Maltese, Giovanni

Director

Maltese, Giovanni

Prof. Dr.

Research Region: Southeast Asia (especially Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore)

Global Christianity and Global Islam—particularly evangelical and Pentecostal-charismatic, as well as reformist Islamic and mystical movements.

Curriculum vitae (key dates):

Since 2024	Holder of the Chair of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
2023	Call for the W 3 Professorship of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
2022-23	University of Cambridge, Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Divinity Visiting Bye-Fellow, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
2018-2024	W 1 Professorship in Mission, Ecumenical and Religious Studies, University of Hamburg
2017-2018	Research Associate, Institute for Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
2017-2018	Research Associate, Forum for International Studies (Department of Religious Studies), University of Bonn
2017	Emory University, Visiting Scholar (Fellowship funded by the Karl Schlecht Foundation), Emory School of Law, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Atlanta (GA)
2017	Doctorate in theology (summa cum laude), Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
2013-2014	Visiting Lecturers, Social Development Research Center, De La Salle University, Manila Divinity School, Silliman University, Dumaguete, Philippines and Philippines
2012-2017	Research Associate (DFG Individual Project), Institute for Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
2005-2012	Studied theology, religious studies and philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz and Silliman University, Dumaguete, Philippines

Curriculum vitae (short narrative):

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Publications:

Monographs :

(in the making) Conceptualizations of Religion and Islam in Early 20th century Peninsular Malaya and the Straits Settlement and its Implications for Contemporary Malaysian Politics .
(2017) Pentecostalism, Politics, and Society in the Philippines (Religion in Society 42). Baden-Baden: Ergon. [Pentecostalism, Politics, and Society in the Philippines]
(2017) Politics and Society in the Philippine Pentecostal Movement . HeiDok. Heidelberg: University of Heidelberg, 2017.
(2013) Ghost Riders Between Transcendence and Immanence: Comparing the Concepts of Experience in the Pentecostal-Charismatic Theologies of Terry L. Cross and Amos Yong (Church – Confession – Religion 61). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress, 2013.

Edited Volumes :

(forthcoming). Gender and Global Religious History. (Religionswissenschaft/Religious Studies 21). Münster: LIT. [Gender and Global Religious History].
(2021). Global Religious History. In Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (Special Issue) 33:3-4 [with Julian Strube].
(2019). Pentecostalism in Latin America. Intercultural Theology (Special Issue), 45:4. [Pentecostalism in Latin America] [with Uta André].
(2019). Global Entanglements and Pentecostal Identity Politics. Pentecostudies (Special Issue), 18:1 [with Judith Bachmann & Katja Rakow].
(2014). Handbook of Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. [Handbook of Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology] [with Jörg Haustein].

Peer Reviewed Articles :

Lackner, Michael, Giovanni Maltese, Dominik M. Müller, und Andreas Nehring. „Afterword – Global Esotericism“. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 37(3): 347–55. doi:doi:10.1163/15700682-12341517 (accepted, forthcoming).
(2025). „Gender: Zur Vergeschlechtlichung von Allgemein- und Vergleichsbegriffen“. In M. Stausberg & K. Wilkens (ed.), Religionswissenschaft: Aktuelle Annäherungen (De Gruyter Studium). Berlin: De Gruyter, 157–168. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111458892-015.
(2024) “From Gendering God to Gendering General Terms.” In Pentecostudies 23:1, 30–38.
(2023) “ Phallogocentrism, Global Entanglements and Comparison in the Study of Religion: Gendered Mysticism and Religionized Gender among Muslim Intellectuals (1938–41)” . In Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society 9:1 (Open Access Article Advance Access: https://brill.com/view/journals/jrat/aop/issue.xml ).
(2023). “ Gender and the Conceptualization of Religion and Islam .” In Implicit Religion 24:3–4, 387–423.
(2022). “ Spiritual Warfare and Right-Wing Authoritarianism .” Implicit Religion 24:1, 1-33.
(2021). “ Islam Is Not a ‘Religion’—Global Religious History and Early Twentieth-Century Debates in British Malaya s.” In Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 33:3-4; 345-380.
(2021). “ Global Religious History .” In Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 33:3-4; 229–257 [with Julian Strube].
(2019). “ Reproductive Politics and Populism: Pentecostal Religion and Hegemony in the Philippines .” In Journal of Law and Religion 34:1; 64-84.
(2019). “Towards a Poststructuralist Approach to Religion.” In FIW Working Paper 12. Bonn: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
(2019). “Pentecostal Theology between Triumphalism and Ecumenical Asymmetries.” In Intercultural Theology , 45:4; 408–36.
[Pentecostal Theology between Triumphalism and Ecumenical Asymmetries].
(2019). “Negotiating Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism: Global Entanglements, Identity Politics and the Future of Pentecostal Studies.” In Pentecostudies 18:1; 7–19 [with Judith Bachmann & Katja Rakow].
(2018). “Global Entanglements, Essentialist Understandings of Religion and Hegemony: A Response to Jayeel Cornelio’s Being Catholic in Contemporary Philippines.” In Journal of World Christianity 18:2; 142-59.
(2010). “Identity As Not – (Im)Possibilities of an Interreligious Dialogue from the Fringes.” In: Silliman Journal 51:2; 19-43.

