Publications
Andrea Bieler, Moments of Religious Co-production in a Super-diverse Community in Germany: An Ethnographic Reconstruction of an Interreligious Prayer for Peace, in: Katharina Heyden (eds.), The Coproduction of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Artifacts, Rituals, Communities, Narratives, forthcoming 2025.
Claudia Hoffmann, “Ist in Ordnung wenn der Pastor mit mir zusammenkommt, um mich zum Christentum zu bekehren, wunderbar.” Mission in interreligiösen Kontaktzonen, Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft, forthcoming 2025.
Claudia Hoffmann, Empirische Zugänge zur Interkulturellen Theologie, in: Franz Gmainer-Pranzl, Judith Gruber et al. (eds.), Handbuch Interkulturelle Theologie, Berlin 2024.
Tabea Eugster-Schaetzle, Luca Ghiretti, Lisa Ketges, Esther Maria Meyer, Rahel Weber, Affektivität in der empirischen Theologie und Religionsforschung: Ein Plädoyer anhand dreier Fallstudien, Theologische Zeitschrift 73(3), 2023: 195-236.
Andrea Bieler, Conviviality in Motion. Eine praktisch-theologische Rekonstruktion von Gemeinschaftlichkeit für eine differenzsensible Ekklesiologie, in: Katja Dubiski et al. (eds.), Religion und Gesellschaft. Isolde Karte zum 60. Geburtstag, Gütersloh 2023: 115-132.
Lisa Ketges, Greifbare Interkulturalität: Das Wechselspiel zwischen Narration, Erleben und materialer Gestaltung aus empirischer Perspektive, Theologische Zeitschrift 78(1), 2022: 104-130.
Esther Maria Meyer, Kommunikation des Evangeliums im dritten Raum: empirisch-theologische Reflexionen zu interkulturell-ökumenischen Gottesdiensten, Theologische Zeitschrift 78(1), 2022: 85-103.
Andrea Bieler, Tabea Eugster-Schaetzle, Differenzsensible Konvivialität. Gottesdienst und Seelsorge in diversen Gemeinden, in: Gregor Etzelmüller/Claudia Rammelt (eds.), Migrationskirchen. Internationalisierung und Pluralisierung des Christentums vor Ort, Leipzig 2021: 679-696.
Andrea Bieler, Claudia Hoffmann, Lisa Ketges (eds.): Conviviality, Bielefeld: transcript 2025. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839477359. The open access publication is available at the publisher's website.
with contributions by Andrea Bieler, Tabea Rebekka Eugster-Schaetzle, Luca Ghiretti, Claudia Hoffmann, Lisa Ketges, Esther Maria Meyer.
Events
Conference on March 21 and 22, 2024, University of Bern
Network ARS (Architecture-Ritual-Language)
Representatives of interactional linguistics, practical theology, religious studies and sociology of religion discussed the connections between ritualization, language and space. The focus is on methodological and methodological aspects of empirical research into religious internships.
The background is a cooperation between interactional linguists from the University of Zurich and practical theologians from the Universities of Basel and Bern, which has been passing since 2021.
From June 16-18, 2023, the research project team hosted an interdisciplinary conference in Mariastein (near Basel). The aim of the expert conference was to engage in conversation with scientists whose work has become relevant to the research process and who have significantly inspired the work of the project. In an author's workshop, different perspectives on the questions of conviviality, belonging, border negotiations and internships of community life as well as initial research findings of the project were discussed.
The results will be published in an anthology in 2024.
Affective turn in theology?!
Do you still believe or do you already feel?
The study of affects and affectivity is becoming increasingly important in the humanities. At this conference (May 25, 2023), affects and affectivity in qualitative-empirical research were examined from theological, religious studies and sociological perspectives.
In three presentations, experts offered insights into different disciplinary perspectives on affectivity and affects. In her presentation, Dr. Elgen Sauerborn explored the question of how affects are researched. Prof. Dr. Andrea Bieler offered an overview of affectivity in theological research. Prof. Dr. Donovan Schaefer spoke to us via Zoom about the relationship between religion, affectivity and secularity.
In two workshops, we worked with data and initial results from current research projects by PhD students from the Faculty of Theology in Basel.
For further information and program: Flyer
Event as part of the Graduate School of Theology Basel.
The organizers have presented relevant findings of the day and further considerations in an article in the Theologische Zeitschrift, see here.
As part of our seminar Difference-Sensitive Ecclesiology: Practical, Intercultural and Systematic Theology in Dialogue, we invited to four public Zoom sessions with experts:
October 26, 2022 withDr. Susanna Snyder (Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford) and Dr. Amélé Ekué (globethics, Geneva) on the topic:
Migration-sensitive church: what does asylum and migration mean for church practice and theological self-understanding of churches: in the field of tension between diakonia, integration aid, liberation, politics, power and racism? (English)
November 9, 2022 with Prof. Dr. Dorottya Nagy (Protestantse Theologische, Universiteit Amsterdam) and Dr. Matthew Ryan Robinson (Faculty of Theology, University of Bonn) on the topic:
Xenophobia, racism and theology: what does friendship mean for our church(es) and their theology? (English)
November 23, 2023 with Dr. habil. Friedemann Burkhardt (Liebenzell International University of Applied Sciences) and Prof. Dr. Gregor Etzelmüller (Faculty of Theology, University of Osnabrück) on the topic:
Intercultural opening of congregations - ecumenical cooperation with migration churches - profile congregations / milieu-sensitive congregation building
December 7, 2023 with Prof. Dr. Ralph Kunz (Faculty of Theology, University of Zurich) and Dr. Johannes Weth (University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology, Hermannsburg) on the topic:
Vergemeinschaftung der Verschiedenen: prakt.-theol. und syst.-theol. Perspektiven: How can different theological perspectives be combined with a view to community of the diverse in a difference-sensitive ecclesiology?