Programme of Working Groups – Presentation Schedule
VI GNPT Consultation | 03–06/Oct/2022 | Curitiba
Public Theologies in Vibrating Cities: Precious and Precarious
Tuesday, 4 October
Working Groups I
WG 01 – Public Theology and Migration
Room A01
| 9h-9h30 | The Postmigrant Turn: Multi-Faith Practice as Performative Public Theology Ulrich Schmiedel (PhD, Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| 9h30-10h | Public Theology, Encounter, and Migration in Central-Eastern Urban Spaces Ryszard Bobrowicz (PhD, Researcher, Lund University, Sweden) |
| 10h-10h30 | Diasporic Dioceses: Migration and Canonical Jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church. Tiffany Ann Butler (PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) |
| 10h30-11h | Coffee Break |
| 11h-11h30 | “For the migrant takes the place of Christ himself”: Theologies of Migration as Public Theology in Global Christianity Matthias Ehmann (PhD, Professor, Theologische Hochschule Ewersbach, Germany) |
| 11h30-12h | The Supreme Court as Inquisitor? Political Theology of Asylum based on Conversion: A Case Study from the Supreme Court of Norway 2021 Sturla J. Stålsett (PhD, Professor, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society) |
| 12h-12h30 | Concluding Discussion |
WG 02 – Asian Cities and Christian Hope
Room A02
| 9h-9h45 | “Permeating with Christian Values: Sri Lankan Experience of Cities and City Life” J.C. Paul Rohan (PhD, Professor, University of Jaffna) |
| 9h45-10h30 | Nuwara Eliya: A Sri Lankan ‘City of Light’ with Darkened Life of the Estate Workers Justin Chawkan (PhD, National Seminary, Kandy and Aquinas College, Colombo, Sri Lanka) |
| 11h00-11h45 | An Angel in the Strange Land: Newcomer Hospitality as a Christian Hope for Asian Cities Anish Puthusseril Joseph (Research Scholar, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) |
| 11h45-12h30 | Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Indian Cities – A Public Theological Interrogation Gnana Patrick (Professor emeritus, University of Madras, India) |
WG 03 – Just housing – affordable, sustainable, aesthetically appealing?
Room A03
| 9h-10h30 | Mobilisation of Berea Baptist Mission Church’s assets in a globalised Johannesburg inner city, South Africa towards “Just housing – affordable, sustainable, aesthetically appealing”: An oiko-missiological study Lukwikilu Credo Mangayi (PhD, Professor, University of South Africa, UNISA) Precarious church between skyscrapers and homelessness: Reflections on the public role of the Protestant church in Frankfurt am Main/Germany Annegreth Schilling (PhD, pastor of the Evangelical Church in Hessia and Nassau, Frankfurt, Germany) |
| 11h-12h30 | Just housing – constructing a theological praxis-agenda in a (South) African city Stephan de Beer (PhD, Associate Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa) The garden city as a commons. Social-ethical perspectives on the new housing question Torsten Meireis (ThD, Professor, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany) Lukas Johrendt (Mag. Theol., Research Assistant, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany) |
WG 04 – Shaping urban futures: Theological education as engaged scholarship
Room A04
| 9h-9h30 | Framing our working group – Sarojini Nadar and Michael Ribbens |
| 9h30-10h | Participatory Theological Education and Research for African cities – Selena D. Headley (PhD, postdoctoral fellow, University of the Western Cape, Belville, South Africa) |
| 10h-10h30 | The Centrality of a Liberating Urban Theology to Shape Urban Futures – Sheth Otieno Oguok (PhD, Nairobi Transformational Network Co-ordinator) |
| 11h-12h30 | Listen and learn alongside other working groups |
WG 05 – The Reformed Tradition and Global Public Theology
Room A17
| 9h-10h30 | The City as Reformed Monastery: On Forming and Performing the Faith in Urban Settings Marthinus J. Havenga (PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University, South Africa) |
| 11h-12h30 | What is Public? A re-examination of the meaning of “public” in the context of the Chinese culture in doing public theology Agnes Chiu (PhD, Professor, China Evangelical Seminary North America, USA) Bavinck’s Theological Anthropology and Reformed Public Theology in an Age of Social Media David Park (PhD Student, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) |
WG 06 – Gender, Sexuality and Public Theology
Room A06
