Prof. (apl.) Dr. Christel Gärtner

Professor , Exzellenzcluster Religion und Politik, University of Münster

Associated Professorship

Excellence cluster religion and policy

Vita

since 05.2014 | Awarded the title of "Extraordinary Professor" by the Department of Education and Social Sciences of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster.

since 2007 | Habilitation at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Frankfurt

since 2000 | Doctorate in Sociology

1985–1992 | Studies at the University of Frankfurt am Main: cultural anthropology and European ethnology (minor subjects: sociology and religious studies)Professional career

Since 07/2016 | PI in the Progress College "Religious Plurality and its Regulation in the Region" (RePliR).

04/2009–09/2009 | Substitute professor (Detlef Pollack), University of Münster, Institute for Sociology

since 10/2008 | Mentor in the Graduate School in the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics of Pre-Modern and Modern Cultures", University of Münster

04/2008–09/2008 | Substitute Chair for Sociology of Culture and Religion, University of Bayreuth, Faculty of Cultural Studies

07/2006–04/2008 | Research assistant at the Institute of Ethics and Related Social Sciences at WWU Münster within the framework of the DFG project: "Religion among Opinion-Makers - The Importance of Religious Orientations among Opinion-Making Elites in Germany"

1999–2008 | Lecturer at the University of Frankfurt/Main

12/2001–11/2004 | Habilitand and lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen

11/1999–11/2001 | Research assistant at the Institute for Christian Social Sciences at the WWU Münster within the framework of the research project: "Evaluation of Christian Central and Eastern European Solidarity Groups"

08/1994–08/1999 | Research assistant at the Department of Social Sciences, Institute for Socialization Research and Social Psychology, University of Frankfurt/Main, Chair: Prof. Dr. Ulrich OevermannTranslated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Focus of Work

-Sociology of Culture and Religion
-Religion in contemporary society, religion and the media, analysis of religious education and transformation processes
-Social theories and micro-sociology; socialization research
-Analysis of individual and collective identities, social milieus, solidarity and professional action
-Professional and media sociology
-methods of reconstructive and historical social research

Keywords

religion, new religious movement, meaning of modern life, secularisation, generations, adolescence, probation dynamic, gender-specific probation myths

Casegroup

Social Sciences