Religion & Teologi

This episode of R&T, and special edition of the Conversations Series, is a panel discussion from the conference Christianity and Crisis in European Contexts (28-29/10 2022) held at CTR. Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg opens the episode, by introducing us to the moderator, Göran Rosenberg, as well as speakers Tornike Metreveli, Valentina Napolitano, Elisabeth Shakman Hurd & Ulrich Schmiedel.   In recen...

This is the thirteenth episode of the Praxis in Religion Conversation Series and the opening of a new season, in which the following questions in posed: How did the state arise in Europe? The canonical answer is Charles Tilly’s: “war made the state and the state made war.” The starting point is the fragmentation of territorial political authority in Europe after the collapse of the Carolingian emp...

Den 2:a juni 2022, höll årets hedersdoktor vid CTR, Peter Halldorf, sin en föreläsning under rubriken: "Den andra världen är den här världen. Philip Sherrards vision och vår planets akutläge." Peter Halldorf är pastor i pingströrelsen men huvudsakligen känd som redaktör för tidskriften Pilgrim och författare av ett trettiotal böcker. Halldorf har länge varit en av de mest centrala gestalterna inom...

Detta avsnitt är en åter-publicering av en inspelning från Almedalsveckan den 4 jul i 2019.  Under ledning av Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg (forskare, Lunds universitet),  medverkar Alexandra Pascalidou (journalist), Magdalena Nordin (forskare, Lunds universitet/Göteborgs universitet), Andreas Westergren (forskare, Lunds universitet),  Torbjörn Aronson (forskare, Uppsala universitet) och Gunilla Hal...

Detta avsnitt är en åter-publicering av en inspelning från Almedalsveckan den 3 :e juli 2019. I panelsamtalet och seminariet under temat "Artificiell intelligens och religion – om det som är möjligt och det som är gott," som leds av Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg (forskare i etik vid CTR), medverkar Blaženka Scheuer (forskare i GT, CRT), Johan Tyrberg (biskop Lunds stift, Svenska kyrkan), Maria Küche...

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 res...

This episode is a re-publication of a seminar organised by the research project the  End of Law , at CTR. Dr Mårten Björk will take the lead, and introduces the inaugural episode of the End of law podcast, and a lecture by professor Jeff Lo ve, with the title: "Between Kant and Hegel: Alexandre Kojève and the End of Law" It was recorded on 1 June 2021 as part of the Law, Theology and Culture sem i...

This is the twelfth episode of the Praxis in Religion Conversation Series. In this conversation, titled "A Rebirth of Orthodoxy: Moral and Epistemological Preliminaries," Professor Denysenko reflects on the historical tensions simmering between Ecumenical and Moscow Patriarchates since 1920s. Denysenko examines the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s intervention in Ukraine and the creation of Orthodox Chur...

Dagens avsnitt är en föreläsning av 2021 års hedersdoktor vid CTR: Yvonne Maria Werner, professor och forskare vid historiska institutionen, Lunds universitet. På grund av pandemin kunde CTR inte sammankalla till detta högtidstillfälle, innan majmånad 2022. Under föreläsningen, "Den postreformatoriska katolicismen i Norden: mission, konversion och alternativa identitetsdiskurser" förekommer en rad...

Today's episode is a presentation given by Volker Küster: an honorary doctor at CTR, and Professor of Comparative Religion and Missiology at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Germany. This is a part of the ongoing series of snapshots from the Multireligious identities-conference, held in memory of the late Aasulv Lande, in March 2022 at CTR and this time the topic for the talk is " Cont...

Today' s episode is yet another presentation from the Multireligious identities-conference, held in memory of the late Aasulv Lande, in March 2022 at CTR. And this time, Dr. Sybille Fritsch-Oppermann gives a paper with the title: "Multireligious Identities as Expressed in Arts in the East and the West." Dr Fritsch-Oppermann teaches Intercultural Hermeneutics in Natural and Religious Science at Tec...

Today's episode is a presentation by Prof. of Global Christianity at CTR, Mika Vähäkangas and yet another snapshot from the Multireligious identities-conference, held in memory of the late Aasulv Lande, in March 2022 at CTR. The topic for this episode is "African Christian Identity is Multireligious by Default." ---------------------------------------------- Music for the R&T is generously provide...

This is the third and final episode of the seminar series "Pope Francis: Faith – Politics – Reformation," which originally took place at CTR during 26-28:e october, 2016. When Pope Francis visited Lund, in October 2016, in the commemoration of the reformation, the Center for Theology and Religious Studies held a series of open seminars. This is its final part. In the panel for this conversation, A...

