Ulrich Dehn

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Ulrich Dehn (* 1954 in Düsseldorf ) is a German theologian and religious scholar . Since 2006 he has been a professor at the Institute for Missionary, Ecumenical and Religious Studies in the Protestant Theology Department at the University of Hamburg .

Career

Dehn studied Protestant theology at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal , the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and in Bangalore in India . After taking the theological exams, he was ordained a clergyman in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . From 1978 to 1981 he was vicar of the mission academy at the University of Hamburg and in a parish of the Rhenish church. Dehn did research stays in Sri Lanka and India in 1981 and 1982 . From 1983 to 1985 he worked as a research assistant at the Ecumenical Seminar of Hamburg University, where he received his doctorate in theology in 1985 based on a thesis on Indian Christians in social responsibility .

From 1986 to 1994, Dehn was director of studies at the Tomisaka Christian Center in Tokyo . The habilitation in "History of Religions and Mission Studies" took place in 1992 at Heidelberg University with a study on Japanese Buddhism. From 1995 to 2006 Dehn worked as a scientific advisor for non-Christian religions at the Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen in Berlin until he took up the professorship in Hamburg.

Dehn is particularly concerned with topics of worldwide Christianity, the ecumenical movement, Buddhism , new religious movements in particular in Japan, the interreligious dialogue and the theory and theology of religions. He is married and has two children.

Dehn is u. a. Chairman of the board of the Missionsakademie, chairman of the theological commission of the Evangelical Missionswerk in Germany and chief editor of the journal Interkulturelle Theologie .

Since around 2005 Dehn has been using semiotic and constructivist thinking and trying to make these schools of thought fruitful for hermeneutics in the field of religious studies and on topics of non-European Christianity. To this end, he relies in particular on the philosophy of John Dewey and the concept of interactionist constructivism of the Cologne educator Kersten Reich. The guiding principle is that recognition and understanding require multiple perspectives, which can only come to usable and helpful, "viable" insights in the concert of a community of mutual understanding. Otherwise, according to Dehn, a knower cannot do justice to the world of knowledge in general and the strangeness of the world of knowledge of religious studies and ecumenism.

Fonts (selection)

  • Tanaka Shôzô - a champion for human rights and environmental protection . OAG Tokyo 1995
  • The clap of one hand. What fascinates us about Buddhism ("Human - Nature - Technology" series for Expo 2000, Volume No. 12), Lutherisches Verlagshaus, Hanover 1999
  • Understanding Buddhism - Attempts by a Christian . Verlag Otto Lembeck, Frankfurt / Main 2004
  • Religions in East Asia and Christian Encounters . Verlag Otto Lembeck, Frankfurt / Main 2006
  • (Ed.) Handbook Dialogue of Religions . Otto Lembeck Publishing House, Frankfurt / Main 2008
  • Japanese affairs . Verlag Otto Lembeck, Frankfurt / Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-87476-599-2
  • Worldwide Christianity and Ecumenical Movement . EB-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86893-135-8 .
  • Approaches to Religion. Religious Studies and Interreligious Dialogue . EB-Verlag, Berlin 2014
  • (Ed. Together with Ulrike Caspar-Seeger and Freya Bernstorff) Handbuch Theologie der Religionen , Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2017, ISBN 978-3-451-37695-5 .
  • Japanese wood print art. An introduction to their religious dimensions, EMW, Hamburg 2017
  • History of interreligious dialogue, EB-Verlag, Berlin 2019

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ The biographical information follows the corresponding information on the website of the University of Hamburg ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2013 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.theologie.uni-hamburg.de
  2. ↑ Indian Christians in Social Responsibility. A theological and sociological study of political theology in contemporary India . Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main-Bern-New York (= Studies on the Intercultural History of Christianity, Vol. 38) ISBN 3-8204-8476-0 .
  3. ↑ The Historical Perspective of Japanese Buddhism - The Example of Uehara Senroku . Verlag an der Lottbek, Ammersbek near Hamburg 1995 (= Perspektiven der Weltmission Vol. 18).
  4. ↑ See Worldwide Christianity and Ecumenical Movement, pp. 20–30.
personal data
SURNAME Dehn, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dehn, Ulrich M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf