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Mr

Hadje Cresencio Sadje

PhD Candidate
BS (PUP), MA (PThU Netherlands), MA (UBonn, Germany), PhD Candidate (Uni Vienna))
University of Vienna, Austria
Institut für Systematische Theologie und Religionswissenschaft der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Wien

Hadje Cresencio Sadje is a theologian, activist, and decolonial scholar. He is currently completing his PhD at the University of Vienna (Austria) and is on an Erasmus+ PhD exchange at KU Leuven’s Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies (Belgium). He is also presently pursuing a Certificate in Reconciliation and Restorative Justice from the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, USA. He holds an MA in Crosscultural Theology from the Protestant Theological University (Netherlands) and an MA in Ecumenical Studies (Sociology of Religion) from the University of Bonn (Germany). As a faculty member at Union Theological Seminary (Philippines), visiting special lecturer in Master of Arts in Philippine Studies at the Graduate School of Polytechnic University of the Philippines, associate fellow at York University’s Harriet Tubman Institute (Canada), and associate member of the Centre for Palestine Studies-SOAS University of London, UK, his work bridges non-Western theories, theologies of liberation, global Pentecostalism, and Muslim-Christian studies. He was selected for Yale Divinity School’s Yale University Leader Way Certificate Program (2025-2026) and Drew University’s Institute for Emerging Leadership Program (Summer 2025).

Research Interest

His research interests and publication projects focus on decoloniality, Asian religions and non-Western epistemologies, popular culture studies, and the intersectionality of religion, music, films, and video games.

Expertise Area(s)

Decoloniality, non Western epistemologies, world religions

Contact Email

hadjesadje@gmail.com