Winter term 2024/25

• Thomas Luckmann: The Invisible Religion
• Introduction to the study of religion
• Introduction to Christianity
• "World religion" - critique of a category
• Classics of religious studies

Summer term 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" - criticism of a category
• Classics of the study of religion

Summer term 2023

• Thomas Luckmann: The invisible religion
• Introduction to Islam
• Religious minorities
• Religion and science
• Sufism: history and present

Winter term 2022/23

• Thomas Luckmann: The Invisible Religion
• Introduction to the study of religion
• Introduction to Christianity
• "World religion" - criticism of a category
• Classics of religious studies

Summer term 2022

• Thomas Luckmann: The invisible religion (continued)
• Religion and magic
• Subjective and holistic: aspects of contemporary religiosity
• Introduction to Islam

Winter term 2021/22

• Thomas Luckmann: The invisible religion
• Introduction to the study of religion
• Classics of the study of religion
• Ethnic religiosity
• "World religion" - criticism of a category
• Introduction to Christianity

Summer term 2021

• Sufism in Western research
• 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 religious studies
• Religion and magic
• The concept of "world religion"
• Introduction to Christianity

Summer term 2020

• Introduction to Islam
• Introduction to Christianity
• Perspectives on the history of religion
• Witchcraft beliefs in the 20th century
• Aspects of Kabbalah in the 20th century

Winter semester 2019/20

• Introduction to the study of religion
• Classics of religious studies
• Ethnic 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 (together with Mark Siebel)
• Introduction to Islam
• Islamic Law
• Religious landscapes of ideas in the fifties
• Religion in the public sphere: symbolic politics, justification of values and subjectivisation

Winter term 2018/19

• Introduction to religious studies (2x)
• European religious history of the 20th century
• Classics of religious studies
• Judaism and Islamic Studies
• Spinoza, Sufism and the birth of Islamic Studies (together with Martin Vialon)

Summer term 2018

• Introduction to Islam (2x)
• Sufism: basic features, history and Western reception
• Messianism and millenarianism: Christianity and Judaism in the 17th/18th century
• Religion and architecture

Winter semester 2017/18

• Introduction to religious studies (2x)
• Classics of religious studies
• Religious studies perspectives on interreligious dialogue
• Blasphemy: Religious feelings 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: Historisch-kritische Lektüren
(2) Der Religionsbegriff in der Moderne
(3) Wahrnehmungsräume in der Religionsgeschichte

CvO Universität Oldenburg
Religion und die Autorität der Medizin

WiSe 2016/17

Universität Bremen
(1) Einführung in die Europäische Religionsgeschichte
(2) Religion und Menschenrechtsdiskurse
(3) Religiöse Bilder und Botschaften zwischen Barock und Ro- mantik

CvO Universität Oldenburg
Introduction to Religious Studies

SoSe 2016

Universität Bremen
(1) Monstrosities in European Religious History
(2) History of Interreligious Dialogue since 1900
(3) Religiöse Diversität im 18. Century
(4) Magic and mysticism as concepts of religion in the 19th century Jahrhundert

WiSe 2015/16

Universität Bremen
Einführung in die Europäische Religionsgeschicht
Religion in Bremen um 1800

CAU Kiel
(1) Geschichte jüdisch-christlicher Begegnungen zwischen Talmud- und Kabbala-Rezeption
(2) Museen, Memorials and Other Memory Cultures - Remembrance and Reimagination of Religious Traditions

CvO University of Oldenburg
Introduction to Religious Studies

SoSe 2015

University of Bremen
(1) Places of Remembrance in European Religious History (with Christoph Auffarth)
(2) Law and Religion in Tribal Cultures and Religion in Tribal Cultures

CAU Kiel
(1) Fundamentals of Islamic Theology
(2) Religion and Science - Research Approaches in Religious Studies

WiSe 2014/15

University of Bremen
(1) Introduction to the European History of Religions (with Marvin Döbler)
(2) Narrative, Techniques and Historical Contexts of Extrasensory Perception

