The term ContactZone was coined in postcolonial discourse to signify the place where cultures and religions meet. It implies that first contact, cultural-religious exchange and conflict have always been determined by power-relations. Through making use of communication theories, hermeneutics and aesthetics intercultural theology generates new terminologies and theoretical tools to explore these interactions. Its scope ranges from issues such as dialogue and syncretism to fundamentalism and ethnicity. Perspectives of culture, religion, race, class and gender alike are involved in the necessary multi-axial approach. ContactZone is going to create a space where a choir of multiple voices is responding to the challenges of the cultural religious pluralism of the 21st century.
edited by
Prof. Dr. Volker Küster (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Werner Jeanrond (Oxford),
Prof. Dr. Tinyiku Maluleke (University of Johannesburg),
Prof. Dr. Philip Wickeri (GTU, Berkeley, CA and HKSKH, Hong Kong) The term ContactZone was coined in postcolonial discourse to signify the place where cultures and religions meet. It implies that first contact, cultural-religious exchange and conflict have...
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The term ContactZone was coined in postcolonial discourse to signify the place where cultures and religions meet. It implies that first contact, cultural-religious exchange and conflict have always been determined by power-relations. Through making use of communication theories, hermeneutics and aesthetics intercultural theology generates new terminologies and theoretical tools to explore these interactions. Its scope ranges from issues such as dialogue and syncretism to fundamentalism and ethnicity. Perspectives of culture, religion, race, class and gender alike are involved in the necessary multi-axial approach. ContactZone is going to create a space where a choir of multiple voices is responding to the challenges of the cultural religious pluralism of the 21st century.
edited by
Prof. Dr. Volker Küster (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Werner Jeanrond (Oxford),
Prof. Dr. Tinyiku Maluleke (University of Johannesburg),
Prof. Dr. Philip Wickeri (GTU, Berkeley, CA and HKSKH, Hong Kong) 
