Teaching
Teaching
Winter semester 2024/25
- Thomas Luckmann: The Invisible Religion
- Introduction to the Study of Religion
- Introduction to Christianity
- ‘World Religion’ – A Critique of a Category
- Classics of the Study of Religion
Summer Semester 2024
- Thomas Luckmann: The Invisible Religion
- Introduction to Islam
- Islam as a Religion of Minorities
- Ethnic Religiosity
- Esotericism: Research Approaches and Historical Contexts
Winter semester 2023/24
- Thomas Luckmann: The Invisible Religion
- Introduction to the Study of Religion
- Introduction to Christianity
- ‘World Religion’ – A Critique of a Category
- Classics of the Study of Religion
Summer Semester 2023
- Thomas Luckmann: The Invisible Religion
- Introduction to Islam
- Religious Minorities
- Religion and the Natural Sciences
- Sufism: Past and Present
Winter semester 2022/23
- Thomas Luckmann: The Invisible Religion
- Introduction to the Study of Religion
- Introduction to Christianity
- ‘World Religion’ – A Critique of a Category
- Classics of the Study of Religion
Summer Semester 2022
- Thomas Luckmann: The Invisible Religion (continued)
- Religion and Magic
- Subjective and Holistic: Aspects of Contemporary Religiosity
- An Introduction to Islam
Winter semester 2021/22
- Thomas Luckmann: The Invisible Religion
- Introduction to the Study of Religion
- Classics of the Study of Religion
- Ethnic Religiosity
- ‘World Religion’ – A Critique of a Category
- An Introduction to Christianity
Summer Semester 2021
- Sufism in Western research
- An Introduction to Islam
- Religion and Medicine
- Concepts of Religious Plurality
- Religious Debates in the 18th Century
Winter semester 2020/21
- Introduction to the Study of Religion
- Classics of the Study of Religion
- Religion and Magic
- The Concept of ‘World Religion’
- Introduction to Christianity
Summer Semester 2020
- Introduction to Islam
- Introduction to Christianity
- Perspectives on the History of Religion
- Beliefs in Witches in the 20th Century
- Aspects of Kabbalah in the 20th Century
Winter semester 2019/20
- Introduction to the Study of Religion
- Classics of the Study of Religion
- Ethnic-Nationalist Religiosity in the 20th Century
- The Concept of ‘World Religion’
- Criticism of Religion
Summer Semester 2019
- From Soul and Spirit to Mind and Magic: Empirical Metaphysics, Psychology and Religion in Scotland (with Mark Siebel)
- An Introduction to Islam
- Islamic Law
- Religious Ideological Landscapes of the 1950s
- Religion in the Public Sphere: Symbolic Politics, the Justification of Values and Subjectification
Winter semester 2018/19
- Introduction to the Study of Religion (2 sessions)
- European Religious History of the 20th Century
- Classics of the Study of Religion
- Judaism and Islamic Studies
- Spinoza, Sufism and the Birth of Islamic Studies (with Martin Vialon)
Summer Semester 2018
- Introduction to Islam (2 sessions)
- Sufism: Basic Principles, History and Western Reception
- Messianism and Millenarianism: Christianity and Judaism in the 17th and 18th Centuries
- Religion and Architecture
Winter semester 2017/18
- Introduction to the Study of Religion (2 sessions)
- Classics of the Study of Religion
- Perspectives from the Study of Religion on Interfaith Dialogue
- Blasphemy: Religious Sentiments and the Legal Status of Religion
Courses from previous semesters at the University of Bremen, the University of Oldenburg and the University of Kiel
Summer Semester 2017
University of Bremen
(1) The Qur’an: Historical-critical readings
(2) The Concept of Religion in the Modern Age
(3) Spaces of Perception in the History of Religion
CvO University of Oldenburg
Religion and the Authority of Medicine
Winter Semester 2016/17
University of Bremen
(1) Introduction to the History of European Religion
(2) Religion and Human Rights Discourses
(3) Religious Images and Messages between the Baroque and Romantic Periods
CvO University of Oldenburg
Introduction to the Study of Religion
Summer Semester 2016
University of Bremen
(1) Monstrosities in the History of European Religion
(2) History of Interreligious Dialogue since 1900
(3) Religious Diversity in the 18th Century
(4) Magic and mysticism as religious concepts in the 19th century
Winter semester 2015/16
University of Bremen
Introduction to the history of European religion
Religion in Bremen around 1800
