Prof. Loreen Iminza Maseno

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsProtestant Theology,Religious Studies,Other Areas of History
KeywordsGender, Kinship, Theologie
Honours and awards

2023: External Examiner- Kenyatta University, Kenya

2022: Ambassador Scientist for Kenya by the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation

2022: External Examiner- Kaimosi Friends University, Kenya

2021: HRAF global scholar- Yale University

Current contact address

CountryKenya
CityMaseno
InstitutionMaseno University
InstituteDepartment of Religion, Theology and Philosophy

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Susan ArndtProfessur Englische Literaturwissenschaft und Anglophone Literaturen, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2015

Programme(s)

2014Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers
2025Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2024Maseno, Loreen. Mombo, Esther., Muke Najagu., & Veronica Kahindo eds. Queen of Sheba: East and Central African Theologies of Liberation. . Bamberg: Bamberg Press. 2024
2022Maseno, Loreen and others: The nexus between indigenous beliefs on environment and climate change adaptation amongst the Sengwer in Embobut Forest, Kenya. African Perspectives on Religion and Climate Change. Routledge, 2022. 50--64
2021Maseno, Loreen: African women's theology and the re-imagining of community in Africa. In: HTS Theological Studies, 77, 2021, 1--6
2021Maseno, Loreen: An appraisal of the Pentecostal eco-theology and environmental consciousness among youths in Parklands Baptist Church, Kenya. 2021,
2021Maseno, Loreen: Environmental consciousness amongst indigenous youth in Kenya: The role of the Sengwer religious tradition. 2021,
2021Maseno, Loreen: Eschatological Prophecies before and during Covid-19: Female Pentecostal-Charismatic Preachers Self-Legitimation through Prophecy in Kenya. 2021,
2021Lukalo, Beatrice and Maseno, Loreen: Grounded Theology and Disability in Western Kenya. In: Diaconia, 12, 2021, 21--40
2020Maseno, Loreen: African Women Theologies.. African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions. Celebrating John Samuel Mbiti’s Contribution.. Rowman and Littlefield, 2020.
2020Maseno, Loreen: Gender and Christology in Africa for social and political involvement. In: Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 6, 2020, 55--59
2020Chitando, Ezra and Gunda, Masiiwa Ragies and Togarasei, Lovemore and Kaunda, Chammah J and John, Sokfa France and Chimuka, Tarisayi Andrea and Maseno, Loreen and Kilonzo, Susan Mbula and Ndzovu, Hassan J and Haron, Muhammed and others: Religion and development in afRica. 2020,
2020Maseno, Loreen: The Ogiek Indigenous people, Land Rights and the Environment.. Law, Religion and the Environment in Africa. Africa Sun Media, 2020. 259--271
2020Maseno, Loreen: Women as religious citizens and peacebuilding in Kenya. Women and Peacebuilding in Africa. Routledge, 2020. 96--107
2019Conradie Ernst \& Koster, Hilda (eds.): An African Response to Christopher Vena. Christian Theology and Climate Change.. London: T\&T Clark., 2019. 336--339
2019Odhiambo, Christopher and Maseno, Loreen: Dramatic irony as an intervention strategy in two Dholuo films: Kalausi and The Cleansing. In: Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies, 9, 2019, 1--14
2019Maseno, Loreen: Securitising places of worship in Kenya: The case of Faith Evangelistic Ministry (FEM). Religion and Human Security in Africa. Routledge, 2019. 102--113
2019Maseno, Loreen and Mligo, Elia Shabani: Women within Religions: Patriarchy, Feminism, and the Role of Women in Selected World Religions. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2019
2018Loreen Maseno: (Re)framing terror attacks in Kenya: Contrastive frames from the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) and the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya (EAK). In: M. Christian Green, T. Jeremy Gunn, & Mark Hill Religion, Law and Security in Africa. Africa Sun Media, 2018. 131-146
