Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Academics

Personal Information 

Nationality: Rwandan

   Academic Rank: Senior Lecturer for New Testament and Greek

    Email: [email protected]

   Tel: +250788689293

   Research areas: New Testament Interpretation and Theology, African Pentecostalism

Qualification and Career

   Since 11/ 2022 to date: Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Academics

    2021-2022   Chairperson of the Postgraduate Committee in the MA Programs

   2020-2022     Dean, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies

   2005 -2008    Administrative Secretary at the FTPB

   

   Since 10/2017  Visiting lecturer at the University of Bamberg, Germany  (for the International Master Program  in Educational Quality, IMPEQ)

    2016-2020    Coordinator for Masters Programs of Theology at PIASS

    2012-2015   Doctoral studies (New Testament) at the Protestantse Theologische Universiteit, Groningen, Netherlands

   2010-2011     Master in Theology at the Protestantse Theologische Universiteit, Kampen

   Since 2009    Part-time Pastor in ADEPR, Ngoma Local Church (Huye)

   Since 2006    Lecturer of New Testament and Greek at the FTPB-PIASS

   2005-2010    Coordinator of Continuing Theological Training in ADEPR, Butare Region

   2002-2005    Tutorial Assistant at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of Butare (FTPB)

   1998-1999    Teacher of New Testament at ADEPR’s Institut Biblique de Gisenyi

Selected professional and academic services

Ongoing:

  1.   Member of the Academic Promotion Committee at Kibogora Polytechnic, Rwanda

  2.   Member of the Editorial Board of PIASS Publications Series.

  3.   Member of the Rwanda Higher Education Council’s auditors

  4.   Member of several commissions of the Protestant University of Rwanda

  5.   Member of the International Association for Mission Studies

International experiences

1.   Stay as a guest lecturer at the University of Gdansk, Poland (April 2024)

2.   Stay at the School of Theology and Leadership in Sweden (October 2023)

3.   Research seminar at Lund University (September-November 2020)

4.   Visiting lecturer at the University of Bamberg in the International Masters in Educational Quality (from 2017 till now)

5.   Doctoral studies (New Testament) at the Protestantse Theologische Universiteit, Groningen, Netherlands (June 2012-October 2015)

6.   Master in Theology at the Protestantse Theologische Universiteit, Kampen (2010-2011)

7.   A 6 month academic English Course in Nairobi, Kenya (09/2004-03/2005)

8.   A 3 month course on Intercultural Bible Reading and Hermeneutics at the VU University Amsterdam (09/2008-11/2008)

Selected Funds (last five years 2019–2024)

1.   Research grant by LUNDS MISSIONSSALLKAP (Sweden) for the project “The East-African Revival: Voices of Neglected Witnesses in Rwanda from 1930 to the 1970s” (2022): 45,200 Swedish Crowns

2.   Ecotheological project at PIASS, funded by EMW: 2023-2024 (7,000€); 2024-2025 (7,000€)

3.   Theological Training of Pastors and other Categories in Churches, 2023-2025; funded by Kerk in Actie, Netherlands: 209, 034€

4.   Theological Training of Pastors and other Categories in Churches, 2023-2025; funded by EMW, Germany: 171, 000€

5.   Printing PIASS Monograph: SEEDS OF BLESSING FROM ETB TO PIASS: History, Institutional Development and Achievements of PIASS (2023): funded by UEM: 3,804€ 

Publications:

The most 10 important publications of the last five years

Category A (peer reviewed)

        Habarurema, V., (2024). Reading New Testament Exorcism Stories in Dialogue with African Pentecostalism: An Illustration from Mark 1.21-28. JSNT special issue: Decolonising New Testament Studies, 1-13: DOI:10.1177/0142064x241262480.
Habarurema, V. (2022). Central Aspects of the Theology of Pentecostal Churches in Africa. In C. Jahnel & T. Jähnichen. (Eds.). Ecological Justice: Churches as a civil-society- stakeholders: Perspectives from Africa and Europe. Oer-Erkenschwick: Verlag Hartmut Spenner, pp. 21-48.
Habarurema, V. (2017), Christian Generosity according to 2 Cor. 8-9: Its Exegesis, Reception and Interpretation Today in Dialogue with the Prosperity Gospel in sub- Saharan Africa, Carlisle, Langham Monographs.

 

Category B (non-peer reviewed)

 

          Habarurema, V. & Lugazia, F., The East-African Revival: Voices of Neglected Witnesses in Rwanda from 1930-1970s (upcoming).
Habarurema, V. & Umuziranenge, G. (2023). From Theological Formation to Social Sciences: Opportunities and Challenges for Churches. In T. Gatwa & E. Musemakweli. (Eds.). Seeds of blessing: From ETB to PIASS: History, Institutional Development and Achievements of PIASS. Huye: PIASS Publication Series 2023, pp. 151-181.
Habarurema, V. (2022). Postface. In T. Gatwa. (Ed.). André Karamaga: Theology of Dignity and Viability of the Church in Africa. Yaoundé: Editions CLE, pp. 307-3011.
Habarurema, V. & Munyansanga, O., (2018). “Ubudehe: Reinventing a Social Solidarity Practice: Lessons from the Bible”, in Home Grown Solutions: Reconciliation and Reconstruction of Rwanda, PIASS Series n^o 12, 121-139.
Habarurema, V. & Ntakirutimana E., “Ubudehe and Diaconia: Theological and Moral Perspectives for Social Solidarity in Rwanda”, in Home Grown Solutions: Reconciliation and Reconstruction of Rwanda”, PIASS Series n^o 12 (2018), 75-102.
Habarurema, V. (2017), “Diakonia in the New Testament”, in Diaconia in Protestant Churches in Rwanda, PIASS Series n^o 9, 19-27.