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- Dr. Welmoet BoenderVrije Universiteit AmsterdamDr. Welmoet BoenderVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Assistant Professor of Islam and Religious Studies; Programme Director of Bachelor Education
Faculty of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDr Welmoet Boender is an Assistant Professor of Islam and Religious Studies and Programme Director of Bachelor Education of the Faculty of Religion and Theology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is a staff member of the Center for Islamic Theology. Her work concerns Islam and Muslims in the Netherlands and Europe, especially the role of imams, female religious leadership, imam-training, Islamic higher education and the development of Islamic Theology programmes at European universities. She is a senior member of the Netherlands Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies (NISIS) and affiliated member of the Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law (EZIRE) at FAU Erlangen-Nurnberg (Germany).
Keywords
- Imam training
- Islamic theology
- Muslim chaplaincy
- Female religious leadership
- Islamic expert education
- Curriculum formation
- Islam-State relations
- Netherlands
- University training
Contact
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Stefanie Golla
Coordinator of Research Communication and Public RelationsEmail: golla@aiwg.de
- Dr. Maria del Mar GrieraUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaDr. Maria del Mar GrieraUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Associate Professor
Sociology Department, Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaDr Maria del Mar Griera is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and Director of the ISOR (Investigacions en Sociologia de la Religió) research group. She is the co-founder of the Religion and Public Institutions Research Network, vice president of the RC22 committee on Sociology of Religion of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and member of the European Board of the IESR (Institut Européen en Sciences des Religions – Paris). Mar Griera was a Visiting Fellow at the Amsterdam University and at the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) at Boston University. Her research focuses on investigating the intersection between religion, spirituality, identity and politics in contemporary Europe.
Keywords
- Religious and spiritual chaplaincy
- Religious hospital care
- Religious diversity
- Interreligious dialogue
- Politics and religion
Contact
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Stefanie Golla
Coordinator of Research Communication and Public RelationsEmail: golla@aiwg.de
- Dr. Jean-François HussonLiège UniversityDr. Jean-François HussonLiège University
Secretary General at the Centre de Recherche en Action publique, Intégration et Gouvernance
Lecturer at Liège University
Guest Lecturer at UCLouvain UniversityJean-François Husson is doing his doctorate on the public funding of religious and philosophical communities at the University of Liège. He studied at the University of Namur and the University of Birmingham. Professionally, he has worked, among other things, as a consultant, in ministerial offices and as an expert for various Belgian and foreign public authorities. Through several teaching and research activities, currently as a lecturer at the University of Liège (affiliated to the CEDEM research centre), guest lecturer at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and at the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Brussels, he has broadened his expertise in the analysis of public action and policies, especially concerning the public management of religion. He has notably devised training programmes for Muslim religious leaders and produced reports for various Belgian authorities on other training programmes as well as on relations between public
authorities and Muslim institutions.
Keywords
- Muslim chaplaincy
- Muslim pastoral care
- Religious hospital care
- Relations between public authorities and Muslim institutions
Contact
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Stefanie Golla
Coordinator of Research Communication and Public RelationsEmail: golla@aiwg.de
- Dr. Niels Valdemar VindingUniversity of CopenhagenDr. Niels Valdemar VindingUniversity of Copenhagen
Associate Professor
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of CopenhagenDr Niels Valdemar Vinding is an Associate Professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Copenhagen and a Master of Law in Canon Law from Cardiff University. Dr Vinding researches Islam and Muslims in Denmark and Europe with a special focus on relations to law, state and church. Previously focusing on imams of the West and mosques in Denmark, he currently leads the project ‘Producing Sharia in Context’, investigating how Sharia and Islamic law, ethics and practice is understood and may be observed as a product of its context.
Keywords
- Muslim chaplaincy
- Muslim pastoral care
- Islamic theology
- Islamic law, ethics and practice
- Imams and Muslim leadership
- Muslim institutions
- Law and religion
- Church and state
Contact
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Stefanie Golla
Coordinator of Research Communication and Public RelationsEmail: golla@aiwg.de
- Prof. Dr. habil. Agata S. NalborczykUniversity of WarsawProf. Dr. habil. Agata S. NalborczykUniversity of Warsaw
Associate professor, Head of the Department for European Islam Studies
Department for European Islam Studies, University of Warsaw, PolandAgata S. Nalborczyk is a Professor of Religious Studies/Islamic Studies and the Head of the Department for European Islam Studies at the University of Warsaw. She serves on the editorial board of the monograph series ‘Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe’ (Brill). Her latest publications include: ‘Polish Tatar Women as Official Leaders of Muslim Religious Communities and the Sources of their Authority’ (Comparative Islamic Studies 12:1-2, 2019 [2016]) and ‘The Typology of Imams in the West and Imams in Poland: Past and Present’ (Studia Religiologica, 52:1, 2019). She is a PI of the long-term project ‘Cultural transfer as the transdisciplinary element of the science of intercultural relations, as exemplified by the impact of Arabic culture on the cultural heritage of Poland’ (2016-2021).
Keywords
- Islamic religious leadership
- Legal status of Islam and Muslims in Europe
- History of Muslim minorities in Europe
- Imams in indigenous Muslim communities
- Islam-State relations; Polish-Lithuanian Muslim Tatars
- Image of Islam and Muslims in Europe
- Imams in Poland; imams in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Contact
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Stefanie Golla
Coordinator of Research Communication and Public RelationsEmail: golla@aiwg.de
- Dr. phil. Jörg Imran SchröterKarlsruhe University of EducationDr. phil. Jörg Imran SchröterKarlsruhe University of Education
Junior Professor and Head of the Institute of Islamic Theology/Religious Education
Department of Islamic Theology/Religious Education, Karlsruhe University of Education
Prof Dr Jörg Imran Schröter is a Professor and Head of the Institute of Islamic Theology and Religious Pedagogy at the Karlsruhe University of Education. He studied Islamic Studies at the University of Freiburg and holds a doctorate and a teaching degree in German and History from the Freiburg University of Education. He was closely involved both as a teacher and an instructor in the training of new teachers in the establishment of Islamic religious education in public schools in Baden-Württemberg. In his research he focuses on interreligious exchange, Islamic religious education and religiosity of young Muslims in Germany.
Keywords
- Islamic religious education
- Inter-religious learning
- Muslim chaplaincy
- Muslim pastoral care in hospitals
- Islamic theology
- Islamic peace building
Contact
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Stefanie Golla
Coordinator of Research Communication and Public RelationsEmail: golla@aiwg.de
- Prof. Dr. Hansjörg SchmidUniversity of FribourgProf. Dr. Hansjörg SchmidUniversity of Fribourg
Director of the Swiss Center for Islam and Society (SZIG/CSIS) and Professor of Interreligious Ethics, University of Fribourg
Hansjörg Schmid holds a PhD in theological studies from the University of Freiburg and a Habilitation (post-doctoral) degree in social ethics from the University of Munich. His research is on political ethics and Muslims in Europe, with a special interest in the interfaces of politics, civil society and Islamic thought. Being the founder of the international network “Theological Forum Christianity – Islam”, he acted as its coordinator from 2003 to 2014. He conducted several research projects on Imams, chaplaincy and Muslim communities and is responsible for different training programmes for Imams and Muslim chaplains in Switzerland.
Keywords
- Roles of Imams in communities and society
- Muslim chaplaincy (focus on healthcare and asylum)
- Islamic social work in the context of the welfare state
- Imam training in the framework of religious policy
- Transnational dimensions in the educational pathways of imams
- Further education for chaplains and imams
Contact
Please send your request by email to:
Stefanie Golla
Coordinator of Research Communication and Public RelationsEmail: golla@aiwg.de