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Prof Elina Hankela

Associate Professor in Christian Studies
Name: Elina Hankela
Location: Room 606, A-Ring, Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Contact Details:
Tel: + 27 (0)11 559 2733

Email:听elinah@uj.ac.za

About Prof Elina Hankela

Prof Elina Hankela鈥痠s an Associate Professor specialising in the study of Christianity, and more specifically, ethnographic theologies, liberation theologies, and questions related to social justice. She uses qualitative methods to make sense of the faith world of Christian individuals and communities in urban South Africa, with much of her previous work having focused on xenophobia and migration. As a supervisor, Hankela welcomes proposals especially from prospective postgraduate students who want to work on ethnographic and/or liberative theologies through an empirical, qualitative approach.

Hankela earned her ThD from the Faculty of Theology at the 欧美福利100000 of Helsinki, Finland, in 2013 and later received the title of Docent (Social Ethics) from the same university. She is currently a co-leader of an NRF-funded research project (2023鈥�2025) titled The Continuing Sociopolitical Influence of Liberation Theologies in South Africa.

Hankela serves as the Postgraduate Coordinator in the department and can be contacted by prospective Master’s or Doctoral candidates who are interested in studying in the department.

Qualifications:

• Postgraduate Diploma in Education (in the Field of Higher Education), Wits, South Africa, 2019
• Doctor of Theology / ThD, 欧美福利100000 of Helsinki, Finland, 2013
• Master of Theology / MTh, 欧美福利100000 of Helsinki, Finland, 2007

Selected publications:

Hankela, Elina, and Clementine Nishimwe. 2024. A conversation between the researcher and the research assistant on ethnographic praxis. In Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics (A fully revised 2nd edition), eds. Aana Maria Vigen and Christian Scharen, London: T&T Clark Bloomsbury, 81-94.

Hankela, Elina, Ignatius Swart and Clementine Nishimwe. 2022.鈥疉frican Pentecostal churches and racialized xenophobia: International migrants as agents of transformational development?鈥�Transformation:鈥�An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies. 39(3): 133-149.

Hankela, Elina, and Reggie Nel. 2022.鈥�鈥楰eep yourself busy鈥�: Young people, FBOs and social cohesion in Riverlea. In鈥�Stuck in the Margins? Young People and Faith-based Organizations in South African and Nordic Localities, eds. Ignatius Swart, Auli V盲h盲kangas, Marlize Rabe, Annette Leis-Peters, G枚ttingen:鈥疺andenHoeck & Ruprecht, 143-165.

Swart, Ignatius, Elina Hankela and Henrietta Nyamjoh. 2021.鈥疞anguage practices as religious innovation: The case of Pentecostal Charismatic churches in xenophobic contexts.鈥�International Bulletin of Mission Research鈥�45(2): 167-176.

Hankela, Elina. 2020. Pentecostal theology, identity politics, and racialized xenophobia: Claiming a new social order.鈥�Journal of Religion in Africa鈥�50: 299-327.

Hankela, Elina.鈥�2020. Liberating the classroom:鈥疎thnographic Elements in Liberation Theologies Curricula.鈥�Teaching Theology and Religion鈥�23: 84-95.

Hankela, Elina. 2020. Liberationist conversion and ethnography in the decolonial moment: A Finnish theologian/ethicist reflects in South Africa. In鈥�Faith in African Lived Christianity: Bridging Anthropological and Theological Perspectives, eds. Karen Lauterbach and Mika V盲h盲kangas, Boston/Leiden: Brill, 52-79.

Hankela, Elina. 2020. Segmented urban space and the ethics of belonging in migrants鈥� Johannesburg.鈥�Ethnic and Racial Studies鈥�43(6): 931-949.

Hankela, Elina. 2014.鈥�Ubuntu, migration and ministry: Being human in a Johannesburg church. Studies in Systematic Theology. Leiden/Boston: Brill.

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