Karl-Fritz Daiber

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Karl-Fritz Daiber (born in Ebingen in 1931 ) is a German practical theologian , sociologist of religion and retired professor at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Life

Daiber studied Protestant theology and sociology in Tübingen and Erlangen from 1951 to 1955. He was parish priest in Creglingen / Tauber from 1958 to 1971. In Erlangen, from 1962 to 1967, he completed an extra-occupational degree in sociology. In 1967, with the theme of the culture as a social system to Dr. phil. doctorate and habilitation in 1972 in the field of practical theology in Göttingen.

From 1971 to 1996 Daiber was the head of the pastoral sociological department of the Evangelical Lutheran. Regional Church of Hanover. Since 1988 he has also been a professor for practical theology and sociology of religion at the University of Marburg. After his retirement he was visiting professor in South Korea . between 1997 and 2018 and he undertook research trips to East Asia, Indonesia and above all to the People's Republic of China .

From 2000 to 2006 Daiber was a lecturer in the sociology of religion at the religious studies seminar at the University of Hanover .

Focus of work

The focus of research in the subject of practical theology was the theory of practical theology, homiletics , diaconal studies and problems of church development. In the sociology of religion subject, Daiber addressed the religious situation in Germany and in countries in East Asia. Most recently he dealt with religious Confucianism in the People's Republic of China.

Publications (selection)

  • Culture as a social system. (Inauguraldiss.) Erlangen, 1967.
  • People's Church in Transition: Organizational planning of the Church as a task of practical theology; Methodology and Results d. Project study Hohenlohe. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1973.
  • Outline of practical theology as a science of action: criticism a. Renewal d. Church as a task. Mainz: Matthias Grünewald Verlag, 1977.
  • Ed. With Thomas Luckmann : Religion in the contemporary currents of German sociology. Chr. Kaiser, Munich, 1983.
  • Ed. With Manfred Josuttis : Dogmatism: Studies on how theologians deal with theology. Chr. Kaiser, Munich, 1985.
  • Diakonia and Church Identity: Studies on Diaconal Practice in a People's Church. Luth. Publishing house, Hanover, 1988.
  • Ed .: Religion and Denomination: Studies on political, ethical and religious attitudes of Catholics, Protestants and non-denominational in the Federal Republic of Germany and in the Netherlands. Luth. Publishing house, Hanover, 1989.
  • with Ingrid Lukatis: Bible piety as a form of lived religion. Luther-Verlag, Bielefeld, 1991.
  • Sermon as religious speech - homiletic considerations following an empirical investigation, Preaching and listening 3, Chr. Kaiser, Munich 1991.
  • Religion under the Conditions of Modernity: the Situation in the Federal Republic of Germany. Diagonal-Verlag, Marburg, 1995.
  • with Hartmut Kreß : Theological Ethics - Pastoral Sociology. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1996.
  • Religion in Church and Society: Theological and Sociological Studies on the Presence of Religion in Contemporary Culture. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1997.
  • Edited with Wiebke König: Religion and Politics in the People's Republic of China, Ergon, Würzburg 2006.
  • Religion in multicultural and multireligious states of East Asia: three studies. PL Academic Research, Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M, 2014.
  • Confucian and other religious life in southwest China's Yunnan Province, LI, Berlin 2016.
  • Protestantism and Confucian Culture - Aspects of their Classification in China and South Korea, LIT, Berlin 2017
  • The Taiping Revolution in China (1851–1864), BoD, Norderstedt 2018.

About Karl-Fritz Daiber

  • Kristian Fechtner u. a. (Ed.): Perceiving religion: Festschrift for Karl-Fritz Daiber on his 65th birthday. Diagonal-Verlag, Marburg, 1996.
  • Günther Schendel: A changed form of penetration of reality - the pastoral sociological work place of the Evangelical Lutheran. Regional church of Hanover and its establishment (1971–1973), in: Yearbook of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History, Volume 13, 2015, 373–386.

Autobiographical

  • Childhood in the Swabian Alb, SP-Verlag, Albstadt 2007.
  • with Margarete Gaier: Adventure Religion - On the way in East Asia, Diagonal-Verlasg, Marburg 2007.
  • Being a theologian today - autobiographical reflections in letters to my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren 2017-2019. GRIN 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K.-F. Daiber
personal data
SURNAME Daiber, Karl-Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, sociologist of religion and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebingen