Ongoing Promotion Projects
Emanuel Hirsch’s Theory of Piety. Dogmatic Foundation and Literary Composition in His Late Novels and Stories
Dissertation within the doctoral project of Justus Bernhard, M.Ed.
Subjectivity and Sociality. The Relationship of the (Religious) Subject to the Concept of Society in Contemporary Theology
Dissertation within the doctoral project of Moritz Buick, Mag. theol.
Worthless Peace? Values and Interests in Light of the Structural Transformation of Violence
Dissertation within the doctoral project of Tilmann Clement, Mag. theol.
Antisemitic Conspiracy Myths as a Contemporary Challenge for Theology, Ethics, and Religion Policy
Dissertation project within the doctoral project of Mag. theol. Daniel FreitagFinished Doctoral Projects (only available in German)
Current Projects
- Religious Politics
- Political Populism as challenge for protestant Ethic of the political
- Exodus and Migration
- new topics of Peace Ethic beyond the Law
- Religion(s) and religious players in politics – historical and systematic studies
- The moral Substance of Contemporary Culture – a critical Diagnosis of a Time
- Edition of the Collected Works of Emmanuel Hirsch
- Continuous Analysis of ethical Discourse in Germany and Europe
- Theological ethics als cultural theory. Hybridedition of F.D.E. Schleiermachers lectures about the Christian ethic and its historic and systematic development
Finished Projects (only available in German)
Luthers Staatsverständnis (Luther's Understanding of a State)
Die politische Ethik von Paul Tillich
Leitkultur durch Religion? – Europäische Kulturkämpfe und ihre gegenwärtige Bedeutung (Defining Culture via Religion? – European Culture Battles and their Contemporary Significance)
Internationaler Schleiermacher Kongress (International Schleiermacher Congress)
Religion und Wohlfahrtsstaatlichkeit in Deutschland (Religion and Welfare State in Germany)
Additional Projects:
Religiöse Traditionen der Kapitalismuskritik in Deutschland im 20. Jahrhundert (Prof. Dr. Hans-Richard Reuter, Dr. Stefan Leibold, Andreas Kurschat). Gefördert durch: Exzellenzcluster ‚Religion und Politik’ der WWU
Religious Traditions of Capitalism Critique in Germany during the 20th Century
(Prof. Dr. Hans-Richard Reuter, Dr. Stefan Leibold, Andreas Kurschat)
Promoted by: Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics’ at WWUDie religiöse Tiefengrammatik des Sozialen - Die Bedeutung der Religionsgemeinschaften für den normativen Hintergrund europäischer Wohlfahrtsstaatlichkeit - Institut für Ethik und angrenzende Sozialwissenschaften / Institut für Christliche Sozialwissenschaften. Gefördert durch: Exzellenzcluster 'Religion und Politik' der WWU
Religious Case Grammar of Socializing – The Significance of Religious Communities for the normative background of the European State Welfare System
Institute for Ethics and Associated Social Sciences/ Institute for Christian Social Sciences
Promoted by: Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics’ at WWUDas Projekt ist Teil des Forschungsfeldes "Normativität" des Exzellenzclusters "Religion und Politik in den Kulturen der Vormoderne und der Moderne".
This project is part of the Field of Research Normativity at the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” within the cultures of the pre-modern and the modern era.
Jedes der beiden Teilprojekte wurde auf einem interdisziplinären Workshop diskutiert:
Each of these subprojects were each discussed during an interdisciplinary workshop:
"Religiöse Dimensionen wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Leitsemantiken in Deutschland seit dem Kaiserreich", Münster, 26./27.06.2009.
“Religious Dimensions of the state’s welfare system’s lead semantics in Germany since the German Empire”, Münster, 26th / 27th June 2009
"Religion und Wohlfahrtsstaatlichkeit in Europa / Religion and the Welfare State in Europe", Münster, 27th / 28th November 2009Die ekklesiologische Legitimität verschiedener steuerbasierter Kirchenfinanzierungsmodelle - am besonderen Beispiel des otto per mille in Italien - Thorsten Maruschke
The Ecclesiological Legitimacy of various Models of Church Funding based on Taxes – using the example of otto per mille in Italy – Thorsten Maruschke
Der Paradigmenwechsel im Verständnis der Menschenrechte in der „Kommission der Kirchen für Internationale Angelegenheiten“ des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren (in Verbindung mit dem DFG Projekt (Karlsruhe) „Auf dem Weg zum globalisierten Christentum: Die europäische protestantische Ökumene und die „Entdeckung“ der „Dritten Welt“ (1966-1973)“) – Christian Albers
Change in Paradigms in the Understanding of Human Rights in the “Commission of Churches for international matters” of the World Council of Churches during the 1960s abd 1970s (in consonance with the DFG project (Karlsruhe) “On the Way to globalized Christianity: The European protestant Ecumene and the “Discovery” of the “Third World” (1966-1973)”) – Christian Albers
‚Gut‘ und ‚Kapital‘. Zwei Grundbegriffe der Gesellschaftstheorie bei Friedrich Schleiermacher und Pierre Bourdieu im Vergleich - Mag. theol. Johannes Huck
‘Commodity’ and ‘Capital’. Two Basic Terms of the Societal Theory by Friedrich Schleiermacher and Pierre Bourdieu in Comparison. - Mag. theol. Johannes Huck
Translator's Note: Please bear in mind that these are rough translations, well intended to convey the core of the topic.