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Sophia Schäfer studied Protestant theology in Mainz, Berlin, and Heidelberg and received her ecclesiastical degree from the Protestant Church in Hessen and Nassau (EKHN) and her diploma in Protestant theology from the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg in 2015. She then completed a post-graduate diploma on Islam and interfaith dialogue at the Henry Martyn Institute in Hyderabad (India) as a scholarship holder of the Martin Niemöller Foundation. She subsequently completed her vicariate in 2018 Lollar, near Giessen. She has been employed since July 2018 through the Collaborative Research Center 1070 "Resource Cultures" (Tübingen) as a research associate in the subproject "Religious speech as a resource in Central and South Asia: instruction, medialization and commercialization".
Research interests
Thematic: Christianity in India, theology of religions and interfaith communication, preaching and religious authority
Regional: India
Publications
Editorship
2016 (Eds., Ramesh Prakashvelu, Jalaja Devi, Sophia Schäfer, Abdul Salim), 366 Ways to Peace, Justice, Reconciliation, Hyderabad: Henry Martyn Institute
Articles in journals
2020 „In der Krise finden sich neue Wege", in: weltbewegt 3:24-25
2020 (Florian Binsch, Sophia Schäfer) „Was machen Sie an Karfreitag?“, Cursor_Zeitschrift für Explorative Theologie, VS: Viral, 07.04.2020 (https://cursor.pubpub.org/pub/binsch-schaefer-karfreitag)
Articles in edited volumes
2017 (Sophia Schäfer, Bensu Ince), „‘Die Christen beten doch nur, wenn jemand stirbt‘ oder ‚Der hat das böse Allahuakbar-Wort gesagt! HILFE!!!‘, Religiös-Kooperatives Lernen für die Jahrgänge 3 bis 4“, in: Religionspädagogisches Institut (RPI) der Evangelischen Kirche Kurhessen-Waldeck (EKKW) und der Evangelischen Kirche in Hessen und Nassau (EKHN) (Hrsg.), RPI Impulse 3/17: Religion gemeinsam lernen. Kooperation im Religionsunterricht, https://www.rpi-ekkw-ekhn.de/home/rpi-impulse/2017/317/
Examination paper
2015 Warum ≠ Wozu. Verschiedene Motivationen zum interreligiösen Dialog. Examensarbeit im Fach Religions- und Missionswissenschaften an der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (https://www.academia.edu/33795964/Motivationen_zum_ID_Sophia_Sch%C3%A4fer_2014.pdf)
