Practical Theology III

Prof. Dr. Birgit Weyel

Contact

Theologicum
Liebermeisterstr. 12
72076 Tübingen

Room: 309 (3rd Floor)
07071 / 29 - 77485
birgit.weyelspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Current Research Projects

  • Research Unit 2828 “De/Sacralization of Texts” “De/Sakralisierung von Texten”, P 9 “The use of text and the interpretation of life on the occasion funeral ceremonies”

Current Research Interests

  • Empirical Research of Religion
  • Funeral speeches
  • Practices of De/Sacralization
  • Praxis theory

Short CV

since 06/2021
Dean of the Faculty of Protestant Theology

University of Tübingen

2013
Appointed to a W3 professorship (declined)

Focal points: homiletics and cybernetics
Humboldt University of Berlin (successor to Wilhelm Gräb)

2007
Appointed to a W3 professorship (accepted)

Focal points: pastoral care and pastoral theology
University of Tübingen

2006–2007
Substitute professorship

Ludwig-Maximilians-University München

2006
Appointed to a W3 professorship (rejected)

Focal points: homiletics and media communication theory
Ludwig-Maximilians-University München

2004
Habilitation
1997
Doctorate in Theology

Humboldt-University Berlin

1993–1995
Research assistant

with Wilhelm Gräb in Practical Theology at HU Berlin

1992
Second Theological Examination in the EKBO and Ordination
1991–1992
Vicariate in Berlin-Mitte and at the Wittenberg Preacher's Seminary
1990
First Theological Examination in the EKiR
1983-1990
Study of Protestant Theology

in Bonn and Berlin

1964
born in Siegen/Westphalia

Selected Publications

A detailed list of publications (as of November 2025) can be found here.

Detailed list of publications

Open access publications in the IxTheo repository can be found here.

Open access publications

Editorships (Series and Journals)

Editorships (Selection)

  • Lea Stolz / Birgit Weyel (eds.), Öffentlich PfarrerIn sein. Zur medialen Formatierung religiöser Kommunikation, Stuttgart 2025
  • Philipp Öhlmann / Ignatius Swart / Birgit Weyel / Simangaliso Kumalo / Marie-Luise Frost (eds.), Lived Religion and Lived Development in Contemporary Society. Essays in Honour of Wilhelm Gräb, Göttingen 2025
  • Birgit Weyel / Wilhelm Gräb / Emmanuel Lartey/ Cas Wepener (eds.),  International Handbook of Practical Theology, Berlin-Boston 2022
  • Katharina Krause / Manuel Stetter / Birgit Weyel (eds.), Kasualien als Familienfeste.Familienkonstitution durch Ritualpraxis, Stuttgart 2022

Monographs

  • Vernetzte Kirchengemeinde. Analysen zur Netzwerkerhebung der V. Kirchenmitgliedschaftsuntersuchung der EKD, Leipzig 2019 (together with Felix Roleder)
  • Praktische Bildung zum Pfarrberuf. Das Predigerseminar Wittenberg und die Entstehung einer zweiten Ausbildungsphase evangelischer Pfarrer in Preußen (BHTh 134), Tübingen 2006
  • Ostern als Thema der Göttinger Predigtmeditationen. Eine homiletische Analyse zu Text und Wirklichkeit in der Predigtarbeit (APTh 35), Göttingen 1999

Texts (selection, most recent)

  • Doing Gender – Doing Religion. Impulse für die Analyse kategorialer Zugehörigkeiten in der religiösen Redepraxis, in: Hans-Ulrich Probst/ Samuel Lacher/  Manuel Stetter (eds.), Predigtanalysen. Perspektiven der Untersuchung religiöser Rede (Arbeiten zur Pastoraltheologie, Liturgik und Hymnologie 93), Göttingen 2025, 305-320
  • PfarrerBilder. Selbstthematisierungen von Pfarrer:innen auf Instagram, in Lea Stolz  and Birgit Weyel (eds.), Öffentlich PfarrerIn sein: Zur medialen Formatierung religiöser Kommunikation, Stuttgart 2025, 317–334
  • Practical Theology in Conversation with Wilhelm Gräb. Memorial Lecture held at the Academic Commemoration for Wilhelm Gräb on 24 January 2024, in Philipp Öhlmann, Ignatius Swart, Birgit Weyel, Simangaliso Kumalo, and Marie-Luise Frost (eds.), Lived Religion and Lived Development in Contemporary Society: Essays in Honour of Wilhelm Gräb, Göttingen 2025, 15–40
  • Practical Theology, in Andrew C. Dole, Shelli M. Poe, and Kevin M. Vander Schel (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Oxford Handbooks 2023, 397–414 (2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 Dec. 2023),
  • Practical Theology and Religion, in Birgit Weyel, Wilhelm Gräb, Emmanuel Lartey, and Cas Wepener (eds.), International Handbook of Practical Theology, Berlin-Boston 2022, 219–231
  • „Weil es halt so ein Familiending is“. Kasualien als Herstellungsleistung, in Katharina Krause, Manuel Stetter, and Birgit Weyel (eds.), Kasualien als Familienfeste: Familienkonstitution durch Ritualpraxis, Stuttgart 2022, 216–239
  • Die Liturgie als Rahmenbedingung rhetorischen Handelns, in Michael Meyer-Blanck (ed.), Handbuch Homiletische Rhetorik, Berlin/Boston 2021, 389–404. 

Positions

  • Vice President of the Evangelisch-Theologischer Fakultätentag (since 2025)
  • Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Practical Theology (since 2024)
  • Spokesperson for FOR 2828 De/Sacralisation of Texts (2022–2024)
  • Dean of the Faculty of Protestant Theology (since June 2021)
  • Member of the Research Commission of the Academic Senate of the University of Tübingen (since 2021)
  • Editor in Chief the Predigtstudien (since 2020)
  • Vice Dean of the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Tübingen (2019–2021)
  • Founding Chair of the Arbeitskreis Empirische Religionsforschung e.V. (2014–2022)
  • International Academy of Practical Theology. Executive Committee (2017–2025)
  • Chair of the Practical Theology Section of the Scientific Society for Theology (2009–2015)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Seminar for Pastoral Care Training (2016–2025)
  • Scientific advisor for the 5th Church Membership Survey