Karl Gabriel

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Karl Gabriel (born September 18, 1943 in Reitendorf ) is a Roman Catholic theologian and sociologist .

Life

Gabriel studied Roman Catholic theology and sociology at the universities of Königstein im Taunus , Munich , Tübingen , Frankfurt am Main and Bielefeld . From 1980 to 1998 Gabriel was Professor of Sociology , Pastoral Sociology and Caritas Science at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences North Germany Osnabrück / Vechta . From 1998 to 2009 Gabriel was Professor of Christian Social Sciences at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and Director of the Institute for Christian Social Sciences. After his retirement, Gabriel is Senior Professor there at the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics . In this function he was mainly involved in the sociological debates on theories of secularization and the importance of religion in modernity in general and Catholicism in modernity in particular. In September 2008 Gabriel was honored with a festschrift on the occasion of his retirement and his 65th birthday. The Theological Faculty of the University of Lucerne recognized Gabriel's services to the sociological analysis of Catholicism in November 2010 with the award of an honorary doctorate .

Fonts (selection)

  • Organizational society analyzes. A critical comparison of the social theories of Max Weber , Niklas Luhmann and phenomenological sociology , Frankfurt 1979
  • Christianity between tradition and postmodernism , Quaestiones Disputatae Bd. 141, Freiburg 1992 (7th edition 2000)
  • Third World Christian Groups. Practice and self-image , Mainz 1996: Grünewald (jointly with Franz Nuscheler / Sabine Keller / Monika Treber )
  • Insolvency Law for States: Philosophical Justification - Economic Assessment - Social Ethical Assessment , Münster 2002 (jointly with Martin Dabrowski et al.)
  • Outpatient care between family, state and market , Freiburg im Breisgau 2004 (jointly with Helmut Geller )
  • Caritas and welfare state under pressure to change. Analyzes and Perspectives , Münster 2006 (Diakonik series, Volume 1)
  • Models of Religious Pluralism. Historical, sociological and religious-political perspectives , Paderborn: Schöningh 2012 (in collaboration with Christian Spieß and Katja Winkler )
  • Controversial secularization. Sociological and historical analyzes on the differentiation between religion and politics , Berlin: Berlin University Press 2012 (in collaboration with Christel Gärtner and Detlef Pollack )
  • How did Catholicism find religious freedom? Factors of the renewal of the Catholic Church , Paderborn a. a .: Verlag F. Schöningh 2016 (in collaboration with Christian Spieß and Katja Winkler)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b University of Münster: Karl Gabriel
  2. ↑ Karl Gabriel, Christel Gärtner, Detlef Pollack (eds.): Controversial secularization. Sociological and historical analyzes on the differentiation between religion and politics, Berlin 2012 .
  3. ↑ Karl Gabriel, Christian Spieß, Katja Winkler (ed.): Religious freedom and pluralism. Lines of development of a Catholic learning process , Paderborn a. a. 2010.
  4. ↑ Hermann-Josef Große Kracht, Christian Spieß (ed.): Christianity and Solidarity. Inventories of social ethics and sociology of religion , Paderborn a. a. 2008.
  5. ^ University of Münster: Honorary doctorate for Karl Gabriel
personal data
SURNAME Gabriel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Riding village