Prof. Dr. Musa Wenkosi Dube

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-3 und Äquivalente
FachgebietTheologie
KeywordsKontextuelle Bibelwissenschaft, Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies, HIV & AIDS und praktische Bibelhermeneutik

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandUSA
OrtAtlanta
Universität/InstitutionEmory University
Institut/AbteilungCandler School of Theology

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Joachim KüglerFakultät Katholische Theologie, Lehrstuhl für Neutestamentliche Wissenschaften, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Bamberg
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.01.2011

Programm(e)

2010Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis-Programm

Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden

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.