Prof. Dr. Musa Wenkosi Dube

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheology
KeywordsKontextuelle Bibelwissenschaft, Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies, HIV & AIDS und praktische Bibelhermeneutik

Current contact address

CountryBotswana
CityGaborone
InstitutionUniversity of Botswana
InstituteDepartment of Theology and Religious Studies
Homepagehttps://www.ub.bw/staff-profiles/staff/735

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Joachim KüglerFakultät Katholische Theologie, Lehrstuhl für Neutestamentliche Wissenschaften, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Bamberg
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2011

Program(s)

2010Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Dube, a leading international scholar in Biblical studies, has made groundbreaking contributions in feminist-postcolonial Biblical studies and in reading the Bible in the context of HIV/AIDS. In her multi-perspective approach she has developed new ways to gain a humanistic and liberative potential of Biblical interpretation beyond "Africanism". During her research stay in Germany, Professor Dube -will focus on a scientific critique of "superstitious reading" which plays an important socio-political role in African societies of today. Professor Dube is hosted by Professor Joachim Kügler at the University of Bamberg.