Research group Weltanschauungen in Germany
The research group Weltanschauungen in Germany (fowid) was set up in January 2005 by the Giordano Bruno Foundation . Its aim is to collect, evaluate, summarize and make publicly available comprehensive empirical information on all aspects of world views .
Work content
The project has set itself the task of collecting, evaluating, summarizing and making publicly available comprehensive information on all questions related to world views, both in a religious and in a political sense. According to his self-portrayal, he can “fall back on existing empirical data collections (statistical yearbooks, annual reports, demoscopic studies, etc.)” in his work . In some cases it is possible to “subject this data to a statistical secondary analysis” and “evaluate it specifically with regard to the ideological aspect”. These “partly adopted, partly newly analyzed data” would be supplemented by “results of our own empirical studies”. In the presentation, a distinction is made between “the factual description” and, if necessary, “an opinion-related comment”.
The information offered includes the annually updated evaluation of the religious affiliations in Germany with a graphic cake that is received in the media and science.
criticism
Andreas Fincke, theologian and former deputy head of the Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen , criticized the founding of the research group in 2006. Their statements are mostly reliably researched, but tend to be selected.
Members
The members of the research group are:
- Carsten Frerk , political scientist / social scientist, Berlin (CF) (coordinator)
- Elke Schäfer , Arnsdorf (SFE) (text editor)
- Horst Groschopp , cultural scientist, Zwickau (HG)
- Elke Held , psychologist, Trier
- Günter Kehrer , Prof. em. for sociologist of religion, Tübingen
- Werner Koch , computer scientist, Stuttgart (WK)
- Matthias Krause , Business Economist, Singapore (MK)
- Lutz Neumann , management consultant, Cologne (LN)
- Rudolf Oerter , Prof. em. for developmental psychology, Munich
- Carsten Ramsel , religious scholar, Hamburg
- Pascal Siegers , social scientist, Cologne
- Michael Schmidt-Salomon , philosopher / publicist, Trier (MSS)
- Herbert Steffen , entrepreneur, Mastershausen
- Felix Urban , BA, educator, Wuppertal
- Tobias Wolfram , social scientist, M.Sc.
formerly also:
- Felix Kruppa , trainee lawyer , Wuppertal (FK)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the research group: fowid, accessed on December 27, 2012 ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2013 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.
- ↑ Religious Affiliations 2018. Accessed April 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Katrin Seddig: "Values and Norms" as a new school subject: Compass for society . In: The daily newspaper: taz . November 6, 2019, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed April 14, 2020]).
- ^ Gert Pickel: Religion Monitor. Philosophical diversity and democracy. How religious plurality affects political culture. Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2019, accessed April 14, 2020 .
- ^ "Chess moves in worldview work" , Andreas Fincke in EZW-Materialdienst 1/2006, accessed on August 20, 2014
- ↑ https://fowid.de/mitarbeiter
