Dr Elizabeth Koepping (MA PhD)

Honorary Fellow

Background

Having taught social anthropology and education at various universities in Australia and Germany, I’m now teaching World Christianity and Religious Studies in the School of Divinity, and researching domestic violence in Christian contexts, travelling to eighteen countries across the world (including Tonga, Burma, Korea, Ghana, Germany, India, Trinidad, Scotland) as a case study of the perfectly normal cultural negotiating of religious texts, in this case people in seminaries and church groups.

The research involves talking individually or in groups with ordained and lay, male and female, ethnic minority and majority people from eleven Christian traditions covering Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Episcopal and Reformed Protestant and AIC, enabled by many former and current Edinburgh post-graduates in the various countries.

Qualifications

MA PhD

Undergraduate teaching

Christian History in Asia

Christian Theology in Asia

Indigenous (local-based) Religion in Asia, especially South-East

Anthropology of Religion

Practice of Ministry in World Christianity

Field-Work methodology

Postgraduate teaching

Christian History in Asia

Christian Theology in Asia

Indigenous (local-based) Religion in Asia, especially South-East

Anthropology of Religion

Practice of Ministry in World Christianity

Field-Work methodology

Research summary

My long-term research is on social relations as well as religions in rural eastern Sabah, Malaysia, begun in 1970, and Lutherans of German origin in South Australia, begun in 1984.

More information about research projects by Dr Koepping are available on her Edinburgh Research Explorer profile.

Current research interests

Religious discourses in multi-faith/ethnic contexts Clergy-laity perception and power in World Christianity Christianity in Asia - especially Korea, Myanmar, Malaysia, Taiwan, India Domestic Violence and the response of churches world-wide

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