About the Event
An AAR Fall Fridays WebinAAR
Hosted by AAR’s 19th Century Theology Program Unit
As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this webinar examines the complex relationship between modern universities and academic theology in the nineteenth century, and its implications for the study of religion in twenty-first-century universities. The modern university of the nineteenth century represented a significant shift from earlier models of higher education. Shaping this new academic framework was Wilhelm von Humboldt, while Friedrich Schleiermacher laid the groundwork for the university’s theological faculty.
This webinar will begin by examining Schleiermacher’s insights on the role of theology within the modern university, before moving on to consider related developments in Europe and across the Atlantic. Also, the discussion will address the ongoing trend of professionalizing the study of religion that emerged from this historical context.
AAR Fall Fridays is a webinAAR series that will highlight the scholarship coming from our varied AAR program units. This series — part of our larger year-round programming initiative — aims to bring the scholarship of our program units to the wider AAR membership and make it accessible outside of the Annual Meeting. These webinAARs will take place at 12:00 noon ET on Fridays and run from late September up until the in-person Annual Meeting in November.
Event Guidelines
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Panelists
Johannes Zachhuber is Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the University of Oxford. He holds a doctorate from Oxford and a Habilitation from Humboldt University at Berlin. He has published widely on the history of Christian ideas, especially in late antiquity and the nineteenth century.
Daniel Inman is a vicar in Chelsea in London Diocese. Before this, he served as Chancellor of Chichester Cathedral and as a chaplain and junior research fellow at The Queen’s College, Oxford. Dr. Inman has taught at the universities of Oxford and Chichester and is the author of The Making of Modern English Theology: God and the Academy at Oxford, 1833-1945 (Minneapolis, 2014) and is currently completing a book on the Church of England and Britain’s empire for Bloomsbury Books.
Moderator
Sheila Briggs teaches theology and the history of theology at the University of Southern California. Sheila’s research interests lie in feminist theology in the areas of nineteenth- and twentieth-century (German) theology, early Christianity, theories of history and modern liberation movements .
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