Hartmut Zinser

Hartmut Zinser ( born November 11, 1944 in Tübingen ) is a German scholar of religion, religious historian and ethnologist.

  • 3.1 monographs
  • 3.2 Editorships

Career

Education and Career

Zinser et al studied under the religion and Islamic scholar Walter Brown and Klaus Heinrich Religious Studies at the Free University of Berlin; 1966 to 1967 he was a member of the Student Council, from 1967 to 1968 then Senator student choice. 1975 he obtained his PhD (published as myth and labor), 1980, the Habilitation ( published as a myth of matriarchy ). From 1984 to 1988 he was Professor of Religious Studies at the Free University of Berlin, after a short interruption (Professor of Anthropology in Mainz 1989-1990 ) carried out in 1990 the appointment at the Free University of Berlin, where he is a professor at the Institute of Religious Studies since. Since 2002 Zinser assumes various Socrates Visiting Professorships: 2002 in Aarhus, Exeter, 2003 and 2004 in Bern, 2005 in Szeged and Vienna, 2006 in Aarhus, 2007 in Szeged and Vienna, after 2009 in Vienna.

Other activities

From 1984 to 1993 Zinser board member of the German Association for the History of Religion ( DVRG - since 2005: German Association for Religious Studies, DVRW ) So-called 1996-1998 Member of the Commission of Inquiry sects and psycho-groups of the German Bundestag. From 1998 to 2004 he was ' Viceprésident 'of the Association Européenne pour l' Étude Scientifique des Religions ( EurAssoc, Luxembourg ), since 2004, then acting chairman of the EurAssoc and ' Elected Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (USA). Since 1998, Zinser was a member of the Advisory Board of the Paideuma and since 1999 a member of the scientific advisory board of the Society for the Scientific Investigation of para-science ( GWUP ). From 2002 to 2005 he was the first chairman of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory and from 2005 to 2008, the vice-chair. From 2007 to 2008 Zinser was a member of the working group of the Scientific Council for " accreditation denominational colleges " and from 2008 to 2009 as a member of the working group " Theology and Religious Studies at German Universities".

Work areas at the Chair Zinser

The focal points of savings are on the European religious history since the French Revolution and the Roman religious history, the ancient Christianity and tribal religions; Furthermore, he works in the field of systematic study of religion and its myths and theories. From 2001 to 2003 he was a research supervisor of a teaching and research project with special relevance for the city of Berlin: Nils brooding and Stefan Rademacher mapped at this time with the help of students the religious landscape of Berlin. A total of over 360 different religious communities were portrayed encyclopedia -like. The results were published in the handbook " Religion in Berlin", which thus provides a unique overview of the religious life in Berlin. From 2006 to 2009 Zinser co-project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation research project " From Imperial Museum to Communication Center " (with Lidia Guzy, Rainer Hatoum and Susan camel ). Since 2009 he is head of one of the German Research Foundation (DFG ) funded research project called ' New Atheism ' ( " The ' Return of Religion ' and the return of the criticism of religion - The ' New Atheism ' in the German and American contemporary culture ", together with Ulf Plessentin and Thomas Zenk ). As another academic staff at the Department Zinser Márcia Moser and Maud Sieprath to be identified; both are responsible for the implementation of courses. From February 2010, another DFG project in the workspace Zinser is located, which is to explore the life and work of the German - Jewish Jewish studies Marianne Awerbuch.

Publications

Monographs

  • Fundamental questions of religious studies. Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3506-76898-8.
  • Esotericism. An Introduction. Fink, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3770548743.
  • ' Collective unconscious ' and ' free association '. For psychoanalysis in cultural and religious studies. Medienverlag Köhler, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-932694-87-2.
  • Religion in school education. (together with KE Grözinger and B. Gladigow ), Berlin scientific -Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3830500384.
  • The market of religions. Fink, Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3770532575.
  • Myth of matriarchy. Negotiation of three current theories of gender struggle. 2nd edition, Lit Verlag, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-8258-2554- X.
  • Esoteric and New Age: Challenges to youth and adults. (together with T. Ewald, H.-G. Jaschke ), Hessian State Office for Political Education, Wiesbaden 1996.
  • Youth occultism in East and West. Four quantitative studies on Okkultpraktiken among adolescents and young adults in Berlin 1989 - 1991. Results - Tables - analyzes. Munich 1993, ISBN 3-927890-06-5.
  • Occultism among teens. (together with M. Knief ) Pädag. Center Berlin, Berlin 1992.
  • Myth and work. Heymann Verlag, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 978-3880550292.

Editorial Boards

  • Marianne Awerbuch - Memories of an argumentative life: From Berlin to Palestine. From Israel to Berlin. (together with H. Simon ), Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2007, ISBN 978-3938485392.
  • Dieux of Celite ® - Gods of the Celts. (together with Ch M. Ternes ), Luxembourg 2002.
  • Zen, Reiki and Karate - Japanese religiosity in Europe. (together with I. Prohl ), Lit Verlag, Münster / Hamburg / London 2002, ISBN 3-8258-4664-4.
  • Tradition in Transition: Female Religiosity in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. (together with L. Guzy and K. Poggendorf - Kakar ) Media publishing Köhler, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-932694-79-1.
  • Psychological aspects of new forms of religiosity. Report an empirical study on personality- psychological dimensions of membership in religious movements and the esoteric. (together with B. Remus and G. Schwarz ), media publishing Köhler, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 978-3932694103.
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: world spirit between Jena and Berlin. Letters. Ullsteinhaus 1997, ISBN 978-3548351513.
  • Challenge the teaching of ethics: ethics - values ​​and norms as a substitute subject at school. Diagonal Verlag, Marburg, 1991, ISBN 978-3927165120.
  • Foedera naturai. Klaus Heinrich for his 60th birthday. (together with S. Anselm, AA Azarbaijani, C. Bange, K.-H. Kohl, Fri Stentzler ), King & Neumann, Würzburg, 1989, ISBN 3-88479-440- X.
  • Religious Studies: An Introduction. Reimer, Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3496009351.
  • The downfall of religions, Reimer, Berlin, 1986, ISBN 978-3496008422.
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