eDARE 2020 Asia & Pasifika Program
DAY 1
Fri Oct 30, 2020
7:00-8:30pm (Taipei time)
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7:00 – 7:10pm
Introduction to Session
CWM Welcome
7:10 – 7:40pm
Panelists’ Session
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Chinese Philosophy of Heaven-Human Harmony and the Theology of Impurity in the Hebrew Bible
• Wei Huang • Assistant Professor, Department of History, Shanghai University, China
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Reopening the churches and/as reopening the economy: Covid’s contribution to The Kairos Document’s ‘church theology’
• Gerald O. West • Professor Emeritus, Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Faith in the Time of a Pandemic: Health Justice and Faith Communities
• Allan Samuel Palanna • Department of Theology and Ethics, United Theological College, Bangalore, India
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7:40 – 8:20pm
Q+A Session
8:20 – 8:25pm
Poetic Benediction • Mariana Waqa • Vunilagi Book Club & Pacific Council of Churches
DAY 2
Sat Oct 31, 2020
7:00-8:30pm (Taipei time)
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7:00 – 7:10pm
Introduction to Session
CWM Welcome
7:10 – 7:40pm
Panelists’ Session
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Private and Public Pandemics in South Africa: Theological Imperatives Summoned by HIV and Covid-19
• Beverley Haddad • University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Stripping the thief in the night: Decolonizing Pentecostal Eschatology as a Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
• Hadje Sadje • Faculty, School of Global Studies, Foundation Academy of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Interpretation against: What if not punishment?
• Volker Küster • Professor of Comparative Religion and Missiology, Faculty of Protestant Theology, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz Germany
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7:40 – 8:20pm
Q+A Session
8:20 – 8:25pm
Poetic Benediction • Mariana Waqa • Vunilagi Book Club & Pacific Council of Churches
DAY 3
Sun Nov 1, 2020
7:00-8:30pm (Taipei time)
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7:00 – 7:10pm
Introduction to Session
CWM Welcome
7:10 – 7:40pm
Panelists’ Session
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Covid-19 Solidarity Assurance: Reality, Faith and Action
• Sithembiso S. Zwane • Lecturer in Theology and Development, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Vulnerability: Embodied resistance during Covid-19?
• Kuzipa Nalwamba • Lecturer of Ecumenical Social Ethics at Bossesy Ecumenical Institute & Programme Exectutive for Ecumenical Theological Education (ETE), World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland
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Resisting the return to the old normal: A Black Liberation Theology inspired model of Global humanity and the call of radical solidarity with the ‘least of these’
• Allan Anthony G. Reddie • Extraordinary Professor, Theological Ethics, University of South Africa Director, The Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford UK
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7:40 – 8:20pm
Q+A Session
8:20 – 8:25pm
Poetic Benediction • Mariana Waqa • Vunilagi Book Club & Pacific Council of Churches
7:40 – 8:20pm
Q+A Session
8:20 – 8:25pm
Poetic Benediction • Mariana Waqa • Vunilagi Book Club & Pacific Council of Churches
7:40 – 8:20pm
Q+A Session
8:20 – 8:25pm
Poetic Benediction • Mariana Waqa • Vunilagi Book Club & Pacific Council of Churches
7:40 – 8:20pm
Q+A Session
8:20 – 8:25pm
Poetic Benediction • Mariana Waqa • Vunilagi Book Club & Pacific Council of Churches