IAHR Executive Committee Members
Prof. Dr. Gritt Klinkhammer
Department for Cultural Studies
Institute for The Study of Religion and Related Didactics
University of Bremen
Universitäts-Boulevard 18
28334 Bremen
Germany
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Publications Officer: Prof. Dr. Gritt Klinkhammer
Gritt Klinkhammer is a professor at the Institute for The Study of Religion and Related Didactics at the University of Bremen in Northern Germany. There, she is heading the working area of Empirical Studies and Theory of Religion. Her research focuses on Muslim life in Europe (organizations, Sufism, Salafism, discourses on Islam) as well as religious plurality (conflict and coexistence) and socioloy of religion including qualitative religious studies.
Her latest publications are the two monograph
- Muslimfeindlichkeit in christlichen Medien. Eine qualitative Untersuchung zu antimuslimischen Rassismus in ausgewählten christlichen Online-Medien., mit Rosa Lütge und Jacob Chilinski. (VIRR Bd.12) Universität Bremen 2023
- Interreligious contact and media, with Anna Neumaier guest editors of “Religion”, 50/3, 2020
- Religiöse Pluralitäten - Umbrüche in der Wahrnehmung religiöser Vielfalt in Deutschland, mit Anna Neumaier. Bielefeld: transcript 2020.
and the following essay
- The Study of Religion and its Value Relations. On the relationship between value judgment, scientific investigation, object definition and positioning of the researcher, in: Denzil Chetty, Satoko Fujiwara & Katja Triplett (Ed.) Study of Religion and Commitment, (IAHR Book Series) Equinox, 2026, 20 pp. (in editing)
- Sufism in German speaking Europe (Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland), with Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, in: Sufism in Western Contexts, ed.by Marcia Hermansen & Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh. Brill (Han
- Young Male Salafis in Germany – Ticking Bombs? A Biographical Approach, in: Christel Gärtner & Winkel, Heidemarie (Ed.): Exploring Islam beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism. Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2021, pp. 277-310. Doi.10.1007/978-3-658-33239-6_12