Johannes Kandel

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Johannes Kandel (born February 7, 1950 in Berlin ) is a German political scientist and historian. Until the end of his professional career (2014) he was a lecturer and academy director in the field of political adult education at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Freudenberg (Siegerland) , Saarbrücken , Bonn and finally in Berlin.

career

Johannes Kandel studied political science and history at the Free University of Berlin . After the state examination in 1976, he worked for Fritz Vilmar at the Otto Suhr Institute and was a doctoral candidate with Hans-Dietrich Loock in the Department of History, an expert on the National Socialist movement in Norway and recent church history. In 1978 Kandel got a job with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) as a lecturer for political adult education. From 1978 to 1988 he was a lecturer at the Gustav Heinemann Academy of the FES in Freudenberg. From 1988 to 1991 he was director of the Elisabeth Selbert Academy of the FES in Saarbrücken , then until 1992 project collaborator (“Learning for Democracy”) in Bonn .

In 1989 Johannes Kandel received his doctorate in political science under Gesine Schwan at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University with a thesis on "Protestant social conservatism in the 19th century".

From 1992 to 1999 Kandel was director of the Gustav Heinemann Academy in Freudenberg and in 1999 moved to the newly opened conference center of the FES in Berlin-Tiergarten as head of the “Intercultural Dialogue” division . Until his retirement on November 30, 2014, he organized numerous scientific and political conferences, in particular on the topics of "Integration, Migration, Religion and Politics" and above all on Islam in Germany . He has presented numerous publications on this focus. From 2006 to 2009 he was a member of the discussion group “Security and Islamism ” of the First German Islam Conference . Between 2005 and 2012 he organized the “Berlin Forum for Progressive Muslims ”, which he founded , an international project supported by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, which aimed to offer critical Muslim scholars, imams , representatives of organizations and media workers a forum for open debate and to open up contacts for them to German politics, science and the media.

In 2006, Kandel was appointed to the ad hoc commission of the Evangelical Church by the then EKD Council Chairman, Bishop Wolfgang Huber , to develop a so-called "Handout for Christian-Muslim Dialogue" (published in 2006 under the title "Clarity and Good Neighbors") ).

In the introduction to a conference “Islamic Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia” in 2008, Kandel emphasized different aspects of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. With reference to Henryk Broder , he described anti-Semitism as an exclusive anti-Semitism that can only be compared very abstractly and formally with other ideologies of inequality such as racism. The question arises as to what is meant by the term Islamophobia and whether it could be used in parallel with the term anti-Semitism.

In December 2014, he defended the Pegida demonstrations on his Facebook account:

“Soon anyone who talks about 'Islamization' will be defamed as 'racist', 'Islamophobia' or even Nazi without justification. This is hate propaganda from the left. There are fact-based reasons to speak of 'Islamization', solely in view of the Salafist danger that has been growing for 10 years and the increasing prohibitions against criticism of Islam. "

- Candelabra to Pegida 2014

Publications

Monographs

  • Protestant Social Conservatism in the 19th Century. Pastor Rudolf Todt's examination of socialism in the conflict between church and political camps . Bonn 1993. (Abridged edition of the dissertation from 1989)
  • with René Cuperus (Ed.): European Social Democracy. Transformation in Progress: Social democratic think tanks explore the magical return of Social Democracy in a liberal era . Amsterdam 1998.
  • with René Cuperus, Karl A. Duffek (Ed.): Multiple Third Ways. European Social Democracy facing the Twin revolution of Globalization and Knowledge Society . Amsterdam / Berlin / Vienna 2001.
  • with René Cuperus, Karl A. Duffek: The Challenge of Diversity. Multiculturalism and Civil Society . Vienna 2003.
  • Managing Diversity in a Civil Society. In: Reinhild Traitler (Ed.): In the Mirror of Your Eyes. Report of the European Project for Interreligious Learning. Zurich / Beirut 2004.
  • The Northern Ireland Conflict. From its historical roots to the present . Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-8012-4153-X .
  • with Reinhard Hempelmann (ed.): Religions and violence. Conflict and peace potentials in the world religions. (= Church-Denomination-Religion. Volume 51). Göttingen 2006.
  • Culture of debate instead of harmonization. A critical inventory of the Christian-Muslim dialogue . Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, 2015. ISBN 978-3862690398