| 9h-10h30 | Supporting Trans and Non-Binary Staff and Students in Higher Education Esther McIntosh (PhD, Professor, York St John University, UK) Make the African Public Theology Circle Bigger: Justice for Queer Bodies Hanzline R. Davids (MTh, Researcher, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa) Single Christians, Queering the Doctrine of Marriage as Framework for Christian Ethics of Intimate Relationships Florian Höhne (PhD, Assistant Professor, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany) |
| 11h-12h30 | #RememberingEudy: On Memory, Remembering and Agency in (Virtual) Queer Community Charlene van der Walt (PhD, Associate Professor, University of KwaZulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa) ‘We All Have a Cross to Bear!’: Reflecting on GBV and the Toxic Religious Rhetoric of Christian Suffering on the Tree of the Cross Zamantshali Dlamini (PhD, University of KwaZulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa) Womanism and Spirituality: Black Women’s Embodied Experiences and the Decentring of Western Epistemologies Fundiswa A. Kobo (PhD, Senior Lecturer, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa) |
WG 07 – Liveable Cities
Room A07
| 9h-9h30 | Diversity in the City Murray Rae (PhD, Professor, University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand) |
| 9h30-10h | Surveillance and Sociality: ‘Smart Living’ in Historical and Future Cities Andrew Shepherd (PhD, Lecturer, University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand) |
| 10h-10h30 | Theology from the Suburbs Cobus van Wyngaard (PhD, Associate Professor, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa) |
| 11h-11h30 | Discussion |
WG 08 – Digital Public Theologies
Room A08
| 9h-9h05 | Welcome, workshop board |
| 9h05-9h30 | Public theology for the digital polis Stephen Garner (PhD, Professor, Laidlaw College, Aoteorea New Zealand, Senior Research Fellow, Australian College of Theology) |
| 9h30-10h | From confrontation to encounter: the influencers’ culture as a challenge to ecumenism in the digital public space Aline Amaro da Silva (PhD, Lecturer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil) |
| 10h-10h30 | Creating a Digital Public Theology of Children’s Spiritual Nurture Karen-Marie Yust (PhD, Professor at Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, USA) |
WG 09 – Common home and new ways of living interculturally: public theology and cultural ecology in (post)pandemic times
Room A09
| 9h-10h30 | The Metaphor of a City under Siege as an Expression of Urban Life in (Post)pandemic Times Milton Luiz Torres (PhD, Professor, Universidade Adventista de São Paulo, Brasil) Living beyond fear: The ecology of relationships as the foundation of the common good Susana Villas Boas (PhD, Professor, Loyola University, Granada/Spain) Ética do Cuidado e Pacto Educativo Global: Reflexões para viver interculturamente Ariél Philippi Machado (PhD Candidate, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil) |
| 11h-12h30 | Public Theology and Common Home in the Context of the Religious Dualization Phenomenon in Multiple Modernities Alex Villas Boas (PhD, Professor, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa, Portugal, and PUCPR) A reading of David Tracy on the analysis of theological models and the ethical challenge posed by the common good Jefferson Zeferino (PhD, Associate Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Brazil) |
WG 10 – Political and Public Theologies
Room A10
| 9h-9h30 | The Challenge of a public theology in the African Francophone countries: the case of socio-political engagement of churches and theology Joel Kuvuna Mbongi (PhD, Democratic Republic of Congo) |
| 9h30-10h | Of Imaginary Theologies! Why Pretending All is Well is not in the Best Interest of a South African Theological Discourse? Rothney S Tshaka (PhD, Professor, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa) |
| 10h-10h30 | Banning the flag from our Churches? A public theological reflection on nationalism and civil religion in South Africa Dion A Forster (PhD, Professor, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) |
| 11h-11h30 | “Always Believing”: In search of a shared belief beyond the totality of religion Calvin D. Ullrich (PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) |
| 11h30-12h | Precarious Places, Promise-keeping, and Public Theology: A Theological Engagement with Damon Galgut’s The Promise Robert Vosloo (PhD, Professor, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) |
| 12h-12h30 | On URCSA and JG Zuma: a Postcolonial theological critique of various forms of political engagement Reggie Nel (PhD, Professor, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) |
WG 11 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Public Theology
Room A11
