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The theological course Abraham Goes Global is a cooperation between Åbo Akademi University and Stellenbosch University (South Africa) funded by the Finnish National Agency for Education and The Polin Institute 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. The aims are to widen the perception of theology to cross boundaries of religion at both universities, to exchange expertise on contextualised […]

Need time to finalize a book manuscript? Research stint at the Polin Institute for theological research within Åbo Akademi University, Finland The Polin Institute is a growing international center of theological research in Finland. We announce two research stints of maximum six months between the beginning of March 2025 and the end of August 2025 […]

An international conference organized by the Polin Institute of Åbo Akademi University Espoo, Finland, 27th-30th August 2024 Pentecostalism is one of the most dynamic and influential forms of Christianity in contemporary Africa. It has been variously described as a response to modernity, a postmodern phenomenon itself, a revitalization movement, a return to the fundamental theology […]

Need time to finalize a book manuscript? Research stint at the Polin Institute for theological research within Åbo Akademi University, Finland The Polin Institute is a growing international center of theological research in Finland. We announce two research stints of maximum six months between the beginning of September 2024 and the end of February 2025 […]

Polin-chefens julhälsning 2023 I julevangeliet enligt Johannes står det: ”Ordet var liv och livet var människornas ljus. Och ljuset lyser i mörkret, och mörkret har inte övervunnit det”. Precis när året var på väg mot det djupaste vintermörkret fick vi beskedet om att den tidigare presidenten, diplomaten och Nobels fredspristagaren Martti Ahtisaari hade gått bort. […]

Polin-institutet vid Åbo Akademi ledigförklarar en avlönad doktorandbefattning i teologi. Befattningen hör till något av de teologiska disciplinerna (exegetik med judaistik, kyrkohistoria, systematisk teologi, praktisk teologi och religionsvetenskap) vid Fakulteten för humaniora, psykologi och teologi (FHPT) i Åbo, Finland. Anställningen är upp till fyra år med start 1.9.2024 eller enligt överenskommelse. Den tidsbundna anställningen är […]

Picture: Universität Regensburg. The Polin guest researcher Dr. Judith König, University of Regensburg, is one of the ten winners of the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise. Our warmest congratulations to Dr. Judith König! The Forschungszentrum Internationale und Interdisziplinaere Theologie (FIIT) at the University of Heidelberg (Research Center for International and Interdisciplinary Theology) annually honors 10 young scholars from all […]

Call for Papers Conference: The Challenge of Poverty. Theological Responses in Early Christian Literature and Global Christian History Photo by Ted on Flickr The Challenge of Poverty. Theological Responses in Early Christian Literature and Global Christian History May 29-31, 2024 Åbo Akademi University, Turku (Åbo), Finland Call for Papers One of the most prominent challenges in […]

“Nonsense is nonsense, but the history of nonsense is scholarship,” ska professor Saul Lieberman ha sagt en gång. Med dessa ord kunde jag rättfärdiga skrivandet av en studie över ett så udda verk som Sigmund Freuds Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion (LIT-Verlag 2023). Men det gör jag inte, för Freuds ”Moses” kan inte […]