Volker Küster | Artist in Resistence: Protest, Memory & Reconciliation

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 ---------------------------------------------- Music for the R&T is generously provided by the Nous  ---------------------------------------------- Religion and Theology is produced by Joel Kuhlin for the Center for Theology and Religious Studies. If you have comments or critique of this episode, or any other episodes of R&T, please contact us via the podcast's twitteraccount: @reloteol. This lecture was held at CTR in May of 2022, due to Covid restrictions of 2020-21.