Volkhard Krech

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Volkhard Krech (born November 18, 1962 in Bochum ) is Professor of Religious Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum and Director of the Käte Hamburger Center “Dynamics of Religious History” and the Center for Religious Studies (CERES).

Life

Volkhard Krech studied Protestant theology , religious studies , sociology and philosophy in Heidelberg and Bielefeld . At the Sociological Faculty of Bielefeld University he received his doctorate in 1995 on Georg Simmel's theory of religion and completed his habilitation in 2001 with a thesis on religion in modern society . From 1995 to 2004 he was a consultant for the sociology of religion at the research facility of the Evangelical Study Group (FEST). Volkhard Krech has been a university professor at the Ruhr University Bochum since 2004.

Research priorities

Publications

Monographs

  • Georg Simmel's theory of religion. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 978-3-16-147031-8 .
  • Sociology of Religion. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 1999, ISBN 978-3-933127-07-5 .
  • Science and religion. Studies on the history of religious research in Germany from 1871 to 1933. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-16-147755-3 .
  • Götterdämmerung. Looking for religion. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 978-3-89942-100-2 .
  • (with Reinhard Hoeps, Valeska von Rosen and Gunter Scholtz) God is dead !? A conversation about twelve works of European painting around and about Jesus Christ. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3866781122 .
  • Georg Simmel: The religion. Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3895188121 .
  • Where is the religion? On the ambivalence of the religious in modern society. Transcript Verlag: Bielefeld 2011 ISBN 978-3-8376-1850-1 .

Editorships

  • (with Alessandro Cavalli ) Georg Simmel, Collected Essays and Treatises 1900 - 1908, Volume II. (Georg Simmel – Complete Edition Volume 8) Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1993, ISBN 978-3-518-28408-7 .
  • (with Hartmann Tyrell ) Sociology of religion around 1900. Ergon, Würzburg 1995, 2nd edition 2003, ISBN 978-3928034579 .
  • (with Michael Behr and Gert Schmidt) Georg Simmel, Philosophy of Fashion (1905) The Religion (1906/21912) Kant and Goethe (1906/31916) Schopenhauer and Nietzsche (1907). (Georg Simmel - Complete Edition Volume 10) Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1995 ISBN 978-3-518-28410-0 .
  • (with Hubert Knoblauch and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr ) Religious conversion. Systematic and case-oriented studies from a sociological perspective. UVK, Konstanz 1998, ISBN 978-3879405596 .
  • (with Hartmann Tyrell and Hubert Knoblauch) Religion as communication. Ergon, Würzburg 1998, ISBN 978-3932004384 .
  • (with Richard Faber ) Art and Religion. Studies in cultural sociology and cultural history. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-8260-1553-3 .
  • (with Manfred Bauschulte and Hilge Landweer) Paths - Pictures - Games. Festschrift for Jürgen Frese's 60th birthday. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 1999, ISBN 978-3895282096 .
  • (with Hans Diefenbacher and Hans-Richard Reuter ): For a future in solidarity and justice. Statements on the common word of the churches on the economic and social situation in Germany (Kirchliches Jahrbuch 2/1997). Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 2000.
  • (with Richard Faber) Art and Religion in the 20th Century. Königshausen & Neumann: Würzburg 2001, ISBN 978-3826021091 .
  • (with Yossef Schwartz ) Religious Apologetics - Philosophical Argumentation. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-16-148310-3 .
  • (with Markus Hero and Helmut Zander) Religious diversity in North Rhine-Westphalia. Empirical findings and perspectives of globalization on site. Schöningh: Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3506764560 .
  • (with Marion Steinicke) Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe in Past and Present Times (Dynamics in the History of Religions, vol. 1). Brill, Leiden 2011, ISBN 9789004185005 .

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personal data
SURNAME Krech, Volkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum