Horst Junginger
Horst Junginger (born April 8, 1959 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) is a German religious scholar .
Life
Junginger completed a degree in religious studies , philosophy , history and Arabic studies at the universities of Berlin and Tübingen , which he graduated with an MA in 1991. In 1997 he was awarded the doctoral thesis from philological to national religious studies. The subject of religious studies at the University of Tübingen from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the Third Reich to become Dr. phil. PhD.
From 2000 he was a fellow of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism in Jerusalem. After individual teaching commitments and research projects in Tübingen, Münster and Leipzig , he completed his habilitation in 2010 at the University of Tübingen and received the venia legendi for religious studies. From 2011 to 2014 he was a substitute professor for religious studies with special attention to its methodology and theory at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Since 2014 he has been a substitute professor for general and comparative religious studies at the University of Leipzig.
His main research interests are criticism of religion , the history of science and religion , research on anti-Semitism and new religious movements . He has published several books as well as articles in anthologies / handbooks (including a handbook of anti-Semitism and religion in the past and present ), specialist journals and daily newspapers.
Awards
- 2010: 19th Research Award from the Stiftelsen Riksbanken Jubileumsfond
Fonts (selection)
- From philological to folk religious studies. The subject of religious studies at the University of Tübingen from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the Third Reich (= Contubernium . Volume 51). Steiner, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07432-5 .
- (Ed. With Martin Finkenberger): In the service of lies. Herbert Grabert (1901–1978) and his publishers . Alibri Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2004, ISBN 3-932710-76-2 .
- (Ed.): The Study of Religion under the Impact of Fascism . Brill, Leiden 2008, ISBN 978-90-04-16326-3 .
- Religious Studies , in: Jürgen Elvert , Jürgen Nielsen-Sikora (Hrsg.): Cultural Studies and National Socialism. Steiner, Stuttgart 2009, pp. 52-86
- (Ed. With Urban Wiesing , Klaus-Rainer Brintzinger, Bernd Grün, Susanne Michl): The University of Tübingen in National Socialism (= Contubernium . Volume 73). Steiner, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-515-09706-2 .
- The scientification of the "Jewish question" in National Socialism (= publications by the Ludwigsburg Research Center of the University of Stuttgart . Volume 19). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-23977-1 .
- (Ed. With Andreas Åkerlund): Nordic ideology between religion and scholarship (= civilizations and history . Volume 24). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-64487-4 .
- Religious history of Germany in modern times . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-534-25811-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Horst Junginger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Horst Junginger in the German Digital Library
- Search for Horst Junginger in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Horst Junginger on Academia.edu
- Horst Junginger at the University of Leipzig
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Junginger, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German religious scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidenheim an der Brenz |