Andrea Bieler is Professor of Practical Theology at the Faculty of Theology in Basel (2017-present). Her current research interests are the interface between practical and intercultural theologies with an emphasis on migration and religion.
Her current research project (2020- present) is funded by Swiss National Science Foundation: Conviviality in Motion. Exploring Theologies and Practices of Multiethnic Christian Congregations in Europe. Other research interests and projects surround basic phenomena such as vulnerability,  cultures of memory in a trauma-hermeneutical perspective, and the thematization of collective violence.
Andrea  Bieler is a theologian with extensive international experience of practical and liturgical theology. Her past positions include Professor of Practical Theology (2012-2016) at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal, Professor of Theology and Religion and Full Professor at the Pacific School of Religion and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California (2000-2012). She was a member of the international research network The Enhancing Life Project at the University of Chicago (2016-2018).

Current Research Areas

• Migration and Religion
• Vulnerability
• Conviviality in Motion

 Memberships and Commitment (shortlist)

• Societas Homiletica (Board Member: 2014-2019)
• International Academy of Practical Theology (since 2014)
• Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie (since 2013)
• European Society of Women in Theological Research (since 1998)
• American Academy of Religion (since 2000)
• North American Academy of Liturgy (2000-2012)
• Societas Liturgica (2000-2010)
• Herausgabekreis der Göttinger Predigtmeditationen (since 2014)
• Wissenschaftlicher Fachbeirat der Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld (Stiftung des Deutschen Bundestages) (2012-2017)
• Member of the Kammer für Migration und Integration der Synode der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland (2017-19)
• Member of the Kommission für Ethik der Evangelischen Kirchen in der Schweiz (seit 2017)

Recent Monographs and Editorships:

• Andrea Bieler et al (ed.) (2019). Migration and Religion: Negotiating Hospitality, Agency, and Vulnerability, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.
• Andrea Bieler et al (ed.) (2017). Religion and Aging. Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Explorations, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.
• Andrea Bieler (2017). Verletzliches Leben. Horizonte einer Theologie der Seelsorge, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht.
• Andrea Bieler et al. (2011) After Violence. Religion, Trauma and Reconciliation, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.

 Selected Articles:

• Andrea Bieler and Henrietta Njamnjoh (2021). "Vulnerability and the Quest for Healing among Migrants in Cape Town. Theological and Anthropological Reflections." In Godwin Ampey et.al (ed.). Handbook of International Diaconia Studies. Oxford Regnum Press.
• Andrea Bieler (2021). Im Raum des Pathischen. Vulnerabilität in der Seelsorge mit kranken Menschen, in: Hildegund Keul (Hrsg.): Theologische Vulnerabilitätsforschung. Gesellschaftsrelevant und interdisziplinär, Stuttgart 2021, 119-136.
• Andrea Bieler and HyeRan Kim-Cragg (2020). “Addressing Whiteness in the Church. Challenging the Power Differential and Moving Towards Intercultural Congregations.” In Interkulturelle Kirche. Strategien zur Verwirklichung der Wohngemeinschaft Gottes. Dokumentation einer Tagung der Evangelischen Akademie Hofgeismar vom 24.-25. Februar 2020, 25-30.
• Andrea Bieler (2020). Exploring Affectivity. An Unfinished Conversation with Pamela Sue Anderson, in: Pelagia Goulimari (ed.): On Vulnerability and Love. Essays in Memory of Pamela Sue Anderson, Routledge 2020, 245-253.
• Andrea Bieler (2020). Monuments of Historical Trauma as Sites of Artistic Expression, Emotional Processing and Political Negotiation, in: Kim Wale (ed.): Post-Conflict Hauntings: Transforming Memories of Historical Trauma, Cham 2020, 339-366.
• Andrea Bieler (2020). Theologie in digitalen Kommunikationswelten am Beispiel der Internetseelsorge, in: Praktische Theologie 1/2020, 28-33.
• Andrea Bieler (2020). Transgressionen und Tabuverletzungen in der visuellen Kunst: Blasphemie als Wahrnehmungsereignis, in: Matthias Gockel, Jürgen Mohn, und Matthias Wüthrich (Hrsg.): Blasphemie. Anspruch und Widerstreit in Religionskonflikten, Tübingen 2020, 337-356.
• Andrea Bieler (2020). "Monuments of Historical Trauma as Sites of Artistic Expression, Emotional Processing and Political Negotiation." In Kim Wale (ed.). Post-Conflict Hauntings: Transforming Memories of Historical Trauma. Palgrave, 339-366.
• Andrea Bieler and Katherine Kunz (2019). “Responding to the Loss of Home. Perspectives and Practices of Refugees in the Context of the Projekt DA-SEIN in Basel (Switzerland).” In Andrea Bieler et al. (ed). Migration and Religion: Negotiating Hospitality, Agency, and Vulnerability. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 133-146.
• Andrea Bieler (2019). “Transnationale Migrationsbewegungen als Thema der Praktischen Theologie.“ In Michael-Meyer Blanck (ed.). Europa als Thema der Theologie. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 618-630.

 Movieclips:

• Together with Ralf Bieler, Healing of Memories in South Africa 2017, long version online: https://youtu.be/sZg-rQ-0Qds
• Together with Ralf Bieler, Remembering Violence: Risky Pedagogies and Contested Aesthetics, 2014, online: http://youtu.be/9_6vbWDQkZE  (German version); http://youtu.be/Uu6NJ0Is29o (Original). Nominated for: Hans-Lilje-Stiftungspreis Freiheit und Verantwortung, Section: Die bildende Kraft von Kunst und Kultur.