Hansjörg Hemminger

Hansjörg Hemminger (* 1948 in Rottweil ) is a German behavioral scientist and specialist in sects and special religious groups.

Life

Hemminger studied biology and psychology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg , where he did his doctorate on the topic of central nervous data processing in human color vision . Then came a research stay in the USA. Back in Freiburg, he qualified as a professor in the field of human behavioral biology .

His areas of work are critical analyzes of creationists , sociobiologists , the “alternative psychoscene” and esotericism, as well as the psychology of sects and special religious groups.

From 1984 to 1996 he was a scientific consultant at the Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen (EZW). From 1996 to 1998 he was an expert on the study commission "So-called sects and psycho-groups" of the German Bundestag. From 1997 until his retirement in 2013 he was the representative for ideological issues of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . He is a member of the board of trustees of the Karl Heim Society .

One focus is the examination of creationism , whereby on the other hand he considers the ideas of the “ new atheism ” to be “just as unscientific”.

Publications

• Escape to the inner world. Primary therapy as childhood meditation , Ullstein Verlag , Berlin 1983, ISBN 978-3-550-07683-1 .
• The therapeutic realm of Dr. Ammon. An investigation into the psychology of totalitarian cults (About the German Academy for Psychoanalysis ) Quell-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 978-3-7918-2341-6 .
• Fundamentalism in the secular culture , Verlag der Evangelische Gesellschaft, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 978-3-7918-1908-2 .
• Association for the Promotion of Psychological Knowledge of Human Beings (VPM) and Friedrich Favorite “Zurich School” . Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria, Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3-583-50663-3 .
• What is a sect? Verlag Matthias-Grünewald, Mainz 1995, ISBN 978-3-7867-1864-2 .
• Scientology: the cult of power , Verlag der Evangelische Gesellschaft, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 978-3-7918-3490-0 .
• Ghosts, witches, Halloween - esotericism and occultism in everyday life - a guide for parents , Brunnen Verlag (Gießen) 2002, ISBN 978-3-7655-1276-6 .
• Basic knowledge of the psychology of religion. A manual for study and practice , Verlag Herder , Freiburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-451-28185-3 .
• And God created Darwin's world: creation and evolution, creationism and intelligent design , Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 2009, 2nd edition 2015, ISBN 978-3-7655-1429-6 .
• Evangelical. By God's children and right-wingers , Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 2016, ISBN 978-3-7655-2049-5 .

as a co-author

• with Vera Becker : When therapies hurt. Critical analysis of a psychotherapeutic case history , Rowohlt Verlag , Reinbek 1985, ISBN 978-3-498-02864-0 .
• with Bernd Harder : What is superstition? , Gütersloher Verlagshaus , Gütersloh 2000, ISBN 978-3-579-03346-4 .
• with Bernd Harder: seer, enthusiast, Bible reader . Gütersloh 2001. ISBN 978-3-579-00937-7 .
• With the Bible against evolution. Evolution and intelligent design as themes of Protestant fundamentalism . In: Bernd Janowski u. a. (Ed.): Faith in creation before the challenge of creationism (theology interdisciplinary; 6). Neukirchen-Vluyn 2010, pp. 9-26, ISBN 978-3-7887-2350-7 .

Essays

• Creationism between belief in creation and natural science . A contribution to the scientific and theological debate (=  orientations and reports . No. 16 ). Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen, Stuttgart 1988 ( Online [PDF; 150 kB ; accessed on January 11, 2016]).
• With the Bible against evolution: creationism and “intelligent design” - viewed critically. . In: EZW-Text No. 195 . Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions . 2007. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
• Creation and Evolution - a Contradiction? Creationism, “intelligent design” and the Bible's testimony to creation (PDF) Missionals. Office for community development and missionary services of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . 2008. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
• Human Sociobiology - Science or Ideology? 1994.
• Who are we and how many ?: Comments on the future of Protestantism from the perspective of ideology , EZW-Text No. 231, EZW, Berlin 2014.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hansjörg Hemminger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Hansjörg Hemminger  in the German Digital Library
• EZW via Hemminger (PDF; 223 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical information according to: http://www.psi-tage.ch/rueckblicke/2000/referenten.doc
2. ↑ # x5D; = 50202 & tx_ttnews [backPid] = 78 & cHash = 02f22087fc8b5e249711b3ec6ce66941 Farewell to Dr. habil Hansjörg Hemminger ( Memento of the original dated August 9, 2014 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. News from December 6, 2013, website of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg. Retrieved August 9, 2014. 
3. ↑ Hemminger: With the Bible ... Fundamentalism , 2010, p. 19.
4. ↑ reference in the spectrum