PD Dr. Christine Schliesser

christine.schliesser@unifr.ch

T +41 26 300 74 25

MIS 05 - Office 5221
Av. de l'Europe 20
CH-1700 Fribourg

  • Focus of work
    • Interreligious dialog and interreligious diapraxis
    • Religion and Sustainable Development (SDGs)
    • Public theology
    • Ecumenism
    • Peace and reconciliation research
    • Global Christianity
  • Doctrine

    University of Zurich
    Since 2018: Private Lecturer for Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology

    University of Gießen
    Summer Semester 2021: Lectureships for the substitution of the professorship Systematic Theology/Ethics

    University of Münster
    Summer Semeser 2020: Substitute professorship for systematic Theology/Ethics

    University of Bonn
    WS 2019/2020: Substitute professorship for systematic Theology

  • Short bio
    since August 2021 Director of Studies of the CAS “Fundamental Questions of Christian Existence” and Director of Studies of the international CAS “Integral Economics” at the Center for Faith & Society, University of Fribourg
    January to June 2019 Resident Research Fellowship at the Research College "Religion and Violence", Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton, USA.
    Since May 2018 Private professor in systematic theology at the University of Zurich. Habilitation thesis: "On the role of theology in public discourse on ethics. An analysis using the examples of the German Ethics Council (DER) and the Swiss National Ethics Committees (ECNH and NEK).
    2018-2019 Scientific Coordinator of the Interfaculty Research Cooperation (IFK) "Religious Conflicts and Coping Strategies", University of Bern.
    since 2018 Research Fellow at the Chair for Historical Trauma and Transformation, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
    2015-2017 Post-doctoral Scholarship ("Forschungskredit"), University of Zurich.
    2013-2014 Assistant at the Institute for Social Ethics, Ethics Center, University of Zurich
    2009 Appointment to the board of studies
    2006-2007 Traineeship
    2007 2nd state examination for the teaching profession at secondary schools in Protestant Theology and English (University of Tübingen)
    2005 Doctorate in Theology with the thesis 'Everyone who acts responsibly becomes guilty.' The concept of accepting guilt in Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    2005 1st state examination for the teaching profession at Gymnasiums in Protestant Theology and English (University of Tübingen)
  • Current research projects
    • «Religion Matters. On the Significance of Religion in Global Issues” (Routledge). Interreligious book series edited by Christine Schliesser with Pauline Kollontai (York St. John, UK) and Ayse S. Kadayifci-Orellana (Georgetown University, USA)
  • Offices, memberships and networks
    • Berlin Institute for Public Theology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (founding member)
    • Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Witness, Lambeth Palace, London, UK
    • Steering Group “Pathways to Peace”, Conference of European Churches (CEC)
    • Dietrich Bonhoeffer Research Center for Public Theology in Central Africa, Kigali, Rwanda (founding member and member of the scientific advisory board)
    • International Association for Reconciliation Studies (IARS) (founding member)
    • International Bonhoeffer Society, German-speaking section (deputy chair until 2023)
    • International Advisory Board of the “International Journal of Religion”
    • Head of the “Ethics of Denominations and Religions” department (with Prof. Dr. Martin Leiner, Jena) for the “Handbook of Religions” (ed. Udo Tworuschka/Michael Klöcker)
    • Advisory Council on Ethics, Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE)
    • Interreligious Initiative Lead Integrity Consulting (founding member), New York, USA
  • Publications