Heike Walz

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Heike Walz (* 1966 in Stuttgart ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Life

From 1985 to 1986 she studied Russian and French at the Institute for Translation and Interpreting (IÜD) of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , from 1988 to 1990 in the supplementary course in Diaconal Studies at the Diaconal Science Institute (DWI) in Heidelberg ; Thesis on Diakonie in transition in the former GDR (1989/90) and from 1986 to 1994 Protestant theology in Heidelberg, Montpellier and Tübingen . After completing her first theological exam in 1994 at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Dipl. Theol.), She worked from 2001 to 2005 as a research assistant for mission, ecumenism and contemporary intercultural issues with Christine Lienemann-Perrin at the theological faculty of the University of Basel . After receiving his doctorate in 2005 as a Dr. theol. In Basel , she was associate professor for systematic theology at the Ecumenical College Instituto Universitario ISEDET in Buenos Aires in Argentina from 2005 to 2009, i. A. of the Evangelisches Missionswerk Basel (mission 21). In the 2012/2013 winter semester, she represented the chair ( DFG guest professorship) for Andreas Feldtkeller , Religious and Mission Studies (Intercultural Theology), Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2009 to 2016 she was Junior Professor for Feminist Theology and Theological Gender Studies. Department of Religious Mission Studies and Ecumenics (RMÖ) at the Church University of Wuppertal / Bethel . After completing his habilitation in 2016 in religious studies, missiology and ecumenics at the Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin with Andreas Feldtkeller with the habilitation thesis Human Rights between Religion and Society in Argentina. Postcolonial Perspectives for Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology , she has been Professor of Intercultural Theology, Mission and Religious Studies at the Augustana University in Neuendettelsau since 2016 .

Her main research interests are religion and politics in Latin America: focus on Argentina, postcolonial intercultural theology and religious studies, global ethics: human rights, migration, dance in different religions and cultures, liberation theologies and pentecostalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America (studies on world Christianity) and interreligious dialogue, Gender and sexualities.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Katrin Kusmierz, Christine Lienemann-Perrin and Julia Müller-Clemm (eds.): impressions, pictures and thoughts of a study trip to South Africa . Basel 2002, ISBN 3-9522459-0-9 .
  • with Christine Lienemann-Perrin and Doris Strahm (eds.): “As if they had reinvented us.” Observations on strangeness and gender . Lucerne 2003, ISBN 3-905577-61-5 .
  • “... no longer male and female ...?” Ecclesiology and gender in an ecumenical horizon . Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-87476-504-0 .
  • with David Plüss (ed.): Dialoge querbeet . Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-0953-9 .

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