Excellence Strategy

Funded projects 2021

Reintroducing religion into society – after the “death” of God and humanity in Auschwitz

 

Link: Elie Wiesel Research Center

 

Link: Certificate “Education Against Anti-Semitism and Anti-Muslim Racism”

Elie Wiesel's work as a contribution to religious memory and renewal culture in the context of combating anti-Semitism. The project is based on work on the critical annotated complete edition of Elie Wiesel's works (autobiographical, literary, biblical, and essayistic writings) in German. As an international cooperation project (Germany, France, Israel, USA) with interdisciplinary (history, literary studies, philosophy, theology, cognitive science, pedagogy), multi-denominational, and self-reflective research groups, it addresses the questions of 1) how Wiesel's literary work advances the search for God and humanity after Auschwitz, 2) religion is re-inscribed into society as a meaningful, humanizing relational event, and 3) it contributes to a transformative culture of remembrance against anti-Semitism. Start-up funding enables overall scientific coordination in cooperation with the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society (which is providing the same amount) and interdisciplinary anchoring at the University of Tübingen.

 

Projekt Coordination

Principal Investigators: 
Prof. Dr. Reinhold Boschki und Dr. Elisabeth Migge  
Forschungsstelle Elie Wiesel / Abteilung Religionspädagogik 
Universität Tübingen
Liebermeisterstr. 12, 72076 Tübingen 
+49 7071 29-78061 
E-Mail: reinhold.boschkispam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de   

 

E-Mail: elisabeth.miggespam prevention@uni-tuebigen.de

Publications

Editorships

 

  1. Boschki, Reinhold, Migge, Elisabeth, Pittl, Sebastian, Schiefen, Fana, Schüßler, Michael (Ed.) (2025): Memoria passionis in Zeiten verflochtener Erinnerung. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. transcript-Verlag, i.E.

  2. Baert-Knoll, Valesca, Boschki, Reinhold, Buchschuster, Thomas, Migge, Elisabeth, Münch-Wirtz, Julia, Schwendemann, Wilhelm (Ed.) (2024): Gesicht zeigen gegen Antisemitismus. Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext, 1/2–2024 (Responsible editorial management with Thomas Buchschuster and Valesca Baert-Knoll).

Articles

  1. Migge, Elisabeth (2024): The Significance of Elie Wiesel’s Night for Responsible Living Today – Contribution and Potential for Education. In: Elie Wiesel Research Series. Tübingen: Tübingen University Press, i.E. (Anthology, peer-reviewed; publication fall 2024).

  2. Boschki, Reinhold, Baert-Knoll, Valesca, Migge, Elisabeth (2024): Fight Against Anti-Semitism – A Key Theme in Elie Wiesel’s Œuvre. In: Elie Wiesel Research Series. Tübingen: Tübingen University Press, i.E. (Anthology, peer-reviewed; publication fall 2024).

  3. Migge, Elisabeth, Boschki, Reinhold (2024): Der Religionsunterricht als Akteur zur Antisemitismusprävention. Aufgaben und Chancen. In: Notizblock. Materialdienst für Religionslehrkräfte in der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, 75/2024. Stuttgart. https://schulen.drs.de/fileadmin/user_files/164/Dokumente/Veroeffentlichungen__Downloads__Formulare/Notizblock/Notizblock_75/NB75_Thema_Leitartikel_Migge_Boschki.pdf

  4. Boschki, Reinhold, Migge, Elisabeth (2024): „…weil auch in Auschwitz gebetet wurde“. Die Bedeutung des Shoah-Gedenkens für die Zukunft der Politischen Theologie. In: Bormann, Lukas, Kreutzer, Ansgar (Ed.): Bestandsaufnahmen und Perspektiven neuer politischer Theologie. i.E. (Publication Winter 2024).

  5. Baert-Knoll, Valesca, Migge, Elisabeth, Boschki, Reinhold (2023): Antisemitismuskritische Bildung im Handlungsfeld religiöser Bildung/Religionsunterricht. In: Schwendemann, Wilhelm, Stahman, Christian (Ed.): Antisemitismus an Schulen – Analysen und Prävention. Berlin, S. 80–102.

The world and law in Judaism and Islam

Link: Jewish-Islamic Research Center

 

Link: Certificate in Education Against Anti-Semitism and Anti-Muslim Racism

Concepts, dynamics, interactions in history and the present. The research project will take up the urgent need for scientific dialogue between Jews and Muslims from a theological and religious studies perspective in the context of the theology campus, from a social and political, but above all academic point of view. During the funding phase, the primary task is to establish a Jewish-Muslim Research Center at the University of Tübingen. The decisive objective is to establish the structural prerequisites for joint research by Jewish and Muslim theologians and scholars. In addition, there is an initial focus on researching the dimensions of meaning of worldliness and law/religion in their mutual relationship in the traditions of Judaism and Islam. Correspondences, oppositions, and possible models of coexistence between Judaism and Islam, as well as other religions in liberal democracies, are to be reflected upon independently of the Christian characterization of the areas of meaning of religiosity and secularity.

Projekt Coordination

Principal Investigators: 
Rabbiner Dr. Asher J. Mattern 
Institute for Ecumenical and Interreligious Research 
University of Tübingen 
Rümelinstraße 23 · 72076 Tübingen 
07071/29-78082 
E-Mail: asher.matternspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de   

Prof. Dr. Fahimah Ulfat 
Institute for Ecumenical and Interreligious Research

 

 

 

Publications

Articles / Contributions

 

  1. Ulfat, Fahimah, Mattern, Asher J., Boschki, Reinhold (2023): Dialogische Theologie im Anschluss an Nostra Aetate. Ein christlich-muslimisch-jüdischer Austausch. In: Theologische Quartalschrift (Tübingen), Themenheft „60 Jahre Zweites Vatikanum: der Auftrag, Theologie immer wieder neu zu denken“, 203, S. 385–405.

  2. Ulfat, Fahimah, Mattern, Asher J., Boschki, Reinhold (2025): Hermeneutik interreligiöser Kommunikation. In: Gärtner, Claudia, et al. (Ed.): Handbuch Religionspädagogische Hermeneutik. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

  3. Ulfat, Fahimah, Mattern, Asher J. (2024): Othering revisited: Historische und gegenwärtige Wurzeln sowie religionspädagogische Herausforderungen des jüdisch-muslimischen Verhältnisses in Deutschland. In: Religionspädagogische Beiträge. Journal for Religion in Education, 48.

Editorships / Projects

  1. Religions: Special Issue „Jewish–Muslim Relations in the Past and Present“, i.E. Available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/9U65WUU60U

  2. Mattern, Asher J., Rahner, Johanna, Ulfat, Fahimah (Hrsg.) (i.E.): Faces of Abraham: Conceptual Versions of Monotheism and Interpretative Visions of its Foundational Figure. [Location will appear]: Grunewald Verlag.

  3. Torah – Worldliness – Quran: Beyond the Common Concepts of ‘Secular’ and ‘Religious’. Anthology in preparation, forthcoming.