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Wednesday Weekly 21 December 2022

Dear friends and colleagues,

The year 2022 is coming to an end and this Wednesday Weekly will be the last one for this year. We wish you all a peaceful and harmonious end of the year as well as a good start into the new one.

With the end of the year, we also say goodbye to two of our KFG fellows. But to round it off, we are very happy to present you our latest publication in our Working Paper Series and draw your attention to a job opportunity.

Already today, we look forward to welcoming you back with our weekly news in January and wish you all the very best for 2023!

Take good care!

Anja & Lucy

Farewell to KFG Fellow Dietrich Jung

With the end of this year, we are saying goodbye to two of our colleagues: Dietrich Jung from the University of Southern Denmark joined our team as Senior Research Fellow this September – already for the second time after 2021 – and worked on his research project on “Islamic Modernities in World Society”.

Farewell to Associate Member Liudmila Nikanorova

Our Associate Member Liudmila Nikanorova, who had previously worked as a researcher at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen/Norway, spent four months with us working on her research project on “The Governmateriality of Indigenous Religions”.

We would like to thank the two of you very much for your contributions and the good cooperation. You have been a great enrichment of the project!

KFG Team

New Working Paper #26 by Dietrich Jung on “Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and Niklas Luhmann: Boundary Negotiations Between Religion and Science in the Abbasid Empire”

We are happy to announce the new publication in our Working Paper Series: In his publication, our Senior Research Fellow Dietrich Jung explores “Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and Niklas Luhmann: Boundary Negotiations Between Religion and Science in the Abbasid Empire”.

In his paper, Dietrich argues that in Ghazali’s reflections on spiritual religiosity, theology, philosophy and science, we can discern the individual engagement of a prominent Muslim thinker with emerging communicative realms. In the Modern Systems Theory of Niklas Luhmann, these realms are taken to represent functionally differentiated subsystems of modern society.

Jung, Dietrich. “Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and Niklas Luhmann: Boundary Negotiations Between Religion and Science in the Abbasid Empire.” Working Paper Series of the CASHSS “Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities” 26. Leipzig University, 2022.

Working Paper Series

Job Opportunities: 2 PhD positions in Sociology of Religion/Study of Religions, SNSF research project “Together: Genesis, Practice and Processes of Multicultural Christian Communities”

Between 2023 and 2027, the Swiss Pastoral Sociological Institute in St. Gallen/Switzerland will carry out a social science research project on culturally diverse Christian communities funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, and in this context, two PhD positions (80% full-time equivalent) in the field of Sociology of Religion/Study of Religions are being announced.

The genesis and practice of culturally diverse or multi- and intercultural Catholic communities in Switzerland will be investigated. The qualitative-empirical project is comparative in nature and will be carried out in two sub-studies in German- and French-speaking Switzerland. It follows the tradition of “Congregational Studies” and is conceived as a contribution to the understanding of “lived religion” under the conditions of increasing cultural diversity in urban areas as well as to a critical and data-based reflection on the concept of conviviality.

Deadline for applications is 31 January 2023.

Call for Applications

If you have any content that you think suits the purpose of the weekly, please feel free to send it to us at multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de.

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Mail: multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de

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