Hybride Vorlesung: Manfred Hutter – “Bringing Christianity to Thai Society"

30. Juni 2023, 16:00 Uhr, von AAI Webmaster

Foto: Manfred Hutter, cropped

Wir würden Sie gerne zu dieser hybriden Vorlesung am Freitag, den 30.06.2023, um 16:00–18:00 Uhr (CEST/MESZ) einladen.

Thema: “Bringing Christianity to Thai Society"

Vortragender: Professor Dr. Manfred Hutter
Zugehörigkeit: Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, Universität Bonn

Datum/Teit: 30.06.2023 (Freitag), 16:00–18:00 h (CEST/MESZ).
Sprache: Diese hybride Vorlesung wird auf Englisch gehalten.

Ort: Universität Hamburg
          Asien-Afrika-Institut, Raum O-221
          Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügel Ost
          20146 Hamburg

Zoom Link: https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/64563521222?pwd=OEdSbENCOUV2Ynl5ZUdnNG5mM1pwQT09
Zoom Meeting-ID: 645 6352 1222
Zoom Passcode: hgtlecture

Thema:

Since the middle of the 19th century Christian missionaries started activities for spreading their religion in Thailand. The paper will mainly focus on two topics of this process.

The one refers to the Bible as a core text for Christian missionaries: Here one can observe differences between Protestant and Catholic missionaries in the use of the Bible, but also regional differences between Christians among tribals in the north of Thailand, among central Thai and Thai-(Lao) in the northeast.

The other topic focusses on challenges for Christianity in order to adapt to Thai society and culture. Here I want to discuss some examples which show how Christian communities make use of Thai or Buddhist symbolism for teaching of popularizing Christian topics or values.

In conclusion one can say that “Christianity” can only be used vaguely as a western umbrella term for one religion, which in Thailand is recognized in five “denominations”. This makes it always necessary to avoid neglecting the Christian pluralism in Thailand.

Foto: Manfred Hutter, cropped

Vortragender:

Professor Dr. Manfred Hutter (b. 1957) has been full professor of Comparative Religion in the Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn since 2000. His teaching and research focusses both on the history of religions and contemporary issues, the first topic mainly related to Pre-Islamic religions in the Middle East (Ancient Near East and Ancient Iran), the second topic refers to religious minorities in mainland Southeast Asia and their relations to Buddhist surroundings.

Wir danken der Hamburger Gesellschaft für Thaiistik für die Zusammenarbeit. 

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