Expert on Social Research
ORCID: 0000-0002-6617-9491 // Google Scholar // ResearchGate
Contact: philipp.oehlmann@hu-berlin.de
I am currently Feodor Lynen Returning Research Fellow at the Centre for Rural Development at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany). I am furthermore affiliated to the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Botswana as Adjunct Associate Professor, and the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) as Research Associate. I serve as the executive editor of the journal Religion & Development and am a co-founder of the International Network on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development.
My research interest lies in the transformative role of religion in society, particularly in the global South. Key themes of my work are development and sustainability; prosperity, poverty and inequality; religious social practice and diaconia; African Christianity and African traditional religion; and the dynamics of religious hybridization and pluralization.
Religion and Migration in Iraq. The Reasons for Return of Internally Displaced Christians to Baghdeda (with N. Monzer)
Journal for the Study of Religion, 2023
www.religion-and-development.org // Article access: brill.com/rnd
Recent Issues:
Religion & Development, Vol. 3, Issue 3 (2024): Special Issue on Religion in the Digital Realm, edited by Ignatius Swart and Marie-Luise Frost
Religion & Development, Vol. 3, Issue 2 (2024): Special Issue on Religious Engagement in Global Affairs. A New Interreligious Dynamic for the Good of Humanity, edited by Fadi Daou and Michael D. Driessen
Religion & Development, Vol. 2, Issue 3 (2023): Special Issue on Religion and Ecology: Perspectives on Environment and Sustainability across Religious Traditions, edited by Almut-Barbara Renger, Juliane Stork and Philipp Öhlmann
Religion & Development, Vol. 2, Issue 1 (2023): Special Issue on Care for the Poor, Care for the Earth - Christian-Muslim Dialogue on Development, edited by Séverine Deneulin and Masooda Bano