Volker Küster | Artist in Resistence: Protest, Memory & Reconciliation
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Volker Küster is, together with Anita Goldman (author, Stockholm), the honorary doctors of 2020 at CTR. The topic of the lecture is "Artist in Resistence: Protest, Memory & Reconciliation."
Küster is the Professor of Comparative Religion and Missiology at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Germany and is one of the most prominent figures of intercultural theology, mission studies and research on global Christianity. Küster presented the thesis, Theologie im Kontext: Zugleich ein Versuch uber die MinjungTheologie, in Heidelberg 1995 and has since then worked toward an integration of intercultural perspectives into the discipline of Theology, for instance with the book: Einführung in die interkulturelle Theologie (2011.) Other important works are The Many Faces of Jesus Christ: lnterculturalChristology (2001), and a continuation of studies on Minjung-theology, primarily in A Protestant Theology of Passion: Minjung Theology revisited (2010).s
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This lecture was held at CTR in May of 2022, due to Covid restrictions of 2020-21.
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