The Institute for the Study of Religion regularly welcomes visiting researchers from all over the world. In doing so, it promotes international exchange among researchers, facilitates new research collaborations and offers its students the opportunity to broaden their academic horizons through lectures and courses.
Here is an overview of visiting scholars at the Institute for the Study of Religion (since 2010):
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Summer semester 2022
Prof. Dr. Vaia Touna (University of Alabama): There’s Something About…’Religion’: On Its Persisting Use by Scholars of Ancient Societies (Vortrag)
Prof. Dr. Vaia Touna (University of Alabama): Theorizing Ancient Greek 'Religion' (Seminar)
Prof. Dr. Vaia Touna (University of Alabama): Interview
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Winter semester 2018/19
Malory Nye: Decolonizing Race and Religion (Seminar)
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Summer semester 2018
Prof. Dr. Gregory Price Grieve (University of North Carolina at Greensboro): Buddhist Ethics in the Contemporary World (Seminar)
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Winter semester 2017/2018
Prof. Dr. Craig Martin (St. Thomas Aquinas College): Addressing the Scourge of Poststructuralism (Vortrag)
Prof. Dr. Craig Martin (St. Thomas Aquinas College): The Evolution of Jesus (Seminar)
Prof. Dr. Craig Martin (St. Thomas Aquinas College): Interview (Englisch)
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Summer semester 2017
Prof. Dr. David Thurfjell (Hochschule Södetörn): The Post-Lutheran Scandinavians and Religion (Vortrag)
Prof. Dr. David Thurfjell (Hochschule Södetörn): Religion and secularity in post-protestant countries (Seminar)
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Winter semester 2016/2017
Prof. Dr. Bengt-Ove Andreassen (The Arctic University of Norway): Textbook Gods. Perspectives on textbooks in the study of religions. (Vortrag)
Prof. Dr. Bengt-Ove Andreassen (The Arctic University of Norway): Researching RE – Approaches and Perspectives from the Study of Religions (Seminar)
Prof. Dr. Bengt-Ove Andreassen (The Arctic University of Norway): Interview (Englisch)
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Summer semester 2016
Prof. Tim Jensen (Honorar-Professor unseres Instituts )
Dr. phil. Katharina Frank (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Zürich)
Dr. phil. Carmen Becker (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin unseres Instituts, Spezialistin für Islam in Europa)
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Winter semester 2015/16
Prof. Dr. Alicia M. Turner (York University): Religion -Making at the Margins: Cosmopolitan and Pluralist Potentials in Colonial Burma (Vortrag)
Prof. Dr. Alicia M. Turner (York University): Religion-Making and the Colonial Encounter (Seminar)
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Summer semester 2015
Prof. Dr. Håkan Rydving (University of Bergen): Four Approaches to Shamanism (Vortrag)
Prof. Dr. Håkan Rydving (University of Bergen): Sami Religion (Seminar)
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Winter semester 2014/15
Prof. Dr. Jenny Berglund (Hochschule Södertörn): Islam in Europe with special focus on school and educational questions (Seminar)
Prof. Dr. Jenny Berglund (Hochschule Södertörn): Interview
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Summer semester 2014
Dr. Timothy Fitzgerald (University of Stirling): Are Tony Blair‘s and Christopher Hitchens‘ ‚ deployments of ‚religion‘ a cause of violence in the Middle East? (Vortrag)
Dr. Timothy Fitzgerald (University of Stirling): The Religion of Capital: Deconstructing Political Economy (Seminar)
Prof. Dr. Richard King (University of Kent): From Mysticism to Spirituality: Colonial Legacies and the Reformulation of 'the Mystic East (Vortrag)
Prof. Dr. Richard King (University of Kent): Towards a Philosophical Exploration of Early Indian Buddhism (Seminar)
Prof. Dr. Richard King (University of Kent): Interview (Englisch)
Prof. Dr. Leslie Dorrough Smith (Avila University): Righteous Rhetoric: Sex, Speech, and the Politics of Concerned Women for America (Vortrag)
Prof. Dr. Leslie Dorrough Smith (Avila University): The Politics of „Fundamentalism“ (Seminar)
Prof. Dr. Leslie Dorrough Smith (Avila University): Interview (Englisch)
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Summer semester 2013
Prof. Dr. William Arnal (University of Regina): Just how 'Christian' were the first Christians? (Vortrag)
Prof. Dr. William Arnal (University of Regina): Profaning the Sacred: Can we Make Sense of the Stuff of Religion without „Religion“? (Seminar)
Prof. Dr. Peter Beyer (University of Ottawa): When Multiculturalism is not Pillarization or Ghettoization: Religion and the Second Generation in Canada (Vortrag)
Prof. Dr. Peter Beyer (University of Ottawa): Religion in Global Context: From Axial Age to a Post-Westphalian Era (Seminar)
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Winter semester 2012/13
Prof. Dr. Bretislav Horyna (Masaryk-Universität): Religionswissenschaft und Wissen (Seminar)
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Summer semester 2012
Prof. Dr. Willi Braun (University of Alberta): When and Why Did the Gospel of Mark Become a Christian Text? (Vortrag)
Prof. Dr. Willi Braun (University of Alberta): Ancient and Modern Histories and Historiographies of Early Christianity (Seminar)
Prof. Dr. Linda Woodhead (Lancaster Universiy): Religion in Public Life: Re-alignments in State, Society and Market (Seminar)
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Summer semester 2011
Prof. Dr. José Casanova (Universität Berkeley): Bürgerliches Zusammenleben in religiöser und weltanschaulicher Verschiedenheit in der nachsäkularen Gesellschaft (Vortrag)
Prof. Dr. José Casanova (Universität Berkeley): Private and Public Religions. A Global Contemporary Survey (Seminar)
Dr. Alexander van der Haven (Webster Universität St. Louis): Conflict and Integration: The History of Judaism (Seminar)
Dr. Alexander van der Haven (Webster Universität St. Louis): Making Religions in the Modern West (Seminar)
Dr. Alexander van der Haven (Webster Universität St. Louis): Toward Utopia or Apocalypse? American Christianity and the Modern World (Seminar)
Prof. Dr. Martin Risebrodt (Universität Chicago): Religion als analytisches Konzept (Vortrag)
Prof. Dr. Martin Risebrodt (Universität Chicago): Perspektiven der Religionsforschung (Seminar)
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Winter semester 2010/11
Prof. Dr. Rosalind Hackett (University of Tennessee): The Challenge of Proselytizing and Anti-Proselytizing to Human Rights (Vortrag)
Prof. Dr. Rosalind Hackett (University of Tennessee): From Neo-Traditionals to Neo-Pentecostals: Millennial and Apocalyptic Movements in Africa (Seminar)
Prof. Dr. Russel T. McCutcheon (University of Alabama): Religion Before ‘Religion‘, or the Persistence of Imagining Religion (Vortrag)
Prof. Dr. Russell T. McCutcheon (University of Alabama): Categories at Work: Rethinking „Religious Experience“ (Seminar)
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Summer semester 2010
Prof. Tim Jensen (Universität Odense): Revisiting the Danish Muhammad Caricatures – A Perspective of a Scholar of Religion Who Functioned as an Expert to the Media (Vortrag)
Prof. Tim Jensen (Universität Odense) und Prof. Dr. Wanda Alberts (Universität Bergen): Education about religions as „angewandte Religionswissenschaft“ (Seminar)