Rolf Schieder

Rolf Schieder (born August 1, 1953 in Coburg ) is a German theologian and a university professor emeritus since 2018 .

Life

After graduating from high school, Rolf Schieder studied Protestant theology in Neuendettelsau , Göttingen and Munich . Then he was a student pastor in Neuendettelsau. Schieder was born in 1986 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a thesis on civil religion. The Religious Dimension of Political Culture. PhD. His supervisor was Trutz Rendtorff . Schierer's habilitation thesis Religion on the Radio. Church radio work in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich accepted the same faculty in 1994. She was looked after by Wolfgang Steck. After a year of training at the Central Islip Psychiatric Center on Long Island , he worked as a clinical chaplain for a few years. In 1994 he was of the opinion that the pastoral movement as a movement had come to an end. He affirmed this in one of his books.

Schieder was Professor of Religious Education and Religious Education at the University of Koblenz-Landau from 1994 to 2002 and Professor of Practical Theology and Religious Education at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 2002 to 2018 .

Schieder made Benedict XVI. after his controversial speech in Regensburg in 2006, he was accused not only of Islam, but above all of Protestant theology, for a lack of reason.

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In his work, Schieder was strongly influenced by Michel Foucault's late work on the relationship between knowledge, power, pastoral power and the will to truth. He also tries to make Foucault's concept of governmentality fruitful for his religious-political work. Foucault's discourse-analytical work provided the theoretical framework for his preach-analytical investigations.

Schieder has been dealing with questions of religious policy for over 25 years. The transatlantic comparison plays an important role here. The existence of an American civil religion and its apparent absence in Germany motivated Schieder to study the work of Émile Durkheim and his thesis of the culte de l'individu in modern times . Schieder describes himself as a practical theological scout who is looking for new ways of working on the interfaces between theology and modern culture .

Schieder has headed the Program on Religion and Politics at Humboldt University with Nils Ole Oermann since 2005 and is editor of the Berlin speeches on religious policy. As director of the Program on Religion, Politics and Economics , he organizes, among other things, the Haniel Summer School on Religion, Politics and Economics. Schieder also works on issues relating to the economics of religion . As a member of the interdisciplinary Center for Applied Statistics in Economics (CASE) , he tries to make the work of the French sociologist Luc Boltanski fruitful for the economics of religion. Schieder is also a Senior Fellow of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS). and was a fellow at the Center for Religion, Economics and Politics (ZRWP) at the Universities of Basel, Zurich and Lucerne from 2008–2009 .

In the Berlin dispute over religious education as a regular, equal subject in public schools, Schieder campaigned for the Pro Reli referendum , which failed on April 26, 2009.

Publications

• Civil religion. The religious dimension of political culture. Gütersloher Verlagshaus Mohn, Gütersloh 1987, ISBN 3-579-00270-8
• Religion on the radio. Protestant radio work in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-17-013223-7
• with Roman Heiligenthal, Friedrich Lemke & Thomas Martin Schneider: Introduction to the study of Protestant theology. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-17-015154-1
• with Elisabeth Reil (Ed.): Searching for truth - perceiving reality. Festschrift for Hans Mercker on his 60th birthday. Knecht, Landau 2000, ISBN 3-930927-56-X
• How much religion can Germany tolerate? (= Edition Suhrkamp. Vol. 2195). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-518-12195-2
• (Ed.): Religious policy and civil religion. Nomos-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7456-X
• The civilization of religions as a goal of state religious policy? In: From Politics and Contemporary History (APuZ). No. 6, January 31, 2007
• with Dagmar Pruin & Johannes Zachhuber (Eds.): Religion and Politics in the United States and Germany. Old Divisions and New Frontiers - Religion and Politics in Germany and the USA. Traditional differences and new challenges. Lit, Berlin / Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-9622-5 .
• Are Religions Dangerous? Berlin University Press, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940432-31-5 ; 2nd expanded edition, ibid. 2011, ISBN 978-3-86280-020-9 .
• as editor: The power of the one God. The monotheism debate between Jan Assmann , Micha Brumlik , Rolf Schieder, Peter Sloterdijk and others . Berlin University Press, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86280-067-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rolf Schieder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Professor Rolf Schieder on the website of the Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin

Footnotes

1. ↑ See: Rolf Schieder: Some rather critical comments on the recent pastoral care movement. In: Rolf Schieder & Christian Waegele (eds.): PS - Post Scriptum. Munich 1981, pp. 85-92.
2. ↑ Rolf Schieder: Pope Benedict attacked the Evangelical Church much more radically than Islam: When do Protestants protest? In: Berliner Zeitung . September 23, 2006
3. ^ Rolf Schieder: Sermon history as a history of mentality. In: Friedrich Wilhelm Graf & Klaus Tanner (ed.): Protestant identity today. Gütersloher Verlagshaus Mohn, Gütersloh 1992, ISBN 3-579-00278-3 , pp. 176-191.
4. ↑ Martin Bauer: A shot of religious policy for the Berlin Republic . In: Berliner Zeitung . March 11, 2002
5. ^ Humboldt University of Berlin: Research Area Religion and Politics: Profile
6. ↑ Center for Applied Statistics in Economics: Prof. Dr. Rolf Schieder
7. ↑ AICGS: Experts: Dr. Rolf Schieder ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ^ Center for Religion, Economics and Politics: Fellows 2008-2009
9. ↑ Rolf Schieder: Why religious instruction must not remain a matter for religious communities: Civilize religion! In: Berliner Zeitung . April 11, 2009
10. ^ Rolf Schieder: Religion is not a private matter. The future of a community is determined by the question of how to deal with religions. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 22, 2009, p. 11