Inken Prohl

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Inken Prohl (* 1965 ) is a German religious scholar and Japanologist . Since 2006 she has been a professor of religious studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Her main research interests include the recent religious history of Germany, Japan and the USA , religion and artificial intelligence and material religion .

Career

From 1988 Prohl studied Japanese Studies and Religious Studies at the Free University of Berlin and at the Keiō University in Tokyo. In 1995 she finished her studies and began her doctorate at the Institute for Religious Studies at the Free University of Berlin. From 1995 to 1997 Prohl was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service at the University of Tokyo and did field research on modern religious organizations and the New Age in Japan. The doctorate took place in 1999 with the religious studies study The 'Spiritual Intellectuals' and the New Age in Japan . In her review of the work, Ulrike Wöhr writes: “Inken Prohl has [...] set herself the task of unmasking the talk of the harmony rooted in Japanese tradition, closeness to nature, wholeness and tranquility in the self as a romantic construct The beginnings are to be sought with the fathers of religious studies and that has found its last and most consumer-friendly form so far in the writings of the so-called 'spiritual intellectuals' of the Japanese present. "

After completing the subsequent habilitation process in June 2004, she held the position of substitute for the Chair of Modern Japan from a cultural studies perspective at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . From 2004 to 2006 Inken Prohl also held the position of senior assistant at Hartmut Zinser's chair. Since August 2006 she has been a professor for religious studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.

From 2008 to 2011, she and Katja Rakow published the online magazine Transformierte Buddhismen , which has since been discontinued .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Zen for dummies. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-527-70501-6 .
  • Religious Innovations. The Shinto organization World Mate in Japan. Reimer, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-496-02794-0 .
  • The “spiritual intellectuals” and the New Age in Japan (= communications from the Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia eV Hamburg. Vol. 133). Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-928463-68-3 (also: Berlin, Free University, dissertation, 1999).

Editing with book contributions

  • with John Nelson: Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Religions (= Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion. 6). Brill, Leiden et al. 2012, ISBN 978-90-04-23435-2 .
  • with Hildegard Piegeler and Stefan Rademacher (eds.): Lived Religions. Investigations into the social creative power of religious ideas and practices in the past and present. Festschrift for Hartmut Zinser on his 60th birthday. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2768-X .
  • with Hartmut Zinser : Zen, Reiki and Karate. Japanese religiosity in Europe (= Bunka Wenhua. Tübingen East Asian research. 2). Lit, Münster et al. 2002, ISBN 3-8258-4664-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZEGK Heidelberg University employees. In: http://www.zegk.uni-heidelberg.de/religionswissenschaft/mitarbeiter/pages/prohl.html . Heidelberg University, February 6, 2020, accessed on July 17, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Ulrike Wöhr: Inken Prohl: The "spiritual intellectuals" and the New Age in Japan. (Review). In: Paideuma. Communications on cultural studies. Vol. 48, 2002, ISSN  0078-7809 , pp. 308-311, ( JSTOR 40341853 ).
  3. ↑ Inken Prohl on zegk.uni-heidelberg.de
personal data
SURNAME Prohl, Inken
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious scholar and Japanologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965