Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye

Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Religion and Human Values at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, where he also received his MPhil, BA, and Diploma of Education. Awuah-Nyamekye holds a PhD from the School of Philosophy, Religion and the History of Science of the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Awuah-Nyamekye also has a certificate in HIV/AIDS Counselling and Care Giving from the University of Ghana. He is a member of the Association for the Study of...See more

Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Religion and Human Values at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, where he also received his MPhil, BA, and Diploma of Education. Awuah-Nyamekye holds a PhD from the School of Philosophy, Religion and the History of Science of the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Awuah-Nyamekye also has a certificate in HIV/AIDS Counselling and Care Giving from the University of Ghana. He is a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) Representative for Ghana. His current research interests are focussed on religion and the environment, environmental ethics, religion and development, religion and politics, and women and religion. Awuah-Nyamekye has written and published a book, and has authored over twenty articles in internationally esteemed scholarly journals such as Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture and Ecology; Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture; Nature and Culture; Religious Studies and Theology; and Journal of Theology for Southern Africa. Awuah-Nyamekye has presented papers at several international institutions, including the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Essen, Germany (2014); the University of Kansas, USA (2013); the University of Colorado, USA (2012); Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (2011 and 2007); Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel (2010); George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, USA (2008); College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA (2008); and Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA (2005). See less