CAU Kiel
(1) Introduction to Religious Studies
(2) History of Interreligious Dialogue from the 19th Century to the Present SoSe 2014 Jahrhundert bis heute

SoSe 2014

Universität Bremen
Bildung und Aufklärung (mit Christoph Auffarth)
Judentum und Aufklärung

CAU Kiel
Islamische Mystik: Traditionen und Texte
Religion und Menschenrechte

WiSe 2013/14

Universität Bremen
(1) Blasphemie: Konzepte und Fallanalysen
(2) Esoterik zwischen Geheimlehre und Popularisierung

CAU Kiel
Einführung in "neue religiöse Bewegungen"
Judentum und Aufklärung

SoSe 2013

Universität Bremen
Religionswissenschaft als Religionsstifter: Traditionsbildung der "History of Religion"

CAU Kiel
Einführung in den Koran: Forschungsansätze und Lektüre
Religionswissenschaftliche Hermeneutik

Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Mystik - eine religionswissenschaftliche Kategorie?

WiSe 2012/13

University of Bremen
(1) Hermeneutics of religious source texts (with Marvin Döbler)
(2) Classical and new topics in European religious history

CAU Kiel
(1) Esoteric traditions in the modern era
(2) Political Islam from anti-colonial resistance to the "Arab Spring"

SoSe 2012

University of Bremen
(1) Secret societies in the 18th/19th century 5 (2) Secret societies in the 18th/19th century
/(2) Reformation in Bremen (with Christoph Auffarth)

CAU Kiel
(1) Introduction to Judaism: Textual Traditions, History, Encounters
(2) Classics and Recent Issues in Religious Studies

Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Islamic Mysticism and Society from the 18th Century to the Present Day WiSo Islamische Mystik und Gesellschaft vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart

WiSe 2011/12

Universität Bremen
Religionsgeschichte der Spätaufklärung
Umgänge mit Heiligen Schriften

CAU Kiel
Die Frühzeit des Islam: Schrifttum und Religionsgeschichte
Religion und Medien: Zur Vermittlung religiöser Traditionen

SoSe 2011

Universität Bremen
Skandaldiskurse in der Europäischen Religionsgeschichte

CAU Kiel
Religion und Recht am Beispiel afrikanischer Stammesreligion
Klassische Lektüren der Religionswissenschaft

Ruhr-Universität Bochum und WWU Münster
Religionsgeschichte der Spätaufklärung

WiSe 2010/11

Universität Bremen
(1) Was heißt "Europäische Religionsgeschichte"? Approaches, Methods, Questions
(2) Protestant Counterculture between Pietism and "Left Behind"

Ruhr-Universität Bochum
The Emergence of Sunni Islam: Klassische Modelle und neue Forschungen

WiSe 2009/10

Uniersität Bremen
(1) Qur'an, islamische Tradition, Schari'a
(2) Dämonologie und Spiritismus in der Aufklärung

SoSe 2009

Universität Bremen
Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Argumentieren, Präsentieren
Qur'an und Hadith, Handbuch und Kommentar: Zur Kanonbildung am Beispiel des Islam

SoSe 2005

Universität Bremen
Neue empirische Forschungen zu Islam, Migration and Diaspora

CvO University of Oldenburg
Islam as a Subjectivising Factor of the Second and Third Generation of Muslim Immigrants

SoSe 2004

University of Bremen
The Berbers and their Many Missionaries - Approaching a History of Religion Approaching a religious history of the Great Kabylia

WiSe 2003/04

University of Bremen
Doctrine and practice in Islamic law using the example of the Malikite school of law

EHESS
Anthropologie juridique des sociétés arabo-berbères (with Alain Mahé)

SoSe 2003

Universität Bremen
Theologische und historische Aspekte des Wahhabismus

WiSe 2002/03

Universität Bremen
Islamische Mystiker im 18./19th century