Adriaan van Klinken

Adriaan van Klinken holds a PhD in Religious Studies from Utrecht University, the Netherlands (2011). After a postdoctoral research fellowship at SOAS, University of London, in 2013 he was appointed as Lecturer in African Christianity at the University of Leeds, UK.

Adriaan's research focuses on contemporary Christianity, in particular Pentecostalism, in Africa, specifically in relation to issues of gender, sexuality and public life.

• His PhD research was on transformations of masculinity in African Christian contexts, with a focus on Zambia, and was published in several journal articles as well as the monograph Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity: Gender Controversies in Times of AIDS (Ashgate 2013).
• His current research explores Pentecostalism and the politics of (homo)sexuality in Africa, again with a focus on Zambia. See for example the article 'Gay Rights, the Devil and the End Times: Public Religion and the Enchantment of the Homosexuality Debate in Zambia' in Religion 43/4 (2013).