Kocku from Stuckrad

Kocku von Stuckrad (born April 6, 1966 in Kpandu , Ghana / West Africa) is a German religious scholar .

Life

Kocku von Stuckrad studied Comparative Religious Studies , Philosophy and Judaic Studies at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne and graduated with a master's degree in 1995. This was followed by a doctoral degree from 1997 to 1999 and a lectureship in religious studies from 1997 to 2002 at the University of Bremen , where he finally completed his habilitation in July 2002 . From the spring of the same year he held a one-year visiting professorship at the chair for contemporary religion at the University of Bayreuth . After that, he was Assistant Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (in German: History of Hermetic Philosophy and relative currents ) at the Department of Art, Religion and Cultural Studies (eg: Department of Art, Religion and Contemporary Culture ) of the Faculty of Humanities ( Humanities Faculty ) of the University of Amsterdam (Chair: Wouter J. Hanegraaff ). On September 1, 2009, he took over a professorship for religious studies at the University of Groningen .

Fonts

Monographs

(in chronological order)

• Piety and Science: Astrology in Tanach , Qumran and frührabbinischer literature . Lang, Frankfurt 1996, ISBN 3-631-49641-9 ( European university publications / series 23, theology ; volume 572) (also revised master's thesis University of Bonn 1994).
• Lilith: in the light of the black moon to the power of the goddess . 1st edition. Aurum, Braunschweig 1997, ISBN 3-591-08411-5 .
  • 2nd edition to the same extent: Aurum, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89901-411-1 .
• The struggle for astrology: Jewish and Christian contributions to the ancient understanding of time . Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin u. a. 2000 (912 pages), ISBN 3-11-016641-0 ( Religious historical experiments and preparatory work ; Volume 49) (also dissertation University of Bremen 1999).
• Shamanism and esotericism: cultural and scientific historical considerations . Peeters, Leuven (Belgium) 2003 (337 pages), ISBN 90-429-1253-7 ( Gnostica, Volume 4) (also revised habilitation thesis Bremen 2001).
• together with Hans G. Kippenberg : Introduction to religious studies - objects and concepts. Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50207-5 .
• History of astrology: from the beginning to the present . Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50905-3 .
  • Edition with a paperboard cover to the same extent: Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54777-5 ( Beck'sche Reihe , volume 1752).
  • Translations into Spanish (2005), Italian (2005), Brazilian Portuguese (2007).
• What is esoteric? Little story of secret knowledge . Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-52173-8 .
  • English translation by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke as Western esotericism: a brief history of secret knowledge . Equinox, London and Oakville 2005, ISBN 1-84553-034-9 .
• The soul in the 20th century. a cultural story . Wilhelm Fink, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7705-6437-8

Editing

• together with Brigitte Luchesi: Religion in cultural discourse / Religion in cultural discourse: Festschrift for Hans Gerhard Kippenberg on his 65th birthday / essays in honor of Hans Gerhard Kippenberg. Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin u. a. 2004, ISBN 3-11-017790-0 ( Religious-historical experiments and preliminary work , Volume 52) (contributions partly in German, partly in English).
• together with Günther Oestmann and H. Darrel Rutkin: Horoscope and Public Spheres: Essays on the History of Astrology . Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin u. a. 2005, ISBN 978-3-11-018545-4 ( Religion and Society , Volume 42).
• as assistant editor with editor-in-chief Bron Raymond Taylor: The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature . 2 volumes. Thoemmes Continuum, London and New York 2005, ISBN 1-84371-138-9 .
• The Brill Dictionary of Religion . 4 volumes. Brill, Leiden u. a. 2006, ISBN 90-04-12429-2 .

Some selected essays

• Healing by the Spirits: Modern Western Shamanism . In: Werner H. Ritter and Bernhard Wolf (eds.): Healing - Energy - Spirit: Healing between science, religion and business . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-61585-X ( Biblical-Theological Focus , Volume 26), pp. 187-207.
• Modern astrology: hermeneutics of the soul . In: Alfred Bellebaum and Detlef Herbers (eds.): Happiness offers of the everyday world . Aschendorff, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-402-00403-8 , pp. 207-227.
• Interreligious Transfers in the Middle Ages: The Case of Astrology . In: Journal of Religion in Europe 1 (1) / 2008, pp. 34–59 ( readable here as an electronic version).

Web links

• Literature by and about Kocku von Stuckrad in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kocku von Stuckrad's homepage at the University of Groningen
• Short biography and reviews of works by Kocku von Stuckrad at perlentaucher.de