Renate Schlesier

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Renate Schlesier (born March 15, 1947 in Berlin ) is a German religious scholar who has been a professor at the Institute for Religious Studies at the Free University of Berlin since 2002 .

Life

Schlesier studied philosophy, general rhetoric, Romance studies, Greek studies and art studies at the University of Tübingen from 1966 to 1968 . From 1968 to 1971 she studied religious studies, philosophy, Romance studies, hermeneutics and general and comparative literature at the Free University of Berlin . In 1971 she graduated from there with a Magister Artium . Subsequently, the German National Academic Foundation granted her a travel grant for Rome and Etruria . From 1974 to 1979 she was a research assistant at the FU, where she did her doctorate in religious studies in 1980 with a thesis on Constructions of Femininity with Sigmund Freud .

Until 1984, Schlesier was a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and at the Berlin University of the Arts . From 1985 to 1990 she was a university assistant at the FU, where she qualified as a professor in 1988. Until 1993 she was senior assistant there (C2), then until 2002 professor for cultural anthropology at the University of Paderborn . Since 2002 she has held the chair for religious studies at the Free University of Berlin. After her retirement, Susanne Gödde succeeded her in 2016.

Renate Schlesier was the sub-project leader in several special research areas : the SFB 447 Cultures of the Performative , SFB 626 Aesthetic Experience and SFB 644 Transformations of Antiquity as well as sub-project leader in the BMBF research association Theater and Festival in Europe and still principal investigator in the Clusters of Excellence Languages ​​of Emotion , Topoi .

Work areas

  • Methodological questions in historical-philological and cultural studies-oriented religious studies
  • History of science in religious studies (especially in the context of classical studies, philology and cultural anthropology)
  • Cultural and religious anthropological aspects of aesthetics
  • Cultural and religious history of Greek and Roman antiquity
  • Transfer and transformation of religious ideas and practices in the European cultural tradition up to modern times.

Awards, prizes and fellowships (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • (Ed.): Fascination of the Myth. Studies on ancient and modern interpretations. Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, Basel and Frankfurt am Main 1985.
  • (Ed. With Richard Faber ): The restoration of the gods. Ancient religion and neo-paganism. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1986.
  • Cults, Myths and Scholars. Anthropology of antiquity since 1800. Fischer-Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 978-3-596-11924-0 .
  • (Ed. With Susanne Gödde): Dionysos. Metamorphosis and Ecstasy [on the occasion of the exhibition "Dionysus - Metamorphosis and Ecstasy" in the Antikensammlung in the Pergamon Museum on Berlin's Museum Island, November 5, 2008 - June 21, 2009]. Regensburg, Schnell + Steiner 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-2115-1 .
  • (Ed. With Ulrike Zellmann): Ritual as a provoked risk. Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann 2009, ISBN 978-3-8260-3493-0 .
  • (Ed.): A different god? Dionysus and ancient polytheism. Berlin, Boston, Mass., De Gruyter 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-022234-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage FU Berlin: Areas of work. Retrieved December 16, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Schlesier, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin