Andreas Nehring

Andreas Nehring (* 1957 in Braunschweig ) is a German Protestant theologian.

Life

From 1979 to 1985 he studied theology with a focus on religious studies and religious history in Neuendettelsau , Hamburg , Bangalore and Heidelberg . In January 1985 he passed the first theological exam in Braunschweig and then the vicariate . From April 1986 to May 1987 he conducted research in Tokyo . In January 1988 he passed the second theological exam. After completing his doctorate in Mission and Religious Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in July 1991, he taught from March 1993 to April 1997 as a lecturer in religious studies in Chennai . From October 1997 to September 2005 he was an assistant at the Augustana University in Neuendettelsau , specializing in religious studies and missiology. After completing his habilitation in this subject in June 2001 with a thesis on religious studies, he represented a chair at the University of Hamburg from October 2005 to April 2006 . Since April 2006 he has held the chair for religious studies and missiology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. From October 2013 to September 2014 he was a fellow at the International College for Research in the Humanities: “Fate, Freedom and Prediction” at FAU. In 2014 and 2017 he taught in Salzburg as a visiting professor .

Fonts (selection)

• Rissho-Kosei-kai. A new Buddhist religion in Japan (= Erlangen monographs from Mission and Ecumenism . Volume 16). Verl. Of the Ev.-Luth. Mission, Erlangen 1992, ISBN 3-87214-316-6 (also dissertation, Erlangen 1991).
• as editor: Ecology - A Theological Response . Dept. of Research and Publications, Gurukul Lutheran Theological College & Research Institute, Madras 1994, OCLC 34944092 .
• as editor: Prejudice. Issues in Third World Theologies . Gurukul Lutheran Theological College & Research, Madras 1996, OCLC 41062436 .
• as editor: Fundamentalism and Secularism. The Indian Predicament . Gurukul Lutheran Theological College & Research, Madras 1999, OCLC 604373270 .
• Orientalism and Mission. The representation of Tamil society and religion by Leipzig missionaries 1840–1940 (= studies on the history of Christianity outside of Europe (Asia, Africa, Latin America) . Volume 7). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-447-04790-9 (also habilitation thesis, Neuendettelsau 2003).
• as editor with Joachim Valentin : Religious Turns - Turning Religions. Changed cultural discourses - new religious forms of knowledge (= ReligionsKulturen . Volume 1). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 3-525-60455-6 .
• as editor with Heike Liebau and Brigitte Klosterberg : Mission and Research. Translocal knowledge production between India and Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries (= Hallesche Forschungen . Volume 29). Publication of the Francke Foundations Halle, Halle / Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-447-06392-0 .
• as editor with Simon Tielesch : Postcolonial Theologies (= ReligionsKulturen . Volume 11). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 3-17-022552-9 .
• as editor with Doris Feldmann : Gayatri Spivak : Critique of postcolonial reason. Towards a history of the passing present (= ReligionsKulturen . Volume 11). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-17-022430-8 .
• as editor with Andrea Beck and Klaus Herbers : Holy and Hallowed Things. Forms and functions (= contributions to hagiography . Volume 20). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 3-515-11549-8 .
• as editor with Perry Schmidt-Leukel : Interreligious Comparison in Religious Studies and Theology . Bloomsbury Academic, London / Oxford / New York 2018, ISBN 1350058726 .
• as editor with Karin Steiner and Klaus Herbers: Sacrality and Power (= contributions to hagiography . Volume 22). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 3515121617 .
• as editor with Simon Wiesgickl : Perspectives from the German-speaking area (= Postcolonial Theologies . Volume 2). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 3-17-032571-X .

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• Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg