Israel, Carlotta

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Carlotta Israel

Institute of Theology and Religious Education  (» Postal address)

Israel, Carlotta

Research assistant in church history

Curriculum Vitae

Since April 2024, Research Assistant in the Department of Church History and Historical Theology (Prof. Dr Andrea Strübind)

8 February 2024: Rigorosum in Church History (Prof. Dr Harry Oelke), New Testament (Prof. Dr Thorsten Jantsch) and Religious Education (Prof. Dr Ulrike Witten) 2011: Abitur at Herderschule Lüneburg

September 2023: Submitted her doctoral thesis, ‘The Ordination of Protestant Women in a Divided Germany: The “Question of Women Theologians” in the EKD, EKU, VELKD and BEK’

2019–2023 Research assistant at the Chair of Church History II (Prof. Dr Harry Oelke) in the School of Protestant Theology at LMU Munich

Winter semester 2023/24: Lecturer at the School of Theology of the GAU Göttingen

2019 Research tutor at the Collegium Oecumenicum of the ELKB in Munich

2012–2019 Studied Protestant Theology in Göttingen, Hamburg and Munich (1st Theological Examination of the Confederation of Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony and Magistra Theologiae)

2011–2012 Voluntary service with Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste e.V. at the Leo Baeck Institute, London

2011 Abitur at Herderschule Grammar School, Lüneburg

“Further information on current projects can be found at www.christinnentumsgeschichte.com and on Instagram @christinnentumsgeschichte.”

Publications

Editorships

with Camilla Schneider editorship and introduction in: Image - Gender - Reception. Katharina von Bora and Martin Luther in the Mirror of the Centuries, Leipzig 2021.

Reviews: Schlarb, Cornelia: Review: Image - Gender - Reception. Katharina von Bora and Martin Luther in the Mirror of the Centuries, in: Theologinnen 35 (2022), 142-146.

Bauer, Brinja: Rez. image - gender - reception. Katharina von Bora and Martin Luther in the Mirror of the Centuries, in: Luther 94/1 (2023), 55f.

with Sarah Banhardt and Jolanda Gräßel-Farnbauer editorship and introduction in: Women's Ordination in the Protestant Church in Germany. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, Stuttgart 2023, including two essays: "Gemeinsam unterwegs? The regional church mergers and women's ordination" (21-32), "Church law development stages on the path to women's ordination. An overview" (61-70) Reviews: Käßmann, Margot: Einordnung über die Frauenordination, in: zeitzeichen 24/6 (2023), 63. Schlarb, Cornelia: Rez. Frauenordination in der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland, in: Theologinnen 36 (2023), 142-144. Menzel, Kerstin: Rez. Frauenordination in der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland, in: ThLZ 3/2024, 232-234.

Essays

2018

with Jonas Licht, Lennert Thomas, Anna-Sophie Warnemünde: "Besuch der Ausstellung 'Neue Anfänge nach 45?' - ein Kommentar", Zeitschrift für Schleswig-Holsteinische Kirchengeschichte 3 (2018), 352-356.

2020

Conference report: Church contemporary history. Balance - Questions - Perspectives, 27.02.2020 - 28.02.2020 Würzburg, in: H-Soz-Kult, 11.05.2020.

Conference report: Church contemporary history. Balance - Questions - Perspectives, in: MKiZ 14 (2020), 153-162.

2021

Research report: Protestant women's ordination in divided Germany, in: MKiZ 15 (2021), 207-213.

with Charlotte Jacobs: Gender-conscious and domination-criticaltheology today: Connections to yesterday and prospects for tomorrow, in: Schlarb, Cornelia/Schneider-Ludorff, Gury/Stradtner, Christine (eds.): Perspektiven Feministischer Theologie und Gender Studies. Festschrift for Renate Jost, International Research in Feminist Theology and Religion. Liberating Perspectives vol. 11, Berlin 2021, 189-194.

2023

Dorothee Selle's intersectional legacy?, in: New Ways 117/4 (2023), 39-42.

with Charlotte Jacobs: Differentiation attempts on a practical-theoretical test bench. A response to "Gender and gender in the church" by Jantine Nierop, in: DtPfBl 123/5 (2023), 304-306.

2024

Conference report: Protestantism and sexuality(ies) - concepts, institutions and people since 1945, 17.11.2023 - 18.11.2023 Schwerte (Ruhr), in: H-Soz-Kult, 01.02.2024.

Quo vadis women's work? Church women's work yesterday, today and tomorrow, in: Evangelische Aspekte 34/1 (2024), 28-30.

Conference report: Protestantism and sexuality(ies) - concepts, institutions and people since 1945. A research workshop, in: MKiZ 18 (2024), 177-184.

The ESG. A review, in: approaches. ESG News 2024, 6-11.

2025

Protestant ordination of women. Developmental steps and their exploration, in: Baumgarten, Margit/Schlarb, Cornelia (eds.): 100 Jahre Theologinnenkonvent in Deutschland. Women's ordination - pioneers - convention history(ies), Leipzig 2025, 25-32.

In Search of a Common Ground? Church History and Dis/ability History, in: EvTh 85/3 (2025), 183-194.

The academic reform debate and the place of church history in it, in: EvTh 85/3 (2025), 224-231.

A classic "win-win situation"? Intersectionality and church history after 2020, in: Bauer, Benedikt / Mettner, Jennifer: Verstaubt, verdrängt, vergessen. "Woman" and "Gender" in Church History (TeiResias 2), Göttingen 2025, 165-180.

Encyclopaedia article

Art. Intersectionality, in: SysLex (6 June 2025).

Book reviews

For practice. Queersensible Seelsorge (review by Söderblom, Kerstin: Queersensible Seelsorge, Göttingen 2023), in: zeitzeichen 24/8 (2023), 63f.