| 9h-9h20 | The tensions between “the personal” and public personality in Bonhoeffer’s 1932 “Literary Attempt on the Theme of ‘Vocation’” Karola Radler (PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) |
| 9h30-9h50 | Proclamation, Pacifism and Public Theology Barry Harvey (PhD, Professor, Baylor University, USA) |
| 10h-10h20 | Sacramental personalism within Bonhoeffer’s theology Brian Almeida (Graduate Student, Laval University, Quebec, Canada) |
| 11h-11h30 | A Teleological Interpretation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Concept of “A World Come 0f Age” Paul Dankers (PhD, Researcher in the Centre for Innovative Education and Communicative Technologies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa) |
| 11h30-11h50 | Groundedness and Estrangement: Regrounding City Dwellers in Light of Bonhoeffer’s Theology Dianne Rayson (PhD, Senior Lecturer, Pacific Theological College in Suva, Fiji) |
| 11h50-12.30 | General Discussion |
WG 12 – Public Theology and Decoloniality
Room A12
| 9h-9h30 | Colonialidade do saber e ensino da História do Cristianismo José Mário Gonçalves (PhD, Professor, Faculdade Unida, Vitória/ES, Brazil) |
| 9h30-10h | Intolerância e intransigência religiosas no Brasil: aspectos trinitários para um cristianismo mais dialogal Liria Andrea Suárez Preciado (PhD candidate, Faculdades EST, São Leopoldo/RS, Brazil); Mateus Andrey Dolney (PhD candidate, Faculdades EST, São Leopoldo/RS, Brazil) |
| 10h-10h30 | Abya Yala Theology – Decolonized Theology and Implications on Motherland, Borders, and Citizenship Yenny Delgado (PhD candidate, University of Lausanne, Switzerland); Claudio Ramírez (MTh, Catholic University of Salta, Argentina) |
| 11h-11h30 | Decolonising Tiyo’s Soga’s songs contained in the MCSA hymnal book Sandiswa Lerato Kobe (PhD Candidate, University of Pretoria and VU Amsterdam; Lecturer, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa) |
WG 13 – Public Theology and Religious Nationalism in the 21st Century
Room A15
9h – 9h30 | Resistance to Exclusivist and Reactionary Posts on US Facebook Pages of Religious Figures and Organizations Thomas Hale (PhD Candidate, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena/CA, USA) |
| 9h30 – 10h | The Good, Bad and Ugly: Responding to religious nationalism Kjetil Fretheim, (PhD, Professor, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo, Norway) |
| 10h – 10h30 | Practice and Imaginary Wrestling: The Possibilities of a Theopoetic Public Theology Callid Keefe-Perry (PhD, Assistant Professor, Boston College, Boston/MA, USA) |
| 11h – 11h30 | Counteracting Jewish religious exclusionist theology and religious nationalism in the struggle against racism and violence in Israel Pauline C.H. Kollontai (Professor Emerita, York St John University, UK) |
WG 14 – Human Rights, Religions and Gender in a (post)pandemic perspective in Contemporaneity
Room A16
| 9h-9h30 | A NECESSIDADE DE DIREITOS SOCIAIS E AS POLÍTICAS DE SAÚDE PÚBLICA (PÓS) PANDEMIA NO BRASIL Manoel V. Santos Neto (PhD Candidate, Faculdades EST, São Leopoldo/RS, Brazil) |
| 9h30-10h | A CIRANDA DA SABEDORIA: LEITURA BÍBLICA EM PERSPECTIVA LIBERTADORA PARA MULHERES EM TEMPOS DE (PÓS) PANDEMIA –Fabiane Behling Luckow (PhD Candidate, Faculdades EST, São Leopoldo/RS, Brazil) |
| 10h-10h30 | O NOVO CÓDIGO DE FAMÍLIAS EM CUBA Yamilka Hernández Guzmán (PhD Candidate, Faculdades EST, São Leopoldo/RS, Brazil) |
| 11h-11h30 | TEOLOGIA PÚBLICA EM PERPECTIVA FEMINISTA: UMA ANÁLISE DA REPRESENTAÇÃO DAS MULHERES EM MÁQUINAS Claudete Beise Ulrich (PhD, Professor, Faculdade Unida, Vitória/ES, Brazil); Vinicius Silva de Oliveira (MScR, Faculdade Unida, Vitória/ES, Brazil) |
| 11h30-12h | TEOLOGIA FEMINISTA E O DEUS DINHEIRO: REFLEXÕES SOBRE VIDA DIGNA Nivia Ivette Núñez de la Paz (PhD, Professor, Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana and Universidad Europea del Atlantico, Coimbra, Portugal) |
| 12h-12h30 | A AFIRMAÇÃO DE UMA RETÓRICA REACIONÁRIA E NEGACIONISTA FACE À PANDEMIA E OS DESDOBRAMENTOS DE UMA AÇÃO NECROPOLÍTICA NA GOVERNANÇA BRASILEIRA ATUAL Celso Gabatz (PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher at Faculdades EST, São Leopoldo/RS, Brazil) |
Wednesday, 5 October
Working Groups II
WG 02 – Asian Cities and Christian Hope
Room A02
| 9h-9h45 | Hope of Christian faith in rural Taiwan Yip Mei Loh (PhD, Associate Professor, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan) |
| 9h45-10h30 | (Re-)Shaping Public Opinion on Christianity in Hong Kong: A Critical Review of Chinese Governement’s Discourse of Religion Lap Yan Kung (PhD, professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| 11h00-11.30 | General Planning for the Asian Group |
WG 03 – Just housing – affordable, sustainable, aesthetically appealing?
