Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (born September 16, 1957 in Selb , Bavaria ) is a professor in the field of cultural sociology at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the University of Leipzig . She is also one of the current advisory boards of the Zeitschrift für Soziologie .

academic career

Monika Wohlrab-Sahr studied Protestant theology and sociology in Erlangen and Marburg from 1976 to 1985 . She obtained her first theological exam in 1983 in Ansbach , and her diploma in sociology in 1985 at the Institute for Sociology at the Philipps University in Marburg . From 1988 to 1990 she was a scholarship holder of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst , then from 1990 to 1992 research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Marburg. During this time she was studying Biographical Uncertainty at the University of Marburg in 1991 . Life constructions and life arrangements of temporary workers in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy for Dr. phil. PhD . From 1992 to 1999 she was a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin . Between 1992 and 1995 Wohlrab-Sahr was also a member of the Graduate School of the Free University of Berlin Comparing societies from a historical, ethnological and sociological perspective . In 1996 she was a visiting scholar at the Department of Sociology at the University of California , Berkeley . Her habilitation thesis explored the symbolic transformation of crisis experiences. About the form and function of conversions to Islam in Germany and the United States of America in the subject of sociology at the Free University of Berlin. From 1999 to 2006, Wohlrab-Sahr was Professor of Religious and Church Sociology at the Theological Faculty of Leipzig University. In the 2007/2008 winter semester she was a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence . Since April 2006 she has been teaching and researching as a professor of cultural sociology at the Institute for Cultural Studies at Leipzig University.

Functions

Wohlrab-Sahr is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig. In addition, she is chair of the scientific advisory board at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg and liaison professor of the German National Academic Foundation , deputy spokeswoman for the graduate school “Fracture zones of globalization” and a member of the graduate school “Religious Nonconformism and Cultural Dynamics”. From 1999 to 2003, Wohlrab-Sahr was the spokesperson for the Sociology of Religion Section in the DGS . From 2001 to 2009 she was a member of the Council of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion . She is co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Soziologie and then from 2005 to 2009 a member of the scientific advisory board of the same journal. From 2000 to 2007 Wohlrab-Sahr was on the board of the German Society for Sociology (DGS). Until 2006 she was a member of the working group and the scientific advisory board for the 4th church membership investigation of the EKD . In addition, until 2008 she was a member of the responsible university professor group for the doctoral focus “Power - Religion - Morality” at the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst . Wohlrab-Sahr has been a member of the Council of the German Society for Sociology since 2007 . Since 2012 she has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Schader Foundation and an elected member of the Review Board 111 Social Sciences of the German Research Foundation .

Research projects / research fields

Research fields

• Islam in Western Societies
• secularization
• Qualitative methods

Research projects

From 2010 to 2012 Wohlrab-Sahr worked on a “Multiple Secularities” project at the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art . From 2003 to 2006 she worked on a project for generational change as religious and ideological change. The example of East Germany involved the German Research Foundation . From 2004 to 2006 Wohlrab-Sahr worked in cooperation with the Institute for Political Science on the project: "The administration of prostitution: Saxony - Poland - Czech Republic". From 1985 to 1988 she was a research assistant in the DFG research project: "The communication of social time structures and biographical time perspectives: The example of temporary work". In addition, she was a member of the research group "Aging and Life Course" at the Institute for Sociology at the Free University of Berlin. Wohlrab-Sahr took part in the 4th membership examination of the EKD . Another project was "Conversion to Islam in Germany and the USA".

Awards

• Fernand Braudel Fellow, European University Institute Florence (2007/08)
• René-König-Award of the German Sociological Association for the best Text Book (2008)

Works

• Biographical uncertainty: Forms of female identity in "reflexive modernity": the example of female temporary workers. Opladen 1993.
• Biography and Religion: Between Ritual and Self-Search. Frankfurt am Main, June 14, 1995.
• Conversion to Islam in Germany and the USA. Frankfurt am Main 1999.
• Cultural sociology: paradigms - methods - questions. Wiesbaden, March 26, 2010.

Works with other authors

• Design of everyday and lifetime. Opladen 1993. Together with Hanns-Georg Brose and Michael Corsten .
• Atheism and religious indifference (publication of the section on the sociology of religion of the German Society for Sociology). Opladen, October 31, 2003. Together with Christel Gärtner and Detlef Pollack
• Islam as a conflict area in Europe. Special issue 17 of the social world. Baden-Baden 2008. Together with Levent Tezcan
• Qualitative social research. A work book. Oldenbourg 2008. Together with Aglaja Przyborski.
• Forced Secularity: Religious Change and Generational Dynamics in Eastern Germany. Frankfurt am Main, October 5, 2009. Together with Uta Karstein and Thomas Schmidt-Lux.

Web links

• Literature by and about Monika Wohlrab-Sahr in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} life data (PDF; 6 kB), published on uni-leipzig.de, accessed on December 17, 2012
2. ^ Imprint of the journal for sociology
3. ↑ Biography published on uni-leipzig.de ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 12, 2012 
4. ↑ Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, published on fernuni-hagen.de, accessed on December 17, 2012
5. ↑ The Administration of Prostitution: Saxony, Poland, Czech Republic ", published on gesis.org, accessed on December 16, 2012
6. ↑ Awards, published on multiple-secularities.de, accessed on December 17, 2012