Christoph Auffarth

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Christoph Auffarth (born December 14, 1951 in Mannheim ) is a German religious scholar and theologian . Auffarth is Professor at the Institute for Religious Studies / Education at the University of Bremen with a focus on the history and theologies of Christianity .

Life

Auffarth spent his childhood and youth in his hometown Mannheim, where he obtained his Abitur in 1970 at the classical and musical Johann Sebastian Bach Gymnasium. He then moved to a neighboring town in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region and began studying history , Greek , Latin and archeology at Heidelberg University in the 1970/71 winter semester . After studying in Athens ( Greece ) for some time in 1974 ( Byzantine Studies , Archeology, Greek), he moved to the University of Tübingen , where he continued his studies in the fields of history, Greek and Latin. He also took the subjects of religious studies and theology.

One day after his 24th birthday, Auffarth received his first degree in 1975, the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools . Auffarth completed his legal clerkship in Latin, Greek and history at the Uhland-Gymnasium Tübingen . In 1977 the second state examination for teaching at grammar schools followed.

After Auffarth worked for five years as a professor at the Wildermuth-Gymnasium in Tübingen, he completed a postgraduate course in religious studies, Greek studies and theology, which resulted in a doctorate in religious studies in 1987 . The doctoral thesis was published in 1991 under the title The threatening decline. "Creation" published in myth and ritual in the ancient Orient and in Greece using the example of the Odyssey and the Book of Ezekiel .

From 1987 onwards, Auffarth held teaching positions in comparative religious studies at the University of Tübingen. From 1994 to 1996 he was an assistant at the Department of Indology and Religious Studies at the University of Tübingen. In 1995 the habilitation in the field of religious studies and Greek philology followed . Auffarth then received his doctorate again: in 1996 the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen awarded him a doctorate in theology.

Since 2001, Auffarth has been a full professor for religious studies with a focus on the history and theologies of Christianity at the University of Bremen.

In 2010, Auffarth was selected as a fellow for a one-year research stay at the International Center for Research in the Humanities ( Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg ) at the Ruhr University Bochum as part of the overall project Dynamics of the History of Religions between Asia and Europe .

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Numerous articles in specialist encyclopedias such as the RGG (4th edition) as well as in anthologies identify Auffarth as a respected scientist (see publications below). The Lexicon Metzler Lexicon Religion: Everyday Life, Media, Present, which he co-edited , is one of the standard works in the field of religious studies. The international magazine show for biblical studies characterized the lexicon: "The volume is shaped by the cultural-historical orientation of the Tübingen religious studies school and the publisher Auffarth and thus represents a supplement to the handbook of religious studies basic concepts . The entire work deserves strong recommendation". The Neue Zürcher Zeitung wrote: "The use of this lexicon itself is not only an intellectual but also a sensual pleasure."

In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the reviewer Wolfram Kinzig praised Auffarth's book The Heretics : Cathars , Waldensians and Other Religious Movements and described the author as “a connoisseur of the subject in the Middle Ages”. His book Earthly Ways and Heavenly Rewards also received positive reviews. Peter J. Bräunlein wrote in the Bavarian Yearbook for Folklore : “The material and imaginative studies presented here can be read with great profit. At the same time, the performance of a religious studies that sees itself as cultural studies is presented on each side . "

Writings and editorships (selection)

  • Births and siblings . In: www.rpi-virtuell.net (PDF; 100 kB) (Review 2010 of: Peter Schäfer : The Birth of Judaism from Christianity. Five Lectures on the Origin of Rabbinical Judaism (= Tria Corda. Vol. 6). Mohr Siebeck , Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150256-9 ).
  • Ancient Jews and Christians argue within earshot: Daniel Boyarin's Borderlines in German. In: www.rpi-virtuell.net (PDF; 224 kB) (2010 review of Daniel Boyarin: Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (= Divinations: Rereading late ancient religion. Vol. 3). University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2004, ISBN 0-8122-3764-1 ; see the [later] German translation: Daniel Boyarin: Delimitations. The Splitting of Judaeo-Christianity. Translated from the English by Gesine Palmer (= works on New Testament theology and contemporary history. Vol 10; Works on the Bible and its environment. Vol. 1) Institute Church and Judaism, Center for Christian-Jewish Studies / Lehrhaus eV, Berlin / Dortmund 2009, ISBN 978-3-923095-70-4 ).
  • with Sonja Kerth (ed.): Faith controversy and laughter. Reformation and laughter culture in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period (= religions in the plural world . Vol. 6). Lit , Berlin / Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1212-6 .
  • with Ulrich Berner (Ed.): Religious Pluralism in the Middle Ages? Visit to an era in European religious history. Conference proceedings (= religions in the plural world. Vol. 1). Lit, Berlin a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-8631-8 .
  • with Hans G. Kippenberg and Axel Michaels (eds.): Dictionary of Religions (= Kröner's pocket edition. Vol. 125). Kröner , Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-520-14001-2 .
  • The heretics. Cathars, Waldensians and other religious movements (= Beck'sche Reihe Wissen, bsr 2383). CH Beck , Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-50883-7 .
  • with Peter J. Bräunlein (Ed.): The Fall of the Angels (= Themes in Biblical Narrative. Vol. 6). Brill , Leiden 2004, ISBN 90-04-12668-6 .
  • Earthly ways and heavenly reward. Crusade, Jerusalem and Purgatory from a religious studies perspective (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 144). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-525-35459-9 .
  • with Jutta Bernard, Hubert Mohr (Ed.): Metzler Lexikon Religion. Present - everyday life - media . 4 volumes, Metzler , Stuttgart a. a. 1999-2002, ISBN 3-476-01678-1 ; as a special edition: Metzler, Stuttgart a. a. 2005; ISBN 3-476-02070-3 (English, revised edition as The Brill Dictionary of Religion , Brill, Leiden, Boston 2006, ISBN 9004124322 ).
  • The impending doom. "Creation" in myth and ritual in the ancient Orient and in Greece using the example of the Odyssey and the Book of Ezekiel (= experiments in the history of religion and preparatory work. Vol. 39). De Gruyter , Berlin a. a. 1991, ISBN 3-11-012640-0 (also dissertation, University of Tübingen 1986/1987).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the biography cf. the curriculum vitae on the website of the Institute for Religious Studies / Education, University of Bremen.
  2. ↑ Homepage of CERES. Center for Religious Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. Retrieved January 25, 2020 . .
  3. ^ Press comments on the Metzler publishing house's homepage.
  4. ↑ Review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 9, 2005, quoted from Perlentaucher.de .
personal data
SURNAME Auffarth, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious scholar and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim