Daniel Jara

Early Postdoc in dem Projekt: «theos: Theologisch bedeutsame Orte der Schweiz – die Vernetzung von digitalen und physischen Räumen und ihre Wirkung auf Menschen»

E-Mail
daniel.jara@unibe.ch
Büro
A 405
Postadresse
Universität Bern
Institut für Historische Theologie
Länggassstrasse 51
CH-3012 Bern

Arbeits- & Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Digital and spatial religion / theology
  • Empirical religious research
  • Place and space theory
  • Intercultural theology
  • Religious ethnography
  • World Christianity
  • Ecumenism
  • Pentecostalism
  • Empirical hermeneutics

Publikationen

  • [xx] journal-article. Jara, D. (2025). The role of Pentecostal exorcisms in the struggle for the local religious symbolic field: Religious ethnography in Oromia, Ethiopia. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford University (accepted by editors)
  • [xx] journal-article. Jara, D. and Lê Trần, A. (2025). Exploring socio-religious superdiversity in non-democratic cities: The case of Vietnam’s metropolises. Religious Studies and Theology (accepted by editors)
  • [xx] book-chapter. Jara, D. (2025). Theology in Spatial Design: The House of Prayer and Learning, House of One, as Placing Strategy, Declaration and Locus for Interreligious Encounter and Theological Production in Super-Diverse Berlin. (accepted by editors).
  • [1] book-chapter. Jara, D. (2024). Against Western Cognitive Hegemony in Academic Theology: The Quest for Epistemological Justice in Liberation and Intercultural Theology(ies). In: Victoria Turner (Ed.), Awake, Emerging and Connected: Theologies of Justice from the Missing Generation. (pp. 36-47). SCM Press. ISBN: 9780334065432. Open Access. ISBN: 9780334065432
  • [2] journal-article. Jara, D. (2023). Anthropological Case Studies As Research Design For Intercultural Theology. Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.20060. DOI. Open Access.
  • [3] journal-article. Jara, D. (2023). Dialogue and Agreement Models in the Modern Ecumenical Movement (1910-1983): Minimal, Comparative, and Convergence Ecumenisms. Teologı́a y Vida, 63(4), 539–559. https://doi.org/10.7764/tyv634.e4. DOI. Open Access.
  • [4] book-chapter. Jara, D. (2022) Intercultural Empirical Hermeneutics: An Example of Theological Hermeneutics Research and Theory Generation Assisted by Methods and Techniques of Social Research. In: Alena Hofer (Ed.) Schriftauslegung im Plural: Interkulturelle und kontextuelle Bibelhermeneutiken. (pp. 135-148). Kohlhammer. ISBN 978-3-17-042100-4. Open Access. ISBN: 978-3-17-042100-4
  • [5] journal-article. Jara, Daniel (2021). Christian knowings from the Global South: A theological approximation to De Sousa Santos’ ‘Epistemologies of the South’. Interkulturelle Theologie. Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft, 47(1), 150-169. https://dgmw.org/zeitschrift- interkulturelle-theologie/. Open Access ISSN: 1867-5492
  • [6] journal-article. Jara, D. (2020). Enrique Dussel’s “Otherness” and the Problem of the Euro-centric Totalized Epistemological System in Academic Theology. Teologı́a, 57(133), 159–182. https://doi.org/10.46553/teo.57.133.2020.p159-182. DOI. Open Access.
  • [7] journal-article. Jara, D. (2018). Cosmological Renewal: An Anthropological analysis of the New Year celebrations in the Andes as a rite of passage. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford University, 10(2), 193–203. https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/jasoonline-2016#collapse1719051. ISSN: 2040-1876. Open Access.

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae
Since 09/25 Lecturer - Lehrbeauftragter of Empirical Religious Research, and Religion and Culture at the Theology Faculty; and Global and African Christianities at the Department for Religious Studies at Bern University.
Since 07/24 Early Postdoc at the Projekt: «theos: Theologisch bedeutsame Orte der Schweiz – die Vernetzung von digitalen und physischen Räumen und ihre Wirkung auf Menschen». Institute for Historical Theology at Bern University.
10/21 – 02/25 Fortbildung Qualifizierungsprogramm Professionelle Lehrkompetenz für die Hochschule at the Netzwerk Hochschuldidaktik Nordrhein-Westfalen – Ruhr University Bochum.
2024 Promotion - Dr. Theol. in Intercultural Theology at Ruhr-University Bochum.
01/24 – 12/24 Magister in Methods and Techniques of Social Research at Universidad UTE.
10/20 – 09/24  Lecturer - Lehrbeauftragter of Intercultural Theology at the Chair of Intercultural Theology, and World Christianity at the Center for Religious Studies CERES at Ruhr-University Bochum.
04/23 – 03/24 Project Coordinator of the European Research Network for Religion, Society and Culture RESCUe of the European University of Post-Industrial Cities UNIC.
10/20 – 03/24  Scientific Assistant WM of the Chair of Intercultural Theology at the Ruhr-University Bochum RUB.
01/23 – 07/23 Visiting Doctoral Research Fellow at the Anthropology Department at Hawassa University, Ethiopia.
01/23 – 06/23 University Expert in Qualitative Research: Field Research and Ethnography at the National University UNED.
10/18 – 09/19  Specialist in Epistemologies of the South at the Centre of Social Studies of Coimbra University.
06/22 – 07/22 Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS in Interreligious Studies at Université de Genève – World Council of Churches WCC.
04/20 – 10/21 Specialist in Social Research at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences FLACSO.
10/20 – 09/21 PhD Research Stay at the Institute of Practical Theology and the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology of the University of Vienna.
10/15 – 03/20 Theology lecturer at South American Seminary SEMISUD.
10/16 – 04/19 Master of Arts in Extended Ecumenical Studies at the University of Bonn.
12/09 – 02/16  Bachelor in Psychology at the University of Loja UTPL.
10/12 – 08/15  Magister Theologiae (MA. in Cross-Cultural Theology) at the Protestant Theological University PThU.
08/12 – 10/12 Intensive study in Contextual Theology at the Bridging Gaps program of the Free University of Amsterdam.
02/09 – 07/12 Pastoral Theologian (Bachelor Religious Degree) at the South American Seminary SEMISUD.
1989 Born in Quito, Ecuador

