Hadje Cresencio Sadje is a theologian, activist, and decolonial scholar. He is currently completing his PhD at the University of Vienna (Austria), with an ongoing 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). 

In the world of practice, his notable works are in association with the Christian Peacemaker Team Greece, Caritas Brussels, EAPPI-World Council of Churches (WCC), PeaceBuilders Community Philippines, Bangsamoro Research and Legal Services, and Pananaw Pinoy.While in academia, he teaches at the Barcelona Applied Social Sciences in Spain, the Foundation Academy in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Union Theological Seminary Philippines, and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

His research interests and publication projects focus on decoloniality, global politics, Asian religions, global Pentecostalism, Muslim-Christian studies, philosophical theologies, Asian theologies and non-Western theologies, Christian Zionism, popular culture studies, and the intersectionality of religion, music, films, and video games.

His engagements and collaborations can also be found in the following collective spaces: Facebook https://www.facebook.com,

Academia https://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/HadjeCresencioSadje,

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/hadje-sadje-9a6303107/?originalSubdomain=be, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hadjesadje/?hl=en,

ORCID ID https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-3348-3857,

Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com.ph/citations?user=FsXbLEgAAAAJ&hl=en,

Web of Science https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/NGR-9559-2025,

and Twitter https://twitter.com/HadjeSadje

For lectures, workshops, conversations, research evaluations, and interviews, you can contact him directly through his email: hadjesadje@gmail.com