lectures
Brigitte Enzner-Probst (1949, Germany) is doing research work, writes and performs workshops in the field of rituals and liturgies of women. She holds a Ph.D. in Practical Theology and has written several books on pastoral issues, counselling and liturgy. At the moment she is working part-time as a chaplain at the Technical University in Munich. She is finishing research on “The role of the body in the women’s liturgy movement”.
Anne-Louise Eriksson (1952, Sweden) was ordained minister in the Church of Sweden in 1975.
She took academic degrees at the University of Uppsala: Doctor in Theology 1995;Reader in Theology 2000. She was associate professor in Systematic Theology at the Stockholm School of Theology (1995-2000);today she is adjunct professor at the same school. She works as researcher in Theology at the Church of Sweden Research department. Books: The Meaning of Gender in Theology. Problems and Possibilities (Doctoral thesis);Kvinnor talar om Jesus. En bok om feministisk kristologisk praxis. (Women talk about Jesus. A book about feminist christological praxis).
Judith Frishman (1953, USA) holds the chair for the History and Literature of Rabbinic Judaism at the Catholic Theological University at Utrecht, the Netherlands. Additionally she occupies a special chair for the history of Jewish-Christian relations in the modern period in the theological faculty of Leiden University. Her main area of research concerns the emancipation of the Jews in the 19th century in comparative historical perspective. With Lucas Van Rompay she has edited The Book of Genesis in Jewish and Oriental Christian Interpretation (Peeters, 1997).
Lisa Isherwood (1957, England) Professor of Feminist Liberation Theology at the College of St Mark &St John, Plymouth, England. Founder member of the Britain and Ireland School of Feminist Theology and an executive editor of the international journal 'Feminist Theology'. She is author of a number of books including Introducing Feminist Christologies Sheffield Academic Press, 2002;Liberating Christ, Pilgrim Press, 1999 and The Good News of the Body, Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. She is a series editor of the 'Introductions' series with Continuum and is co-editor with Marcella Althaus Reid of the 'Queering Theology' series with Routledge.
Haifaa Jawad (1952, Irakjaar? Land) is Senior lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the department of Theology, University of Birmingham. She has specialized in the socio-political study of Islam, Modern Islamic thought, women issues in Islam, Islam and the West, and Contemporary Islamic movements. Her most recent book is Muslim Women in the United Kingdom and Beyond, Experiences and Images (co-edited with Benn), Brill, Leiden, 2003.
Andrea Günter (1963, Deutschland), studierte Philosophie, Germanistik und katholischen Theologie;Habilitation in Philosophie über Politische Philosophie und das Denken der Geschlechterdifferenz. Gastprofessuren, freischaffende Referentin. Veröffentlichungen: Die weibliche Seite der Politik: Ordnung der Seele, Gerechtigkeit der Welt, Königstein 2001;Die weibliche Hoffnung der Welt: Die Bedeutung des Geborenseins und der freie Sinn der Geschlechterdifferenz, Gütersloh 10/2000.
Dr. Eleni Kasselouri (1968, Greece) studied Orthodox Theology in Thessaloniki. Her
Master Degree and her PH.D. was focused on feminist hermeneutics and the role of women in the Synoptic Tradition. She was Vice-President of the ESWTR from1999-2001. She is member of the Society of Ecumenical Studies and Inter-Orthodox Relations and recently she became member of the steering committee of the programme of the WCC: "Women's Voices and Visions on Being Church". She has participated in several research programmes in Greece concerning biblical studies and she has published articles in Greek, English and German. She is Director of a private school, married and mother of three children.
Anne-Marie Korte (1957, The Netherlands), is associate professor in Theological Women's Studies at the Catholic Theological University in Utrecht, and Honorary Professor in Theological Women's Studies at the Department of Theology, Utrecht University. She wrote a PhD thesis on the concept of faith in Mary Daly's writings and currently works in the field of philosophical and theological anthropology. Recently she edited Women and Miracle Stories: A Multidisciplinary Exploration (Leiden 2001);together with Maaike de Haardt, Common Bodies: Everyday Practices, Gender and Religion (Münster 2002);and together with Kristin de Troyer, Wholly Woman, Holy Blood: A Feminist Critique on Purity and Impurity (Harrisburg 2003).
Ina Praetorius (1956, Deutschland). Theologin und Germanistin, z.Zt. freie Autorin, Erwachsenenbildnerin, Hausfrau und Mutter. Mitherausgeberin des Wörterbuchs der Feministischen Theologie, (Gütersloh 1991 und 2002),.Mitbegründerin der Projektgruppe Weiberwirtschaft, zahlreiche Publikationen zur Feministischen Ethik, speziell Bio- und Wirtschaftsethik., u.a. Zum Ende des Patriarchats. Theologisch-politische Texte im Übergang.(Grünewald, 2000) Die Welt: ein Haushalt. Texte zur theologisch-politischen Neuorientierung (Grünewald, 2002). Lebt in Krinau/CH.
Melissa Raphael (1960, Great Brittain) is Principal Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Gloucestershire, England. She is the author of Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996);Rudolf Otto and the Concept of Holiness (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997);Introducing Thealogy: Discourse on the Goddess (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999/ Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 2000);The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust (London &New York: 2003). A study proposing a Jewish Aesthetic Theology is in preparation.
