Conference Programme (as of May 12, 2016) The churches of the Reformation in their social and political responsibility for the One World:
Case studies and country analyses from Africa, Asia, America and Europe
University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology Hermannsburg (FIT),
June 22 - 25, 2016
Gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien aufgrund eines Beschlusses des Deutschen Bundestages.
Weitere Förderer:
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Time Theme Contributors
6:30 p.m. Introduction and Greetings Prof. Dr. Dr. Frieder Ludwig, FIT
Dr. Mirjam Laaser, ELM
Michael Thiel, Direktor, ELM
7:00 p.m. Panel discussion Chair: „Reformation and Global Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Richebächer , FIT Responsibility“ Landesbischof Ralf Meister, Ev.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers
Prof. Dr. Claudia Warning, Evangelisches Werk für Diakonie und Entwicklung
Prof. Dr. Elisio Macamo, Universität Basel (Afrika Studien/Soziologie)
Dr. Bernhard Felmberg, Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)
Prof. Dr. Amélé Adamavi-Aho Ekué, Ecumenical Institute, Bossey
Dr. Julia Leininger, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungs- politik
Dr. Cornelia Johnsdorf, Beauftragte für den Kirchlichen Entwicklungsdienst der ev.-luth. Landeskirchen in Braunschweig und Hannovers
about 9.00 Informal get-together pm
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Thursday, June 23, 2016
09:00 a.m. „What is „Reformation“? Chair: OLKR Rainer Kiefer, On the history and interpretation of the Ev.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers term
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaufmann, Universität Göttingen (Kirchengeschichte)
Ecclesia Semper Reformanda: Intercultural and Interreligious Prof. Dr. Wanda Deifelt, Contributions to the Reformation Luther College, Iowa
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. World-wide Impact of the Reformation“ Chair: Prof. emer. Dr. Klaus Koschorke, („Weltwirkungen der Reformation“) Universität München
Impact of Lutheran Reformation on India: Prof. Dr. Daniel Jeyaraj, Retrospect and Prospect Liverpool Hope University
African Christians, the Black Atlantic, and Prof. Dr. David Daniels, the Long Protestant Reformation McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago (Kirchengeschichte)
Public Theology Emerging in Protestant Prof. emer. Dr. Christine Lienemann, Churches in the Global South Universität Basel (Missionswissenschaft)
0:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30 p.m. What is „One World“? Chair: Inga Göbert, ELM On the history and interpretation of the term
One reformation, One World? Revisiting Prof. Dr. Ulrike Schröder, FIT Reformation as a Global Concept (Religioud Studies)
One World? What brings us together, Dr. Jorge Guerra Gonzáles, what splits us apart? Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
4:00 p.m. Coffee Break
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4:30 p.m. Nigeria Chair: Prof. Dr. Frieder Ludwig, FIT
Christian Women in Northern Nigeria: Prof. Dr. Shobana Shankar, Confronting Vulnerability in a Majority Stony Brook University Muslim Society (Geschichte)
From European to African Reformation: Prof. Dr. Afe Adogame, African Indigenous Churches in an Age of Princeton Theological Seminary Globalization (Religious Studiest)
Dr. Musa Filibus, (Bischof, Mayo Belwa Diocese, Nigeria)
6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:00 p.m. Ethiopia Chair: Dr. Mirjam Laaser, ELM
Rev. Yonas Yigezu Dibisa, Director, EECMY DMT
Lutheran or Pentecostal? Dr. Jörg Haustein, Protestantism in Ethiopia today School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Christians, Muslims and Ethiopia – Prof. Dr. Haggai Erlich, History and its Messages for Today Tel Aviv University
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Friday, June 24, 2016
9:00 a.m. South Africa Chair: Prof. Dr. Drea Fröchtling, FIT (Practical Theology) Co-Chair: Phuti Mogase, M.A., Universität Göttingen
Reformed theology: Where is Zacchaeus in Itumeleng Daniel Mothoagae, Lecturer, the church in a South African Context? UNISA, Johannesburg (Theology/Politics)
Südafrika, oder: die Kirche als Feuerbringer Prof. Dr. Elisio Macamo, Universität Basel (African Studies/Sociology)
Meeting the power of development in Prof. Dr. Ignatius Swart, post-apartheid South Africa: What has the UNISA, Pretoria (Theology and Religion) theological-ecclesial and religious sector achieved?
