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Research Interests:
Continental Philosophy of Religion, Political and Public Theology, Radical Theology, Phenomenology of Embodiment, Affect Theory.
Short Bio:
Calvin D. Ullrich (PhD, Stellenbosch) is a systematic theologian with interests in continental philosophy. He has written a monograph entitled, Sovereignty and Event (2021) published with Mohr Siebeck, for which he was awarded the Manfred Lautenschläger Award (2022). He has published articles and book chapters in the fields of political, public, and radical theology and is currently working on a second monograph on the phenomenology of embodiment in conversation with affect theory and contemporary systematics. A co-edited volume with Rebekka Klein (Ruhr Universität Bochum), will also be published later this year with Mohr Siebeck, with the title: The Unthinkable Body: Challenges of Embodiment in Religion, Politics and Ethics. Dr. Ullrich also holds a Y1 rating (2024–2029) from South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF).
Recent Publications:
“The Spread Body and the Affective Body: A Discussion with Emmanuel Falque,” Religions Journal 15 no. 30. (2023):1–20, https://doi.org/ 10.3390/rel15010030. “The Singularity of AI? Toward a new philosophical-theological intelligence,” Stellenbosch Theological Journal 9 no. 1 (2023): 1–17. “The Eclipse of the Body? Flesh and Matter in French Phenomenology” in The Unthinkable Body: Challenges of Embodiment in Religion, Politics, and Ethics. Edited by Rebekka Klein and Calvin Ullrich. Mohr Siebeck. |
“Beyond the Totality of Religion: Memories of violence, finitude, and the organic” in South African Spiritualities: Experiencing God in Everything and Nothing. Edited by Annette Potgieter. Wipf & Stock. 2024 Forthcoming. |