Institute for Christian Social Sciences

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The Institute for Christian Social Sciences (ICS) is an institute of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. The task of the institute is the scientific processing of social-ethical issues.

History of the institute

Under the direction of Joseph Höffner (1906–1987), the chair for Christian social sciences was expanded in 1951 to become the “Institute for Christian Social Sciences” at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Münster. Immediately after the foundation, an additional course in "Christian Social Sciences" was set up for students from all faculties, which has been approved by the Ministry of Culture since 1960 and has been completed with a "Diploma in Christian Social Sciences". In 1987, this diploma was secured through a cooperation agreement with Faculty IV Social and Economic Sciences at the university as a "two-pronged" model for students of economics and Catholic theology. Also in 1987 the institute moved from Pferdegasse 3 to the Hüfferstiftung (Hüfferstraße 27).

Since 2007 the institute has been involved in the so-called Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Pre-Modernity and Modernity” at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU). An ICS project deals with the “renunciation of violence in religious traditions”, in the course of which an international symposium was held in March 2009 on the subject of “How did Catholicism find religious freedom?”.

To mark its 60th anniversary, the ICS held a symposium in October 2011 on the subject of “Resources - Quality of Life - Meaning. Thinking Justice for the Future ”.

Other key areas of research at the institute include educational ethics , media ethics and child welfare .

The institute library contains around 45,000 titles.

Previous directors

Publications of the institute

  • Yearbook of the Institute for Christian Social Sciences. Münster 1960 ff .; from Volume 9 (1968) renamed the Yearbook for Christian Social Sciences
  • Society - Ethics - Religion series. Paderborn u. a. 2013 ff.
  • Writings of the Institute for Christian Social Sciences at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster, 57 volumes. Münster 1955 ff.

Cooperations

The ICS is part of a strong network of connections within the university. In addition to the University of Münster, the ICS is networked with the Ecumenical Working Group on Social Ethics Institutes (ÖASI) and the Berlin Institute for Ethics and Policy Advice (ICEP). Within politics, society and the church, there are close, above all advisory, contacts to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation , the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs , the Central Committee of German Catholics and the German Commission Justitia et Pax .

Web links

literature

  • Karl Gabriel (Ed.), Church - State - Economy on the way into the 21st century. 50 Years of the Institute for Christian Social Sciences , 2002 (Writings of the ICS, Vol. 45)
  • Manfred Hermanns , Social Ethics through the Ages. Personalities - Research - Effects of the Chair for Christian Social Studies and the Institute for Christian Social Sciences at the University of Münster 1893–1997 . Paderborn et al .: Schöningh 2006.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also Werner Kerkloh u. a .: Portrait of a teaching and research center. 25 years Institute for Christian Social Sciences at Westf. Wilh.-Univ. Münster (1951–1976). In: Jahrbuch für Christian Sozialwissenschaften 18 (1977) pp. 11–50.
  2. ↑ See the online version of the yearbook at http://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/jcsw
  3. ↑ See http://www.schoeningh.de/katalog/reihe/gesellschaft_ethik_religio.html
  4. ↑ See http://www.uni-muenster.de/FB2/ics/wir_ueber_uns.html , The ICS today.