For Students

The Research Colloquium on Intercultural Theology and Ecumenical Studies is targeted at providing researchers and advanced students at the University of Bonn the opportunity of interpreting texts in theology and the study of religion in a community where the author is a participant. With particular attention to texts that focus on ecumenical and intercultural theologies, the Colloquium creates a context for both internal, analytic and external, comparative textual analysis. From a broader perspective it constitutes part of G_NET, which has the ambition of integrating Intercultural Theology and Religious Studies into the profile of the Faculty.

In advancement of the objectives of the G_NET, the Colloquium is to develop and foster international collaborations that explore transcultural socio-hermeneutical paradigms of theological research and education. Texts for the Colloquium, which are distributed for reading in advance, are selected from a wide range of excellent scholars across the globe, whose diverse cultural and confessional backgrounds further enrich the ecumenical and intercultural content of the activities of the Research Colloquium. As such, the Colloquium serves as a space for both learning and encounter; a praxis-oriented approach to theological education. The inaugural track of the Colloquium is to run once a month (third Wednesdays of every month) in the summer semester of 2020-2021 academic year.

Under the motto “How we see others produces the society we see”, the seminar will examine resources and liabilities in the Christian and Muslim traditions concerning exclusion and inclusion of strangers enemies, and forgotten members of society from critical perspectives in contextual theology, postcolonial theology, and political theology. The seminar will focus on discourses and practices of loving the neighbor and enemy as well as the political significance of theo-logics of the neighbor for the fostering of democratic culture, which depends on seeing and treating others as equals under the law. Co-taught by scholars from three different continents and academic contexts, the seminar will interrelate exegetical, philosophical-hermeneutical, social-scientific, and ethical methods. In this way, it will offer an innovative approach to a topic of major transcultural importance.

Project Partners: Dr. Matthew Ryan Robinson (Protestant Theological Faculty, RFW University of Bonn); Prof. Dr. Yaser Ellethy (Vrije Universität Amsterdam); Prof. Dr. Rose Mary Amenga Etego (University of Ghana); Dean Prof. Dr. David Joy (Kerala Theological Seminary Rivandrum); Dr. Andrew D. DeCort (Institute for Faith and Flourishing, Ethiopia)

• Hopkins, Dwight N.: Shoes that Fit our Feet. Sources for a constructive Black theology, Maryknoll 1993.
• Williams, Delores S.: Sisters in the wilderness. The challenge of womanist God talk; Maryknoll 1993.
• Cone, James: Black theology and black power, Maryknoll 1997.
• Walker, Alice: In search of our mothers' gardens. Womanist prose, London 2005.
• Carter, J. Kameron: Race. D theological account, Oxford 2008.
• Jennings, Willie James: The Christian Imagination. Theology and the Origins of Race, Yale 2011.
• Cone, James: The Cross and the Lynching Tree, Maryknoll 2013.
• Jennings, Willie James: After Whiteness. An Education in Belonging, Grand Rapids MI 2020.

Further material on Womanist Theology (pdf zum Download)

• Gutiérrez, Gustavo: Theologie der Befreiung, Mainz (1973) 1992.
• Míguez Bonino, José: Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation, Philadelphia PA 1975.
• Segundo, Juan Luis: The Liberation of Theology, Maryknoll 1976.
• Míguez Bonino, José: Theologie im Kontext der Befreiung, Göttingen 1977.
• Boff, Leonardo: Jesus Christus, der Befreier, Herder 1986.
• Boff, Leonardo: Introducing Liberation Theology, Maryknoll 1987.
• Sölle, Dorothee: Und ist noch nicht erschienen, was wir sein werden. Stationen feministischer Theologie, München 1987.
• Sobrino, Jon: Christologie der Befreiung, Mainz 1998.
• Petrella, Ivan: The Future of Liberation Theology. An Argument and Manifesto, Florence 2004.
• Gutiérrez, Gustavo: Nachfolge Jesu und Option für die Armen. Beiträge zur Theologie der Befreiung im Zeitalter der Globalisierung, Fribourg 2009.

