ORCID: 0000-0002-6617-9491 // Google Scholar // ResearchGate
Contact: philipp.oehlmann@hu-berlin.de
I am the coordinator of the Wittenberg Center for Advanced Studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. I am furthermore Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Botswana, Senior Associated Researcher in the Centre for Rural Development at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Research Associate in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria. 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; theology and ethics; 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