Rathiulung Elias KC

About

Rathiulung Elias KC (Thiu) is a theologian working on Indigenous thought, relationality, digitality, and contemporary theology, and currently affiliated with the University of Bonn. He was previously based at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh. He completed his Ph.D. at the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, and has lived and studied in India, South Korea, Canada and Scotland. He is a Rongmei Naga from Manipur, India.

Employment

• The Salvation Army Senior Researcher
  2026 - Present
• British and Irish Association for Practical Theology
  2026 - 2026
• University of Edinburgh Postdoc Visiting Research Fellowship
  2025 - 2026
• University of Edinburgh Teaching Fellow
  2025 - 2025
• University of Edinburgh Project Manager
  2024 - 2024
• University of Edinburgh Tutor
  2020 - 2024

Education

• University of Edinburgh PhD
  2019 - 2024
• Regent College Master of Theology (ThM)
  2018 - 2019
• Torch Trinity Graduate University M.Div
  2009 - 2011
• Saint Edmunds College Bachelor of Science
  2004 - 2008

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (16)

• Editorial: Indigenous Theologies: Relationality and Lived Cosmologies on Land and Sea
  Studies in World Christianity 2026 DOI: 10.3366/swc.2026.0550
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• The Cosmological Challenge of Indigenous Theology: Being, Relations and Renewal
  Studies in World Christianity 2026 DOI: 10.3366/swc.2026.0551
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• Enchanted Modernities: Ancestral Vitalizations in the Upper Mekong
  Journal of Contemporary Religion 2025 DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2025.2543139
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• ‘More than merry-making’: Tribal-Indigenous Baptists and their lifeworlds of festivities
  2024 DOI: 10.4324/9781003527237-7
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• ‘More than merry-making’: Tribal-Indigenous Baptists and their lifeworlds of festivities
  Practical Theology 2023 DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2023.2167262
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• Indigenising a World Religion: Critical Reflections on the Rongmei Lujam
  Land, Indigeneity, and Cosmology: An Anthology of Essays on the Rongmei Nagas (Tentative) 2023
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• "His Beautiful Face Obscured by the Blood-Red": Christological Ruminations in the Lujam Songs of the Rongmei Nagas
  Journal of Tribal Studies, XXVI Nos. 1 & 2 2022
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• GERMAN PIETISM AND THE PROBLEM OF CONVERSION. By JonathanStrom. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 226. Hardcover, $89.95.
  Religious Studies Review 2022 DOI: 10.1111/rsr.15688
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• Performing Heritage, Theology and ‘Land’ in the Lujam Songs of the Rongmei Nagas of North-east India
  Studies in World Christianity 2022 DOI: 10.3366/swc.2022.0370
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• Performing Heritage, Theology, and Land in the Lujam songs of the Rongmei Nagas
  Yale-Edinburgh Conference (June 2021) held at Edinburgh 2021
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