Multifaceted. Gender and diversity (review Burja, Katrin / Roser, Traugott (ed.): Queer im Pfarhaus, Bielefeld 2024), in: zeitzeichen 26/3 (2025), 64f.

Review Jung, Martin H./Mühlbauer, Friederike (eds.): Frauen ergreifen das Wort. Flugschriften von Autorinnen der Reformation in heutigem German, Paderborn 2022, in: RJKG 42 (2023; published 2025), 337f.

More

Since March 2021 I have been writing the intersectional feminist the*logical column "Sektion F" in the online magazine "Die Eule".

Sermon and worship service outline in the EFiD e. V. Women*sonntag 2024 workbook, Hanover 2023.

"Surrogacy"? A feminist endorsement of surrogacy, in: überMut. Journal not only for Protestant women 2024/1, 25f.

Lectures

Early Modern Period

Lecture and workshop: “‘Dear Mr Kethe’ – The Reformation from a gender history perspective” (Schwäbisch-Hall Pastors’ Conference, Theology Update at the VELKD Training College in Pullach, 13 June 2023)

Mini-lecture ‘Confessional Diversity in Altona 1580–1640’ (ESWTR Conference, Augustana Neuendettelsau, 16 November 2024)

Contemporary Church History

Presentation at the early-career researchers’ workshop ‘The School of Theology at the University of Göttingen in the 1980s’ as part of the conference ‘The Significance of the Reformation – for the Military. The Significance of the Military – for the Reformation’ (Potsdam, 21–23 March 2017)

Presentation of doctoral research project as part of the Feminist Society at KiHo Wuppertal/Bethel (Prof. Dr Claudia Janssen) 2 June 2021

Presentation of doctoral research project as part of the Feminist Society at Augustana in Neuendettelsau (Prof. Uta Schmidt) and participation in a panel discussion at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Feminist Theology and Gender Studies professorship at Augustana under the theme ‘Perspectives for Feminist Theology and Gender Studies for the Future’ (Neuendettelsau, 7 November 2022)

Presentations as part of the commemorative event ‘Dorothee Sölle. “And what we are to become has not yet appeared”’ (Evangelical Academy Frankfurt, 20 March 2023). Available to watch online: https://www.youtube.com/live/2NG72XVXTuE?feature=share

Lecture and workshop‘Headwinds and moments of courage. Dorothee Sölle then and now?’ (forum frauen at the ELKB’s Office for Parish Services in Nuremberg, 5 May 2023)

Lecture ‘Female Ordination in Divided Germany’ as part of the German History Research Group, Cambridge (Cambridge/Zoom, 19 May 2023)

Lecture: ‘Obstacle or Catalyst? The EKD, EKU and VELKD and the Ordination of Women” (Kanzelstürmerinnen – The Long Road to the Ordination of Women, an event organised by the Gender Equality and Diversity Officers of the School of Protestant Theology at Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, 21 May 2025)

Lecture: “‘The Cat Pack from Bavaria…’ The ordination of women in the Protestant Church in German-German discussions among regional church federations” (Anniversary evening marking 50 years of women’s ordination in Bavaria, Neuendettelsau, 2 June 2025)

Intersectional anti-discrimination in the Church and theology

‘Does the World Day of Prayer have a future?’ at the meeting of the German WGT Committee on 16 April 2021, at the Ecumenical Working Group in Baden (EKIBA) on 27 April 2021, at the Women’s Organisation of the North Church on 23 August 2021

Podcast “WTF?! (7) To-Do List for Good Allies” with Michael Greder, 30 July 2021 – https://eulemagazin.de/wtf-7-to-do-liste-fuer-gute-verbuendete/

Panel discussion at “The Church and Colonial Legacy: The Example of the World Day of Prayer”, organised by the Evangelical Centre for Women’s and Men’s Work on 26 April 2022. Documented online as part of a series of events at: Diversity in church work – the documentation – Evangelical Centre for Women’s and Men’s Work (evangelisches-zentrum.de)

Podcast guest on the theoversity podcast “There must surely be more than just everything” ( 28 and 30 May 2023)

Keynote address and panel discussion at“It’s all a matter of perspective. Speed dating with gender-sensitive theologies”(Centre for Gender Worlds and Rainbow at the DEKT in Nuremberg, 10 June 2023)

Lecture: ‘How Jesus became white’ (Collegium Oecumenicum, Munich, 12 June 2023)

Lecture: ‘Jesus isn’t a white man, is he? How did Jesus become white?’ (einfach feministisch; Evangelical Women’s* Centre at the Church Service Centre of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover, 11 October 2023)

Keynote lecture ‘Is it a match? Theology and Diversity’ and workshop ‘Teaching New Testament healing stories in a disability-sensitive way’ (Diversity Week at the University of Kassel, 8 November 2023)

Workshop: “Inclusion – Theological and Practical” (General Assembly of the Evangelical Youth of the Church in Oldenburg, Ahlhorn, 14 September 2024)

Lecture ‘Fat Jesus’ as part of the panel ‘Complex Bodies’ (4th Critical Religious Studies and The*logy Days, 10 November 2024)

Podcast:‘Intersectional Protest in the Church and Theology – Eule Podcast Q and R – Live from the Church Congress’

Workshop ‘Form Alliances! Faith, Religious Studies and Activism’ at the 2025 German Protestant Church Congress in Hanover (Critical Days)

Workshop: ‘Future Workshop on Protestant Women’s* Work’ – Women’s Work in Oldenburg (13 June 2025, Oldenburg)

Lecture: “Dieting Culture and Christianity. Fat Jesus as Liberator?” (Workshop: “Body and Corporeality. Locus theologicus – territory – reality of Life”, 15 June 2025, Vienna)

 

 

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