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African Christianity and sustainable development. Öhlmann's publications include "Religiosity and household income in Sekhukhune" (with Silke Hüttel), Development Southern Africa (2018) and "African Initiated Churches' potential as development actors" (with Marie-Luise Frost and Wilhelm Gräb), HTS Theological Studies(2016), and the edited volume African Initiated Christianity and the Decolonisation of Development. Sustainable Development in Pentecostal and Independent Churches (with Marie-Luise Frost and Wilhelm Gräb 2020). Dr. Vanessa Rau is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and part of the ZOMiDi project, "Civil Society Organizations and the Challenges of Migration and Diversity: Agents of Change" in the sub-section "Disability and Sexual Minorities". She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge. Her thesis entitled "Contesting the Secular and Converting Space in Berlin? Becoming Jewish in an Urban Scene" examines a newly emerging Jewish-Hebrew scene in Berlin and investigates how religious and secular belonging are negotiated under specific discursive representations. The study combines ethnography with biographical-narrative research and looks at trajectories of migration and conversion and their entanglements with gender, sexuality, religion and aesthetic practices (particularly music). Vanessa holds a BA in Social and Political Science (University of Cambridge) and an M.A. in International Relations and Social Science (Free University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) with a focus on religious and cultural studies, the politics of religion and secularism and qualitative research.
Rosa Coco Schinagl is a Humboldt Graduate Scholar (Programm: Religion - Knowledge - Discourses) and PhD candidate in the Department of Systematic Theology whose doctoral research isconcerned with Hannah Arendt's early work Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin. Versuch einer philosophischen Interpretation (Love and Saint Augustine). She is trained in Protestant Theology in Germany (BA) and South Africa, holding an MPhil (with distinction) in Religion and Culture from the Theology Department of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her research interests include Systematic Theology, Practical Theology, Missiology, Ancient and Modern Philosophy and Interreligious Dialogue in Modernity.
Adela Taleb is a PhD candidate at the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In her research project she investigates the formation of "EUropean Islam" from a discourse analytical approach, looking at the interaction of Eurocrats and NGOs in the arena of the European Union. Her research interests include critical and postcolonial theory, visual studies, anthropology of policy and ethnography of the political. Adela was a visiting researcher at the Law and Anthropology department of Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science, as well as the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre of KU Leuven. She holds an M.A. in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and has published on themes such as "visual Orientalism", the politics of representing "the Muslim Woman", and "European Islam".