17.11.2026

Is the Bible the Origin of Nationalism?

Vortrag am 17.11. um 18:15 Uhr mit Dr. Sophia R.C. Johnson – Ringvorlesung "Rechtsextremismus und Religionen"

Der für den 17. November geplante Vortrag von Monika Schrimpf "`Japanische Spiritualität´ und Ethnonationalismus" entfällt und wird ersetzt durch:
Dr. Sophia R.C. Johnson (College of Fellows, Universität Tübingen): “Is the Bible the Origin of Nationalism?”
Dieser Vortrag wird auf Englisch gehalten.

Dr Sophia R.C. Johnson is a scholar of the Bible, religion, and politics. She currently holds a Baden-Württemberg Rescue Fellowship through the College of Fellows at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Originally from the USA, Dr Johnson received her MPhil and PhD in Hebrew Bible studies from the University of Cambridge. She first came to Germany in 2022 for a research stay at George-August-Universität Göttingen funded by the DAAD, before joining the DFG project “Josua postcolonial” at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2023. Dr Johnson also teaches for the interdisciplinary Master’s Programme in Religion, Ethics, and Politics (MaREPol) at Technische Universität Dortmund and serves on the board of the Feminist Studies in Religion CoLaboratory.