Vasilios N. Makrides

Vasilios N. Makrides (born August 2, 1961 in Larisa , Greece ) is an Orthodox theologian and religious scholar .

Life

After graduating from high school , Vasilios N. Makrides studied theology at the Theological Faculty of the University of Athens from 1979 to 1983 . He then completed postgraduate studies from 1984 to 1986 in the subjects of general religious studies , sociology of religion and history of religion at the Divinity School of Harvard University, and in 1986 he obtained a “Master of Theological Studies”. From 1986 to 1991 he completed a second postgraduate course in the subjects of general religious studies, sociology of religion and the history of religion at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen , which he obtained with a doctorate. phil. graduated from Burkhard Gladigow in 1991.

Scientific career

In 1995 Makrides was a Fellow at the Institute for European History, Department of Western Religious History at the University of Mainz . From 1995 to 1998 he was a lecturer in religious studies and religious didactics at the University of Thessaly ( Volos , Greece ) until he was appointed to the chair of religious studies (Orthodox Christianity) at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erfurt in 1998 . Since 1999 he has been Professor of Religious Studies (Orthodox Christianity ) at the Philosophical Faculty.

In 2000 he made a research stay in Ukraine . In 2002 he was a visiting professor ( Directeur d´études invité ) at the Ecole pratique des hautes études , Section des Sciences Religieuses ( Paris ). From 1999 to 2002 Makrides was the departmental officer for religious studies at the University of Erfurt . In the academic year 2012/2013 Makrides was a visiting research fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Dynamics of Religious History between Asia and Europe”.

Focus

Makrides focuses his research on the cultural history and sociology of Orthodox Christianity in Greece and the rest of Eastern Europe, the history of religious ideas and mentalities in Orthodox Eastern Europe, the religious and cultural relations between Eastern and Western Europe , the religious and cultural relations between Greece and the rest Balkan countries and Russia , the history of the interference between religion and science in Eastern Orthodox Europe, and the history, theory and methodology of religious studies .

Memberships

• 2001–2003: Member of the Senate of the University of Erfurt
• 2005: Member of the Advisory Board of the Gotha Research Center for cultural and social science studies at the University of Erfurt (FGE).

Publications (selection)

As an author:

• Beyond conventional forms of religion: Cults around people, secular systems, political religions , in: Michael Stausberg (Hrsg.): Religionswissenschaft. Berlin, Boston, de Gruyter 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-025893-6 , pp. 269-281.
• The religious criticism of the Copernican worldview in Greece between 1794 and 1821. Aspects of Greek-Orthodox apologetics in view of scientific advances. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-631-45846-0 .

As editor:

• With Jörg Rüpke : Religions in Conflict. From civil war to ecological violence to remembrance of violence in rituals. Aschendorff, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-402-03500-6 .
• Religion, State and Conflict Constellations in Orthodox Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Comparative Perspectives. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-631-51321-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Vasilios N. Makrides in the catalog of the German National Library
• Internet presence at the University of Erfurt
• Vasilios N. Makrides in the Who is Who of the University of Erfurt (has not been updated since 2020)