Room A03
| 9h-10h30 | The social, the ecological, and the cultural. Tiny houses and the role of social imaginaries Thomas Wabel (PhD, Professor, University of Bamberg, Germany) |
| 10h30-11h | We Too Love Beautiful Things: Francis Kéré’s Creative, Beautiful, and Sustainable Architecture as a Case Against Slums in Africa Musembi Ndaita (Peter) (MA, Campus minister at the University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
| 11h-12h30 | Discussion: Where to go from here? Exchange on future cooperations among the working group members |
WG 04 – Shaping urban futures: Theological education as engaged scholarship
Room A04
| 9h-9h30 | Registering our listening and learning |
| 9h30-10h | A Quest for a Theology of Urban Ministry: The Journey of Kampala Evangelical School of Theology (KEST) Philip Wandawa (PhD, Principal, Kampala Evangelical School of Theology) |
| 10h-10h30 | Why (Do) We Still Need Black Theology? A Pedagogical Case for Intersecting Intersectional Black Theology and Biblical Hermeneutics Johnathan Jodamus (PhD, Senior Lecturer, University of the Western Cape, Belville, South Africa) |
| 11h-12h30 | Listen and learn alongside other working groups |
WG 05 – The Reformed Tradition and Global Public Theology
Room A17
| 9h-10h30 | From Confessionality to Political Praxis: the tenuous path of political involvement among Brazilian Reformed Christians Rorgers Henry Pianaro (MTh, Teaches at FATESUL Presbyterian Seminary, Curitiba, Brazil) Notes on Theology, Social Theory, and Education in Abraham Kuyper’s Lecture Held at the Inauguration of the Free University of Amsterdam in 1880 Ednardo Luís Duarte da Silva (Master’s Candidate, Faculdades EST São Leopoldo/RS, Brazil) |
| 11h-12h30 | Kerygma, Context, and Culture: Towards the Future of Reformed Public Theology Rachel Sophia Baard (Assistant Professor, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond/VA, USA) Between Islam and Christendom: Arab Christianity and Reformed Public Theology Eshak Estafanous, (PhD candidate, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena/CA, USA) |
WG 06 – Gender, Sexuality and Public Theology
Room A06
| 6h-7h30 online | ‘If People in the Church Knew’: Purity, Stigma and Victim-Blaming Rocio Figueroa (PhD, Lecturer, Te Kupenga – Catholic Theological College, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand) and Ngalaton Hungyo (PhD Candidate) Decolonial Feminism in Public Theology Glovedi Joy L. Bigornia (PhD candidate, the Philippines) Naked and Alone: The Mocking of Miriam Leitão David Tombs (PhD, Professor, University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand) |
| 11h-12h30 | Taxis, Taverns, Tuck Shops and Temples: Tracing the Sacred in African Cities Mias van Jaarsveld (PhD, Research Associate University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa) Matrimonies, Promiscuities and Silences: Queering the ‘Same-Sex’ Debate in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa Megan Robertson (Senior researcher, University of the Western Cape, Belville, South Africa) ‘Jane Crow’ and Public Discourse: Womanist Public Theology and the Contributions of Anna Pauline ‘Pauli’ Murray Olufemi Gonsalves (PhD candidate, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena/CA, USA) |
WG 07 – Liveable Cities
Room A07
| 9h-9h30 | Gun Violence, the Construction of Threat, and Lived Ecclessiologies Katie Day (PhD, Professor emerita, United Lutheran Seminary, Pennsylvania) |
| 9h30-10h | From Consumption to Contribution: A Theology of Work for the Reclamation of Humanity and the Places We Inhabit Dylan Parker (PhD candidate, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena/CA, USA) |
| 10h-10h30 | ‘Risking Extremes in a Liveable City’ Clive Pearson (PhD, Associate Professor, Charles Sturt University, Sydney, Australia) |
| 11h-11h30 | Discussion |
WG 08 – Digital Public Theologies
Room A08
| 11h-11h30 | Networked Social Movements, Networked Public Theology: The Implications of the Hong Kong Protests to World Christianity Calida Chu (PhD, Teaching Fellow, University of Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| 11h30-12h | Piracy and Digital Theology: Keeping my Biblical Scholarship Up-to-Date in South American Contexts Ethically Carlos Olivares (PhD, Associate Professor, Universidade Adventista de São Paulo, Brazil) |
