Oliver Krüger (religious scholar)

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Oliver Krüger (* 1973 ) is a German religious scholar and sociologist . He researches and teaches at the University of Freiburg im Üechtland as ord. Professor of Religious Studies at the Department of Social Sciences.

biography

Oliver Krüger grew up in Rheine on the Ems and Bad Breisig . From 1994 to 1999 he studied sociology (especially with Werner Gephart , Martinus Emge and Friedrich Fürstenberg ), classical archeology (especially with Marion Meyer ) and comparative religion (especially with Karl Hoheisel and Wolfgang Gantke ) at the University of Bonn . In 2003 he was at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Bonn with a thesis on the immortality of the utopias posthumanism doctorate who supervised Karl Hoheisel. From 2002 to 2005 he researched communication about neo-pagan rituals on the Internet as a collaborator in the special research area ritual dynamics at Heidelberg University. From 2005 to 2007, he conducted a study of alternative burial movements in the United States at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion . In 2007 he was appointed to the chair for religious studies at the University of Freiburg im Üechtland, which he still holds today. From 2011 to 2014 he was President of the Swiss Society for Religious Studies. Krüger Ritter has been the Schlaraffia Berna since 2014 .

Research stays, prizes & grants

  • 1999–2002 Graduate College Religion and Normativity, Heidelberg University
  • 2003/2004 dissertation award of the German Association for the History of Religion
  • 2005–2007 Visiting Research Fellow & Lecturer, Princeton University
  • 2012/13 Fellow of the Morphomata Science College , University of Cologne

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With his dissertation, Krüger has virtuality and immortality. The Visions of Posthumanism (2004) presented the first in-depth, scientific study of posthumanism and transhumanism . Both future utopias, which culminate in the abolition of humans by robots and artificial intelligence, are understood as the endpoint of the European and American philosophy of progress. In the theoretical explanations, Krüger pleads based on Stanisław Lem , Jean Baudrillard and Dietmar Kamper for understanding “virtuality” as “the availability of the unavailable”. “Unavailable means spatial, temporal and material-physical unavailability of real or imaginary events. In the context of media theory, virtuality enables the visual, acoustic or even haptic and olfactory visualization of spatially, temporally and real inaccessible events from the real world or from imaginary resp. fictional worlds. Availability means the simulation of the sensory perception of these events. The more independent the experiences of the virtual world of experience are from time and space, the greater their dependence on technology. Virtuality does not simulate space, not time and not body, but virtuality simulates our perceptions of space, time and body. ”( Virtuality and Immortality , p. 80).

The habilitation thesis Die mediale Religion. Problems and perspectives of religious studies and sociological knowledge media research (2012) comprehensively investigates the history and research field of religion and media and reveals normative preconceptions that shape the research field to this day.

Publications

  • Virtuality and Immortality. God, evolution and the singularity in post and transhumanism. Rombach Wissenschaft Series Litterae (Volume 123), Rombach Verlag, 2nd revised. u. supplemented edition, Freiburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7930-9939-0 .
  • The media religion. Problems and perspectives of religious studies and knowledge-sociological media research . Religion and Media Series (Volume 1), transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2012 = Habilitation thesis, ISBN 978-3-8376-1874-7 .
  • Ed. Together with Refika Sariönder & Annette Deschner: Myths of Creativity. The creative between innovation and hubris . Verlag Otto Lembeck, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3-8747-6428-5 .
  • (Ed.) Special Issue on Theory and Methodology. Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet 1 (1/2005), (E-Journal).
  • (Ed.) Not all roads lead to Rome. Religions, rituals and religious theory beyond the mainstream. Festschrift for Karl Hoheisel on his 70th birthday . Verlag Otto Lembeck, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-87476-528-2 .
  • Ed. Together with Mariano Delgado & Guido Vergauwen: The principle of evolution. Darwin and the consequences for the theory of religion and philosophy . [Religions Forum, Volume 7]. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-17-021501-6 .
  • Ed. Together with Nadine Weibel: Die Körper der Religionen - Corps en religion. [CULTuREL, Vol. 7]. Pano-Verlag, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-290-22028-0 .
  • Ed. Together with Andrea Rota: Special Issue on the Dynamics of Religion, Media, and Community. Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet 14 (2019), (E-Journal).

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personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious scholar and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973