Jens Schlieter

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Jens Schlieter (born 1966 in Feldafing / Starnberg ) is a German religious scholar and professor for systematic religious studies at the University of Bern .

biography

Jens Schlieter studied philosophy , Tibetology and comparative religion at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the University of Vienna . In 1999 he received his doctorate with Josef Simon at the University of Bonn with a thesis comparing Buddhist and European philosophy of language with distinction. From 2000 to 2001 he worked as a department head at Urania (Berlin) . He then became a research assistant at the religious studies seminar of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and then researched the contemporary conceptions of Buddhist bioethics , which were also the subject of his habilitation thesis , at the Indological seminar of the University of Bonn as part of the DFG research group "Cross-cultural bioethics" . Since August 2005 Schlieter has been researching and teaching at the Institute for Religious Studies at the University of Bern. From May to July 2007, Schlieter held the first "William James Visiting Professorship for Religious Studies" at the University of Bayreuth . Together with Rolf Elberfeld he founded the Research Working Group for Asian Philosophy (FAP) in the German Society for Philosophy , which has been holding conferences since 2006. From 2007 to 2018 he was on the board of the Swiss Society for Religious Studies (SGR-SSSR), its President from 2014, and is co-director of the Institute for Religious Studies at the University of Bern. Research focuses on the ethics and bioethics of Buddhism, the history of ideas in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism (karma, death and rebirth) and their reception in the West, the biography and hagiography of the historical Buddha, as well as the theory of religion (e.g. the application of cognitive metaphor theory in religious studies ).

Fonts (selection)

  • Schlieter, Jens (2018). What is it like to be dead? : Near-death experiences, Christianity, and the Occult (Hardcover ed.). Oxford University Press, New York 2018. ISBN 978-0-19-088884-8 .
  • Together with Marietta Kind, Tina Lauer: The second generation of Tibetans in Switzerland: Identity negotiations and forms of Buddhist religiosity. Seismo, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03777-134-1 .
  • (Ed.), What is religion? Texts from Cicero to Luhmann. Reclam, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-15-018785-2 .
  • Linguisticization - Correspondence of languages: Investigations into the philosophical status of language in European and Buddhist thought. Chora, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-934977-00-6 .
  • Introductory Buddhism. Junius Verlag, Hamburg, 2nd edition 2001; Italian translation: Il Buddhismo, Carocci, Rome 2002; ISBN 978-88-430-2344-8 .
  • The current biomedicine from the point of view of Buddhism (2003). A report prepared on behalf of the “AG Bioethics and Science Commission” of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch (70 pages).

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personal data
SURNAME Schlieter, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Feldafing / Starnberg