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Dear friends and colleagues, As today's colloquium had to be cancelled at short notice, we have rescheduled it for next week. In this week's Wednesday Weekly, we would like to share a new KFG-related publication with you, draw your attention to a newspaper article by our Director Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, and congratulate a Fellow on receiving a prize for a book. Enjoy and have a good week! Your KFG Team |
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Next week’s Colloquium: Jason Josephson Strom on “The Genealogy of Genealogy”, 24 JanuaryNext Wednesday, our Senior Research Fellow Jason Josephson Strom will give a presentation on “The Genealogy of Genealogy” at our colloquium. The colloquium will take place in a hybrid format (on-site and online). In the Member Area you will find more information including preparatory readings and the zoom connection data. 24 January | 9.15–11.45 am (CET) Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via zoom |
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New KFG related Publication: Lena Dreier “Der Islam als akademische Praxis: Von der biographischen Islamizität zum pluralen Islam“We are pleased to share with you a new KFG related publication by our Associate Member Lena Dreier. The subject Islamic theology, which was founded eleven years ago, was politically expected to train imams who promote integration. In her book “Der Islam als akademische Praxis: Von der biographischen Islamizität zum pluralen Islam” (“Islam as academic practice: From biographical Islamicity to plural Islam”), Lena empirically investigates how students of Islamic theology deal with these expectations. The book shows that the actors' attributions of meaning is interwoven with the state's approach to religion and the academic discipline's approach to Islam. The result is the concept of biographical Islamicity, i.e. a central mode of experience of Muslims in minority contexts. The actors institutionalise the image of a plural Islam. The book provides a sociological contribution to the discussions about religious-secular constellations in the society. Dreier, Lena. Der Islam als akademische Praxis. Von der biographischen Islamizität zum pluralen Islam. Religion der Gesellschaft 51. Baden-Baden: Ergon, 2023.
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Newspaper Article by Monika Wohlrab-Sahr: “Spektakulär unspektakulär“Our director Monika Wohlrab-Sahr contributed the guest article “Spektakulär unspektakulär” (“Spectacularly unspectacular“) to the article series “Einig Vaterland” in the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine. The text explores how Germany's history can be viewed as a religious evolution after nearly 75 years after the German Democratic Republik and Federal Republic of Germany were founded. In the young FRG, as in the young GDR, membership of a church was still the norm. After decades of aggressive secularisation there and creeping dechurching there, the opposite is true today. Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika,"Spektakulär unspektakulär" Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 294(2023).
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