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honorary doctorate in 1848, before the American Civil War, probably the first honorary doctorate for an African American in Europe,
perhaps even worldwide.
The Pennington Award 2024 goes to Prof. Christopher Cameron
from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, a renowned expert on African-American religious history. The prize will be awarded on June 18 at 6 pm at the HCA. The title of Professor Cameron’s
lecture is: “Abolitionism, Secularism, and the Black Intellectual
Tradition”.
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Prof. Michael Bergunder teaches Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology and heads the European Research Network on Global
Pentecostalism together with a number of European colleagues. His
research focuses on developments in the Pentecostal movement, the
largest devotional movement in history, to which around six hundred million people belong. Prof. Bergunder was a member of the
DFG Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context.” In February 2024, the 14th GloPent Conference on “Pentecostalism and Gender” took place in Heidelberg.
Prof. Friederike Nüssel is director of the Ecumenical Institute,
which was founded in 1946, and has been director of the interdisciplinary Marsilius Kolleg at Heidelberg University since March
2020. She is involved in numerous ecumenical working groups and
committees at the national and international
levels. She also heads the Ecumenical Residence,
founded in 1957, for twenty-five students and
doctoral candidates of various denominations
and religions from Germany and abroad.