Curriculum Vitae

2010 - today  

Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences and Public Affairs at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Professorship for Sociology and Sociological Theory

since autumn trimester 2017 also at the Institute for Theology and Ethics

since summer semester 2017 also lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich

2009 - 2010  

Deputy Professor in Sociology at the University of Education (Pädagogische Hochschule) Heidelberg

2007 - 2009   Lecturer for Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences and Public Affairs at the University of the Bundeswehr, Munich, Institute for Sociology and Economics, Professorship for General Sociology
2007  

Research Associate at the University of Augsburg

2003 - 2007  

Private Lecturer (Privatdozent) with teaching and examination activities at the Institute for Sociology of the LMU Munich

1999 - 2003  

Private Lecturer (Privatdozent) and Research Associate at the Institute for Sociology of the LMU Munich

1999  

Completion of the habilitation procedure at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the LMU with the license to teach sociology (venia legendi, Lehrbefugnis)

1992 - 1998  

Research Associate at the Institute for Sociology at the LMU Munich

1992  

Promotion to Dr. phil. (PhD) in Sociology at the LMU Munich

1988 - 1989  

Research stay at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, U.S.A.

1987 - 1992  

Research Assistant at the Instititute for Sociology at the LMU Munich

1986 - 1987  

Student Assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the LMU Munich

1981 - 1987   

Studies in Sociology, Psychology and Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich with a diploma degree in Sociology (Diplom-Soziologe)

1981   

University entrance qualification

1959  

born in Gräfelfing near Munich

 

Scientific focus / Research interests

Sociological Theory (sociological classics: Georg Simmel, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and George Herbert Mead; interpretative sociology; symbolic interactionism and phenomenological sociology, social action and structure)

Sociology of Religion (classics of sociology of religion, religious change, religion in modern society, current situation of Christianity, new religious movements, New Age and esotericism, religion in cultural comparison, religions of China)

Cultural Sociology (sociology of time: changes in time consciousness, modes of experience of time and social structures, relationships between religion and time; cultural comparison, life world in the context of culture and knowledge)