Michael Ebertz

Michael N. Ebertz (born November 25, 1953 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German religious sociologist and theologian . He teaches social policy, sociology, voluntary welfare and church social work at the Catholic University of Freiburg . His main research interests are social policy and free welfare associations , general sociology, church, religious and cultural sociology, pastoral theology and eschatology .

Career

Michael N. Ebertz obtained his diploma in sociology at the University of Frankfurt in 1978 after completing a double degree in teaching (German and social studies) and sociology . In 1985, he was at the University of Konstanz Dr. rer. soc. PhD . Michael N. Ebertz has been a professor at the Catholic University of Freiburg since 1991 and has held numerous teaching positions at various universities. In 1998 he completed his habilitation at the University of Konstanz, where he received the Venia legendi for the entire field of sociology as a private lecturer . In 2001 he was accepted by the Theological Faculty of the University of Freiburg i. Br. Also to the Dr. theol. PhD.

Act

As a historically oriented sociologist, Ebertz also works on the beginnings of Christianity history and the confrontation of the churches, especially the Catholic Church, with the onset of modernity in the 19th century. In his analyzes of the present he analyzes the crisis of the church in the 20th and 21st centuries in Germany and Europe. He also diagnoses the multi-dimensional church crisis as a loss of its eschatological resilience and the structural split in the unity of love for God and love of neighbor postulated by Christianity. As head of the Center for Church Social Research (ZEKIS) he empirically surveys the appearance of the churches today, e. B. the religious orientations and attitudes ("What do the Hessians believe?") And the church affiliations and church resignations.

In 1995 he received the Bad Herrenalber Academy Award / Evangelical Academy Baden and in 2003 the 15th Sexau Community Award for Theology / Baden Regional Church. For years Ebertz has been a personal member of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) , a member of the "Caritas Profile" commission of the German Caritas Association and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Sinus Institute in Heidelberg.

Publications (selection)

• Leaving the Church as a Process: Leave or Stay? An empirically obtained typology (together with Monika Eberhardt / Anna Lang) (= KirchenZukunft concrete, 7). Berlin / Münster (LIT) 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11836-3 .
• What do the Hessians believe? Results of an investigation on behalf of the Hessischer Rundfunk, with the collaboration of Burkhard Werner, Lucia A. Segler and Samuel Scherer, Freiburg 2012.
• Creating meaning as a profession. Ed. Together with Rainer Schützeichel. Wiesbaden (VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften) 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-16815-9 .
• Milieu practice. From seeing to action in pastoral work. Ed. Together with Bernhard Wunder. Würzburg (Echter) 2009, ISBN 978-3-429-03161-9 .
• People in organizations. In: Theologie im Fernkurs, Lehrbrief 14, Würzburg 2007.
• The coexistence of Jews and non-Jews from 1933 to 1940 in Breisach. A project by the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg. Together with Werner Nickolai and Jürgen Sehrig, Hartung-Gorre, Konstanz 2006, ISBN 3-86628-050-5 .
• The civilization of God. The change of conceptions of the hereafter in theology and preaching. Theological dissertation, Schwabenverlag, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7966-1121-4 .
• Departure in the Church. Impetus for a sustainable Christianity. 2nd edition, Herder, Freiburg 2003, ISBN 3-451-27632-1 .
• People's Church where? Opportunities in the crisis. Sexau Community Prize for Theology , 15, Sexau 2003.
• Church in the headwind. The upheaval in the religious landscape. 4th edition, Herder, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-451-26367-X (1st edition 1997).
• Powerful - passed out. Young people in rural areas. An empirical exploration. MenschenArbeit, Freiburger Studien 10, together with Werner Nickolai, Hartung-Gorre, Konstanz 1999, ISBN 3-89649-367-1 .
• Erosion of the sanctuary? On the change in the social form of the church. Habilitation thesis, Knecht, Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-7820-0808-1 .
• Religion yes - Church no. Everyone their own sect? Philosophical-Theological University of Vallendar, Vallendar 1996.
• A situation analysis of the religious sociology of the 90s. Academy Klausenhof, Hamminkeln 1996.

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Ebertz in the catalog of the German National Library