Hartmut Zinser

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Hartmut Zinser in 2004

Hartmut Zinser (born November 11, 1944 in Tübingen ) is a German religious scholar , religious historian and ethnologist .

career

Education and career

Zinser studied a. a. under the religious and Islamic scholars Walther Braune and Klaus Heinrich religious studies at the Free University of Berlin ; from 1966 to 1967 he was a member of the AStA , from 1967 to 1968 he was a student electoral senator. In 1975 he received his doctorate (published as Mythos und Arbeit ), then in 1980 his habilitation (published as Mythos des Mutterrechte ). From 1984 to 1988 he held a professorship for religious studies at the Free University of Berlin, after a short break (Professor of Ethnology at the Institute for Ethnology and African Studies at the University of Mainz from 1989 to 1990), he was appointed to the Free University of Berlin in 1990, where he since then has been professor at the Institute for Religious Studies . Since 2002, Zinser has held various Socrates visiting professorships: 2002 in Aarhus and Exeter, 2003 and 2004 in Bern, 2005 in Szeged and Vienna, 2006 in Aarhus, 2007 in Szeged and Vienna, and finally 2009 in Vienna.

The main focus of interest of Zinser lies on the European religious history since the French Revolution as well as the Roman religious history, the ancient Christianity and the so-called " tribal religions "; He also works in the field of systematic religious studies and on myths and their theories.

further activities

From 1984 to 1993, Zinser was a board member of the German Association for the History of Religions (DVRG - since 2005: German Association for Religious Studies , DVRW), from 1996 to 1998 a member of the Enquête Commission of so -called sects and psycho-groups of the German Bundestag. From 1998 to 2004 he was 'Viceprésident' of the Association Européenne pour l'Étude Scientifique des Religions ( EurAssoc , Luxembourg), since 2004 then acting chairman of EurAssoc and 'Elected Fellow' of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (USA). Since 1998, Zinser was a member of the advisory board of PAIDEUMA and since 1999 a member of the scientific advisory board of the Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences (GWUP) . From 2002 to 2005 he was the first chairman of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory and from 2005 to 2008 the deputy chairman. From 2007 to 2008, Zinser was a member of the working group of the Science Council on "Accreditation of denominational universities" and from 2008 to 2009 as a member of the working group "Theology and Religious Studies at German Universities".

reception

The Dutch religious scholar Wouter J. Hanegraaff wrote in a review that Zinser's "esotericism. An introduction" is "completely worthless from a scientific point of view". Zinser only delivers caricatures of “esotericists”, and his main interest is to articulate his aversion to such “ superstitions ” in detail.

Publications

Monographs

  • Religion and war . Fink, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7705-5833-9 .
  • Basic questions of religious studies . Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76898-8 .
  • Esoteric. An introduction . Fink, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4874-3 .
  • “Collective Unconscious” and “Free Association”. On psychoanalysis in cultural and religious studies . Medien Verlag Köhler, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-932694-87-2 .
  • with Karl Erich Grözinger , Burkhard Gladigow : Religion in school education and upbringing . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag Spitz, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-8305-0038-4 .
  • The market of religions . Fink, Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-7705-3257-5 .
  • The myth of mother right. Negotiation of three current theories of the gender struggle. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1981 ISBN 3-548-35102-6 (= Ullstein book no. 35102: Ullstein materials ); 2nd Edition. Lit, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-8258-2554-X .
  • with Thomas Ewald , Hans-Gerd Jaschke : Esotericism and New Age : Challenges for youth and adult education . Hessian State Center for Political Education HLZ, Wiesbaden 1996.
  • Youth occultism in East and West. Four quantitative studies on occult practices among adolescents and young adults in Berlin 1989–1991. Results - tables - analyzes . On behalf of the parents 'and victims' initiative against psychological dependence Berlin e. V. / Working group for questions of religion and worldview, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-927890-06-5 (= Working group for questions of religion and worldview: Documentation Edition , Volume 23).
  • with Marianne Knief : Occultism among young people. BLK project: Measures to promote the integration of repatriates - language promotion and reduction of prejudices . Pedagogical Center Berlin, Berlin 1992, DNB 921505884 .
  • Myth and work: Studies on psychoanalytic interpretation of myths using the example of Géza Róheim's investigation . Heymann, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-88055-029-8 (= Studies and Materials of Anthropological Research. Volume 3, No. 2 Edition Ethnos , also dissertation FU Berlin , Department 11 - Philosophy and Social Science 1975, under the title: To the relationship of myth and work ).

Editorships

  • with Ulrich Werner Grimm , Daniela Gauding (Ed.): Marianne Awerbuch - Memories from a contentious life: From Berlin to Palestine. From Israel to Berlin . With a contribution by Jonathan Awerbuch, edited by Hermann Simon and Hartmut Zinser, with the collaboration of Ulrich Werner Grimm and Daniela Gauding. Hentrich & Hentrich , Teetz 2007, ISBN 978-3-938485-39-2 (= Jewish memoirs. Volume 15).
  • with Charles Marie Ternes : Dieux des Celtes - gods of the Celts . Eurassoc, Luxemburg 2002 OCLC 793112379 (= Etudes luxembourgeoises d'histoire & de science des religions , Volume 1, partly in French , partly in German , partly in English ).
  • with Inken Prohl : Zen, Reiki and Karate - Japanese religiosity in Europe . Lit, Münster / Hamburg / London 2002, ISBN 3-8258-4664-4 (= Bunka Wenhua , Volume 2).
  • with Lidia Guzy , Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar : Tradition in Transition: Feminine Religiosity in Hinduism , Jainism and Buddhism . Medien-Verlag Köhler, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-932694-79-1 (= empirical and social studies , volume 2).
  • with B. Remus and G. Schwarz: Psychological aspects of new forms of religiosity. Report of an empirical study on personality-psychological dimensions of membership in religious movements and esotericism , Medien Verlag Köhler, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 978-3-932694-10-3 .
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Weltgeist between Jena and Berlin. Letters . Ullstein 1997, ISBN 978-3-548-35151-3 .
  • The challenge of ethics teaching : ethics - values ​​and norms as a substitute subject in school . Diagonal, Marburg 1991, ISBN 978-3-927165-12-0 .
  • with S. Anselm, AA Azarbaijani, C. Bange, K.-H. Kohl, Fr. Stentzler: Foedera naturai. Klaus Heinrich on his 60th birthday . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1989, ISBN 3-88479-440-X .
  • Religious Studies: An Introduction. Reimer, Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3-496-00935-1 .
  • The fall of religions. Reimer, Berlin 1986, ISBN 978-3-496-00842-2 .

literature

  • Nils Grübel & Stefan Rademacher (eds.): Religion in Berlin. A manual . Weißensee Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-89998-003-5 .
  • Hildegard Piegeler / Inken Prohl / Stefan Rademacher (eds.): Lived religions. Festschrift for Hartmut Zinser . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-8260-2768-0 .
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Humanities and social sciences . de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-11-014914-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Humanities and social sciences . de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-11-014914-1 .
  2. ^ Wouter J. Hanegraaff : Textbooks and introductions in Western esotericism . Religion 43 (2013), pp. 178–200 ( online ), on Zinser see pp. 193–195.
personal data
SURNAME Zinser, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen