Udo Tworuschka

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Udo Tworuschka (born February 12, 1949 in Seesen am Harz) is a German religious scholar .

Life

In 1952 the family moved to Düren . In September 1967 he enrolled at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn for the subjects of Protestant theology , humanities and philosophy. He became student and research assistant to the patristician Heinrich Karpp (1908–1997). He studied English with Arno Esch and others. From the fourth semester on he also studied comparative religion, a. a. at Gustav Mensching , whose work he has remained critical and whose central purpose he tries to make it fruitful for the present ( "Practical religious studies"). In 1972 he received his doctorate. phil. on the subject of “The loneliness. A phenomenological study of religion ” (egregia / summa cum laude). For this he received the PhD award from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn.

He has been married to Monika Tworuschka since 1975 and has four children with her: Miriam, Christopher, Sarah, Ronja. In 1979 he completed his habilitation at the Pädagogische Hochschule Rheinland (Cologne Department) and was appointed private lecturer and university lecturer. The religious educator Karl Ernst Nipkow counts Tworuschka among the "pioneers" of interreligious learning . Tworuschka is one of the masterminds of "practical religious studies". The Austrian Catholic theologian Regina Polak characterizes him as “the doyen of German 'practical religious studies'”. His entire oeuvre to date is characterized by “pioneering spirit and commitment”. In summary, she judges Tworuschka “in several respects as a pioneer (...): a pioneer of textbook research, interreligious learning and practical religious studies”. With the award-winning first German-language CD-ROM “Religiopolis. Experiencing world religions ” (2004), he and his wife broke new ground to mediate religion.

Scientific work and career

1982-1993 he taught and researched in teacher training at the educational science faculty of the University of Cologne , into which the PH had been integrated. Here he worked with numerous German scientists from various disciplines on a project to reduce mutual religious prejudices. In a comprehensive research project that he led together with the Cologne-based Islamic scholar Abdoldjavad Falaturi , the most common prejudices and misjudgments were worked out through a detailed analysis of the school books (history, geography, Protestant and Catholic religious instruction, etc.). The results were published as part of the studies on international textbook research by the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research . In 1988 the research project was extended to other European countries under the name "International Research Project: Islam in Textbooks". 1987–1995 Tworuschka was president of the liberal-Protestant association Bund für Free Christianity .

On November 1, 1993, he was appointed to the chair of religious studies at the theological faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . From April 1995 to February 1997 he was vice dean, from October 2000 to September 2002 dean of the theological faculty. Tworuschka has been organizing the “Gustav Mensching Lectures for Religious Tolerance ” since 2001 . From the 2002/03 winter semester, religious studies could be studied as a Magister minor in the Philosophical Faculty at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , and in the 2007/08 winter semester the range of courses was switched to a bachelor's supplementary subject in the Theological Faculty. Tworuschka retired in 2011.

During his research and teaching activities in Cologne (1973–1993) in the context of Protestant religious education, Tworuschka developed a practical understanding of religious studies, for which he coined the term “practical religious studies” in contrast to an “applied” science. In 2012 he founded the scientific series "Studies and Documentations on Practical Religious Studies", which he publishes in conjunction with Wolfgang Gantke , Klaus Hock, Michael Klöcker and Martin Leiner. Richard Friedli is the honorary editor . Tworuschka does not understand religious studies - as is the rule today in German-speaking countries - as cultural studies in a narrow sense directed against the "religious studies of understanding" ( Gustav Mensching ) - although he uses methods of cultural studies in his work - but as "perceptual science" ( Phenomenology of religion ). Tworuschka's “anthropologically applied, people-oriented, contextual phenomenology of religion is interested in the extent to which religions influence everyday life, which is characterized by routine and mechanism. This new form of religious phenomenology examines how religious traditions shape the elementary activities and areas of human life: sexuality, health, teaching and learning, phases of life, life in the family, eating and drinking, clothing, work and leisure, living conditions, gestures, ways of moving , the attitude to time and space, to feelings, needs and perceptions. ”“ That the extensive research field [radio and religion / s] has recently been perceived by religious studies at all is one of the main demands of Tworuschka (2006; 2008) Thanks to 'auditory turn' "

Tworuschka lives with his wife in Arloff Bad Münstereifel .

