Annette Wilke

Annette Wilke (born May 3, 1953 in Heidelberg ) is a German-Swiss professor. She has had Swiss citizenship since 1975.

Life

From 1973 to 1979 she worked as a retail bookseller in St. Gallen and Zurich . Wilke then studied at the School of Vedanta and Sanskrit, Sandeepany West in Piercy, California from 1979 to 1982.

After completing her studies, she began to work again as a general-purpose bookseller in Zurich, before becoming a lecturer at the Evangelical Study Group of Zurich Universities under H.-J. Turned brown. At the same time, Wilke began studying religious studies and philosophy as well as Indology at the University of Friborg in 1986 , which she graduated in 1991. She then studied for two years at the Banares Hindu University and then worked as an assistant at the coordination chair for Islamic Studies at the University of Friborg . After several teaching assignments at various universities, she has been professor and head of the seminar for general religious studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster since 1998 . Annette Wilke established the course at the WWU with the master’s degree, which can be found within the Catholic theological faculty and which is now studied according to the Bachelor-Master model.

research

Research focuses on Sanskrit-Hinduism, systematic and comparative religious studies, Muslim women in Germany, intercultural dialogue and the Parasurama Kalapasutra.

Publications

In addition to monographs, Wilke also published several articles for religious studies lexica and specialist journals.

• Your current book Sound and Communication. An Aesthetic Cultural History of Sanskrit Hinduism was published in 2011 by De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin / New York City, ISBN 978-3-110181593 .

Web links

• Biography on the website of the University of Münster