| 12h-12h30 | Black Twitter and the Black experience in the South African Digital culture: A Black Theological perspective Katleho Mokoena (PhD Candidate, University of Pretoria, Lecturer at UNISA) |
WG 09 – Common home and new ways of living interculturally: public theology and cultural ecology in (post)pandemic times
Room A09
| 11h-12h30 | Immunology and Political Theology – community theory in (post)pandemic times, inspired by Roberto Esposito João Manuel Correia R. Duque (Ph.D., Professor, Universidade Católica Portuguesa) Arte popular urbana como espacio del clamor de los pobres y de la tierra Emilce Cuda (PhD, Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America) |
WG 10 – Political and Public Theologies
Room A10
| 9h-9h30 | Os refugiados venezuelanos em Manaus: Situação, causas e respostas dadas pela Cáritas Arquidiocesana Bruno Mateus de Lima Coutinho (Master’s Candidate, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil) |
| 9h30-10h | Teologia Pública e Imaginação: como a teologia pode moldar o imaginário político de uma sociedade Guilherme Moura Bejo (BSc, Faculdade Latino-Americana, São Paulo) |
| 10h-10h30 | A química da religião universal: Aproximações entre religião como solvente em Pierucci e dissolução de estruturas fortes em Vattimo Irineu José Bottoni (BSc, Master’s Candidate, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Brazil) |
| 11h-11h30 | O Deus da Paz e não violência – um desafio da Teologia Pública Érico Hammes (PhD, Professor, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) |
| 11h30-12h | A atuação das Assembleias de Deus nas cidades do Brasil: aproximações e distanciamentos políticos entre 2003 e 2022 Jonas José de Oliveira Maria (PhD candidate, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil) |
| 12h-12h30 | “Fui forasteiro, e não me recolhestes” (Mt 25,43): Teologia Pública e Justiça Social em diálogo no acolhimento de refugiados forçados Eva Gislane Barbosa (PhD candidate, PUCPR, Curitiba, Brazil); Vera Lúcia Wunsch (PhD candidate, PUCPR, Curitiba, Brazil); Waldir Souza (PhD, Professor, PUCPR, Curitiba, Brazil) |
WG 11 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Public Theology
Portuguese Language Session
Room A11
| 9h00-9h20 | Reinos Divididos – A relação Igreja-Estado em Bonhoeffer durante a Kirchenkampf Djonata Brüning (Master’s Candidate, Faculdades EST, São Leopoldo/RS, Brazil) |
| 9h30-9h50 | O enfrentamento cotidiano do fanatismo, da intolerância e do desrespeito à diversidade a partir de questões de crenças – o exemplo de Dietrich Bonhoeffer Uipirangi Franklin da Silva Câmara (PhD, Lecturer UNIOPET, FAEL, Brazil) |
| 9h50-10h10 | A necessidade de uma teologia pública do trabalho: impulsos a partir da teologia de Dietrich Bonhoeffer Wilhelm Sell (ThD, President of the International Bonhoeffer Society in Brazil, Palhoça/SC, Brazil) |
| 10h10-10h30 | General discussion |
| 11.00-11.20 | A undécima hora da igreja – atualidade da repreensão profética de Bonhoeffer para o contexto eclesiástico protestante brasileiro hoje Carlos Caldas (PhD, Professor, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil) |
WG 12 – Public Theology and Decoloniality
Room A12
| 9h-9h30 | Location, location, location! – On epistemology in the city (Public Theology) Jason Gribble (MTh, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) |
| 9h30-10h | The Ministry of Reconcilitation and Settler Decolonisation in Aoteaora New Zealand Richard A. Davis (PhD, Professor, Wesley House, Cambridge, UK) |
| 10h-10h30 | Public Theology and Decoloniality: Perspectives from the Wretched of the Earth Hadje Crescencio Sadje (PhD candidate, University of Hamburg/University of Vienna) |
| 11h-11h30 | “Between Rocks and the Sea”: Searching for a decolonial praxis in the context of a religious Community Felipe Gustavo Koch Buttelli (PhD, Pastor of the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil in Goiânia/GO, Brazil) |