Honor

Together with his wife Monika Tworuschka, he was awarded the Italian Peace Prize “Premio Satyagraha” in 2002. The Tworuschka couple received the Engel der Kulturen- Preis 2018 in Cologne on November 3, 2018, for their services to interreligious understanding. Udo Tworuschka is honorary chairman of INTR.A (Interreligious Office).

Works (selection)

  • Ed .: Religions Today. Topics and texts for teaching and studying. Frankfurt / Main 1977
  • Heaven is everywhere. Stories from the world's religions. Gütersloh 1985
  • Islam in the school books of the FRG, analysis of the Protestant religion books on the subject of Islam. Georg Eckert Institute Braunschweig, 1986, ISBN 3-88304-247-1
  • Ethics of Religions - Doctrine and Life , 5 volumes. Frankfurt / Main-Munich (edited together with Michael Klöcker) 1984–86
  • Ed .: Monika and Udo Tworuschka: Handbuch Religionen der Welt. Munich 1992
  • Abdoljavad Falaturi, Udo Tworuschka: Islam in the classroom, contributions to intercultural education in Europe. Georg Eckert Institute Braunschweig, 1992, ISBN 3-88304-026-6 (English, Turkish, Dutch translations)
  • Fundamentalism in religions. Lectures at the 1991 annual conference of the Federation for Free Christianity. In: Forum Free Christianity. No. 24, 1993
  • Monika and Udo Tworuschka: Thinkers of the World Religions in the 20th Century, Gütersloh 1994
  • Reinhard Kirste, Herbert Schultze, Udo Tworuschka: The festivals of the religions. An interreligious calendar with a synoptic overview. Gütersloh 2nd edition 1995
  • Michael Klöcker and Udo Tworuschka (eds.): Handbook of Religions. Loose-leaf work, Olzog Verlag Munich 1997ff., Currently supplementary delivery 53 (2017), ISBN 978-3-7892-9900-1
  • Monika and Udo Tworuschka: Islam - explains to children how others live - what others believe. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1999, ISBN 3-579-02234-2
  • Udo Tworuschka (Ed.): Holy Scriptures. An introduction. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-534-13594-6
  • Monika and Udo Tworuschka: The Koran and its controversial statements. Patmos 2002, ISBN 3-491-70352-2
  • Monika and Udo Tworuschka: The world religions explained to children . Illustrated by Rüdiger Pfeffer, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 5th edition 2004 (1996). - Complete revision, illustrated by Guido Wandrey, 2nd corrected and expanded edition 2016 (1st edition 2013) ISBN 978-3-579-06604-2
  • Religiopolis. Experience world religions. Klett, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-12-238120-6
  • Monika and Udo Tworuschka: Holy Places. The most important pilgrimage destinations of the world religions Primus, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-89678-258-4
  • Michael Klöcker and Udo Tworuschka (eds.): Ethics of the world religions. A manual. Darmstadt 2005, special edition of the 1st edition 2015
  • Monika and Udo Tworuschka: When the world came into being ... Creation myths of peoples and cultures in words and images , Herder, Freiburg i.Br. 2005, ISBN 3-451-28597-5
  • Religious studies. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-7668-3991-8 (chapter on practical religious studies, p. 116ff.)
  • Udo Tworuschka: Religion (s) and radio. Radio as a source of religious studies. A contribution to practical religious studies . In: BThZ 23 (2), pp. 216-236.
  • Monika and Udo Tworuschka: The world of religions. Wissen Media Verlag, Gütersloh 2006, ISBN 3-577-14521-8
  • Monika and Udo Tworuschka: The world of religions. Bertelsmann BuchClub, 6 vols. Gütersloh / Munich 2007/8
  • Udo Tworuschka: The world religions and how they see each other , Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 2008
  • Michael Klöcker / Udo Tworuschka (ed.): Practical Religious Studies (UTB), Böhlau Verlag, Cologne a. a. 2008
  • Udo Tworuschka: Religious Studies. Trailblazer and Classics (UTB), Böhlau Verlag, Cologne a. a. 2011.
  • Udo Tworuschka: From the “Visible” to the “Auditory Turn” in practical religious studies. In: Klöcker, Tworuschka (ed.): Practical Religious Studies (UTB), Böhlau Verlag, Cologne a. a. 2008, pp. 76-83.
  • Udo Tworuschka: Homo religiosus audiens. Gustav Mensching's contribution to a “religious phenomenology of the auditory” . In: Hans Gerald Hödl, Veronica Futterknecht (Hrsg.): Religions after secularization. Festschrift for Johann Figl on his 65th birthday. Münster 2011, pp. 355–377.
  • Udo Tworuschka: Some thoughts on the acoustic-auditory phenomenology of religion . In: Truth and History. The broken tradition of metaphysical thought. Festschrift for Günther Mensching's 70th birthday. Edited by Alia Mensching-Estakhr and Michael Städtler, Würzburg 2012, pp. 353-375.
  • Udo Tworuschka: Introduction to the History of Religious Studies , Darmstadt 2015.
  • Udo Tworuschka: practical religious studies. Coordinates - cognitive interests. In: Rauf Ceylan / Coşkun Sağlam (ed.): The importance of religious studies and its subdisciplines as reference sciences for theology (series for Osnabrück Islamic Studies, vol. 26), Frankfurt / Main 2016, pp. 115–135.
  • Udo Tworuschka: From “the” center of life to “the” center of life of a religion. An attempt at practical religious studies following Gustav Mensching. In: Thomas Schreijäck / Vladislav Serikov (ed.): The sacred intercultural. Perspectives in religious studies, theological and philosophical contexts, Ostfildern 2017, pp. 181–193.
  • Monika and Udo Tworuschka: Illustrated History of Islam , Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-476-04348-1
  • Monika and Udo Tworuschka: Illustrated History of World Religions , Stuttgart 2017.
  • Monika and Udo Tworuschka: The great founders of religion. Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad - a comparison. Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-476-04776-2
  • Monika and Udo Tworuschka: Islam: enemy or friend? 38 theses against hysteria. Freiburg i. Br. 2019, ISBN 978-3-946905-69-1

