Religion & Teologi

On the 14th of May, Giada Ragone & Luca Pietro Vanoni (of University of Milan, Italy) gave a lecture with the full title: "Separation between State and Church in Italy: The Constitutional Framework and the Crucifix Case", which provides an overview of the relationship between State and Church in Italy. They focus on the “peculiar” status of the Catholic Church, after which the famous case of the d...

Detta är det första avsnittet ur höstens series: "Religion & Existens: Tre samtal om konsten att överleva." Första gäst är Gellert Tamas, journalist och författare, som samtalar med universitetslektor Dan-Erik Andersson (mänskliga rättigheter) och universitetslektor Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg (etik.)  Samtalet spelades in 10 Oktober inför publik som samlades i Lux-byggnaden, vid Lunds universitet...

This episode of R&T was recorded from a seminar with prof. Carl Raschke on the 18th of September at CTR, under the rubric: "Neoliberalism and Political Theology: From Kant to Identity Politics." Prof. Raschke herein presented his new book, with the same title, through its opening chapters, and a genealogy of neoliberalism. Raschke is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Denver, spec...

In this episode of R&T, the second from the academic year of 2019-2020, we will listen to a lecture given at CTR on the 16th of September 2019, by prof. Catharine Keller with the title: "Political Theology of the Earth. The struggle for a New Public."  Catherine Keller is a contemporary Christian theologian and Professor of Constructive Theology at Drew University's Graduate Division of Religion....

Detta avsnitt av R&T är avskedsföreläsningen, som hölls av professor i kyrkohistoria, Anders Jarlert, den 28 Maj, 2019. Professor Jarlert sammanfattar kort sin gärning och biografi på följande vis, på CTRs hemsida: "Jag är född 1952, professor i kyrkohistoria 1999, seniorprofessor 2019, och forskar dels i institutionshistoria, dels i fromhets- och spiritualitetshistoria. Människorna i den kristna...

In this lecture, Stephen Bullivant, prof. of Theology and the Sociology of Religion at St. Mary’s University (London), "investigates commonalities among several mainstream denominations in Europe, the Catholic Church in Britain and their significant decline over a half-century. This is true across a wide range of empirical indicators of religious vitality, including Mass attendance, retention/conv...

I denna föreläsning undersöker Yvonne Maria Werner, professor på historiska institutionen vid Lunds Universitet, hur de traditionalistiska grupperna inom katolska kyrkan håller fast vid den livsform som var gängse fram till mitten av 1960-talet, då Andra vatikankonciliet kom med sina reformer. För att värna vad man uppfattar som den sanna katolicismen har dessa grupper byggt upp församlingar och m...

Detta avsnitt av R&T är avskedsföreläsningen professor Anne-Christine Hornborg höll 21 Maj, 2019, under titeln "Doing the Rite Thing." Hornborg är professor i religionshistoria med fokus på religionsantropologiska studier, och skrev avhandling, A Landscape of Left-Overs: Changing Conception of Place and Environment among Mi’kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada (2001) som bygger på historisk källforsknin...

This is the last part of the ongoing series where R&T re-podcasts past lectures held by previous honorary doctors at HT-faculties of Lund University. Robert D. Resnick is a real estate entrepreneur and a philanthropist. He chairs the Ravensbrück campaign of the Lund University Foundation. As you will hear in this lecture, he was an exchange student at Lund University in 1971−72, and has over the y...

In this lecture, Magdalena Dziaczkowska, phd-student at CTR, explores the way in which the Catholic Church in Poland has contributed to the shaping of Polish national identity, safeguarded that notion and conferred a theological meaning on it. It will briefly examine historical circumstances behind this development, and will conclude by pointing to the challenges which the theologization of Polish...

In this episode we once again return to past honorary doctors at the HT-faculty at Lund University. Professor Elias Bongmba gave a open lecture during the spring of 2018, with the title "Eschatology and Otherness: Imagining and Anticipating the Future in Africa". Professor Elias Kifon Bongmba is a theology, religious studies and African studies scholar who works at Rice University in Houston, Texa...

In March of this year, dr. Elisa Uusimäki from Helsinki University gave a presentation at a joint seminar hosted by Religious History, Old and New Testament Studies and Jewish Studies, at CTR, under the title"Wisdom and Torah in Jewish Antiquity: What Can We Learn from the Dead Sea Scrolls?"  Dr Elisa Uusimäki is a scholar of ancient Jewish literature and holds the title of docent at the Univers...

