Leandro L. B. Fontana
Dr. Leando L. B. Fontana
Research Associate – Political Pentecostalism
Offenbacher Landstraße 224
60599 Frankfurt am Main
Room: L 109 (Lindenbau)
Phone: +49 69 6061-710
Fax: +49 69 6061-777
Research focus
Pentecostalism
Interreligious dialogue
Hermeneutical Theology
Soteriology
Theology of Love
Interreligious dialogue
Hermeneutical Theology
Soteriology
Theology of Love
Language skills
Portuguese
German
English
Spanish
Italian
1979 | Born in Flores da Cunha (Brazil) |
1997 –2001 | Studies in Philosophy (Licentiate) at the Faculty of Philosophy FAFIMC, Viamão, Brazil |
2002 –2008 | Studies in Catholic Theology (Diploma) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS), Porto Alegre, Brazil |
2005 –2007 | Executive director of a sponsorship programme and director of a children’s home (Calabrian Home) in Nagpur, India 2011 -2015 |
Dissertation in systematic theology at the Goethe University and at the Philosophical-Theological University Sankt Georgen, in Frankfurt am Main | |
2012 –2015 | Scholarship holder at the DFG Research Training Group “Theology as Science”, in Frankfurt am Main |
Feb 2016 | Dr. theol. |
2016 –2018 | Post-doctoral research fellow and private lecturer in systematic theology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS), Porto Alegre, Brazil |
WS 2018 | Visiting professor at Goethe University Frankfurt as part of the research project ‘Theology intercultural’. |
since 2019 | Research assistant at the Institute for World Church and Mission |