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Kennziffer
DR/164/22
Kategorie(n)
Wissenschaftliches Personal
Anzahl der Stellen
6
Einsatzort
Faculty of Theology
Bewerbung bis
16.01.23
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The German–South African, DFG- and NRF-funded IRTG Transformative Religion is a collaboration of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with Stellenbosch University, University of the Western Cape and University of KwaZulu-Natal on the South African side. It transdisciplinarily investigates the impact of religion in processes of social transformation and the impact of these transformations on religion in contemporary global societies with an intercontinental perspective. It seeks to contribute to recent academic research and public debates on the complex relationship between religion and society.
Against the backdrop of discursive differences in perceiving and positioning religion in the field of knowledge between the global north and the global south and with a distinctive decolonial approach, this IRTG aims at a critical epistemology through which the situatedness of religious knowledge production and reception in processes of social transformation can be researched. In case studies from contexts in the global South and North, the IRTG seeks to investigate religion as specifically situated knowledge functioning as a resource and as a site of social transformation. It engages scholars from two continents and a variety of disciplines to go beyond conventional research approaches.
The research focus of the IRTG unfolds in the following four research areas: national identity ; development ; migration ; healing.
For detailed information please refer to: www. transformative-religion.org
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Please send your application including a letter of motivation (including indications on whether the application refers to Germany or South Africa as the main study location and on the preference for supervisors and research institutions within the IRTG); their full CV; a list of publications (if applicable); transcripts of their academic records (degree certificate if master's has been completed, otherwise the current grades overview); a letter of recommendation by a former supervisor speaking to the academic qualification of the applicant; a concise proposal of the planned PhD project. The proposal of strictly 10 pages/3.000 words/ 20.000 characters should include an outline of the state of the art of the relevant literature, the central research question(s), the planned methodology and the envisaged time plan of the project. The proposal should also indicate to which of the IRTG's four research areas the planned PhD project is related.
Kindly submit all documents in one pdf file named SURNAMEFIRSTNAME.pdf – by 16th January 2023 and quoting the reference number DR/164/22 via e-mail to transformative-religion@hu-berlin.de. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an individual interview scheduled for January 2023.
HU is seeking to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and specifically encourages qualified female scholars to apply. Researchers from abroad are welcome to apply. Severely disabled applicants with equivalent qualifications will be given preferential consideration. People with an immigration background are specifically encouraged to apply.
Please visit our website www. hu-berlin.de/stellenangebote, which gives you access to the legally binding German version.