2018Maseno, Loreen: Framing freedom of religion or belief for countering violent extremism in Kenya: The equivalency framework of the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya. In: The Review of Faith \& International Affairs, 16, 2018, 75--87
2018Mhando, Nandera Ernest and Maseno, Loreen and Mtata, Kupakwashe and Senga, Mathew: Modes of legitimation by female Pentecostal-Charismatic preachers in East Africa: a comparative study in Kenya and Tanzania. In: Journal of contemporary African studies, 36, 2018, 319--333
2018Nandera Ernest Mhando, Loreen Maseno, Kupakwashe Mtata & Mathew Senga Modes of legitimation by female Pentecostal-Charismatic preachers in East Africa: a comparative study in Kenya and Tanzania.. In: Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 2018,
2018Loreen Maseno: Narratives of the future in African history: Advancing aspirations for liberation and reconstruction in Africa. In: Elias Kifon Bongmba, Religion and Social Reconstruction in Africa. Routledge 2018.
2018Maseno, Loreen: Narratives of the future in African history: Advancing aspirations for liberation and reconstruction in Africa 1. Religion and Social Reconstruction in Africa. Routledge, 2018. 256--268
2018Maseno, Loreen: Patriarchy Ridiculed and Turned Upside Down: The Role and Place of Humor in Esther 1.1-22.. The Bible and Sociological Contours: Some African Perspectives: Festschrift for Professor Halvor Moxnes.. New York: Peter Lang, 2018. 89--96
2018Loreen Maseno-Ouma: Patriarchy Ridiculed and Turned Upside Down: The Role and Place of Humor in Esther 1.1-22. . In: Zorodzai Dube, Loreen Maseno-Ouma, Elia Mligo, The Bible and Sociological Contours. Some African Perspectives: Festschrift for Professor Halvor Moxnes. Peter Lang, 2018. 89-96
2018Maseno, Loreen: Sexuality and Sexual Scripting in African Traditional Religion: Mumbi in A Grain of. In: Journal for the Study of the Religions of Africa and its Diaspora, 4, 2018, 54--66
2018Zorodzai, Dube, Maseno-Ouma, Loreen, & Mligo, Elia. (eds.): The Bible and Sociological Contours Some African Perspectives. Festschrift for Professor Halvor Moxnes. Peter Lang Publishing. 2018
2017Loreen Maseno: Prayer for rain: A Pentecostal Perspective from Kenya. In: Ecumenical Review, 2017, 336-347
2017Maseno, Loreen: Prayer for rain: a pentecostal perspective from Kenya. In: The Ecumenical Review, 69, 2017, 336--347
2017Loreen Maseno: The Glory Is Here’! Faith Brands and Rituals of Self-Affirmation for Social Responsibility in Kenya. In: Alternation Journal, 2017, 252-267
2017Maseno, Loreen: The Glory is Here!’Faith Brands and Rituals of Self-Affirmation for Social Responsibility in Kenya. 2017,
2016Maseno, Loreen: Stories of African Women's Bodies: The Bodily Lives of ESI and Mumbi. In: The Oriental Anthropologist, 16, 2016, 261--277
2016Loreen Maseno: Stories of African Women’s Bodies: The Bodily Lives of Esi and Mumbi. In: The Oriental Anthropologist, 2016, 263-277
2015Maseno, L and Owojaiye, M.: African Women And Revival: The Case Of The East African Revival.. In: European Journal of Research in Social Sciences., 3, 2015,
2015Loreen Maseno: Christianity in East Africa. In: Elias Kifon Bongmba, The Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa. Routledge, 2015. 108-121
2015Maseno, Loreen: Christianity in East Africa. Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa. Routledge, 2015. 126--139
2015Loreen Maseno: Unbounded Christologies: The Case Of Widows’ Christology – ‘Jesus Christ Is Breath. In: Scriptura, 2015, 1-12
2015Maseno, Loreen: Unbounded christologies: the case of widows' christology-'Jesus Christ is breath'. In: Scriptura: Journal for Contextual Hermeneutics in Southern Africa, 114, 2015, 1--12
2014Maseno-Ouma, Loreen Iminza: How Abanyole African widows understand Christ: Explaining redemption through the propagation of lineage. 2014,