Profile
Abstract
Katharina Neef is a research and teaching assistant at the Institute for the Study of Religion.
Her research focusses on the interrelation of religion and politics, especially concerning small, marginal(ized) and new religious groups. She also is interested in the history and sociology of secular groups and organizations in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Since 2016, she also is working on the formation and practice of the issue of religion in school education.
Professional career
- since 02/2018
Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Religion at Leipzig University - since 10/2022
Researcher and Lecturer at the Centre for Teachers' Education at Leipzig University - 04/2016 - 09/2020
Researcher and Lecturer at the Chair for Ethical Education at the Centre for Teachers' Education at the Technical University in Chemnitz - 04/2009 - 03/2014
Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Religion at Leipzig University - 10/2006 - 12/2008
Researcher in the project "Reconstruction of the Discourses in the Philosophy of Science in Wilhelm Ostwald's Annals of Natural Philosophy" at the Saxonian Academy of Sciences - 07/2003 - 03/2006
Education
- 01/2007 - 11/2010
Ph.D.-studies - 10/2000 - 09/2006
- show detailsNeef, K.Heterodoxie in der ReligiongeschichteIn: Schetsche, M.; Schmied-Knittel, I. (Eds.)Heterodoxie. Konzepte, Traditionen, Figuren der Abweichung. Köln: Franz van Halem Verlag. 2018. pp. 34–54.ISBN: 978-3-7445-1113-1
- show detailsNeef, K.Die Entstehung der Soziologie aus der SozialreformFrankfurt [u.a.]: Campus Verlag. 2012.ISBN: 978-3593397948
- show detailsNeef, K.Religion als Herausforderung des Wertneutralitätsgebots im EthikunterrichtIn: Neef, K.; Kim, M.; Gutmann, T.; Friedrich, J. (Eds.)Werte im Ethikunterricht. An den Grenzen der Wertneutralität. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich. 2021. pp. 125–146.
- show detailsNeef, K.Politicizing a (Non)Religious Act. The Secularist Church Exit Propaganda of the Komitee Konfessionslos (1908–1914)Freethinkers in Europe: National and Transnational Secularities, 1789–1920s. Berlin u.a.: de Gruyter. 2020. pp. 297–329.
- show detailsNeef, K.; Junginger, H.; Wöstemeyer, C.; Alberts, W. (Eds.)Handbuch Religionskunde in DeutschlandBerlin: Walter de Gruyter. 2023.
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The History of Religions in Germany After 1945
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Religion in the Public Sphere
International Master Seminar in cooperation with Bergen University and Vilnius University in Vilnius
SoSe 2022
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Tutorium Master
2019 - 2023
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Introduction to the History of Religion
SoSe 2017 - 2019
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Introduction to the History of Religions
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Religion and Politics
International Master Seminar in cooperation with Vilnius University
2022
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Indigenous Religions in Eastern Europe
WS 2021/22
held together with B. Krumnow and V. Vitanova
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Heterodox Movements in the Middle Ages
Reading and Translating medieval Latin sources
WS 2021/22
held together with S. Roebert
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Atheist Posters
WS 2020/21
held together with Prof. Junginger
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Religion and Politics in the Eastern Bloc
WS 2019/20
held together with B. Krumnow and V. Vitanova
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Religious Systems of Meaning
SoSe 2019
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Critique of Religion and Reform
WS 2018
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Max Weber on Religion
WS 2017
Research fields
Religious studies, Religion
Specializations
New Religious Movements, Religious Plurality in Germany in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Religions and Politics
Religion in Ethical Education
Freethought Movements in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Contact for media inquiries
Phone: +49 341 97 30430
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