Prof. Dr. Renate Schlesier
Institute of Religious Studies
Professorin
Room -1.1113
14195 Berlin
Academic CV
| 1966 - 1968 | Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen (philosophy, rhetoric, romance studies, Greek studies, art history) |
| 1967 | Academic year abroad at the Sorbonne, Paris |
| 1968 - 1971 | Freie Universität, Berlin (scientific study of religion, philosophy, ramance studies, hermeneutics, comparative literature) |
| 1971 | Awarded Magister Artium from the FU Berlin |
| 1972 - 1973 | Academic year abroad in Rome and Etruria with a grant from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
| 1974 - 1979 | Reasearch assistant at the FU Berlin |
| 1980 | Awarded PhD in scientific study of religion |
| 1980 - 1984 |
Facalty Lecture at the FU Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin |
| 1985 - 1990 |
Assistant (C 1) at the FU Berlin |
| 1988 | Post-doctorate (Habilitation) at the FU Berlin (venia legendi for scientific study of religiont) |
| 1991 - 1993 |
Assistant Professor (C 2) at the FU Berlin |
| 1993 - 2002 | Professor (C 4) for cultural studies anthropology at Universität Paderborn |
| seit 2002 |
Chair of the Scientific Study of Religion at the FU Berlin; Collaboration on Sfb 447 and Sfb 626 |
Since the completion of my post-doctorate, I have taught for short periods as a guest professor as well as done research in several countries abroad (France, Switzerland, England, Israel, USA, Japan, Italy). I am a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut) (Essen) of the Wissenschaftszentrum Nordhein-Westfalen (1992/93 and 1998). In Paderborn I was speaker for the DFG-Graduate Colleges “Travel Literature and Cultural Anthropology” (“Reiseliteratur und Kulturanthropologie”) (1998-2002) as well as head of the NRW research group “Anthropology and Culture” (“Anthropologie und Kultur”) (1993-1996), “Cultural Studies in NRW” (“Kulturwissenschaften in NRW”) (1996-1999), “Culture as Text and Image” (“Kultur als Text und Bild”) (2000-2002). Since October 2003, I have been heading the project “Ritual and Risk. The Performativity of Play Between Cultural Anthropology, Religion and Art” (“Ritual und Risiko. Zur Performativität des Spiels zwischen Kulturanthropologie, Religion und Kunst”) in SFB 447 “Cultures of the Performative” at the FU Berlin.
Teaching and Research Interests
- Methodological questions regarding the historical-philological study of religion with a cultural studies orientation
- History of the scientific study of religion (particularly in context of classics, philology and cultural anthropology)
- Aspects of cultural and religious anthropology in aesthetics
- Cultural and religious history of Greek and Roman Antiquity
- Transference and transformation of religious concepts and practices in the European cultural tradition up to modernity