Today's episode is another presentation from the Multireligious identities-conference, held in memory of the late Aasulv Lande, in March 2022 at CTR. Prof. of Global Christianity at CTR, Mika Vähäkangas, gives an introduction to the speaker of this episode: Steve Bevans, the Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD Professor of Mission and Culture, Emeritus at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago USA, and a presen...

This is the eleventh episode in the Religion in Praxis Conversations Series, and today's presentation from Aleksandar Matovski engages, in particular, the following questions: Does Russian public support Ukraine war? What do they demand from Putin? What is the role of nationalists in this war? How will the war continue and can we predict the outcomes? These, and many more questions, are found in t...

14-15 March, 2022, the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies of Lund University and Institute for Contextual Theology organised a conference in memory of the late Aasulv Lande. Borders between religions have always been porous in terms of ideas, rituals, communities and individuals. Multireligious identities form in the encounters and in the overlapping areas between religions. Prof. Aasulv La...

This is the tenth episode in the Religion in Praxis Conversations Series (previously known simply as "the Conversations Series") and today's speaker is Elizabeth Shakman Hurd. While offering important perspectives on the myriad evidentiary assessment challenges facing adjudicators, the legal and social scientific literature bypasses the political theological questions that interest me here. What a...

I detta avsnitt av R&T får vi ta del av ett samtal mellan Jonas Gardell, litteraturvetaren Karin Nykvist och teologen KG Hammar om Gardells författarskap. Samtalet spelades in 24 mars, 2022 inför publik, som ett arrangemang av CTR.  ---------------------------------------------- "Religion och Teologi" produceras av Joel Kuhlin,  för Centrum för Teologi & Religionsvetenskap. För kritik eller kommen...

Dagens avsnitt av R&T spelades in inför publik den 23 Mars 2022, då hedersdoktorn Jonas Gardell välkomnades tillbaka till CTR, för ett samtal med bibelvetaren Maria Sturesson och historikern Svante Norrhem om senaste boken "Ett lyckligare år." Detta avsnitt är den sista delen från samtalsserie "Religion och existens," detta akademiska år.   ---------------------------------------------- "Religion...

14-15 March, 2022, the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies of Lund University and Institute for Contextual Theology organised a conference in memory of the late Aasulv Lande. Borders between religions have always been porous in terms of ideas, rituals, communities and individuals. Multireligious identities form in the encounters and in the overlapping areas between religions. Prof. Aasulv La...

Detta är den andra delen av en tredelad seminarieserie, som ursprungligen gick av stapeln hösten 2016 på CTR, med särskild anledning av Lutherska världsförbundets och Romersk Katolska Kyrkans gemensamma högtidlighållande av reformationsminnet. Påve Fransciskus besök i Lund (31 oktober 2016) fungerar som katalysator för samtalsserien och dagens avsnitt. Medverkande i detta avsnitt är Marcia Cavalca...

This is the the ninth episode of the Conversation Series, Siniša Malešević, sociologist and a Chair of Sociology at University College Dublin, will talk on the topic of "Grounded Nationalisms: a Sociological Analysis." Globalisation is not the enemy of nationalism; instead, Professor Malešević shows, the two forces have developed together through modern history. Malešević challenges dominant views...

Detta är det första delen av en tredelad seminarieserie, som ursprungligen gick av stapeln 26-28:e oktober 2016 på CTR, med särskild anledning av Lutherska världsförbundets och Romersk Katolska Kyrkans gemensamma högtidlighållande av reformationsminnet. Påve Fransciskus besök i Lund (31 oktober 2016) fungerar som katalysator för samtalsserien och dagens avsnitt. Prof. emeritus i systematisk teolog...

This is the seventh episode of the Conversation Series, with the guestspeaker Lavinia Stan. After 1989, the Romanian Orthodox Church was called to re-evaluate its collaboration with the repressive communist rule, as well as the fascist regime that preceded it. However, instead of honestly assessing past wrongs and giving satisfaction to victims, this re-evaluation sought to consolidate the Church'...

This is the eight episode of the Conversation series, with special guest speaker Risto Saarinen and with the theme of reconciliation. Reconciliation is today an established practice of peace and mediation work. While the concept of reconciliation has its religious roots in the Greek and Latin New Testament, the modern practices are also indebted to Hegel's philosophy. To understand the meaning of...