Successful Applications for the Karl-Schlecht-Stipends for theGlobal Network of Research Centers Theology, Religious andChristian Studies 2023

The Karl Schlecht Stiftung would like to support projects with implications for socially relevant topics and future leadership, such as business ethics, legal ethics, ethics of the media, of political economy or educational and family ethics.

Five Projects were selected, supporting the exchange between the universities of

• Heidelberg and Cambridge
• Stellenbosch and Notre Dame, USA
• Munich and Princeton
• Heidelberg and Union, New York
• Zurich and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1. Katrin König (University of Heidelberg / Cambridge University)

1. Sending Person: Friederike Nüssel
2. Receiving Person: David Fergusson
3. Research Focus: Hermeneutics, dogmatics, history of theology, ethics
4. Project: Philosophical and Theological Concepts of Divine Presence and Their Ethical Relevance

2. Marileen Steyn (Stellenbosch University, Südafrika/ Notre Dame University, USA)

1. Sending Person: Cas Wepener, Department of Practical Theology & Missiology, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University
2. Receiving Person: Kimberley Hope Belcher (Notre Dame University)
3. Research focus: Practical theology and media ethics
4. Project: Dark Tourism Directing Attention: Workshopping a Spirituality of Reconciliation in South Africa (Dark tourism involves travelling to places associated with death and suffering)

3. Nora Meyer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich / Princeton Theological Seminary, USA)

1. Sending Person: Reiner Anselm
2. Receiving Person: Hanna Reichel
3. Research Focus: Environmental Ethics and Theology of Creation
4. Project: Creation and Sustainability in German Protestantism. A Study of Ethical Debates on the Environment from a Systematictheological Perspective

4. Daniel Seifert (University of Heidelberg / Union Theological Seminary, New York)

1. Sending Person: Jan-Christian Gertz
2. Receiving Person: David Carr
3. Research Focus: Old Testament
4. Project: Conceptions of ‘Home Country’ in the Book of Ezekiel

5. Hananel Shapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Zurich University)

1. Sending Person: Shimon Gesundheit
2. Receiving Person: Konrad Schmid
3. Research Focus: Old Testament
4. Project: Royalty and Ritual in Priestly Political Thought