RESEARCH PROFILE

Public Theology, Political Ethics, Lutheran Theology, Neuroscience, Bioethics, Trinity, Religious Pluralism, Religion in the Secular State, Pentecostalism

TEACHING PROFILE

Public Theology, Hermeneutics, Trinity

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Reden vom Dreieinigen Gott in Brasilien und Indien – Grundzüge einer ökumenischen Hermeneutik im Dialog mit Leonardo Boff und Raimon Panikkar (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003) [Speaking of the Triune God in Brazil and India – Basic Features of an Ecumenical Hermeneutics in Dialogue with Leonardo Boff and Raimon Panikkar]

2. The Churches and Democracy in Brazil. Towards a Public Theology Focused on Citizenship (Eugene, Or.: Wipf & Stock, 2012)

3. (with collaboration from Oneide Bobsin and Alessandro Bartz) Religiöse Mobilität in Brasilien, in: Christine Lienemann-Perrin and Wolfgang Lienemann, eds., Crossing Religious Borders. Studies on Conversion and Religious Adherence (Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 2012), pp. 477-505 [Religious Mobility in Brazil]

4. Public Theology as a Theology of Citizenship, in: Katie Day and Sebastian Kim, eds., Companion to Public Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 231-250

5. (with Euler Renato Westphal) Lethal Violence, the Lack of Resonance and the Challenge of Forgiveness in Brazil, in: International Journal of Public Theology 12/1 (2018), pp. 38-55

6. (with Celso Gabatz) Populism and ‘People’: Precarities and Polarizations as a Challenge and Task for a Public Theology, in: International Journal of Public Theology 15/3 (2021), 349-368

7. (with Marcial Maçaneiro) Hearing and Telling Old and New Stories from Latin America – Challenges and Inspirations for an Earthed Faith, in Ernst Conradie and Pan Chu-Lai, eds, Taking a Deep Breath for the Story to Begin… An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the “Anthropocene” vol. 1 (Durbanville: AOSIS, 2021), 183-203

8. (with Jefferson Zeferino): Pandemic Religion in Brazil – Temptation and Responsibility, Religions 13/1 (2022), 58

9. Public Theology in the Secular State: a Perspective from the Global South (Zürich: LIT, 2021).

10. Ecumenical Theological Education in the Context of World Christianity, in: The Ecumenical Review 74/3 (2022) [forthcoming]

CONTACT

Email: rudolf.sinner@pucpr.br
Homepage: www.est.edu.br