Book Chapters :

(forthcoming) “Masculinity, Femininity, and the Conceptualization of Religion among Muslim Intellectuals, South and Southeast Asia, 1930–1941.” In G. Maltese (ed.) Gender and Global Religious History (Religionswissenschaft/Religious Studies 21). Münster: LIT.
(forthcoming) “Why Gender and Global Religious History?” In G. Maltese (ed.) Gender and Global Religious History (Religionswissenschaft/Religious Studies 21). Münster: LIT.
(2025). “Gender: On the Gendering of General and Comparative Concepts.” In M. Stausberg & K. Wilkens (eds.), Religious Studies: Current Approaches (De Gruyter Studium). Berlin: De Gruyter, 157–68.
(2024). „A teologia pentecostal em meio ao triunfalismo, à trégua religiosa e às assimetrias ecumênicas“. In D. Mesquiati de Oliveira & U. Andrée (ed.), Pentecostalismos do Sul e Norte Global em diálogo. São Paulo: Editora Dialética, 83–106.
(2024). “A pentecostal theory in my own triunfalism, with religious and assimetrias ecumênicas”. In D. Mesquiati de Oliveira & U. Andrée (ed.) Pentecostalismos do Sul e Norte Global em dialogo . São Paulo: Editora Dialética, 83–106.
(2023). “Prayer Warriors and Global Entanglements.” In J. Haustein & M. Wilkinson (ed.), The Pentecostal World (Routledge Worlds). London: Routledge, 331-42.
(2023). “Hamburg [Religionskunde as a Polemic Term].” In W. Alberts, H. Junginger, K. Neef & C. Wöstemeyer (eds.), Handbuch Religionskunde . Berlin: de Gruyter, 229–54
(2023). “Between Ferdinand Marcos and Rodrigo Duterte: Autocratic Politics and Ministry Digest.” In A.-M. Bassimir & S. Gelfgren (ed.), Protestant Periodicals in Transition: From the Twentieth Century to the Digital Age (Studies in Periodical Cultures 4). Leiden: Brill, 124–44.
(2023). “’Rodrigo Duterte, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro…’: Prayer, Politics, and Global Religious History.” In LLB Fontana & M. Luber (eds.), Political Pentecostalism: Transformations of Global Christianity Reflected on Theological Motives and Plural Normativity ( World Church and Mission 18). Regensburg: Pustet, 115–43
(2021). “Prosperity Gospel.” In M. Wilkinson et al. (ed.) Brill Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism , Leiden: Brill; 530-33.
(2021). “Jesus is Lord (Philippines).” In M. Wilkinson et al. (ed.) Brill Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism , Leiden: Brill 344–46.
(2021). “El Shaddai (Philippines).” In M. Wilkinson et al. (ed.) Brill Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism , Leiden: Brill; 200-01.
(2019). “Pentecostalism in Latin America – and beyond.” In Intercultural Theology 45:4; 322–25 [with Uta Andrée]
(2018). “Pentecostalism, Academic Theology, and Ecumenical Asymmetries.” In The Roman Catholic Church as a ‘Supply Institution’? The Challenge of Pentecostal Religiosity for the Roman Catholic Church ( Catholicism in Transition 7), G. Werner (ed.). Freiburg: Herder; 16–43, [with Jörg Haustein].
(2016). “The Demise of Pentecostalism in the Philippines: Naming and Claiming the Impossible Object and the Politics of Empowerment in Pentecostal Studies.” In Asia and Oceania, A. Yong & V. Synan (ed.). Global Renewal Christianity vol. 1., Lake Mary, FL: Charisma; 255–79 [with Sarah Eßel].
(2015). “An Activist-Holiness Kenneth Hagin? A Case Study of Prosperity Theology in the Philippines.” In Pastures of Plenty: Tracing Religio-Scapes of Prosperity Gospel in Africa and Beyond, A. Heuser (ed.). Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity 161. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang; 65-80.
(2014). “Pentecostal Theologies. An Introduction.” In: Handbook of Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology, J. Haustein & G. Maltese (ed.). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; 15–65, [with Jörg Haustein]
[Pentecostal Theologies. An Introduction].
(2014). “Pentecostal Theologies – An Introduction.” In: Materials Service of the Denominational Science Institute Bensheim 65:3; 059–062, [with Jörg Haustein]

Reviews :

(2017) Davidsson, Tommy H., Lewi Pethrus’ Ecclesiological Thought 1911-1974. A Transdenominational Pentecostal Ecclesiology. Leiden: Brill 2015. In Theological Literature Newspaper 142.5; 560-561.
(2014) Dave Johnson, Theology in Context: A Case Study in the Philippines (Manila: APTS Press, 2013. In Religious Studies Review 40.1; 24-25.
(2011) Christl Kessler and Jürgen Rüland, Give Jesus a Hand! Charismatic Christians — Populist Religion and Politics in the Philippines (Quezon City, Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2008. In Pneuma 33.1; 142-143 (published in German: http://www.glopent.net/iak-pfingstmotion/rezensionen).

Various:

(2017) “Pentecostalism and Politics in the Philippines” in Annual Journal of the Theological Faculty (2015), 84–91. Heidelberg: Theological Faculty.
(2016) Politics and Society in Philippine Pentecostalism: Research Results (Heidelberg, dissertation, 2016). In Interdisciplinary Working Group on Pentecostalism , 8/2017.
(2016/17) “[Introduction] Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology: Confession or Alibi?” In Ecclesia Semper Reformanda!: KVV (WS 2016/17) , 79. Annotated Course Catalog of the Theological Faculty of the Ruprecht Karls University, Heidelberg. Heidelberg: Theological Faculty, 2016.
(2015/16) “[Introduction] Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology: ‘Omnes dubitationis tenebrae diffugerunt’. On Certainty and Doubt.” In Tolle, Lege!: KVV (WS 2015/16) , 77. Annotated Course Catalog of the Theological Faculty of the Ruprecht Karls University, Heidelberg. Heidelberg: Theological Faculty, 2015.
(2014/15) “Politics and Society in the Philippine Pentecostal Movement.” In Annual Journal of the Theological Faculty (2014/15), 84–91. Annual Journal of the Theological Faculty of the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg.

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