Ina Wunn

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Ina Wunn (born July 26, 1954 in Remscheid ) is a German religious scholar and biologist . She has held an adjunct chair in religious studies since 2007, currently at the University of Hanover .

Live and act

Before Ina Wunn turned to religion, she studied geology , biology and palaeontology at the University of Marburg from 1973 to 1981 , which was followed by a doctorate in 1985 . From 1986 to 1989 she did a research stay in East Africa. In 1994 she began studying religious studies and philosophy at the University of Hanover, which she also completed with a doctorate (1999). After completing her habilitation in 2002, she began her professorship in 2007; first at Bielefeld University , later in Hanover.

Together with her colleagues Patrick Urban and Constantin Klein, she is the founder of a branch of research that links the natural sciences and the humanities and asks about the biological origin and evolution of religions and cultures.

In addition to her academic work, she was politically active in the FDP , for which she ran in the Lower Saxony state elections in 2007. She favored integration and the environment as main topics .

Publications (selection)

  • Gods, mothers, ancestor cult: Neolithic religions in Anatolia, Greece and Germany. Phil. Diss., Hanover 1999 ( PDF )
  • The evolution of religions. Habilitation thesis, Hannover 2002, electronic publication UB / TIB Hannover ( PDF )
  • The religions in prehistoric times. In the series by Peter Antes , Hubert Cancik, Burkhard Gladigow and Martin Greschat (eds.): Die Religionen der Menschheit Vol. 2, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 2005
  • Muslim patients. Chances and Limits of Intercultural Care. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 2006
  • Muslim groups in Germany. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 2007 ( [1] on d-nb.info)
  • edited with Mualla Selcuk , Ankara University: Islam, Women and Europe. Islamic Feminism and Gender Jihad - New Paths for Muslim Women in Europe? , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013
  • with Patrick Urban , Constantin Klein: Götter, Gene, Genesis. The biology of the origins of religion. Springer Spectrum, Heidelberg 2015
  • Edited with Beate Schneider , Urs Altermatt , Mariano Delgado , Guido Vergauwen : The Violence Potential of Religions. Religionsforum series, Vol. 11, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2015
  • with Davina Grojnowski: Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods: A Natural History of Religion. Berlin, Springer 2016

Web links

  • Photographs by Ina Wunn 2017 [2] and [3]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Unholy Alliance. Women, Islam and violence , tele-akademie.de from SWR television, report from March 29, 2015
  2. ^ Ina Wunn, Patrick Urban, Constantin Klein: Religionsethologie - the biological roots of religious behavior . In: Journal for Religious Studies . tape 22 , no. 1 . De Gruyter, March 31, 2014, ISSN  2194-508X , doi : 10.1515 / zfr-2014-0005 .
  3. ↑ Who is Ina Wunn? , Kommunalblog Lehrte, September 21, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Wunn, Ina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious scholar and philosopher, expert on Islam
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid