Dr. Andreas Telser, M.Div.

Academic position:

Employee at the FWF Project „Gott in Anmuth.” A Reading of Hölderlin’s Homburger Folioheft from an Aesthetic Point of View

Contact: andreas.telser@univie.ac.at

Career:

• Since 1.10.2023 Member at the Research Centre “Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society"
• Since 2022 freelance public theologian
• 2016-2021 Ass.-Prof. at the Department of Fundamental Theology and Dogmatics at the Catholic Private University Linz
• Studies in Theology in Boston, Chicago, Linz and Regensburg
• 2009 Promotion in Theology

Most important publications:

• Co-published together with Palfrey, Barnabas, Beyond the Analogical Imagination. The Theological and Cultural Vision of David Tracy, 2023
• Co-publisher together with Kaelin, Lukas & Hoppe, Ilaria, Bubbles & Bodies – Neue Öffentlichkeiten zwischen sozialen Medien und Straßenprotesten. Interdisziplinäre Erkundungen, Bielefeld 2020
• Theologie als öffentlicher Diskurs. Zur Relevanz der Systematischen Theologie David Tracys, Innsbruck - Wien 2016 (ITS 84) – Ausgezeichnet mit dem Karl-Rahner-Preis
• Co-publisher with Gruber, Franz & Kreutzer, Ansgar, Verstehen und Verdacht. Hermeneutische und kritische Theologie im Gespräch, Ostfildern 2015
  

Main areas of research:

• Theological hermeneutics in the context of interreligiosity and interculturality
• Theology – Public Space – Politics
• Sociology of religion & Theories of secularization
• Theological anthropology (and humour)
• Theology and contemporary art