Name: The Role of Islam and Christianity in Public Space. Perspectives from Indonesia and Germany
Start: 2025-09-26T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-28T14:00:00+02:00
Location: University of Münster

The Role of Islam and Christianity in Public Space. Perspectives from Indonesia and Germany

from Friday 26 September 2025 (14:30) to Sunday 28 September 2025 (14:00)

Monday 22 September 2025
Tuesday 23 September 2025
Wednesday 24 September 2025
Thursday 25 September 2025
Friday 26 September 2025

14:30 Welcome Tea & Coffee
Welcome Tea & Coffee
14:30 - 15:00
Room: JO1

15:00

15:00 - 15:30
Room: JO1
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: JO1
Contributions

15:30 From Passive Tolerance to Equal Religious Citizenship: Reframing Religious Tolerance in Indonesia - Noorhaidi Hasan (Rector of the State Islamic University, Yogyakarta)

15:50 Religion and Democracy in Indonesia: Navigating Harmony and Challenges in a Diverse Society - Jacky Manuputty (Chair of the Christian Communion of Churches, Indonesia)

16:10 Between religious indifference and public voice: Constructing Meaning, Community, and Space through Religious Resources and Engagement in Germany and Europe - Catharina Jabss (Faculty of Protestant Theology, Münster)

16:30 Discussion
17:00 Short break
Short break
17:00 - 17:15
Room: JO1
17:15
17:15 - 18:45
Room: JO1
Contributions

17:15 Between Faith and Freedom: Muslim Attitudes and Democratic Decline in Indonesia - Burhanuddin Muhtadi LSI (Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta)

17:35 Religious Conversion and its Impacts in the Indonesian Society. The Role of Religious Converts in Public Space - Dyah Ayu Krismawati (Executive Secretary for Asia, United Evangelical Mission, Wuppertal)

17:55 Between Religious Nationalism and Democratic Potential: Religious Forces in Indonesia and Germany - Saskia Schäfer (Humboldt University, Berlin)

18:15 Discussion
19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 20:00
Saturday 27 September 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: JO1
Contributions

09:00 The Dynamics of Religion & Democracy in Indonesia - Alissa Wahid (Director of the Gusdurian Network Indonesia that promotes interfaith dialogue, FoRB and minority rights, and religious moderation)

09:20 Democracy, Law and Religion – Christian Reflections on some Aspects of a Political Theology - Hans-Peter Großhans (Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the Institute for Ecumenical Theology, Faculty of Protestant Theology, Münster)

09:40 Pious Cities and Orderly Feelings: Emotive Infrastructures of Religious Governance - Thomas Stodulka (Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Münster)

10:00 Discussion
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: JO1
11:00 Religion and Ecology
Religion and Ecology
11:00 - 13:00
Room: JO1
Contributions

11:00 Academic engagement for interreligious and ecological justice in Indonesia - Samsul Maarif (Director of the Center for Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies, Yogyakarta)

11:20 I Have Heard from My Mother: An Indonesian Christian Multidirectional Eco-Text of Embodied Healing - Septemmy Lakawa (Professor of Mission Studies and Trauma Theology at the Jakarta Theological Seminary, Jakarta)

11:40 Shaping a Sustainable Future for Indonesia: The Role of Islamic Higher Education - Frans Wijsen (Professor Emeritus, Department of Empirical Religious Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen)

12:00 Islam and Ecology: Environmental Theme in the Tafsir Al-Qur’an Tematik [Thematic Exegesis of the Qur’an] of the Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs - Mohamad Nur Kholis Setiawan (Professor of Islamic Studies, UIN SAIZU Purwokerto, Indonesia)

12:20 Discussion
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
Room: JO1
14:30 Religion and Gender
Religion and Gender
14:30 - 16:00
Room: JO1
Contributions

14:30 Muslim Women’s Movements and the Decolonization of Religious Authority in Indonesia - Nor Ismah (Postdoctoral Fellow in the Religion and Globalisation Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore)

14:50 Moral participations at the Margins: Muslim queer and trans religious agency in Indonesia - Ferdiansyah Thajib (Senior Lecturer in social and cultural anthropology at Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg)

15:10 Imago Sophia: A Christian Ecofeminist Reading on The Wisdom of Interfaith Women Weavers in Managing Life on a Small and Dry Island in Alor Regency, Indonesia - Mery Kolimon (Senior Lecturer in Missiology, Contextual Theology, and Feminist Theology at Artha Wacana Christian University in Kupang, West Timor)

15:30 Discussion
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: JO1
16:30 Religious Education in Public Schools
Religious Education in Public Schools
16:30 - 18:00
Room: JO1
Contributions

16:30 The Politics of Religious Education in Indonesia: Patterns and Dynamics - Suhadi Cholil (Senior lecturer at the Graduate School of the State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta)

16:50 Islamic Religious Education in Germany: Developments, Understandings of Religious Education, and Research Perspectives - Fahimah Ulfat (Professor of Islamic Religious Education and Didactics at the University of Münster)

17:10 Opportunities and limitations of denominational religious education in Germany: Insights into current developments and debates - Antje Roggenkamp (Professor of Practical Theology and Religious Education at the Faculty of Protestant Theology in Münster)

17:30 Discussion
Sunday 28 September 2025
09:00 Qur’an and Bible: Interpretation and Meaning
Qur’an and Bible: Interpretation and Meaning
09:00 - 10:30
Room: JO1
Contributions

09:00 Reinterpreting the Qur’an in the 21st Century: Ma‘nā-cum-Maghzā Approach - Sahiron Symasuddin (Director of Islamic Higher Education, Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs)

09:20 The Bible as Ideology, The Contribution of Ideological Criticism to Interreligious Hermeneutics in Indonesia - Robert Setio (Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Protestant University, Yogyakarta)

09:40 Vertical and Horizontal Communication: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Quran – An Introduction to the Corpus Coranicum - Mouhanad Khorchide (Director of the Centre for Islamic Theology, University of Münster)

10:00 Discussion
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: JO1
11:00 Interreligious Relations in academia and in civil society
Interreligious Relations in academia and in civil society
11:00 - 12:30
Room: JO1
Contributions

11:00 From Conversion to “Conversation”: Interreligious Engagement in Indonesia’s Academic Lived Space and Civil Sphere - Izak Lattu (Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga)

11:20 Interreligious Studies and Engagement: An Indonesian Experience - Zainal Abidin Bagir (Director of the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta)

11:40 Resisting Exclusion – Patterns of Multistakeholder Public Engagement in Interreligious and Academic Collaboration - Simone Sinn (Director of the Department for Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology at the University of Münster)

12:00 Discussion
12:30 End of conference & Lunch
End of conference & Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: JO1