Brochures and articles (1978-2014, selection)

  • On the head and in the head. The "headscarf dispute" and the Muslims . (= Islam and society. No. 3). Berlin, 2005.
  • Challenge Islamism. In: Material service. Journal for religious and ideological issues, ed. from the Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions. H. 8/2005.
  • “Dialogue” with Muslims - a critical interjection. In: Hans Zehetmair (Ed.): Islam in the field of tension between conflict and dialogue. Wiesbaden 2005, pp. 321-333.
  • Muslims in Germany between Islamism and integration. In: Dieter Döring, Eduard JM Kroker (ed.): Europe and Islam. (= Königsteiner Forum. 2004). Frankfurt am Main 2006 pp. 59–98.
  • The Ahmadiyya Movement. History - self-image - assessment. In: Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen (Hrsg.): Materialdienst. Journal for questions of religion and belief. H. 8/06.
  • How do we talk about "Islam"? Comments on the current debate. In: Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen (Hrsg.): Materialdienst. Journal for questions of religion and belief. H. 3/07.
  • Problem areas in Christian-Muslim dialogue. The EKD handout "Clarity and good neighborliness" in the discussion. In: EZW texts. No. 194, December 2007.
  • "Evangelical for a fundamental reason"? On the criticism of the EKD handout on Christian-Islamic dialogue. In: Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen (Hrsg.): Materialdienst. Journal for questions of religion and belief. H. 1/2, 2008.
  • Idealized Islam. In dialogue with Muslims, Christians should also address controversial issues. In: Zeitzeichen. Evangelical Commentaries on Religion and Society. H. 5, May 2008.
  • Islam and Democracy (I). On the “Islamic Charter”. In: Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen (Hrsg.): Materialdienst. Journal for questions of religion and belief. H. 10/2008 .
  • Islam and Democracy (II). To the policy paper of the "Schura Hamburg". In: Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen (Hrsg.): Materialdienst. Journal for questions of religion and belief. H. 11/2008.
  • Neither alarmism nor carelessness. How 'Islamist' is Islam in this country? In: The Unknown Religion. Muslims in Germany. Herder correspondence special, 2/2009.
  • Belief and delusion. A reply to Carolin Emcke. In: The time. No. 16, April 15, 2010.
  • "Rieger's World". The Islamic sect of Murabitun and the Islamic newspaper. In: Reinhard Hempelmann (Ed.): Religionsdifferenzen and Religionsdialoge. Festschrift - 50 years of EZW. (= EZW texts. 210). Berlin 2010, pp. 150–175.
  • Does Islam belong (historically) to Germany? In: Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen (Hrsg.): Materialdienst. Journal for questions of religion and belief. H. 6/2011 .
  • We have the children of jihad in our own country. In: Focus. August 15, 2011, p. 38 f.
  • Social Democracy, Integration and Islam. In: perspektiven ds. 28th vol., H. 2, 2011, pp. 67-79.
  • Empirical research on Islam and Muslims . Comments on the Muslim Study by the Federal Ministry of the Interior 2012. In: Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen (Ed.): Materialdienst. Journal for questions of religion and belief. H. 7/2012 .
  • "Islamophobia" and "Islam criticism" . Comments on the study “Mitte im Umbruch” by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (2012). In: Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen (Hrsg.): Materialdienst. Journal for questions of religion and belief. H. 1/2013 .
  • Islam without Islamism? In: Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen (Hrsg.): Materialdienst. Journal for questions of religion and belief. H. 9/2013 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EKD handout "Clarity and good neighborliness" , (2006, PDF)
  2. ↑ Conference: Islamic Antisemitism and Islamophobia, 2008, Introduction ISSN  1861-8014 p. 3
  3. ↑ Screenshot on Twitter, December 25, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Kandel, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin