Practical Theology III

Lea Stolz

Contact

Currently on parental leave

Theologicum
Liebermeisterstr.12
72076 Tübingen

Room 307 (3rd floor)

+49 07071 / 29 - 78048

lea.stolz@uni-tuebingen.de 

PhD project: #interfaith: A Network Analysis of Interreligious Relations on Twitter (completed 2025)

Research foci

  • Interreligious Relations
  • Digital Religion
  • Lived Religion
  • Didactics of Practical Theology

Short CV

2026–2027
Parental leave

Parental leave from August 2026 to February 2027

2025–2026
Lectureship at the HfPol

Lectureship in Professional Ethics at the Hochschule für Polizei (Police Academy) Baden-Württemberg

2025
Completion of the PhD examination procedure

#interfaith: A Network Analysis of Interreligious Relations on Twitter
(awarded the University of Tübingen’s Doctoral Prize in 2026 on the recommendation of the Faculty of Protestant Theology)

Seit 2023
Research and teaching assistant

Lehrstuhl of Practical Theology III (Prof. Dr. Birgit Weyel), University of Tübingen

2022–2023
Research assistant

Chair of Systematic Theology/Dogmatics (Prof. Dr. Reinhold Bernhardt), University of Basel

2021–2023
Doctoral scholarship

Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)

2020–2025
PhD project

conducted as a Cotutelle de thèse (bi-national PhD project) with the University of Basel

2020
Graduation

Erste Evangelisch-Theologische Dienstprüfung (First Theological Exam) / Diploma

2013–2020
Studies of Protestant Theology

at the universities of Tübingen, Vienna, and Basel

2012–2013
European Voluntary Service

Intercultural Youth Dialogue Association, Kairo

2012
Abitur (High School Diploma)

Schlossgymnasium in Kirchheim unter Teck

1992
born in Bad Waldsee

Publications

Edited volume

Stolz, Lea and Birgit Weyel, eds. 2024. Öffentlich PfarrerIn sein: Zur medialen Formatierung religiöser Kommunikation. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

Contributions in edited volumes and journals

  • Schlenker, Lea and Lea Stolz. 2025. „Workshop Report: Making Sense of Interreligious Practices: Perspectives from Theology, Religious Studies, and Anthropology (Tübingen, 29–31 March 2023).“ Campus der Theologien 2: 1–6. campus-der-theologien.de/ojs/index.php/cdt/article/view/3986.
  • Stolz, Lea. 2024. „Das ‚24/7 Geschäft‘ – oder: Verfügbarkeit im Digitalpfarramt.“ In Öffentlich PfarrerIn sein: Zur medialen Formatierung religiöser Kommunikation, edited by Lea Stolz and Birgit Weyel, 302–316. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
  • Stolz, Lea. 2024. „Der Reformator und ich: Embodiment als Schlüsseldimension in der Begegnung mit dem Luther-Avatar.“ In Cursor_ Zeitschrift Für Explorative Theologie. cursor.pubpub.org/pub/f5uxf57p.

Academic service

  • Member of the equal opportunities commission
  • Co-organiser of the Athene Mentoring Programme

Membership

  • Arbeitskreis Empirische Religionsforschung e.V.
  • International Academy of Practical Theology
  • Network of German-Speaking Researchers on Religion and Culture in Times of Deep Mediatization