Detlef Pollack

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Detlef Pollack (born October 23, 1955 in Weimar ) is a German religious and cultural sociologist. Among other things, he researches the relationship between religion and modernity, the history of the GDR and political culture.

biography

Detlef Pollack studied theology in Leipzig. He received his doctorate in 1984 with a thesis on Niklas Luhmann's theory of religion and its system-theoretical requirements at the University of Leipzig. After he invited Luhmann to give a lecture in Leipzig, he received an invitation to Bielefeld University in 1989 with a DAAD scholarship. After 1989/90 he received research grants in Zurich and Princeton.

In 1994, Pollack was at the sociological faculty of the University of Bielefeld with the work "Church in organizing society to change the social situation of the Protestant churches and the politically alternative groups in the GDR" habilitation . He then held professorships in Leipzig ( sociology of religion, 1994 ), Frankfurt / Oder ( comparative cultural sociology, 1995–2008 ) and New York ( Max Weber Chair, 2003–2005 ).

From 2002 to 2008 Pollack was managing director of the Institute for Transformation Research (FIT) at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt / Oder.

Detlef Pollack has been Professor of Sociology of Religion within the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster since 2008 . He has been the cluster's spokesman since 2015.

Prizes and awards

Publications (selection)

  • Religion and Modernity: An International Comparison . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017 (with Gergely Rosta).
  • Varieties of Secularization Theories and Their Indispensable Core , The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory , 90: 1 (2015), 60–79.
  • Controversial secularization, sociological and historical analyzes to differentiate religion and politics . Berlin: Berlin University Press, 2012. (Ed. With Karl Gabriel, Christel Gärtner.)
  • Modernity and Religion: Controversies about Modernity and Secularization . Bielefeld 2012. (Ed. With Ulrich Willems, Helene Basu, Thomas Gutmann, Ulrike Spohn.)
  • Return of the religious? Studies on Religious Change in Germany and Europe II . Tübingen: Mohr, 2009, ISBN 978-3-161-50015-2 .
  • The Role of Religion in Modern Societies . New York; London: Routledge, 2008 (edited with Daniel V. Olson), ISBN 978-0-415-39704-9 .
  • Eastern European population on the way to democracy: Representative studies in Eastern Germany and ten Eastern European transition states. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2006 (edited with Gert Pickel, Olaf Müller, Jorg Jacobs), ISBN 978-3-810-03615-5 .
  • Dissent and Opposition in Communist Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. (Ed. With Jan Wielgohs) ISBN 978-0-754-63790-5 .
  • Democratic Values ​​in Central and Eastern Europe . Frankfurt (Oder): Institute for Transformation Studies, 2004. (Ed. With Jorg Jacobs, Olaf Müller and Gert Pickel)
  • Secularization - A Modern Myth? Studies on religious change in Germany. Tubingen: Mohr, 2003, ISBN 978-3-161-48214-4 .
  • Political protest : Politically alternative groups in the GDR. Opladen: Leske and Budrich, 2000, ISBN 978-3-810-02478-7 .
  • Religious and ecclesiastical change in East Germany 1989–1999. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2000. (Ed. With Gert Pickel)
  • Self-preservation or self-loss: bishops and representatives of the Protestant churches in the GDR about their lives; 17 interviews. Berlin: Links, 1999. (Ed. With 6. Hagen Findeis)
  • Against the current: Church entries in East Germany after the fall of the Wall. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 1998. (Together with Klaus Hartmann)
  • Church in the organizational society: on the change in the social situation of the Protestant churches in the GDR. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1994.
  • Religious ciphering and sociological enlightenment: Niklas Luhmann's theory of religion within the framework of its system-theoretical requirements. Frankfurt / M., Bern, New York, Paris: Lang, 1988.
  • Secularization Theory , Version: 1.0, in: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte , published on March 7, 2013

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The despised population of the GDR. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pollack, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar