29/04/2025
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📢 Topic: Does Religion Still Matter in the Twenty-First Century? - A Conversation with Prof. Dr. Joerg Rieger
Religious dimensions of geopolitics, peacebuilding, global conflicts, and their local consequences can be difficult to identify and discuss in academic and policy-making contexts. They are, however, ever-present and are often driving factors in these experiences. Religious communities can and often do serve as hubs of organizational activity dedicated to human flourishing. While religion has often been part of the problems of our times, including colonialism and imperialism, Joerg Rieger’s recent book Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity reclaims and develops the positive contributions of religion at a time when many worry about the future of both people and the planet.
📍Place: Hörsaal XII, Hauptgebäude
⏰ Time and Date: Wednesday the 30th of April, 6:00pm
💬 Language: English
🤵 Lecturer Prof. Dr. Joerg Rieger: Prof. Dr. Joerg Rieger is Distinguished Professor of Theology, Cal Turner Chancellor’s Chair of Wesleyan Studies, and the Founding Director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt University. His work addresses the relation of theology and public life, reflecting on the misuse of power in religion, politics, ecology and economics. His main interest is in developments and movements that bring about change and in the positive contributions of religion and theology. Author and editor of 27 books and over 200 academic articles, his books include Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity (2022), Jesus vs. Caesar: For People Tired of Serving the Wrong God (2018), No Religion but Social Religion: Liberating Wesleyan Theology (2018), Unified We are a Force: How Faith and Labor Can Overcome America’s Inequalities (with Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger, 2016), Faith on the Road: A Short Theology of Travel and Justice (2015), Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude (with Kwok Pui-lan, 2012), No Rising Tide: Theology, Economics, and the Future (2009), and Christ and Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times (2007).
