Astrid Reuter

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Astrid Reuter (* 1968 ) is a German religious scholar and university lecturer . Her main research interests lie in the history, theory and method of religious studies, in questions of the relationship between religion and law as well as migration and religion.

Life

From 1987 to 1994 Reuter studied Catholic theology at the Universities of Bonn and Münster . In 1994 she completed her studies with a diploma. In the 1990s, she traveled several times to study and research in Brazil and Colombia. From 1995 to 1997 she studied anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, from which she graduated with the Diplôme d'études approfondies in 1997. Reuter was a student of the economic anthropologist Maurice Godelier there . In 1999 she was in Bremen in the subject religious studies at Hans G. Kippenberg doctorate.

From 2000 to 2002 Astrid Reuter was a research assistant at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with Friedrich Wilhelm Graf . Then, from 2004 to 2008, she worked as a research assistant at the Max Weber College for Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt . There she completed her habilitation in 2012. She gave her inaugural lecture on the subject of "Religion in the process of the (fundamental) legalization of society".

Astrid Reuter has been project manager in the “Religion and Politics” Cluster of Excellence at the University of Münster since 2009 . In 2012 she became Scientific Director at the Center for Religion and Modernity (CRM) at the University of Münster.

Astrid Reuter writes regularly for larger media such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Honors

From 2005 to 2006 Astrid Reuter was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Religion in the legalized society. Legal conflicts and public controversies about religion as borderline work in the religious field (= CSRRW Vol. 5). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014.
  • Voodoo and other African American religions. CH Beck, Munich 2003.
Hebrew translation: Tel Aviv University Press 2007.
  • The wild saint. Roger Bastide (1898–1974) and the religious studies of his time. Campus, Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 2000.

Editing

  • (with Hans G. Kippenberg): Religious conflicts in the constitutional state. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University of Erfurt, URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304104207/https://www.uni-erfurt.de/index.php?id=27665&L=0 (accessed December 21, 2015).
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ See for example https://blogs.faz.net/10vor8/2015/03/30/ein-kopftuch-voll-angst-4252/ (accessed December 21, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Reuter, Astrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1968