Freelance teaching of an introduction to Science of Religions and to the General History of Religions
Stichting NOHG (Nederlandse Opleiding Hindoe Geestelijken) at The Hague
Born in Oldenzaal, in 1935, I did my secondary education (gymnasium alpha) at the Minor Seminary of the Society for African Missions (Societas Missionum ad Afros, SMA) from 1948 to 1954; and my training in RC (Philosophy and) Theology at its Major Seminary from 1954 to 1961, after which I was ordained to the priesthood. After a ʽPastoral Yearʼ in Winneba, Ghana, from November 1961 to July 1962, with daily lessons in Twi, a major Akan dialect, I was appointed to St. Teresaʼs Minor Seminary at Amisano near Elmina to teach History. Some of those I taught are now in high positions: Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson is one of them; another is the Archbishop of Cape Coast, Matthias Kobena Nketsiah. Again others are the retired Archbishop of Kumasi, Thomas Kwaku Mensah, and the Bishop of Konongo-Mampong, Dr. Joseph Osei-Bonsu.
African indigenous religions, in particular those of Akan societies of Ghana and of San societies in Botswana and Namibia; Anthropology of religions; the methodology of the comparative study of religions; ritual studies; the comparative study of spirit possession; the history of the academic study of religions, especially in The Netherlands
Nationality: Dutch
Date of birth: 25 June 1935
Place of birth: Oldenzaal, The Netherlands
RC Philosophy & Theology
Major Seminary of the Societas Missionum ad Afros (Society of African Missions) at Hulsberg, The Netherlands
Missiology, Social Anthropology, Anthropology of Religions
RC University at Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Drs (doctorandus) Theology, cum laude
Nijmegen University (Rooms-Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen)
Ph.D.
Utrecht University (Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht), Utrecht, The Netherlands
Stichting NOHG (Nederlandse Opleiding Hindoe Geestelijken) at The Hague
Faculty of Theology of Leiden University
(godsdienstwetenschap)
KTU (Katholieke Theologische Universiteit at Utrecht)