Pashington Obeng, Ph.D

Pashington Obeng is a graduate of the University of Ghana, Lagon where he earned his B.A. (Hons.) in English Literature and at Trinity College, Legon, where he studied comparative religion. He holds a Ph.D from Boston University specializing in religion and cultural communication. He is also a graduate of Princeton Seminary, New Jersey, where he studied for his masters in theological anthropology and communication. Professor Obeng has also done postdoctoral studies at the Center for the Study of World Religions and the Afro-American Studies Department both at Harvard University and at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, England. He is the author of Asante Catholicism: Religions and Cultural Reproduction among the Akan of Ghana, published by E.J. Brill in 1996 and numerous articles on religion, culture and African Diaspora studies. He is currently researching the cosmologies and life ways of African Indians of Karmataka in South India.