Scientific Career and International Experience

2017 Member of editorial advisory board of Journal of Beliefs and Values (Taylor&Francis)
2016 Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, chair of religious education (W3)
2016 Co-editor in chief of Jahrbuch der Religionspädagogik (V&R)
2016 Co-editor in chief of Praktische Theologie heute (Kohlhammer)
2010 Full member of International Seminar on Religious Education and Values

Scholarships, Awards and Honors

2017 University of Bonn: call to full W3-professorship (rejected)
2016 Senior member of Gutenberg Academy
2015 University of Innsbruck, Austria: call to full professorship (rejected)
2010-2011 Visiting professor at University of Vienna, Austria
2002-2005 Dissertation fellowship by “Cusanuswerk”
1998-2001 Student fellowship by “Cusanuswerk” (funded by German government and awarded by Roman Catholic Church)

Service to the Community

2017 Member of Gutenberg Lehrkolleg, Mainz
2016 Member of Zentrum für Lehrerbildung, Mainz
2014 Member of editorial board of Katechetische Blätter
2008-2014 Board member of AKRK (Association of Religious Education Research in German speaking countries)

  • Language use in religious education (corpus linguistics and theology)
  • Aesthetics of religious education and learning
  • Religious media competence
  • Evaluation research on religious formation programmes
  • Philosophy of religious education
  • Culture of remembrance

Selected publications in English, for my full list of publications see the German Website.

2018

  • A theory of recognition as framework for religious education. Reading Axel Honneth from a pedagogical and theological perspective. In: Journal of Beliefs and Values 2018, DOI:10.1080/13617672.2018.1442979.

2016

  • Together with Klein, Constantin, ‘Spirituality’ and ‘Religion’ – Corpus Analysis of Subjective Definitions in the Questionnaire. In: Streib, Heinz; Hood, Ralph W. (Hrsg.), Semantics and Psychology of Spirituality. A Cross-Cultural Analysis. Cham 2016, 105-123.

2015

  • Together with Klein, Constantin; Keller, Barbara; Silver, Christopher F.; Hood, Ralph W.; Streib, Heinz, Subjective Definitions of Spirituality and Religion. An exploratory Study in Germany and the US. In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 20 (2015), 526-552.
  • Rez. „Stephen G. Parker; Rob Freathy; Leslie J. Francis (Hrsg.), History, Remembrance and Religious Education. Bern 2015 (= Religion, Education and Values 7).” In: History of Education 44 (2015) (DOI:10.1080/0046).
  • The Aesthetic Dimension of Believing and Learning. In: Buchanan, Michael T.; Gellel, Adrian-Mario (Hrsg.), Global Perspectives on Catholic Religious Education in Schools, Cham 2015, 61-72.
  • Exploring the Unknown: The Language Use of German RE-Students writing Texts about God. In: British Journal of Religious Education 37 (2015) 20-36.

2011

  • New Ways of Exploring God-Talk Based on Empirical Evidence. In: Religious Education Journal of Australia 27 (2011) 3-8. 

2010

  • Competences in Inter-religious Learning. In: Engebretson, Kath; Souza, Marian de; Durka, Gloria; Gearon, Liam (Hrsg.), International Handbook of Inter-religious Education. Part 2, Dordrecht 2010 (= International Handbooks of Religion and Education 4), 627-640. 

2008

  • Looking for a language to remember the Holocaust. In: Religious Education Journal of Australia 24 (2008) 28-33.