Christian Anderson

Email: cja64@cam.ac.uk

Dr Christian Anderson

Postdoctoral Associate
University Positions
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Subjects
Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion
Specialising in
World Christianity, American religious history

Christian Anderson is a historian and theologian of global Christianity. He specialises in American evangelicalism’s turbulent relationship with Islam in the 20th and 21st centuries. 

Academic interests

Christian Anderson’s academic interests include:

  • American religious history
  • Christian-Muslim relations
  • Pentecostal studies
  • World Christianity
  • Anthropology of religion
  • Conversion studies
  • Intercultural theologies.

Degrees obtained

  • BA, Sydney.
  • PhD, Cantab.

Biography

Christian Anderson’s current research explores the influence of spiritual warfare theology on how American evangelicals imagined Islam between the Iranian revolution and the Iraq War.

His has published on issues of religious conversion, Pentecostal theology and Christian-Muslim relations. His PhD thesis unpacked a divisive missionary controversy over whether Christian faith could be expressed in Islamic forms.

Christian grew up in Cambridge but has lived half of his life in Australia and the United States. Before graduate studies, he worked as a banker and an Anglican minister.   

Other interests

Football, squash, fiction. 

Department link

https://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/

Publications, links and resources

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