Kiel University
(1) History of Jewish-Christian encounters between the reception of the Talmud and the Kabbalah
(2) Museums, monuments and other cultures of remembrance – memory and reimagination of religious traditions
CvO University of Oldenburg
Introduction to the Study of Religion
Summer Semester 2015
University of Bremen
(1) Places of Remembrance in European Religious History (with Christoph Auffarth)
(2) Law and Religion in Tribal Cultures
Kiel University (CAU)
(1) Fundamentals of Islamic Theology
(2) Religion and the Natural Sciences – Research Approaches in the Study of Religion
Winter Semester 2014/15
University of Bremen
(1) Introduction to the History of European Religion (with Marvin Döbler)
(2) Narratives, Techniques and Historical Contexts of Supernatural Perception
Kiel University
(1) Introduction to the Study of Religion
(2) History of Interreligious Dialogue from the 19th Century to the Present Day
Summer Semester 2014
University of Bremen
Education and the Enlightenment (with Christoph Auffarth)
Judaism and the Enlightenment
Kiel University (CAU)
Islamic Mysticism: Traditions and Texts
Religion and Human Rights
Winter Semester 2013/14
University of Bremen
(1) Blasphemy: Concepts and Case Studies
(2) Esotericism: Between Secret Teachings and Popularisation
Kiel University
Introduction to ‘New Religious Movements’
Judaism and the Enlightenment
Summer Semester 2013
University of Bremen
Religious Studies as a Founder of Religions: The Formation of the Tradition of the ‘History of Religion’
Kiel University (CAU)
Introduction to the Qur’an: Research Approaches and Readings
Hermeneutics in the Study of Religion
Ruhr University Bochum
Mysticism – a Category in the Study of Religion?
Winter Semester 2012/13
University of Bremen
(1) Hermeneutics of Religious Source Texts (with Marvin Döbler)
(2) Classical and new topics in the history of European religion
Kiel University
(1) Esoteric traditions in the modern era
(2) Political Islam from anti-colonial resistance to the ‘Arab Spring’
Summer Semester 2012
University of Bremen
(1) Secret Societies in the 18th/19th Centuries
(2) The Reformation in Bremen (with Christoph Auffarth)
Kiel University
(1) Introduction to Judaism: Textual Traditions, History, Encounters
(2) Classics and Contemporary Issues in the Study of Religion
Ruhr University Bochum
Islamic Mysticism and Society from the 18th Century to the Present Day
Winter Semester 2011/12
University of Bremen
History of Religion in the Late Enlightenment
Approaches to Sacred Texts
Kiel University
The Early Period of Islam: Scriptures and History of Religion
Religion and the Media: On the Transmission of Religious Traditions
Summer Semester 2011
University of Bremen
Discourses on Scandal in European Religious History
Kiel University
Religion and Law: The Case of African Tribal Religions
Classic Readings in the Study of Religion
RuhrUniversity of Bochum and the University of Münster
History of religion in the late Enlightenment
Winter semester 2010/11
University of Bremen
(1) What does ‘European history of religion’ mean? Approaches, methods, research questions
(2) Protestant counter-culture between Pietism and ‘Left Behind’
Ruhr University Bochum
The early history of Sunni Islam: Classical models and new research
Winter semester 2009/10
University of Bremen
(1) The Qur’an, Islamic Tradition, Shari‘a
(2) Demonology and Spiritualism in the Enlightenment
Summer Semester 2009
University of Bremen
Academic Writing, Argumentation and Presentation
The Qur’an and Hadith: A Handbook and Commentary: On the Formation of the Canon: The Case of Islam
Summer Semester 2005
University of Bremen
New Empirical Research on Islam, Migration and the Diaspora
CvO University of Oldenburg
Islam as a Factor in the Subjectification of Second- and Third-Generation Muslim Immigrants
Summer Semester 2004
University of Bremen
The Berbers and Their Many Missionaries – An Approach to a History of Religion in Greater Kabylia
Winter Semester 2003/04
University of Bremen
Doctrine and Practice in Islamic Law: The Case of the Maliki School of Law
EHESS
Legal Anthropology of Arab-Berber Societies (with Alain Mahé)
Summer Semester 2003
University of Bremen
Theological and historical aspects of Wahhabism
Winter Semester 2002/03
University of Bremen
Islamic mystics in the 18th/19th centuries