Ulrike Elsdörfer

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Ulrike Elsdörfer

Ulrike Elsdörfer (born October 1, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German Protestant theologian, religious scholar, ethnologist and pastoral psychologist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Frankfurt / Main in 1972 , Ulrike Elsdörfer began studying theology and philosophy in Tübingen and Mainz ; she also studied at the Bossey Ecumenical Institute . She then did a doctorate in Dr. phil. at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt / Main on a topic of humanistic psychology . From 2011 to 2014 she studied ethnology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt / Main.

2018 she received her doctorate at the Philosophical and Theological College St. Georgen, Frankfurt / Main, the PhD on the topic: Spiritual Counseling in diversity. Access to spiritual counseling skills in Asia.

She is Associate Professor at North West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Faculty of Theology, Unit Public Practical Theology and Civil Society, South Africa , was pastor in hospital chaplaincy and was active in pastoral care training in the Evangelical Church . She is a supervisor and consultant and cooperates as an independent scientist with various academic institutions.

From 2006 to 2013 she was the representative for intercultural matters of the German Society for Pastoral Psychology (DGfP), a professional association for the training and further education of supervisors within the Christian churches; she is a member of the International Council on Pastoral Care and Counseling (ICPCC), and she was the executive committee of the ICPCC from 2011 to 2017. She was program director of the 11th congress of the International Council on Pastoral Care and Counseling (ICPCC) in Malacca / Malaysia, April 4-10. August 2019, on the topic: Learning to serve people of other cultures.

She works with the Frobenius Society for Social Anthropology, Frankfurt am Main, and she is a member of SIPCC (Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Seelsorge - Society for Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counseling),

She is committed to intercultural exchange in different continents. It promotes the development of advisory and social support work in multi-religious concepts. This includes hospital pastoral care , emergency pastoral care and advice in migration contexts.

She studied abroad at several universities in Africa, and participated and lectured at conferences and congresses in India, Japan, Brazil, Europe (Switzerland) and New Zealand.

Ulrike Elsdörfer held teaching positions at the University of Heidelberg and was a practical religious studies assistant at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . She taught on intercultural aspects of medicine and nursing at the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg and the Agaplesion Clinics, Frankfurt am Main.

Since August 2018 she has been involved in a research project: Advice in the migration context Europe - Africa at North West University, South Africa.

She is co-editor of a scientific publication series Pastoral Care and Spiritual Healing - Spiritualität interkulturell

She is married to Helmut A. Elsdörfer and has three grown children.

Participation in professional associations and projects

  • German Society for Pastoral Psychology
  • International Council on Pastoral Care and Counseling (ICPCC)
  • African Association for Pastoral Studies and Counseling (AAPSC)
  • Unit: Public Practical Theology and Civil Society , Faculty of Theology, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
  • Advice in the migration context Europe - Africa
  • Society for Intercultural Pastoral Care (SIPCC)
  • Frobenius Society eV (German Society for Cultural Morphology)
  • Philosophical-Theological University of St. Georgen, Frankfurt / Main

Fonts

Publications in book form

  • The transactional analysis as an impetus for the Pastoral Theology , 1988, Academic, Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss. 1988.
  • Women in Christianity and Islam. Dialogues, traditions, spiritualities , Königstein / Taunus 2006, ISBN 3-89741-198-9 .
  • Medicine, Psychology and Counseling in Islam. Historical, depth psychological and systemic approaches , Königstein / Taunus 2007, ISBN 978-3-89741-219-4 .
  • (Ed.), Global Religions. A reading book on interreligious conversation: Bahá'í, Christianity, Islam , Königstein / Taunus 2008, ISBN 978-3-89741-261-3 .
  • Images of man - human rights. Controversies in Bahá'ís, Christianity and Islam , Sulzbach / Taunus 2009, ISBN 978-3-89741-291-0 .
  • (Ed.), Compassion - Churches in Africa: Advice and Social Engagement , Sulzbach / Taunus 2011, ISBN 978-3-89741-317-7 .
  • (Ed.), With Daniel Louw (Ed.), Takaaki David Ito (Ed.), Encounter in Pastoral Care and Spiritual Healing. Towards an integrative and intercultural approach , Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-90166-8 .
  • Interreligious Encounter on cura animarum. ECPCC and ICPCC documents and reports from 1972–1998 , Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-90312-9 .
  • (Ed.), With Takaaki David Ito (Ed.), Compassion for one another in the Global Village. Social and cultural approaches to care and counseling , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-90723-3 .
  • God is rice. Psychological assistance in multicultural and multireligious Indonesia and in Southeast Asia , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-643-14309-9

Articles in collective works

  • ... to achieve the bliss in both abodes. The Islamic image of man and the Muslims' relationship to death , in: Christiane Burbach : ... to the limit . Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-67014-9 .
  • The image of man from a Christian perspective using the example of women, in: Philipp Thull, Hamid Reza Yousefi (Ed.), Interreligious Tolerance , Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-534-26412-4 .
  • Justice, equality and difference in intercultural spiritual counseling , in: Klaus Kießling , Jakob Mertesacker (Ed.), Pastoral care intercultural. Pastoral Psychological Contributions , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-70264-2 .

Articles in trade journals

  • A broad horizon despite the tightness of the cell, Islamic pastoral care in a German penal institution , in: Ways to People , Issue 3, 2015
  • with Christo Thesnaar, Vhumani Magezi , Remembering and National Health in South Africa - Perspectives of South African Pastoral Theologians , in: Ways to People , Issue 2, 2011
  • To be a victim or to be a victor? - African perspectives on pastoral care , in: Ways to People , Issue 2, 2010

Texts available online:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Disputation Dr. phil. Ulrike Elsdörfer. Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen , accessed on September 27, 2019 (invitation to the disputation).
  2. ^ North West University
  3. ↑ https://enhcc.au
  4. ↑ https://www.icpcc.net
  5. ↑ https://uni-frankfurt1.academia.edu
  6. ↑ https://www.lit-verlag.de .
  7. ^ Homepage of the DGfP
  8. ^ Homepage of the ICPCC
  9. ↑ Homepage of the AAPSC
  10. ↑ Ulrike Elsdörfer on academia.edu
  11. ↑ Ulrike Elsdörfer on researchgate.net
  12. ^ Society for Intercultural Pastoral Care
  13. ^ Frobenius-Gesellschaft eV Frankfurt am Main
  14. ↑ https://www.sankt-georgen.de
personal data
SURNAME Elsdörfer, Ulrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, philosopher and pastoral psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main