Ryan Ramsey

Ryan Ramsey, visiting assistant professor of history and World Christianity, is a Louisville Institute postdoctoral fellow whose work includes and intersects with decoloniality, interreligious engagement, popular theological development, and historiography. Dr. Ramsey is co-editor of the forthcoming volume The Five Distinctives of World Christianity: Essays in Honor of Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi. His work has been published in Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, and Religions, and he is the author of additional work forthcoming in the Brill Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism: North American Supplement and American Educational History Journal. He has completed a Ph.D. in religion at Baylor University and holds additional degrees in religion (M.A.R., Yale University) and biblical and theological studies (B.A., Lee University).

Dr. Ramsey’s dissertation explores the life of Mexican folk saint Teresa Urrea through the lenses of World Christianity and decoloniality. He is active in the Society of Pentecostal Studies as well as conversations concerning World Christianity and ecumenics. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion, an anonymous peer reviewer for Religions, and he has reviewed books for interreligious and Pentecostal journals. His academic foci include World Christianity, Pentecostal and charismatic movements, modern Latin American Christianity, missions history, borderlands religion, and decoloniality. Dr. Ramsey has served in a variety of lay leadership roles in congregations in Tennessee, North Carolina, Connecticut, and Texas.

Co-editor with Anna Redhair Wells. “The Five Distinctives of World Christianity”: Essays in Honor of Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi. Baylor University Press (forthcoming).

“Wave Language and Charismatic Historiography,” in Brill Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism: North American Supplement, eds. Andrea Johnson and Peter Althouse (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming).

“Decolonial Options for World Christianity: Thinking and Acting with Santa Teresa Urrea and Prophet Garrick Sokari Braide,” in Decolonial Horizons: Reimagining Theology, Ecumenism and Sacramental Praxis, eds. Raimundo C. Barreto and Vladimir Latinovic, Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue, 121-40 (Cham: Palgrave MacMillan: 2024).

“Ambiguous Borders: Curanderismo and World Christianity.” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 59, no. 3 (2024).

Guillermo Maldonado: A Bibliography. Voices of Independent Pentecostalism: A joint bibliographical project of the Holy Spirit Research Center, Oral Roberts University, and the Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University. Series editors Daniel D. Isgrigg and J. Gordon Melton. Tulsa: Holy Spirit Research Center, 2023.

“Disappointment in Early Pentecostalism: Toward a Historical Methodology.” Religions 13, no. 4 (April 2022): 321. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13040321

“Christ in Yaqui Garb: Teresa Urrea’s Christian Theology and Ethics.” Religions 12, no. 2 (Feb 2021): 126. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12020126