Seminar: Religious Studies and Global Christianities - Details

General information

Course name	Seminar: Religious Studies and Global Christianities
Semester	WiSe 2025/26
Current number of participants	6
Home institute	Theologische Fakultät
participating institutes	Lectures and Courses in English (International Studies)
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date	Tuesday, 16.12.2025 16:15 - 17:45, Room: (SemR B)
Lehrsprache(n)	Englisch

Lehrende

• Jun.-Prof. Dr. Stanislau Paulau
• Prof. Dr. Friedemann Stengel
• Prof. Dr. Daniel Cyranka

Rooms and times

(SemR B)

Tuesday: 16:15 - 17:45, weekly (14x)

Fields of study

• Theologische Fakultät > Globale Christentumsgeschichte und Ostkirchenkunde
• Theologische Fakultät > Kirchengeschichte
• Theologische Fakultät > Religionswissenschaft und Interkulturelle Theologie

Module assignments

• Evang. Theologie, -Religionslehre ChristianityTrans MA120, Akkreditierungsfassung valid from WiSe 2025/26 > Pflichtmodule > SPR.08559.01 - CGT Basismodul Religious Studies and Global Christianities, valid from WiSe 2025/26 > LV 1: Kursus (Seminar/Übung)

Comment/Description

This course introduces exemplary approaches to the study of Christianity and religion in both historical and contemporary contexts. It is taught by professors representing three distinct yet interconnected research areas, reflecting the faculty’s broad expertise in Religious Studies, Church History and Global Christianities.

Through selected case studies and current scholarly debates, students will explore diverse methodologies in these fields and develop a critical awareness of historiography as a situated and interpretive practice shaped by present-day categories, perspectives, and power relations. Students are encouraged to question dominant narratives and explore alternative and marginalized voices, thus gaining tools to understand religion and Christianity as historically dynamic and globally interconnected phenomena.