Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development

Juliane Stork

John S. Mbiti Research Fellow

The Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development has established the "John S. Mbiti Research Fellowship" in honour of one of the most influential scholars of African religion and philosophy who passed in October 2019.

Mbiti’s claim that “Africans are notoriously religious, and each people has its own religious system with a set of beliefs and practices.” keeps on inspiring researchers around the globe to explore African Religions and Philosophy and his ground-breaking book “African Religions and Philosophy”, first published in 1968, shapes academia to this day. Mbiti’s anticolonial critique of research approaches on African Religions and his vivid and accessible descriptions set the standards to measure anyone’s writing about Religion in Africa.

The John S. Mbiti Research Fellowship is awarded to outstanding young scholars with highly promising research projects on religion in Africa.

 

Juliane Stork (born 1991 in Berlin) is the John S. Mbiti Research Fellow at the Research Programme for Religious Communities and Sustainable Development. She pursues a PhD on "Theological reactions to Climate Change in African Initiated Churches in South Africa".

 

Curriculum Vitae

  • 2019 First Theological Exam at the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO)
  • 2018-2019 student assistant with the Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development
  • 2016-2017 student assistant at the professorship for systematic and ethical theology at Ludwig-Maximilian Universität in Munich
  • 2013-2015 student assistant at the professorship for practical theology and religious education at Humboldt University Berlin
  • 2012 - studies of protestant theology
  • 2010/2011 development voluntary service in La Paz, Bolivia within the context of the weltwärts-programme by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development