Dr. Marcus Grohmann
Marcus Grohmann
- Postdoctoral research fellow at the Beyers Naudé Centre for Public Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Graduate of Ph.D Programme "RCR" at the Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena
Contact:
marcus.grohmann@gmx.de
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Education
- 2016 – 2022
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- PhD candidate with a project entitled "Reconciliation in the context of coloniality. How White people imagine and practice reconciliation in culturally diverse churches in South Africa" (supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Leiner)
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- 2008 – 2010
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- M.A. in African Culture and Society (Social Anthropology and Development Sociology) at the University of Bayreuth
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- 2003 – 2007
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- B.A. in African Culture and Society (Social Anthropology and Development Sociology) at the University of Bayreuth and Bordeaux Segalen University
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- 2016 – 2022
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Research Interests
- Reconciliation in South Africa, Rwanda, DR Congo
- Churches in conflict and conflict resolution
- Cultural linguistics
- The intersection of language, worldview and theology
- De/coloniality, coloniality of knowledge
- Intercultural theology, vulnerable mission
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Languages
German, English, French, Afrikaans, Xhosa (learning of this language was part of my research project)
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Select Publications
- Grohmann, Marcus. 2023. Seeking Reconciliation in a Context of Coloniality: A Study of White People’s Approaches in a Multicultural South African Church. (Re-)Konstruktionen - Internationale Und Globale Studien. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-41462-7External link
- Grohmann, Marcus. 2022. Review of How Western Anti-Racism Harms Africa and How We Can Do Better, by Jim Harries. Black Theology 20 (1): 99–101. doi:10.1080/14769948.2022.2039857External link
- Grohmann, Marcus. 2020. A Foolish Proposal? Vulnerability as an Alternative Attempt to Contribute to Decolonisation and Reconciliation in Post-Colonial South Africa. Transformation, 37 (2). https://doi.org/10.1177/0265378820910452External link