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Call for Lectures: Studienjahr (Academic Year in Theology – Jerusalem)

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The Studienjahr (Academic Year in Theology – Jerusalem), run by the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem in cooperation with the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant’ Anselmo in Rome and funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), understands itself as an excellence programme for around 20 German-speaking students of Christian Theology. It consists of two directly consecutive semesters and focuses on biblical studies, ecumenical theology, and interreligious and intercultural questions.


The 53rd year runs from 24 August 2026 to 16 April 2027 and is dedicated to the theme Bodies – Places – Things. Theological Perspectives on Materiality


The Studienjahr program has always been committed to rethinking central theological topics in direct proximity to their biblical and historical sites of origin. In the forthcoming academic year, the very (tactile) graspability of the object of learning itself becomes the topic, and materiality moves into focus: in resonance with a kind of “material turn” in the humanities and cultural studies, bodies, places and things are to be brought to the fore as key theological concepts. How do bodily experience, geographical location and material cult objects shape religious thought? What role does the concrete – the tangible, visible, spatial – play in a religion that speaks of incarnation, the cross and the resurrection of the flesh? What significance do the other Abrahamic religions accord to the body, to materiality and to locatedness? Engaging with biblical texts, historical contexts and current theological debates, and working with archaeology, history and politics, the 53rd Studienjahr opens perspectives on an inter-confessional and interreligious theology that confronts the worldliness of faith. Jerusalem itself – with its history become stone and the people “embodying” it there, with its visual, haptic and olfactory qualities – becomes, as both a real and symbolic place, a resonant space for theological reflection.


On this theme we warmly invite applications from post-doctoral/PhD-holding scholars in all Christian theologies (all sub-disciplines), from Jewish and Islamic theology, philosophy, religious studies, Jewish and Islamic studies, history and political science, as well as from archaeology and other humanities, cultural and social sciences. We invite you to submit a substantive, didactic and methodological outline for a German- or English-language course (lecture, advanced seminar and/or colloquium) of 6 or 10 double sessions (90 minutes each, as a compact course within one week) to be taught within the 53rd Studienjahr.


For more information, download the PDF file (English/German) or visit this link: https://studienjahr.de/studienjahr/studienablauf/cfl


 
 
 

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