Kurt Bangert

Kurt Bangert (* 1946 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German development and poverty expert, publicist, theologian and Islam researcher.

Life

Bangert studied Protestant theology and German in Tübingen and in the USA. From 1982 to 2013 he worked in development cooperation for international non-governmental organizations. He worked for the Christoffel-Blindenmission (CBM) as program manager, regional director (for Southeast Asia and the Pacific) and for World Vision as head of communications. In 2009 he became head of research at the newly founded World Vision Institute for Research and Development. Bangert is a member of the board of directors of the Development Policy Network Hessen (EPNH) and is head of the arbitration board of the Association for Development Policy and Humanitarian Aid of German NGOs (VENRO).

Bangert is the founder and operator of the Armut.de website. He is the author and editor of numerous books, articles and specialist studies - in the areas of poverty reduction, HIV and AIDS, theology, the dialogue between religion and science and Islamic research. The publications he has edited include a. the handbook for donations and the World Vision Children's Study (2013). Among his most important works as an author are: The dream of a better world (on poverty reduction and children's rights); The reality of God. How we can believe in God in the 21st century (a modern doctrine of God); And yet it turns! (on the development of our worldview) and the research study Muhammad. A historical-critical study on the origin of Islam and its prophet , in which Bangert deals with the historicity of Muhammad. Since 2013 Bangert has been the editor of the liberal theological journal “Free Christianity” . He is also a state-certified and sworn interpreter and translator and lives in Bad Nauheim .

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Books

• Can development aid really help? (Ed.) Pater: Bonn 2000.
• The dream of a better world. Why the fight against poverty has to go new ways, Johannis: Lahr 2006.
• Janet and the Gray Death. Children in a world with AIDS, Johannis: Lahr 2007.
• HIV and AIDS as a Christian challenge (ed.), Volume 1, Verlag f. Culture and Science: Bonn 2008.
• HIV and AIDS as a Christian challenge (ed.), Volume 2, Verlag f. Culture and Science: Bonn 2008.
• Child poverty - in Germany and worldwide, SCM Hänssler: Holzgerlingen Sept. 2010.
• Handbook of donations. Better organization, transparency, control, profitability and effectiveness of donation works (ed.), Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften: Wiesbaden Sept. 2010.
• The reality of God. How we can believe in God in the 21st century, Philia Verlag: Bad Nauheim 2012/2015.
• Children in Germany 2013 - 3rd World Vision Children's Study (ed.), Beltz: Weinheim 2013.
• 150 years of Ernst Troeltsch, Forum 54, Free Christianity: Stuttgart 2015.
• And yet it turns. 50 answers to the question of how it all began, Theiss-Verlag (Scientific Book Society): Darmstadt 2015.
• Muhammad. A historical-critical study on the origin of Islam and its prophet, Springer VS: Wiesbaden 2016.
• History. Ancient and modern understanding of history, Philia Verlag: Bad Nauheim 2017.
• Religion. What is she? How is it created ?, Philia Verlag: Bad Nauheim 2017.
• The life of the prophet. An inventory of Sira research, Philia Verlag: Bad Nauheim 2017.
• The Prophet's Sunnah. An inventory of hadith research, Philia Verlag: Bad Nauheim 2017.
• The Koran - viewed from a historical and critical point of view, Philia Verlag: Bad Nauheim 2018.
• The prophet who never was. How the Jewish Jesus Messiah became the Arab Muhammad, Philia Verlag: Bad Nauheim 2018.

