Susanne Heine

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Susanne Heine (born January 17, 1942 in Prague ) is an Austrian theologian and religious educator. She is a professor for practical theology and religious psychology at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna.

Life

Susanne Heine grew up in Innsbruck and graduated from high school in Vienna in 1960. From 1961 to 1966 she studied Protestant theology in Bonn and Vienna as well as studying philosophy with Erich Heintel in Vienna, which she completed with a master's degree. After the church training ( vicariate ) from 1966 to 1968, he was ordained for the spiritual office of the Lutheran Church in Austria in 1968 .

From 1968 to 1979 she was an assistant at the Institute for New Testament Studies in Vienna and received her doctorate in theology in 1973 with a hermeneutic thesis on Pauline theology. 1979 followed the habilitation for religious education with a biblical didactics for the New Testament. From 1984 to 1990 she headed the newly established “Institute for Religious Education” at the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Vienna.

In 1990 she accepted a position at the Theological Faculty of the University of Zurich as professor for practical theology and psychology of religion. In 1996 she returned to the University of Vienna, where she headed the Institute for Practical Theology and Religious Psychology until her retirement in 2010.

Guest professorships and lectures took her to Germany, Great Britain, Istanbul, Egypt and the USA as well as to West and East Africa within the framework of consultations of the “Commission on Faith and Order” of the World Council of Churches.

From 1996 to 2002 she was second chairwoman of the “European Scientific Society for Theology”, from 1998 to 2009 member of the board of the “International Association for the Psychology of Religion”, from 1997 to 2006 member of the Academic Senate of the University of Vienna, from 2005 to 2009 deputy Chair of the curriculum commission of the Senate of the University of Vienna, from 2000 to 2012 member of the board of trustees of the European Forum Alpbach.

From 2008 to 2014 she was a lecturer in Vienna and Ankara as part of training courses for the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, Task Force “Dialogue of Cultures” for Turkish religious representatives, dialogue and women's representatives of the IGGiÖ, from 2007 to 2013 she taught at the “Islamic Religious Education Academy ”, then“ Private course for teaching Islamic religion in compulsory schools ”(IRPA), from 2006 to 2014 as part of the Master's degree in“ Islamic Religious Education ”at the University of Vienna.

Susanne Heine and Tarafa Baghajati have chaired the “Platform Christians and Muslims”, founded in 2006, since 2014.

Publications (selection)

  • Bodily faith. A contribution to understanding Paul's theological conception. Herder, Vienna-Freiburg 1976, ISBN 3-210-24503-7 (dissertation at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna 1973).
  • Biblical didactics - New Testament. Herder, Vienna-Freiburg 1976 (Habilitation at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna 1979)
  • with Peter Paul Kaspar, G. Hierzenberger, Peter Pawlowsky: Small religious dictionary. Herder, Vienna-Freiburg 1984, ISBN 3-210-24763-3 .
  • Women of early Christianity. On the historical criticism of a feminist theology. 3. Edition. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-525-60622-2 . Translations: English SCM-Press: London 1987 and Augsburg Publishing House 1988, Dutch 1991, Korean 1998.
  • Revival of the Goddesses. On the systematic criticism of a feminist theology. 2nd Edition. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-525-60623-0 .
  • Images of women - human rights. Theological contributions to feminist anthropology. LVH, Hannover 2000, ISBN 3-7859-0795-8 .
  • Islam - Between self-image and cliché. A religion in the Austrian textbook. Böhlau, Cologne-Vienna 1995, ISBN 3412094951
  • Basics of the psychology of religion. Models and methods. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-03603-5 , UTB, ISBN 3-8252-2528-3 .
  • Love or war? the double face of religion. Picus, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85452-511-7 (Wiener Vorlesungen. Volume 111).
  • with Peter Pawlowsky: The Christian Matrix. a journey of discovery into invisible worlds. Kösel, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-466-36799-3 . Translation: Czech Vyšehrad, Prague 2013.
  • Earthly heaviness - search for God. Lifebloods of Practical Theology. Lit, Berlin-Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-50221-6
  • with Rüdiger Lohlker, Richard Potz: Muslims in Austria. History - lifeworld - religion. Basics for dialogue, Tyrolia, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3025-8
  • Respectful to one another. Evangelical Christians and Muslims in Austria. An orientation aid of the general synod of Ev. Church A. and HB, Evangelical Press Association, Vienna 2012; Co-author and overall editor, ISBN 978-3-85073-279-6
  • with Ömer Özsoy, Christoph Schwöbel, Abdullah Takim: Christians and Muslims in conversation. An understanding on core issues of theology. Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2014: co-editor, co-author, overall editor, ISBN 978-3-579-08179-3

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Personal page on Susanne Heine. ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2016 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. Austrian Society for Literature, March 2002. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / etfpt.univie.ac.at
  2. a b c Univ.-Prof. em. Dr. Susanne Heine on the website of the University of Vienna
  3. Prof. em. Dr. Susanne Heine on the NZZ podium
  4. ^ Wolfgang Brezinka : Pedagogy in Austria. The history of the subject at the universities from the 18th to the end of the 20th century. Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2000, page 754.
  5. Executive Board 2014–2017 , website of the platform Christians and Muslims, accessed on March 6, 2016.
  6. ^ Wilhelm Hartel Prize to Susanne Heine . ( Memento of February 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) OeAW, press release on October 9, 2007.