literature

  • Understand to vary. The religious scholars Monika and Udo Tworuschka. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade. 165, 1998, pp. 114-117
  • Esko S. Kähkönen: Dialogisuuden ongelma islamin esittämisessä. Falaturin ja Tworuschkan teologis-pedagogisen ohjelman tausta ja toteutuminen. Diss., Helsinki 2000 (with an English summary: The Problem of Dialogue in the Presentation of Islam. The background and realization of the theologico-pedagogical program of Falaturi and Tworuschka).
  • Jürgen Court / Michael Klöcker (Ed.): Ways and Worlds of Religions. Research and mediation. Festschrift for Udo Tworuschka, Frankfurt / Main 2009, 762 pages (with bibliography)
  • Oliver Krüger: Radio and television - dimensions and approaches for religious studies research. In: Michael Stausberg (Ed.): Religionswissenschaft, Berlin / Boston 2012, pp. 211–224.
  • Karl Ernst Nipkow: Aims of interreligious learning as a multi-dimensional problem. In: Handbook Interreligious Learning, ed. by Peter Schreiner u. a., Gütersloh 2005, pp. 362-380.
  • Franz-Peter Burkard / Ronald Pokoyski / Zrinka Stimac (eds.): Practical religious studies. Theoretical and methodological approaches and examples. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Udo Tworuschka (Series: Studies and Documentations on Practical Religious Studies, Volume 1, 2014)
  • Jiri Gebelt: Tworuschkova “Praktická religionistika”. In: Theologická revue | Theological Review, 2015, Vol. 86, No.3, pp. 242-256.
  • Regina Polak: Pioneering spirit and commitment: Udo Tworuschka. In: European Journal of Mental Health 11 (2016), pp. 153–156.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Ernst Nipkow: Aims of interreligious learning as a multi-dimensional problem. In: Handbook Interreligious Learning. Edited by Peter Schreiner et al., Gütersloh 2005, pp. 362–380, here p. 362.
  2. ^ Regina Polak: Pioneering spirit and commitment: Udo Tworuschka. In: European Journal of Mental Health 11 (2016), pp. 153–156, here p. 153.
  3. ↑ Religious Studies. Trailblazer and classic Cologne a. a. 2011, 2011, p. 19.
  4. ↑ Oliver Krüger: Radio and television - dimensions and approaches for religious studies research. In: Michael Stausberg (Ed.): Religionswissenschaft. Berlin / Boston 2012, pp. 211–224, here p. 218.
  5. ↑ Italian Peace Prize for "The World Religions - Children Explained" online ( Memento from June 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Tworuschka, Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Seesen am Harz