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Research Areas
- Theories of sociology of religion and culture, Buddhism and Islam
Doctoral Thesis
Asceticism and culture
- Supervisors
- Prof. Dr. phil. Astrid Reuter
- Prof. Dr. Levent Tezcan
I argue that we best understand asceticism – as a Being-toward-death (Sein-zum-Tode) and a way of life – by having a close look at religious texts of ascetic traditions (especially Buddhist and Sufi sources in this case) and its social contexts. This leads to a certain way on how culture is thought in general and its differentiated spheres, such as religion and politics. The various social roles ascetics had in history (teachers, eremites, warriors etc.) have to be considered, showing us the at times deep and at times very subtle impact of asceticism on society, both on large and smaller scales.
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Teaching
- Seminar: The return of religions? Between fundamentalisms and secularisation [062622]
[ - | | wöchentlich | Mo. | SCH 121.501 | Manuel Pachurka] - Seminar: Social order, political and religious history and philosophy of consciousness [062621]
[ - | | wöchentlich | Mi. | SCH 121.519 | Manuel Pachurka]
- Seminar: Theories of the Gift: Between Religion and Economics [060629]
[ - | | wöchentlich | Mo. | SCH 121.554 | Manuel Pachurka]
- Seminar: The return of religions? Between fundamentalisms and secularisation [062622]
Publication
- . . ‘Toiling with the Pāli Canon.’ In Proceedings of the Workshop on Corpus-Based Research in the Humanities (CRH), edited by , 39–48. Warschau.
Talks
- Pachurka, Manuel (): ‘Men among the ruins - and the Islamic State’. European Academy of Religion Conference (European Academy of Religion), WWU Münster, Münster, Deutschland, .
- Pachurka, Manuel (): „The ressentiment, its history and its resolution: a ideal-typical sketch“. Subjekte des Ressentiments – Über die Kulturen der sozialen Lust und Unlust (Prof. Dr. Levent Tezcan und PD Dr. Özkan Ezli), WWU Münster, .
- Pachurka, Manuel (): „Askese - Begriffe und Kulturvergleiche“. Religion, Spiritualität und Nachhaltigkeit, Franz Hitze Haus, Münster, Deutschland, .