items

• "Oranges from the Antsokia Valley", in: Afrika Post, Oct. 1998.
• “Personal development aid ”, in: Bangert / Pater (ed.): How can development aid really help ?, Pater: Bonn 2000, pp. 19-25
• "Development and Values. We need to be candid about our own values ​​", in: Global Future. Journal of Human Development, Ed. 2, 2001
• “Child soldiers in Uganda”, in: Afrika Post, 6 / Dec 2002 / Jan 2003, pp. 39–41
• “Between acceptance and willingness to help. On the public relations work of the aid organizations during the Iraq war ”, in: VENRO-Rundbrief 19, May 2003
• “The forgotten generation. 15 million AIDS orphans are largely left to their own devices ”, in: eins Entwicklungspolitik Information Nord-Süd, 15-16-2006
• “Use the chance” (on HIV / AIDS and G8 in Heiligendamm), in: D + C , magazine for development and cooperation, 04/2007.
• "A chance not to be missed. Why Germany Must Lead A Stronger Response to Orphans in a World with AIDS ", in: D + C Magazine for Development and Cooperation, 04/2007
• "HIV and AIDS as the theological problem of the church", in: Bangert / Schirrmacher (ed.): HIV and AIDS as a Christian challenge, Vol. 1, Verlag f. Culture and Science: Bonn 2008, pp. 73–100.
• “The forgotten children. The drama of children orphaned and endangered by AIDS ”, in: Bangert / Schirrmacher (ed.): HIV and AIDS as a Christian challenge, Vol. 2, Verlag f. Culture and Science: Bonn 2008, pp. 59–80.
• “Effective help is a matter of political will”, in: Children and Aids. Challenges and answers in development cooperation , action alliance against Aids / Don Bosco: Ensdorf 2008, pp. 65–69.
• “Child poverty and children's rights”, in: Sabine von Schorlemer u. Elena Schulte-Herbrüggen (ed.): 1989-2009: 20 years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Dresden Writings on Law and Politics of the United Nations, Vol. 15, Peter Lang: Frankfurt / Main 2010, pp. 105-132.
• “How the supervisory bodies of donation organizations fulfill their control function”, in: Handbook of Donations. Better organization, transparency, control, economy and effectiveness of donation works, Verlag f. Social sciences: Wiesbaden 2010.
• "Natural Theology Revisited: A Scientific Approach to the Question of God", in: www.tabularasa-jena.de/artikel/artikel_3900/ See here: http://www.tabularasamagazin.de/artikel/artikel_3900/
• “The answer to the question of God depends on who asks”, in: Free Christianity, Issue 5, Sept-Oct. 2012, pp. 119–126.
• "God's ways of being. Trinity reinterpreted", in: Free Christianity, Issue 1, Jan – Feb 2013, pp. 14–18.
• "Binding nature of ethical obligations for the work of development-policy non-governmental organizations", in: Frank Bliss u. Marco Heinz (ed.): Ethics in Practice of Development Cooperation, Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik: Saarbrücken 2013, pp. 222–241.
• "Religion, Spirituality and Child Well-Being", in: Asher Ben-Arieh, Asher, Ferran Casas, Ivar Frones and Jill Korbin. (Ed.) (In press): Handbook of Child Well-Being. Theories, Methods and Policies in Global Perspective, Springer: Dorcrecht 2013
• “Faith and Tolerance. On the Protestant theme year 'Reformation and Tolerance' ”, in: Free Christianity, Issue 4, July – August 2013, pp. 94–100.
• “Spirituality”, in: Sabine Andresen et al. (Ed.): Education. An interdisciplinary handbook, JBMetzler: Stuttgart 2013.
• "Theology and natural science - Is the belief in creation compatible with our modern worldview?", In: Free Christianity, Issue 1, Jan – Feb 2014.
• “The resurrection reality. The central event of the Christian faith ”, in: Free Christianity, Issue 2, March-April 2014, pp. 40–47.
• "Spirituality. Approaching a Definition ”, Free Christianity, Issue 5, September – October 2014, pp. 122–129.
• "150 years of Ernst Troeltsch - theologian, philosopher, religious scholar and cultural critic", parts I and II, in: Free Christianity, Issue 1 (Jan – Feb) 2015, pp. 2–8, and Issue 2 (March – Apr) 2015, pp. 46–53.
• “Ernst Troeltsch. Theologian, religious philosopher and cultural critic with a vision ”, in: Deutsches Pfarrerblatt 2/2015, pp. 112–115.
• "Faith and Politics - On the Relationship of Christians to Social Problems", in: Free Christianity, Issue 5 (Sept-Oct) 2015, pp. 114–118.
• “The 'divine' Messiah - a Jewish expectation? Theses of a Jewish-Orthodox religious philosopher ”, in Free Christianity, Issue 4 (July – Aug.) 2016, pp. 97–112.
• "Martin Luther: The unfinished Reformation?", In: Free Christianity, Issue 5 (Sept-Oct) 2017, pp. 126-133.

Web links

• www.armut.de
• www.kurtbangert.de
• Literature by and about Kurt Bangert in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Vision Institute - Child Study 2013
2. ↑ Kurt Bangert - The dream of a better world
3. ↑ Kurt Bangert - The Reality of God
4. ↑ And it turns! 50 answers to the question of how it all began  by Bangert, Kurt - Buch - WBG
5. ↑ Muhammad - A historical-critical study of the origin of Islam and its prophet - Kurt Bangert - Springer
6. ↑ Kurt Bangert's biography