HEUSER Andreas

Professor for Extra-European Christianity Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Basel

Andreas Heuser is a theologian and political scientist and Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Basel. Before his appointment as a Professor for Extra-European Christianity with a focus on Africa at the University of Basel (2012), he was a lecturer in Systematic Theology and Mission Studies at Tumaini University Makumira, Tanzania (2008-2011). Inter-religious dynamics in diverse socio-cultural contexts and the outlines of Christian theologies of religion form an integral part of his teaching and research ever since. In his capacity as a former Head of Studies at the Academy of Missions at the University of Hamburg (1998-2005) and as an ecumenical representative of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau (Germany, 2005-2008), he was engaged in local inter-religious dialogue initiatives. He is engaged in multi-sited research on African Instituted Churches (AIC) and the Pentecostal movement in sub-Saharan Africa as well as on migrant Christianity in Germany and Switzerland.

Bibliography

  • Heuser, Andreas: Der Black Indian Ocean in transkultureller Perspektive. Eine Skizze zur "Übersetzung` eines vergessenen ’Shembe-Maori-Fragments" in: Dehn, Ulrich; Klie, Thomas (eds.): Hybride Vergewisserungen. Religion in transkulturellen Verflechtungen, Hamburg 2020, pp. 52–63.
  • Heuser, Andreas; Koehrsen, Jens (eds.): Faith-Based Organizations in Development Discourses and Practice London and New York 2020 (Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics).
  • Heuser, Andreas: Prosperity Theology: Material Abundance and Praxis of Transformation in: Vondey, Wolfgang (ed.): The Routledge Handbook of Pentecostal Theology, Abingdon; New York 2020 (The Routledge Handbook of Theology Series), pp. 410–420.
  • Heuser, Andreas: Straightway Chapel - A Charismatic Theology of Mission to Muslims in Ghana? in: Lee, Younghoon; Ma, Wonsuk; Lee , Kuewon (eds.): Pentecostal Mission and Global Christianity: an Edinburgh Centenary Reader, Oxford 2018 (Regnum Studies in Mission ), pp. 95–104.
  • Heuser, Andreas: Aufstand gegen die ’Giganten Gottes’: Ein pentekostal-islamischer Blasphemiestreit in Ghana und die Erosion der Theologie der Anklage in: Wüthrich, Matthias D.; Gockel, Matthias; Mohn, Jürgen (eds.): Blasphemie. Anspruch und Widerstreit in Religionskonflikten, Tübingen 2020 2020, pp. 167–184.
  • Heuser, Andreas: "Visioneer Reborn": Online-Machtpoker zwischen Mega-Ministries und "Pentecostal Muslims" in Ghana in: Cyranka, Daniel; Wrogemann, Henning (eds.): Religion - Macht - Raum: Religiöse Machtansprüche und ihre medialen Repräsentationen, Leipzig 2018 (Veröffentlichungen der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Theologie), pp. 15–40.