Further material on Liberation Theology⁷ (Website by Bryan Stone)

• Mbiti, John: African religions and philosophy, Garden City 1970.
• Pobee, John Samuel: Toward an African theology, Nashville 1979.
• Mugambi, Jesse: African Christian Theology. An Introduction, Nairobi 1989
• Bediako, Kwame: Christianity in Africa. The Renewal of a Non-Western Religion, Edinburgh/ Maryknoll 1995.
• Isasi-Diaz, Ada Maria: Mujerista Theology. A Theology for the Twenty-first Century, Maryknoll 1996.
• Oduyoye, Mercy Amba: Introducing African women’s theology, Sheffield 2001.
• Mugambi, Jesse: Christian Theology and Social Reconstruction, Nairobi 2003.
• Oduyoye, Mercy Amba: Beads and strands: Reflections of an African woman on Christianity in Africa, Maryknoll 2004.
• Pobee, John Samuel: Sense of Grace and Mission, Ghana 2012.
• Pui Lan, Kwok : Globalization, Gender, and Peacebuilding. The Future of Interfaith Dialogue, Mahwah NJ 2012.
• Sugitharajah, R. S.: The Bible and Asia. From the Pre-Christian Era to the Postcolonial Age, Cambridge 2013.
• Pui Lan, Kwok : Asian and Asian American Women in Theology and Religion. Embodying Knowledge, London 2020.

Siehe auch die Zusammenstellung von Materialien in der „African Christian Theology“ facebook Gruppe.

Classical Introduction

• Boyd, R. H. S.  An Introduction to Indian Christian Theology. Madras: Christian Literature Society, 1975.

Dalit Theology

• Arvind P. Nirmal, [pioneer] Heuristic Explorations. Madras: The Christian Literature Service for the Gurukul Lutheran Theological College and Research Institute, 1990.
•  Arvind P. Nirmal, (ed.,) A Reader in Dalit Theology. Madras: Gurukul Lutheran Theological College and Research Institute, 1990.
• M. E. Prabhakar, (eds.) Towards a Dalit Theology. Delhi: ISPCK, 1989.
• Clarke, Santhinathan, Manchela Deenabandhu and Peacock Philip Vinod. Eds. Dalit Theology in the Twenty First Century: Discordant Voices, Discerning Pathways. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Rajkumar, Peniel. Dalit Theology and Dalit Liberation: Problems, Paradigms and Possibilities. Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies Series. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2010.

Tribal Theology

• Nirmal Minz,[pioneer] Rise Up, My People, and Claim the Promise: The Gospel Among the Tribes of India, ISPCK, New Delhi, 1997. 
• A. Wati Langchar, An Emerging Asian Theology: Tribal Theology, Issue, Method and Perspective, Jorhat: Tribal Study Centre, ETC, 2000.

Contextual Theology

• Ho, Huang Po. No Longer A Stranger: Towards the Reconstruction of Contextual Theologies. Tiruvalla: CSS, 2007.
• Felix Wilfred, On the Banks of Ganges: Doing Contextual Theology. New Delhi: IPSCK, 2002.

Religious Pluralism

• Thomas, M. M. The Acknowledged Christ of the Indian Renaissance. Madras: CLS, 1970.
• Raimundo Panikkar, The Unknown Christ Of Hinduism: Towards An Ecumenical Christophany. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1981.
• Samartha, S. J. One Christ – Many Religions: Towards a Revised Christology. New York: Orbis, 1991.

1. ULB
1.a Journals (University Bonn members only)

• Zeitschriftendatenbank der ULB, Bereich IkT und RW⁹
• Religionsbezogene Zeitschriften des Springer Verlags¹⁰
• Religionsbezogene Zeitschriften des De Gruyter Verlags¹¹
• Religionsbezogene Zeitschriften des SAGE Verlags¹²
• Religionsbezogene Zeitschriften des EQUINOX Verlags¹³
• Religionsbezogene Zeitschriften des Taylor and Francis Verlags¹⁴
• Religionsbezogene Zeitschriften des Wiley-Blackwell Verlags¹⁵
• Religionsbezogene Zeitschriften des BRILL Verlags¹⁶ (RW)
• Religionsbezogene Zeitschriften des BRILL Verlags¹⁷ (IkT )

1.b Databases

• ixTheo¹⁸
• Bibliography of the Study of Religion¹⁹ (Tübingen)
• ZDB Katalog²⁰
• Hollis²¹
• ATLA Religion Database²² (University Bonn members only)
• Springer Link²³
• MDZ Münchner Digitalisierung²⁴
• TRE Online²⁵ (University Bonn members only)
• RGG Online²⁶ (University Bonn members only)
• WiBiLex²⁷