Contributors to this Issue

Genevieve Nrenzah is a research fellow in the Religion and Philosophy Section of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. Her research and teaching interests are Africa’s diverse indigenous religious beliefs and ceremonies and their extensions in the African Diasporas, old and new; African women and culture; gender structures; indigenous justice systems; religion and economics; African popular culture; sacred spaces; sexuality and human rights; witchcraft economy; and neo-feminism in Ghana. Presently, Nrenzah is concurrently researching sexual abuses in Ghanaian Pentecostalism and diaries from the Western Region of Ghana.

Marsha Snulligan Haney, an ordained clergywoman in the Presbyterian Church USA, is an intercultural theological education consultant and founder of UrbanMissiology.org. A retired professor of missiology and religions of the world and former director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at the Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, Georgia, Haney served the worldwide church in more than forty countries in a variety of positions, including as theological educator, pastor, chaplain, and interfaith dialogue partner. A version of this essay first appeared in the Journal of Interdenominational Theological Center (2016) as “The Leadership Practicum Reformed as Intercultural Formation and Dialogue” and was dedicated to her first doctor of ministry program mentor and life-long friend, the late emeritus professor Dr. Gayraud Wilmore.