Miriam Sünder
Doctoral Student
Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and ReligionAbout Miriam Sünder
Since February 2023 I work at the University of Gothenburg as doctoral student and researcher in religious studies with the focal point systematic theology. My research interests are first and foremostly philosophy of religion, political- and liberation theology, but theological anthropology more generally is a recurring topic of interest. In my dissertation project, carrying the working title The Third Way: A Theological Critique Beyond the Active-Passive Binary, I am concerned with human agency and the activity-passivity/subject-object dichotomy. Since I work with terms such as suffering, theodicy, responsibility, justice and freedom, it is mainly the theological contribution to the idea of mediopassive (that is, neither active nor passive) agency that is highlighted. My theoretical framework, however, is phenomenological, since similar notions have been anticipated in the works of philosophers Edmund Husserl, Jean-Luc Marion and Béatrice Han-Pile, as well as sociologist Hartmut Rosa, amongst others. The project is supervised by Simone Kotva (University of Gothenburg) and Ola Sigurdson (University of Oslo).