Franz Winter (theologian)

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Franz Winter (* 1971 ) is an Austrian religious scholar and Roman Catholic theologian. He has been Professor of Religious Studies at the Institute for Religious Studies at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz since 2019.

Life

He studied Classical Philology ( Mag. Phil. 1994; Dr. phil. 1999) and Theology / Religious Studies ( Mag. Theol. 1998; Dr. theol. 2005 sub auspiciis Praesidentis rei publicae ). He researched and studied in Graz , Vienna , Salzburg , Rome , Kyōto , Tōkyō , with the Fulbright program in Boston , and in Nizwa (Oman). He currently teaches at the Institute for Religious Studies at the University of Graz as Professor of Religious Studies. His current research interests include the history of contact between Europe and Asia from antiquity to the present, new religious movements in East and West, esoteric research, religion and media as well as Islam and modernity.

Fonts (selection)

  • Bardesanes from Edessa via India. An early Syrian theologian writes about a foreign country (= Early Christianity. Research and Perspectives. Series of publications . Volume 5). Druck- und Verlagshaus Thaur, Thaur 1999, ISBN 3-85400-088-X (also diploma thesis, Graz 1994).
  • with Peter Arzt-Grabner , Ruth Elisabeth Kritzer and Amfilochios Papathomas: 1. Corinthians (= Papyrological Commentaries on the New Testament . Volume 2). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-51001-2 .
  • as editor with Birgit Heller : Death and Ritual. Intercultural perspectives between tradition and modernity (= series of publications by the Austrian Society for Religious Studies . Volume 2). Lit-Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-8258-9564-5 .
  • Emile Cioran and the Religions. An intercultural perspective (= intercultural library . Volume 107). Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 3-88309-291-6 (also diploma thesis, Graz 1998).
  • Early Christian monasticism and Buddhism. Religious history studies (= religious studies . Volume 13). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 3-631-57040-6 (also dissertation, Vienna 2005).
  • About ghosts, demons and the end of the world. Religious topics in manga literature (= EZW texts . Volume 222). EZW, Berlin 2012, OCLC 1015529403 .
  • Hermes and Buddha. The new religious movement Kōfuku no kagaku in Japan (= Religious Presence of Asia . Volume 6). LIT, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-50381-7 (also habilitation thesis, Vienna 2010).
  • as editor with Karl Baier : Aging in the Religions (= series of publications of the Austrian Society for Religious Studies . Volume 6). Lit-Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-50477-7 .
  • as editor with Lukas K. Pokorny : Handbook of East Asian new religious movements . Brill, Leiden / Boston 2018, ISBN 978-90-04-36205-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ employees. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian religious scholar and Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1971