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Sociology of religions

  • 2017 International Religious Liberty Association's World Congress on Religious Freedom

    Speech at the International Religious Liberty Association’s 8th World Congress on Religious Freedom

    Schirrmacher was a plenary speaker at the International Religious Liberty Association's 8th World Congress on Religious Freedom, August 22-24, 2017, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

    8. December 2017 / Media, Human Rights, Right to religious freedom, Religious Freedom, Sociology of religions

     
  • Schirrmacher und Berger im Institut in Boston (29.05.2012)

    My Instructor and Role Model Peter L. Berger ✝

    Berger had been Professor of Sociology and Theology at Boston University since 1981, and from 1985 to 2010 he was Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs CURA (as it is now called). CURA is housed in a beautiful half-timbered house atypical of US universities.

    11. October 2017 / ProMundis Blog, Sociology of religions, Sociology of religions

     
  • Foto: Thomas Schirrmacher nach seiner Ansprache - auch zum Thema Konversion von Iranern

    The Conversion and Baptism of Iranians: Simultaneously Saving the Honor of Converts to all Religions

    Why of all Things do Muslims become Christians? A Word regarding the Baptisms of Iranians, Afghans, and Others

    9. August 2017 / Society, Islam, ProMundis Blog, Right to religious freedom, Religious Freedom, Sociology of religions, Sociology of religions

     
  • We mourn Thomas Luckmann (1927-2016)doyen of the sociology of religion

    We mourn Thomas Luckmann (1927-2016)
    doyen of the sociology of religion

    Links: FAZ Lebenswege Wikipedia

    20. May 2016 / ProMundis Blog, Sociology of religions, Sociology of religions

     
  • Similar to Edinburgh and Tokyo: Soldiers worshipped as martyrs in Ottawa

    Similar to Edinburgh and Tokyo: Soldiers worshipped as martyrs in Ottawa

    In 2011, in two long blog entries, I described my research and opinion on the religious martyr worship of soldiers killed in World War II in Edinburgh and Tokyo. During my travels, I encounter similar phenomena time and again, so also most recently during my inaugural visit to the Canadian Government’s Ambassador for Religious Freedom.

    19. October 2014 / Special topics religions, ProMundis Blog, Sociology of religions

     
  • © L’Osservatore Romano

    Pope Francis, further reflections

    After my participation at the inauguration of the Pope and my short conversation with the Pope the following day (which was carried live on Italian television and was also broadcast by Phoenix in German), I […]

    3. April 2013 / Aktuelles, Mission, ProMundis Blog, Sociology of religions

     
  • Safeguarding the Creation – submitted to or against the Creator?

    What I addressed in my book Drewermann and Buddhism and in the chapter on environmental in my work Ethics several years ago is more topical than ever, as should be demonstrated with my commentary “Environmental […]

    18. May 2009 / Persecution of Christians, Ethics, Society, ProMundis Blog, Religions, Sociology of religions

     
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About me

Über michProf. Dr. theol. Dr. phil. Thomas Schirrmacher, PhD, DD, (born 1960) is President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights, and Associate Secretary General for Theological Concerns (Theology, Theological Education, Intrafaith and Interfaith Relations, Religious Freedom, Research), which networks churches with appr. 600 million conservative Protestant Christians, chair of its theological commission, and director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom (Bonn, Cape Town, Colombo, Brasilia), the largest research network for religious freedom and against persecution of Christians and other religions and world views. Read more …

 

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