Curriculum Vitae

Lehre

Forschung

• Buddhismus in China (seit 1900)
• Religionen in China in globalhistorischer Perspektive
• chinesisch-religiöse Diaspora
• Religionen und Politik in Greater China
• Diskursanalyse
• Begriffsgeschichte

Publikationen

Ellguth, R. Review of Translingual Catholics. Chinese Theologians before Vatican II, by Lu Jin. China Heute XLIV, no. 3 (2025).

Ellguth, R. “From Dharma Talk to Religious Sentiment: Chinese Buddhist Encounters with the Religious Psychology of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Ludwig Feuerbach, 1912–1949”. Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies 8.1 (2025). https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.08.01.02  

Ellguth, R. “Die Kuomintang und der Buddhismus in der Republik China (1912-1949): Zwischen Volkspartei und weltanschaulichen Parteiungen“. Zeitschrft für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41682-021-00080-2.

Präsentationen und Panels

Ellguth, R. (2025, November). The ABC of Religions: Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Scholarship and the Shaping of Religious Literacy, 1920-1949. Intercultural Knowledge Transfer in (Transregional) Asian Religious Contexts, University of Münster, Germany.

Ellguth, R. (2025, September). Under the Spell of the Vernacular: Rethinking Appropriations of baihua in the Sinophone Sphere of Religions, 1550-1930. Organized panel at theDeutscher Orientalistentag, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

Ellguth, R. (2025, September). Young and Well-Read: Professionalized baihua as a new Style in Buddhist Essays, 1920-1949. Deutscher Orientalistentag, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

Clart, P., Su, Shi-yu, Ellguth, R. (2025, August). Reformulating Buddhism: Conceptual Debates and Strategy Creation of Buddhist Groups in the Sinophone Sphere. Organized panel at the XXth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Leipzig University, Germany.

Ellguth, R. (2025, August). “Religious Experience” as a New Concept among Chinese Buddhist Groups, 1920-1949. XXth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Leipzig University, Germany.

Ellguth, R. (2024, September). From Dharma Talk to Religious Sentiment: Chinese Buddhist Encounters with Religious Psychology, 1912-1949. When the Himalayas Encounter the Alps: Asia-Buddhist and Other Religious Exchanges, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Ellguth, R. (2024, January). Engagements with Western Theories of Religion in Chinese Buddhist Journals, 1912-1949. Chinese Religious Text Authority (CRTA) workshop: New Researches on Chinese Religious Texts 1600-1940, Genres and Corpora, Paris, France

Ellguth, R. (2023, March). Participation (discussant) in the workshop Buddhist Concepts and Phrases in China Trajectories of Meaning over the Past Forty-five Years Old and New Concepts and Phrases and their Discursive Evolution, Hamburg University, Germany.

Ellguth, R. (2022, September). (Re)writing the History of Religions in Chinese Discourses, 1912-1949. Organized panel at the Deutscher Orientalistentag, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Ellguth, R. (2022, September). "Atheism" (wushenlun 無神論) as a new Concept in Chinese Buddhist Apologetic Discourses, 1912-1949. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Ellguth, R. (2022, August). Chinese Buddhism and the Comparative Study of Christianity in Republican China. 24th biennial conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Ellguth, R. (2021, September). Participation in the International summer seminar From Late Imperial to Republican China: Continuities and Ruptures, Ile d’Oleron, France.

Ellguth, R. (2021, August). Religious Literacy and Moral Education in Republican Texts. Organized panel at the 23rd biennial conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Leipzig University, Germany.

Ellguth, R. (2019, November). The Buddhist Republic of Letters: Buddhist Journals of the Republican Era as Virtual Spaces of Knowledge. Annual conference of the German Association of China Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany.

Ellguth, R. (2019, March). The Buddha in Plain Words: Chinese Buddhist Engagements with Western Religious Thought, 1890-1949. Annual workshop of the German young China scholars’ working group, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Ellguth, R. (2018, October). The Kuomintang (KMT) and Buddhism in Republican China. Annual workshop of the working group ‘’Religions and Politics’’ of the German Association of Religious Studies with the topic ‘’Religion, Parties and Party Formation: Case Studies and Theoretical Perspectives’’, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Ellguth, R. (2016, March). Chinese Intellectuals and the Discourse on Czechoslovakia as a Model for Nation-building (1918-1939). PhD seminar, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.