Kyama Mugambi

Kyama Mugambi (PhD) is Assistant Professor of World Christianity at the Yale Divinity School. He specializes in historical, ecclesial, social, cultural, theological, and epistemological themes within African urban Christianity. His book, A Spirit of Revitalization: Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya (Baylor University Press), has been hailed as a singular contribution to the fields of mission studies, world Christianity, and intercultural theology. He recently co-authored with Mark Shaw a book on contemporary expressions of Christianity in the City of Nairobi (Bloomsbury Academic). His current book project takes an in-depth look at ontological themes within Pentecostal spirituality in the African context. Prof. Mugambi is the faculty lead for the MacMillan Centre’s Project on Religion and Society in Africa. The project engages critical religious inquiry into the connection between religion and societal wellbeing, and how the flourishing of persons and societies can be promoted on that basis.