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Friday, September 26, 2025
14:30 Tea/ coffee
15:00 – 15:30 Welcome addresses
- Representative of the leadership of the University of Münster
- Prof. Dr Mouhanad Khorchide, Center for Islamic Theology
- Prof. Dr Simone Sinn, Department for Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology
15:30 – 17:00 Panel 1: Role of Religion in the Public Space
Moderator: Prof. Dr Mouhanad Khorchide
- From Passive Tolerance to Equal Religious Citizenship: Reframing Religious Tolerance in Indonesia
Prof. Dr Noorhaidi Hasan, Rector of the State Islamic University, Yogyakarta - Rev. Dr Jacky Manuputty, Chair of the Christian Communion of Churches, Indonesia
- Dr des. Catharina Jabss, Faculty of Protestant Theology, Münster (tbc)
17:15 – 18:45 Panel 2: Religion, Democracy, and challenges to democracy
Moderator: Prof. Dr Simone Sinn
- Between Faith and Freedom: Muslim Attitudes and Democratic Decline in Indonesia
Prof. Dr Burhanuddin Muhtadi LSI, Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta - Religious Conversion and its Impacts in the Indonesian Society. The Role of Religious Converts in Public Space
Rev. Dr Dyah Ayu Krismawati, Executive Secretary for Asia, United Evangelical Mission, Wuppertal - Between Religious Nationalism and Democratic Potential: Religious Forces in Indonesia and Germany
Dr Saskia Schäfer, Humboldt University, Berlin
19:00 Dinner
Saturday, September 27, 2025
9:00 – 10:30 Panel 3: Religion, Democracy in a multi-actor perspective
- Ms Alissa Wahid, Director of the Gusdurian Network Indonesia that promotes interfaith dialogue, FoRB and minority rights, and religious moderation.
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Democracy, Law and Religion – Christian Reflections on some Aspects of a Political Theology
Prof. Dr Hans-Peter Großhans, Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the Institute for Ecumenical Theology, Faculty of Protestant Theology, Münster - Pious Cities and Orderly Feelings: Emotive Infrastructures of Religious Governance
Prof. Dr Thomas Stodulka, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Münster
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30: Panel 4: Religion and Ecology
- Academic engagement for interreligious and ecological justice in Indonesia
Dr Samsul Maarif, Director of the Center for Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies, Yogyakarta - I Have Heard from My Mother: An Indonesian Christian Multidirectional Eco-Text of Embodied Healing
Prof. Dr Septemmy Lakawa, Professor of Mission Studies and Trauma Theology at the Jakarta Theological Seminary, Jakarta - Shaping a Sustainable Future for IndonesiaThe Role of Islamic Higher Education
Prof. Dr Frans Wijsen, Professor Emeritus, Department of Empirical Religious Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 16:00 Panel 5: Religion and Gender
Moderator: Dr Stefanie Burkhardt
- Muslim Women’s Movements and the Decolonization of Religious Authority in Indonesia
Dr Nor Ismah, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Religion and Globalisation Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore - Moral participations at the Margins: Muslim queer and trans religious agency in Indonesia
Dr Ferdi Thajib, Senior Lecturer in social and cultural anthropology at Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg - 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
Dr Mery Kolimon, Senior Lecturer in Missiology, Contextual Theology, and Feminist Theology at Artha Wacana Christian University in Kupang, West Timor
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Panel 6: Religious Education in Public Schools
Moderator: Ms Carolin Puckhaber
- Analysis of the National Policy on Religious Education in Indonesia in the 21st Century
Dr Suhadi Cholil, senior lecturer at the Graduate School of the State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta - Islamic Religious Education in Germany: Developments, Understandings of Religious Education, and Research Perspectives
Prof. Dr Fahimah Ulfat, Professor of Islamic Religious Education and Didactics at the University of Münster - Opportunities and limitations of denominational religious education in Germany: Insights into current developments and debates
Prof. Dr Antje Roggenkamp, Professor of Practical Theology and Religious Education at the Faculty of Protestant Theology in Münster
Sunday, September 28, 2025
9:00 – 10:30 Panel 7: Qur’an and Bible: Interpretation and Meaning
Moderator: Dr David Fastlabend
- Reinterpreting the Qur’an in the 21st Century: Ma‘nā-cum-Maghzā Approach
Prof. Dr Sahiron Syamsuddin, Director of Islamic Higher Education, Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs. - The Bible as Ideology, The Contribution of Ideological Criticism to Interreligious Hermeneutics in Indonesia
Prof. Dr Robert Setio, Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Protestant University, Yogyakarta - Prof. Dr Mouhanad Khorchide, Director of the Centre for Islamic Theology, University of Münster
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Panel 8: Interreligious Relations in academia and in civil society
- Dr. Izak Lattu, Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga
- Interreligious Studies and Engagement: An Indonesian Experience
Dr Zainal Abidin Bagir, Director of the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta - Prof. Dr Simone Sinn, Director of the Department for Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology at the University of Münster
12:30 Lunch
Location
Mainbuilding of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"
Johannisstraße 1
48143 Münster