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. China Chair: Rev. Harald Faber, FIT
Servants, Not Prophets: Chinese Protestant Dr. Katrin Fiedler, EMW Churches and Their Witness in Society (Sinologie)
Conversion as an Overlapping Development Prof. Na Chen, of Indigenous Tradition – Understanding the Fudan University Practice of Xiao among Chinese Christians
State-Church Relationships in Reform China: Prof. YING Fuk Tsang, Retrospect and Prospect Divinity School of Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
0:30 p.m. Lunch
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2:00 p.m. Indonesia Chair: Prof. Reinhard Achenbach, Universität Münster (Theologie)
Reformation and Wider Outlook works: Dr. Andar Parlingundan, Change and Challenges of the 500 Years of Vereinte Evangelische Mission Wuppertal Reformation in the Context of Indonesian Churches
Strengthening Participation and Dialogue. Dr. Simone Sinn, The agency of religious communities vis-à- Lutherischer Weltbund vis socio-political, educational, economic and ecological challenges in Indonesia today
Religious Freedom for All? Prof. Dr. Kikue Hamayotsu, State, Islam and Interfaith Relations in Northern Illinois University Indonesia Today
3:30 p.m. India Chair: Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring, Erlangen
Conversion to the margins: towards a Dr. David Selvaraj, mission paradigm of accompaniment Visthar Academy of Justice & Peace, Bangalore
Church in the Public Domain in Rev. Dr. R. Sahayadhas, Contemporary India and its Perils of Prof. of Systematic Theology & Pluralism Dean of Graduate Studies United Theological College Bangalore (Theologie)
Religion, development and marginalisation Prof. Dr. Emma Tomalin, in India: caste, conversion and Christianity University of Leeds (Religious Studies)
6:30 p.m. Reception hosted by Ev.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover)
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Saturday, June 25, 2016
9:00 a.m. Brazil and Argentina Chair: Prof. Dr. Andreas Kunz-Lübcke, FIT
Religion and Transformative Development: Dr. Felipe Gustav Koch-Butelli, The Social and Political Responsibility of the Centro Municipal Universitário de São José protestant churches in Brazil
“Where there is a Need, Rights are born” Prof. Dr. Heike Walz, The Churches facing Human Rights and Augustana Hochschule Neuendettelsau Religious Pluralism in the Society in Argentina
Between Brazilian ´Coolness´and German PD. Dr. Fritz Heinrich, ´Rigorousness´: Hybrid Lutheran Identities Universität Göttingen in a Dreamed Paradise
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. Russia Chair Prof. Dr. Erna Zonne-Gätjens, FIT
Waltzing with the Kremlin: ROC and the Dr. Andrei Desnitsky, Institute of Oriental state in present day Russia Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
PD. Dr. Olga Kurilo, Europa-Univerität Viadrina
0:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30 p.m. Germany Chair: OLKR Thomas Hofer, Ev.-luth. Landes- kirche in Braunschweig (confirmation pending)
The Missing Link: How migration shapes Prof. Dr. Amélé Adamavi-Aho Ekué, the discourse on development Ecumenical Institute, Bossey
The Churches, the State and Advocacy for Tim Kuschnerus, the One World in Germany Gemeinsame Konferenz Kirche und Entwicklung
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North-South church partnerships: Dr. Margaret Obaga & Dr. William An intercultural dynamic of Christian Obaga, mission today Mission Eine Welt
4:00 p.m. Coffee Break
4.30 p.m. USA Chair: Martina Helmer-Pham Xuan (Enquiry/to be confirmed)
US Mission: Racism, Evangelical Revival, Professor Dr. Charles Amjad-Ali, Associational Ecclesiology and Modernity Luther Seminary, St. Paul/University of Western Cape, South Africa
Anglican Mission in Colonial US Contexts: Professor Dr. Marion Grau, Some Episcopal Case Studies Norwegian School of Divinity, Oslo (Theology)
The reinvention of Lutheranism in Professor emer. Dr. Hartmut Lehmann, eighteenth-and nineteenth century Universität Kiel (History) North America
6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:00 p.m. Conference impressions and Chair: Landesbischof Dr. Karl-Hinrich summarizing votes Manzke, Bückeburg
Prospects and perspectives Dr. Kenneth Mtata, for cooperation after 2017 Lutherischer Weltbund
Prof. Dr. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Trinity Theological Seminary, Accra, Ghana
Prof. Dr. Klaus Hock, Universität Rostock (Religious Studies)
Dr. Gabi Waibel, Geschäftsführerin, Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Entwicklungs- dienste e.V., Bonn
Dr. Armin Triebel, Sozialwissenschaftlicher Studienkreis für Interkulturelle Perspektiven
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Werner, EWDE/FIT
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