Center for Religious Studies

The Center for Religious Studies ( CRS ; until 2014 Center for Religious Studies ) is an institution of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster , opened in December 2003 , in which chairs and professorships of Jewish, Islamic and Christian-Orthodox provenance for the purpose of religion-related and interreligious Research and teaching are combined on a scientific basis. The university's seminar for general religious studies is attached to the center . The center has become known above all for the fact that it offered the nationwide first teacher training course for Islamic teaching in public schools.

structure

The current managing director of the CRS is the orthodox theologian Assaad Elias Kattan , and the deputy director is the Judaist Regina Grundmann . From 2002 to 2005 Thomas Bauer was director of the institute. At the time Lamya Kaddor was also a member of the board.

The following are represented in the CRS:

• a professorship for Jewish Studies - by: Regina Grundmann (since 2009)
• a chair for Christian Orthodox Theology - by: Assaad Elias Kattan (since 2005); Anastasios Kallis (1979–1999)
• a chair for the religion of Islam - by: Sven Kalisch (2004–2010); or a professorship for Islamic Religious Education - by: Mouhanad Khorchide (since 2010)
• Affiliated to the CRS: a chair for general religious studies - by: Annette Wilke (since 1998)

Cooperation partners of the CRS are:

• the Evangelical Theological Faculty
• the Catholic Theological Faculty
• the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum
• the seminar for general religious studies
• the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies
• the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”.

Litigation

→ Main article : "Legal dispute with the University of Münster and criminal proceedings" in the article Lamya Kaddor

From July 2008 to October 2011, there were legal battles between Kaddor and the Center for Religious Studies. One process ended with an obligation by Kalisch not to repeat or to spread an allegation directed against Kaddor. Another process ended with the dismissal of the proceedings; the judges complained that the Munster public prosecutor had unilaterally investigated Kaddor.

Web links

• Center for Religious Studies at the University of Münster

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The court closes the proceedings. University money in the locker is no infidelity Westfälische Nachrichten, October 29, 2011; Westfälische Nachrichten, October 29, 2011; [1] , Münstersche Zeitung, October 29, 2011