Ilona North

Ilona Nord (born December 18, 1966 in Marburg ) is a German Protestant theologian and currently holds a chair at the University of Würzburg (Chair for Protestant Theology with a focus on religious education and didactics of religious instruction).

Life

From 1972 to 1986 she attended the Freiherr-vom-Steinschule in Gladenbach . From 1986 to 1994 she studied Protestant theology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Mainz . In 1994 she passed the first theological exam at the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . At the same time she studied communication sciences at the University of Mainz from 1990 to 1992 and from 1993 to 1996 church public relations at the Fernuniversität Hagen with the qualification as a communication economist (GEP). Your Promotion to doctor of theology , she joined in 1998 at the University of Frankfurt with a systematic theological work on the love and gender roles in George Simel and Paul Tillich , Andrea My Hofer and Anthony Giddens from. For this work she received the Leonore Siegele Wenschkewitz Prize of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau. Afterwards she was in Frankfurt am Main from 1999 to 2000 theological consultant in the EKD public relations department in the joint venture of Protestant journalism . From 2004 to 2006 she completed the vicariate in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN) and passed the second theological exam at the EKHN examination office. From 2006 to 2010 she was pastor in the Evangelical Church Community in Frankfurt-Riedberg . In the summer semester of 2008 she was visiting professor for practical theology at the University of Hamburg . In this subject she obtained realities of faith in 2008 with the scriptures . To the virtual dimension of Christian religiosity at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster the Venia legendi . From 2008 to 2009 she was a lecturer at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt . From 2009 to 2010 she represented the professorship for practical theology in Hamburg. From 2010 to 2014 she taught practical theology as a junior professor at the University of Hamburg (W1). From 2012 to 2016 she taught as a visiting professor at Umeå University . In 2015 she was appointed professor and professor at the University of Paderborn and in 2016 at the University of Würzburg . In Würzburg she teaches the Ev. Theology with a focus on religious education.

Her main research interests include Paul Tillich's theology, empirical research into religious communication, the interrelationships and relationships between religion and the media, and inclusion processes in schools and churches.

Fonts (selection)

• Individuality, gender ratio and love. Partnership and its forms of life in the plural society (= public theology. Volume 16). Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2001, ISBN 3-579-05316-7 (also dissertation, Frankfurt am Main 1999).
• Realities of belief. On the virtual dimension of Christian religiosity (= practical theology in scientific discourse. Volume 5). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, 978-3-11-020555-8 (also habilitation thesis, Münster 2007).
• Festival of Faith or Folklore? Practical theological explorations about church weddings . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 3-17-033361-5 .
• Inclusion in the study of Protestant theology. Basics and perspectives with a focus on sensory disabilities . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-04053-7 .
• Edited with Hanna Zipernovszky: Religious Education in a Mediatized World . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3170311312 .
• Edited with Thomas Schlag : Renaissance Religious Truth. Thematization and interpretations from a practical theological perspective . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-374-04914-1 .
• Edited with Thomas Klie : Tod und Mrauer im Netz. Media communications in funeral culture. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-17-029250-5 .
• Edited with Swantje Luthe: Social Media, Christian Religiosity and Church. Studies in practical theology with a focus on religious education . Garamond an imprint from FORMAT Druckerei & Verlagsgesellschaft, Jena 2014, ISBN 978-3-944-83030-8 .

Web links

• Prof. in Dr. Ilona North