| 11h30-12h | The Colonisation of the Setswana Language: a Decolonial Reading of the 1840 English-Setswana Gospel of Luke by Robert Moffat – Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae (PhD, Professor, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa) |
WG 13 – Public Theology and Religious Nationalism in the 21st Century
Room A15
| 9h – 9h30 | What Kind of Public Theology? Conceptual and Contextual Imagination in the Context of Myanmar Coup and Buddhist Nationalism David Moe (Postdoctoral Associate in Southeast Asian Studies, Yale University) |
| 9h30 – 10h | Christian Secularism and Religious Accommodations in Republican Brazil Guilherme Brasil de Souza (PhD Candidate, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton/NJ, USA) |
| 10h – 10h30 | Otherworldly Christians? Telugu Christians in Indian Politics James Taneti (Assistant Professor, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond/VA, USA) |
Thursday, 6 October
Working Groups III
WG 04 – Shaping urban futures: Theological education as engaged scholarship
Room A04
| 9h-9h30 | The Future of Missiology is in the City: A Critical Reflection of Urban Missiological Training and Offerings at the University of South Africa Thinandavha Derrick Mashau (PhD, Professor, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa) |
| 9h30-10h30 | Conversation: What emerged throughout this process? What might be points of connection? Are there next steps as a working group? |
| 11h-12h30 | Listen and learn alongside other working groups |
WG 05 – The Reformed Tradition and Global Public Theology
Room A17
| 9h-10h30 | Working Group Discussion #1 What have we heard/not heard in these presentations?What voices might we need to include? What needs do we each have for our own research development? What resources or assets do we have available to us? Where might “Reformed Public Theology” need to go? |
| Coffee Break | |
| 11h-12h30 | Working Group Discussion #2 Based on what we have heard, what might we do together?What questions might we need to pursue in the future?How might we connect and collaborate in the future?What action items might we pursue for the 2025 conference? |
WG 06 – Gender, Sexuality and Public Theology
Room A06
| 9h30-10h30 | Agnes Maude Royden: Recovering a Forgotten Public Theologian E. Harold Breitenberg, Jr. (PhD, Associate Professor at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland/VA, USA) Beyond the Headlines: Memories about Marielle Franco as ‘Dangerous Memories’ of a Resurgent Collective Katharina Merian (PhD candidate, Universität Basel, Switzerland) |
| 11h-12h30 | Open discussion – book proposal/future plans etc |
WG 08 – Digital Public Theologies
Room A08
| 9h-10h | Planning meeting |
WG 10 – Political and Public Theologies
Room A09
| 9h-9h30 | Exclusão e teologia política Douglas F. Barros (PhD, Professor, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Brazil) |
| 9h30-10h | (Neo)populismo, fascismo e religião no Brasil contemporâneo Glauco Barsalini (PhD, Professor, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Brazil) |
| 10h-10h30 | Política, Teologia Pública e Tradicionalismo católico: a ação reacionária católica no espaço público Rodrigo Coppe Caldeira (PhD, professor, Pontifícia Universidade de Minas Gerais, Brazil); Emerson José Sena da Silveira (PhD, professor, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil) |
| 11h-11h30 | Otherness public theology: first impressions and future paths for politics in Brazil Tiago de Melo Novais (PhD candidate, Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, São Bernardo do Campo/SP, Brazil) |
| 11h30-12h | Religious politics in Brazil: Populist moment or neocon takeover? Joanildo Burity (PhD, Professor and Researcher, Joaquim Nabuco Foundation/Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife/PE, Brazil) |
| 12h-12h30 | In search of restitution after “liberation”. Some South African perspectives Nico N. Koopman (PhD, Professor, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) |
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