Up Ceylan

Rauf Ceylan (born June 19, 1976 in Duisburg ) is a German sociologist and religious educator . Since 2009 he has been Professor of Sociology of Religion at the University of Osnabrück .

Prof. Dr. Dr. Up Ceylan

Scientific career

Ceylan studied at the Department of Social and Cultural Studies in Düsseldorf . After graduating, he also worked there as a research assistant. At the same time he worked at the Institute for Housing, Real Estate Management, Urban and Regional Development and studied at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Ceylan was later employed as a research assistant in the department of the Lord Mayor of Duisburg . There he took over the academic support on the topics of Islam , Islamic organizations as well as migration and integration issues . At the Ruhr-University Bochum Ceylan was in sociology Dr. rer. soc. doctorate and at the University of Vechta in religious education to the doctor of philosophy. Since September 2009 he has been teaching sociology of religion at the University of Osnabrück. In the winter semester 2018/19 he accepted a visiting professorship at the University of Zurich. Furthermore, since 2008 he has been training Turkish imams in Turkey on behalf of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in regional studies and integration issues. Ceylan is a member of various scientific committees, including a. in the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) and in the Council for Migration (RfM). In 2019 Ceylan received a W3 call to the Humboldt University of Berlin. There he was supposed to help set up the new Institute for Islamic Theology. However, he declined the offer to the Humboldt University of Berlin, because the University of Osnabrück offered him a professorship for contemporary research at the University of Osnabrück. Ceylan justified his decision in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung with better framework conditions in migration and religion research. University President Susanne Menzel-Riedl emphasized the “enormous importance” Ceylan had for the whole university.

Research priorities

One of Ceylan's scientific priorities is contemporary Islamic and migration research on the community of Turkish origin in the diaspora, with the aspects of Turkish mosques in the socio-spatial context, the role and function of Turkish imams, mosques, religion and migration playing a special role. In his book on ethnic colonies, he describes the role Turkish mosques and men's cafes play in the integration process of migrants of Turkish origin in Germany. In his publications, he deals with the topics mentioned theoretically and empirically. In 2015 Ceylan wrote his debut novel Die Türkensiedlung . In this autobiographically inspired novel, he describes socialization in a residential area in the 1980s.

Publications

• Ethnic colonies . Origin, function and change using the example of Turkish mosques and cafes . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-15258-0 (Dissertation University of Bochum 2006, 272 pages insights into the inner world of Turkish residential areas ).
• About the German Islam Conference (DIK). In: Muslims in Germany. November 11, 2009.
• The Preachers of Islam: Imams - Who They Are and What They Really Want. Herder Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-30277-0 .
• Cultural time lag . Mosque catechesis and Islamic religious instruction in the context of secularization. Springer, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-06049-7 (Dissertation (Doctoral) University of Vechta 2014, 467 pages).
• The Turkish settlement , Engelsdorfer, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-9574489-2-7 .

Web links

• Personal website
• Rauf Ceylan on the website of the Institute for Islamic Theology at the University of Osnabrück
• Rauf Ceylan - peer-groups and violence in german gettos.
• Muslims: Imams without a degree . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 2008, p. 20 ( online - June 30, 2008 , criticism by Rauf Ceylan of the existing situation in Islamic centers and a plea for a qualified (university) education for imams in Germany. ).
• Who is preaching Islam in Germany?
• Most sermons ignore the reality of life for Muslims , interview with Rauf Ceylan about his book The Preachers of Islam .
• "Scholastic Rigidity"
• Rauf Ceylan: The preachers of Islam: Imams as Islamic avant-garde
• https://www.noz.de/lokales/osnabrueck/artikel/631491/lesenswert-debutroman-von-islamwissenschaftler-rauf-ceylan
• https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/durchbruch-fuer-die-deutsche-islamtheologie-osnabruecker-professoren-baren-imam-ausbildung-vor/25252940.html

Individual evidence

1. ^ University of Osnabrück: Prof. Dr. Rauf Ceylan - Islamic Religious Education.
2. ↑ IMIS: [1]
3. ^ Members . May 11, 2017 ( rat-fuer-migration.de [accessed October 24, 2018]).
4. ↑ Sebastian Stricker: University of Osnabrück takes a deep breath: Islam researcher Rauf Ceylan stays. In: noz.de. October 15, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 .