstacles to Christian Women’s Active Participation in Leadership at St.
Andrews CCAP Church in Mzuzu City

Samuel Nkrumah-Pobi (Ghana) || A Critical Assessment of the Absence of

Women among Top Leadership Positions within the Presbyterian Church of Breakout Room 2
Ghana (PCG) and Methodist Church of Ghana (MCG)

*Isaiah Ayafor (USA) || Gender and Representation: The Language and Discourse
of Feminine Inclusion in Denomination Leadership in Cameroon

Ekwutosi Offiong & Charles Ekpo (Nigeria) || Gender, Power and Church
Leadership: An Empirical Analysis of Women’s Inclusion in the Leadership of
Selected Churches in Calabar, Southern Nigeria

Media, Film, and Music

Chair: Gina Zurlo (USA)

*Samuel Kehinde Fabunmi (Nigeria) || Development of World Christianity Through

Music: The Nigerian Story of Women Gospel Musicians

Kofi Asare & Grace Adasi (Ghana) || Gendered Portrayal of Prophets in the Media:
Breakout Room 3
Audience Reception from Ghana

Akinmayowa Akin-Otiko (Nigeria) || The African Woman Representation In

Selected Nollywood And Mount Zion Films: A Comparative Analysis

Omolara Loko (Nigeria) || “Not Permitted to Speak”: Women and Music Making in
Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Ayo ni O, Lagos, Nigeria

4:00 p.m. Closing Ceremony Main Auditorium