This episode is one of four, re-podcasting of lectures from honorary doctors of the joint faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University. This is the second part, with Hartmut Lehmann, who 2017 gave a talk under the the title "Fatal Coincidences in 1933: Nazism’s Triumph and Martin Luther’s 450th Birthday". Hartmut Lehmann is a German historian and honorary professor in church history at th...

In this seminar room, dr. Ihor Vasylyshyn of Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) gives a presentation is focused on the peculiarities of worship and prayer books used by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during the period of Soviet persecution 1946-1989. An additional topic is the role of Western media in support of this church. It is also partly a personal memoir of the years of the speaker's...

Detta avsnitt är en inspelning från en offentligt föreläsning på CTR, med titeln: "Tingens mystik: Om Foucault, konst och teologisk aktivism" av Petra Carlsson, docent i systematisk teologi, Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm. I sitt abstract till föreläsningen skriver Carlsson: "Om konsthistoriens teologiska rebeller – de som vägrar tro att det avbildade är verkligare än bilden, att det som är bortom ä...

Dr. Oleh Kindiy, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv recently visited CTR/CES and gave a presentation with the full title: "Experience of Martyrdom and Persecution during Soviet Times and the Current Revival of Catholic Church(es) in Ukraine." From the abstract to the presentation "The lecture is based on memoirs and eyewitness interviews, documents from state archives, and photographs from privat...

This episode is one of four, re-podcasting of lectures from honorary doctors of the joint faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University. First out is Paula Fredriksen. Paula Fredriksen is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was made Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Theology as recognition of the high international standard of her research in relig...

This episode is the final part of the Heidegger & Theology-series, and consists of the roundtable/panel discussion that ended the symposium.  Under the moderation of Göran Rosenberg, author and journalist, all participants and speakers of the podcast series partake in an interesting discussion centered around questions that where hanging in the air.   Religion and Theology is produced by Joel Kuhl...

This is a special episode of R&T. Firstly, prof. Jayne Svenungsson gives an introductory opening adress to the entire "Heidegger and theology" symposium, and secondly, sets the stage not only for the symposium as such but also for the episodes main focus: the lecture on "Heidegger and the Myth" by prof. Peter Trawney Trawney studied philosophy, musicology, and history of art in Bochum, Freiburg, B...

In this third episode of the ongoing series on Heidegger and Theology, Hans Ruin (Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University) discusses Heidegger's interest in early Christianity and St. Paul.  The abstract to Ruin's presentation in full:  "I will discuss the idea of a supposedly ‘original Christian’ religious experience as it is developed in Heidegger’s seminal interpretations of Paul in the...

This is the second episode in the series on Heidegger and Theology, and a symposium on the same topic at CTR (December, 2015), with George Pattison, Professor of Divinity, University of Glasgow, gave a talk on the topic "Why Heidegger Didn’t Like Catholic Theology" This presentation can found in a revised version, in the  anthology  Heidegger's Black Notebooks and the Future of Theology, edited by...

This episode is a talk by dr. Hjalmar Falk centered around the infamous German jurist, Carl Schmitt and his conception of political theology, with a particular focus on its implications for the philosophy of history. Central to Schmitt’s thought is the claim that all modern political concepts are secularized theological concepts, a relationship he identified not only between the miracle and the so...

This episode is the first in a series on Heidegger and Theology, recorded at the symposium  "Heidegger and Theology - After the Black Notebooks." First out is an episode with Judith Wolfe, Professor of Philosophical Theology, University of St Andrews presenting on the topic "Religious Aspects of the Black Notebooks: Overview & Analysis." This presentation can found in a revised version, in an  ant...

Seminarierummet är en serie på R&T som återger diskussioner och samtal från något av seminarierna vid CTR.  I detta första avsnitt från serien, inspelat i mitten av hösten 2018, får vi ta del av en presentation av Simon Sorgenfrei & boken "Islam i Sverige - de första 1300 åren" på det religionsvetenskapliga seminariet. Syftet med presentationen är att synliggöra luckor i tidigare forskning.  Avsni...

Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap bjuder in till tre kvällsarrangemang hösten 2018 under rubriken ”Religion & Existens: Tre samtal om religionens betydelse i vår tid.” 6 dec gästade Johannes Anyuru (författare och poet) CTR för ett samtal om religionens betydelse i vår tid. Samtalet leddes av Simon Stjernholm (universitetslektor vid Köpenhamns universitet) och Clara Berg (doktorand vid CT...