Dr Elizabeth Koepping (MA PhD)
Honorary Fellow
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School of Divinity, Mound Place
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- Edinburgh
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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.