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Articles written by Devaka Premawardhana

Anti-anti-Intellectualism in Ebenezer Obadare’s Pastoral Power, Clerical State

Series: Symposium on Pastoral Power Clerical State
Devaka Premawardhana
October 27, 2023October 31, 2023

By continuing the chain begun by Pentecostal laywomen like those we learn of in this book Obadare joins them in refusing to let pastors dominate unduly, in forging space for what is increasingly crowded out.

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Mobility beyond Modernity: A Response to Baum, Englund, Grillo, and Obadare

Series: Symposium on Faith in Flux
Devaka Premawardhana
February 6, 2020January 27, 2024

By looking at mobility beyond Eurocentric accounts of modernity, Faith in Flux aims to disrupt the top-down projects of self-conscious modernizers who favor the singular and stable over the multiple and mobile.

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