Lehre

Faculty of Theology of Bern University, Switzerland

  • FS 2026 Seminar: Religion, Culture and Secularity
  • HS 2025 Blockseminar: Methods of empirical religious research

Institute of Religious Studies of Bern University, Switzerland

  • FS 2026 Seminar: Current encounters between Christianity and traditional African religiosities
  • HS 2025 Seminar: Global Christianities: An introduction

Faculty of Protestant Theology of Ruhr University-Bochum RUB, Germany

  • WS 23/24 Research Blockseminar: The rise of “I-liberal” democracies: Political instrumentalization of religious belongings and misleading theologies in Europe
  • SS 23 Research Blockseminar: Beliefs in flux: trans-national/cultural religious exchanges in the global era
  • SS 22 Research Blockseminar: Lived religions in plural cities
  • WS 21/22 Seminar: African Pentecostalism: The Church of the Spirit(s)
  • SS 21 Seminar: Liberation Theology(ies): The gospel of the poor and oppressed
  • WS 20/21 Blockseminar: Theologies from the Global South

Center for Religious Studies CERES of Ruhr University-Bochum RUB, Germany

  • SS 24 Seminar: Compared World Christianities: African and Latin American churches and their theologies
  • WS 23/24 Seminar: Introduction to World Christianity
  • SS 23 Seminar: Beliefs in flux: Trans-national/cultural religious exchanges in the global era
  • SS 22 Seminar: “Unorthodox” Christianities: Global dissident identities and movements
  • WS 21/22 Seminar: African Christianities: The Strange within
  • SS 21 Seminar: “Unorthodox” Christianities: Global dissident identities and movements

Faculty of Theology at Seminario Ministerial Sudamericano SEMISUD, Ecuador

  • WS 19/20 Seminar: Intercultural Theology
  • SS 19 Seminar: Intercultural Theology
  • WS 18/19 Seminar: Pentecostalism
  • SS 18 Seminar: Pentecostalism
  • WS 17/8 Seminar: Introduction to Missiology
  • SS17 Seminar: Intercultural Theology
  • WS16/17 Seminar: Introduction to Missiology
  • SS16 Seminar: Introduction to Missiology
  • WS15/16 Seminar: Pentecostalism

Grants und Stipendien

10/25 Early Career Research Project Fund, University of Bern, for the organization of the 4th International Conference of the Network for Intercultural Theology NIT

04/23 – 03/24 RUB Forschendes Lernen Grant for a half-time Scientific Assistant position for research, teaching, and the design and implementation of UNIC-RESCUe: European Research Network for Religion, Society and Culture of the European University of Cities in Post-Industrial Transition UNIC

10/20 – 09/23 Full Doctoral Scholarship in Theology from Bread for the World – Evangelical Work for Diakonia and Development e.V., EWDE.

04/22 – 09/22 UNIC@RUB Teaching Assistantship Grant by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD.

10/20 – 09/21 Full Ernst Mach Grant from the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education & Research OeaD for research stay (Visiting PhD program) at the Protestant Faculty of the University of Vienna.

10/20 – 09/21 Two semesters Teaching Assistantship Grants from RUB Research School.

10/17 – 09/20 Full doctoral scholarship from the German National Committee DNC of the Lutheran World Federation LWF.

10/16 – 09/17 Full Scholarship from the Gustav-Adolf-Werk der Evangelischen Kirche im Rheinland for the first year of the Master of Arts in Extended Ecumenical Studies at the University of Bonn.

10/14 – 08/15 Full Scholarship from the Protestant Theological University PThU and the Protestant Church in The Netherlands PKN for the last year of the Magister Theologiae program (MA. Specialization in Cross-Cultural Theology).

08/12 – 10/12 Full Bridging Gaps Grant from the Free University of Amsterdam VU for intensive study in Contextual Theology.

Funktionen

09/18 – 06/24 Editor-in-Chief of MOZAIK, Ecumenical Journal of the World Students Christian Federation WSCF.

Since 01/16 Editorial Board of Religación. Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities ISSN 2477-9083.