Daniel Jara

Postdoc in dem Projekt: «theos: Theologisch bedeutsame Orte der Schweiz – die Vernetzung von digitalen und physischen Räumen und ihre Wirkung auf Menschen»

E-Mail
daniel.jara@unibe.ch
Büro
A 405
Postadresse
Universität Bern
Institut für Historische Theologie
Länggassstrasse 51
CH-3012 Bern

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae
seit 07 / 2024

Postdoc at the Projekt: «theos: Theologisch bedeutsame Orte der Schweiz – die Vernetzung von digitalen und physischen Räumen und ihre Wirkung auf Menschen». Institute for Historical Theology at Bern University.
2024 Promotion - Dr. Theol. in Intercultural Theology at Ruhr-University Bochum RUB.
01/24 – 12/24 Magister in Methods and Techniques of Social Research at Universidad UTE.
01/23 –
07/23 
 Visiting Doctoral Research Fellow at the Anthropology Department at Hawassa University (Ethiopia).
01/23 – 06/23  University Expert Diploma in Qualitative Research: Field Research and Ethnography at the National University UNED (Spain).
10/21 – 12/24 Fortbildung Qualifizierungsprogramm Professionelle Lehrkompetenz für die Hochschule at the Netzwerk Hochschuldidaktik Nordrhein-Westfalen – Ruhr University Bochum.
04/21 – 09/24

 Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) of World Christianity at the Center for Religious Studies CERES at Ruhr-University Bochum RUB.
10/20 – 09/24  Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) of Intercultural Theology at the Chair of Intercultural Theology and Physicality at Ruhr-University Bochum RUB.
10/20 – 09/21 
PhD Research Stay. Institute of Practical Theology at the Protestant Theology Faculty of the University of Vienna (Austria).
10/20 – 03/24  Scientific Assistant (WM) of the Chair of Intercultural Theology at the Ruhr-University Bochum RUB.
10/20 – 09/21 PhD Research Stay at the Institute of Practical Theology of the University of Vienna.
04/20 – 03/21

Specialist in Social Research at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences FLACSO (Brasil).
10/18 – 09/19

 Specialist in Epistemologies of the South at the Centre of Social Studies of Coimbra University (Portugal).
10/16 – 04/19  Master of Arts in Extended Ecumenical Studies at the University of Bonn.
10/15 – 03/20  Theology lecturer at South American Seminary SEMISUD (Ecuador).
10/12 – 08/15  Magister Theologiae (MA. Specialization in Cross-Cultural Theology) at the Protestant Theological University PThU (The Netherlands).
12/09 – 02/16  Bachelor in Psychology at the Technical University of Loja UTPL (Ecuador).
02/09 – 07/12 Pastoral Theologian (Bachelor Religious Degree) at the South American Seminary SEMISUD (Ecuador).
1989 Born in Quito (Ecuador)

Funktionen

09/18 – 06/24 Editor-in-Chief of MOZAIK, Ecumenical Journal of the World Students Christian Federation WSCF.

Since 01/16 Editorial Board of Religación. Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities ISSN 2477-9083.

Arbeits- & Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Digital and spatial religion / theology
  • Empirical religious research
  • Intercultural theology
  • World Christianity
  • Socio-religious super-diversity
  • Ecumenism
  • Pentecostalism
  • Missiology
  • Migration

Publikationen

  • Theology in Spatial Design: The House of Prayer and Learning, House of One, as Placing Strategy, Declaration and Locus for Interreligious Encounter and Theological Production in Super-Diverse Berlin. Presented at the Konferenz: “Quo vadis, Theology? – Theology in the Context of Public Sphere”, 15.04. 2024 Zagreb (In edition)
  • Against Western Cognitive Hegemony in Academic Theology: The Quest for Epistemological Justice in Liberation and Intercultural Theology(ies). In: Victoria Turner (Ed.) Awake, Emerging and Connected: Theologies of Justice from the Missing Generation. (London: SCM Press, 2024) 36-47.
  • Dialogue and Agreement Models in the Modern Ecumenical Movement (1910-1983): Minimal, Comparative, and Convergence Ecumenisms. Teología y Vida: Journal of the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile 63, 3 (2023), 539-559.
  • Qualitative Case Study as Research Design for Intercultural Theology. Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology 6, 2 (2022) 113-130.
  • Intercultural Empirical Hermeneutics: An Example of Theological Hermeneutics Research and Theory Generation Assisted by Methods and Techniques of Social Research. In: Alena Hofer (Ed.) Schriftauslegung im Plural: Interkulturelle und kontextuelle Bibelhermeneutiken (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2022) 135-148.
  • Christian knowings from the Global South: A theological approximation to De Sousa Santos’ ‘Epistemologies of the South’. Interkulturelle Theologie. Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft 47, 1 (2021) 150-169.
  • Enrique Dussel’s “Otherness” and the problem of the Euro-centric totalized epistemological system in academic Theology. Teología: Journal of the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina UCA 58, 133 (2020) 159-182.
  • Cosmological Renewal: An Anthropological analysis of the New Year celebrations in the Andes as a rite of passage. Journal of the Anthropological Society of the University of Oxford 10, 2 (2018) 193-203.

Grants und Stipendien

04/23 – 03/24 RUB Forschendes Lernen Grant for a half-time Scientific Assistant position for research, teaching, and the design and implementation of UNIC-RESCUe: European Research Network for Religion, Society and Culture of the European University of Cities in Post-Industrial Transition UNIC

10/20 – 09/23 Full Doctoral Scholarship in Theology from Bread for the World – Evangelical Work for Diakonia and Development e.V., EWDE.

04/22 – 09/22 UNIC@RUB Teaching Assistantship Grant by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD.

10/20 – 09/21 Full Ernst Mach Grant from the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education & Research OeaD for research stay (Visiting PhD program) at the Protestant Faculty of the University of Vienna.

10/20 – 09/21 Two semesters Teaching Assistantship Grants from RUB Research School.

10/17 – 09/20 Full doctoral scholarship from the German National Committee DNC of the Lutheran World Federation LWF.

10/16 – 09/17 Full Scholarship from the Gustav-Adolf-Werk der Evangelischen Kirche im Rheinland for the first year of the Master of Arts in Extended Ecumenical Studies at the University of Bonn.

10/14 – 08/15 Full Scholarship from the Protestant Theological University PThU and the Protestant Church in The Netherlands PKN for the last year of the Magister Theologiae program (MA. Specialization in Cross-Cultural Theology).

08/12 – 10/12 Full Bridging Gaps Grant from the Free University of Amsterdam VU for intensive study in Contextual Theology