• CV

      Education

      Ordination as Reverend Minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana
      Doctoral Studies - Doctor of Theology (New Testament Option), University of Göttingen, (“The Lord’s Prayer and Its Reception in the Ghanaian Context”, advisor: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Feldmeier)
      Certificate in Didactics in Higher Education. Hetairos Program of the Centre for Didactics in Higher Education, University of Göttingen
      M.A. Intercultural Theology, Universität Göttingen
      B.A. (Hon.) Political Science with Sociology, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, Ghana

      Positions

      Postdoctoral Research Associate, (Global Bible Project (GloBil)) Center for Religion and Modernity
      Lecturer in New Testament Studies and Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics, Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
      Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology Hermannsburg, Germany
      Adjunct Lecturer, Chair of Religious Studies & Intercultural Theology (Prof. Dr. Ulrike Schröder), Theological Faculty, University of Rostock, Germany
      Adjunct Lecturer, Chair of New Testament Studies (Prof. Dr. Reinhard Feldmeier) Theological Faculty, University of Göttingen, Germany
      Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology Hermannsburg, Germany
      Adjunct Lecturer, Chair of New Testament Studies (Prof. Dr. Reinhard Feldmeier), Theological Faculty, University of Göttingen, Germany

      External Functions

      University of Münster (Center for Digital Humanities (CDH), Member)
      Deutsche Gesellschaft für Missionswissenschaft (DGMW) (German Society of Mission Studies (DGMW), Member)
      Institute of Biblical Scholarship in Africa - West Africa (Institute of Biblical Scholarship in Africa - West Africa (IBSA), Member)
      Society of Biblical Literature (Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), Member)
      European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS) (European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS), Member)

    • Scientific Talks

      • Wandusim, Michael F. (): „Das Vaterunser in einem ghanaischen christlichen Kontext: Pfingstkirchen und ihre Schriftrezeption in Ghana“. Seminar "Interkulturelle Perspektiven sozialer Arbeit und Theologie" (Prof. Dr. Alexa Friederike Wilke, Professur für Biblische Theologie) (Prof. Dr. Alexa Friederike Wilke, Professur für Biblische Theologie), CVJM Hochschul Kassel, .
      • Wandusim, Michael F. (): ‘Bible translation in 19th and 20th Century Colonial West Africa: A postcolonial analysis of the agency of indigenous translators’. 2nd Conference of the Network Intercultural Theology (Network Intercultural Theology), Würzburg, .
      • Wandusim, Michael F. (): „Pentekostal-Charismatische Kirchen in Ghana und ihre Schriftsrezeption am Beispiel des Vaterunsers“. Seminar “Grundtexte der Religionswissenschaft und der Interkulturellen Theologie” (Lehrstuhl für Religionswissenschaften und Interkulturelle Theologie (Prof. Dr. Ulrike Schröder)), Lehrstuhl für Religionswissenschaften und Interkulturelle Theologie (Prof. Dr. Ulrike Schröder) Theologische Fakultät, Universität Rostock, .
      • Wandusim, Michael F. (): ‘The Bible and Its Interpreters: Assessing the Future of Biblical Interpretation from a West African Context’. Panel 4: Possible Futures: What will Bible Do between Academy, Religious Communities, and Society? in “What Does Theology Do, Actually? II: Exegeting Exegesis”, Universität Bonn, .

  • Research / Interest Focus

    Research Areas

    • Mission Bible translation in colonial West Africa (1800 – 1914)
    • Exegesis of the New Testament
    • Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics in Africa
    • The New Testament and Politics in Africa
    • The New Testament and African Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity

  • Publications

    Publications

    Selection

    • Wandusim, Michael F. . ‘Unsung Heroes of Mission Bible Translation in Colonial West Africa: Ludwig Adzaklo of the Bremen Mission in German Togoland.’ Religions 15, No. 3: 314. doi: 10.3390/rel15030314.

    Complete List

    Books (Monographs)

    • Wandusim, Michael F. . The Lord’s Prayer in the Ghanaian Context: A Reception-Historical Study. 1st Ed. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110730579.

    Articles

    Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
    Research Articles (Journals)
    • Wandusim, Michael F. . ‘Unsung Heroes of Mission Bible Translation in Colonial West Africa: Ludwig Adzaklo of the Bremen Mission in German Togoland.’ Religions 15, No. 3: 314. doi: 10.3390/rel15030314.
    • Wandusim, Michael F. . ‘Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics: A Critical Assessment of the History of an Emerging Approach in African Biblical Studies.’ Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology 5, No. 2: 17–35. doi: 10.38159/motbit.2023521.
    • Wandusim, Michael F. . ‘Reception of the Lord’s Prayer in Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity in Ghana.’ Journal of the Bible and its Reception 9, No. 1: 75–97. doi: 10.1515/jbr-2020-0011.
    Review (Journals)
    • Wandusim, Michael F. . ‘Review of Frederick Mawusi Amevenku and Isaac Boaheng, “Biblical Exegesis in African Context”.’ E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies 9, No. 7: 300–303. doi: 10.38159/erats.2023975.
    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • Wandusim, Michael F. . ‘The Holy Spirit in West African Christianity: A Case Study in Ghanaian Christianity.’ In Geist: Exegetische, Theologische, Religionsgeschichtliche Und Phänomenologische Perspektiven, edited by Feldmeier, Reinhard; Frey, Jörg; Schliesser, Benjamin. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag. [accepted / in Press (not yet published)]
    • Wandusim, Michael F. . ‘The Bible and Its Interpreters: Assessing the Future of Biblical Interpretation from a West African Context.’ In What Does Theology Do, Actually? Exegeting Exegesis, edited by Davis, Phillip A. Jr.; Lanzinger, Daniel; Robinson, Matthew Ryan, 233–250. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.