Hans-Georg Ziebertz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1062999 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans-Georg Ziebertz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans-Georg |
| FAMILY NAME | Ziebertz |
| SIGNATURE | ZIEBERTZ H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Faculty of Theology, University of WürzburgGermany |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7750-0669 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction to the Special Issue: Religion and Human Rights: Complementary or Contrary
Human rights law is supposed to direct all social forces towards enhancement of the autonomy and equality of all citizens
The Prohibition of Discrimination and Unequal Treatment of Women and Homosexuals in the Spheres of Work and in Public Life: An Empirical Comparative Study on the Influence of Religion and National Cul…
Differences in race, ethnic origin, gender, belief and worldview, disability and chronic disease, age, and sexual orientation must not be a reason for discriminating against people. Non-discrimination is enshrined as a fundamental right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in numerous subsequent documents and in the constitutions of democratic states. Also the major religions are hostile to discriminatory distinctions. Among the groups t…
The Impact of Religion and National Origin on Attitudes towards Refugee Rights: An International Comparative Empirical Study
This paper is concerned with the rights of refugees. The refugee issue has been an acutely charged item on the political agenda for several years. Although the great waves of influx have flattened out, people are continually venturing into Europe. Europe's handling of refugees has been subject to strong criticism, and the accusation that various actions contradict internationally agreed law is particularly serious. It remains a question of how to…
Religious Commitment and Empathic Concern
There is very extensive literature on whether and how religiosity and empathy are related. Such research shows very different results, with some finding a positive influence while others seeing no influence. This paper presents research conducted on German youth (N=2157) regarding the question of how young people score on empathic concern and which concepts function as predictors. Therefore, different concepts on religious commitment are included…
Euthanasia, Abortion, Death Penalty and Religion - The Right to Life and its Limitations: International Empirical Research
The Impact of Religious and National Belonging on Attitudes Concerning the Social Importance of Religion
Culture and religion are both collective phenomena. Social identity theory shows how both can function as a connective frame of reference for a certain group of human beings. Frames are unique; nevertheless, different frames can overlap each other. In this research, both big categories will be used to explore if and how they predict attitudes towards the social importance of religious institutions. Religious institutions are guided by religious a…
Religion as a Predictor for the Support of Judicial Human Rights
Human rights are the cornerstones of modern liberal democracies, but this does not mean that they can be taken for granted. Human rights need the support of the people. But how willing are people to support them? This question points to the problem of the legitimacy of human rights. This research paper focuses on judicial human rights such as freedom from torture, the rights of accused persons and the inviolability of the home. A quantitative, em…
Freedom of Religion in the 21st Century: A human rights perspective on the relation between politics and religion
Freedom of religion consists of the right to practice, to manifest and to change one’s religion. The modern democratic state is neutral towards the variety of religions, but protects the right of citizens to practice their different religious beliefs. Recent history shows that a number of religious claims challenge the neutral state. This happens especially when secularity is rejected as the basis of the modern state. How can conflicting interpre…
Human dignity – the foundation of political human rights? Empirical research among youth in Germany
This article focuses on political human rights and on the empirically assessed legitimation of these rights. This research considers the rights of refugees, the active and passive right to vote, and the right of protest. Given that the research is empirical research, respondents are requested to express agreement, disagreement or neutrality. The assumption is that contextual factors influence people’s assessment of rights. One contextual factor i…
Labour Rights and the Impact of Human Dignity, Religious Belief and Perception of Society
The present study was part of a large research project on human rights. This paper focuses on attitudes towards labour rights of German adolescents (N = 2244) The labour rights under investigation are the right to work for everyone, the right to equal pay for equal work, the right to working hour limitations, the right to paid holidays, and the right to support for the unemployed. Although human rights in general are considered as universal, egal…
Freedom of religion in the 21st century: A Human Rights Perspective on the Relation Between Politics and Religion
Mystical Experience and Psychopathology: A Study Among Secular, Christian, and Muslim Youth in Germany
Human Rights and the Impact of Religion
Human Rights among Muslims and Christians in Palestine and Germany
This chapter presents a study on 1,492 Christian and Muslim adolescents from Germany and Palestine and their attitudes towards specific political, socio-economic, and environmental human rights. It specifies the influence of personal, societal and cultural factors on the support of human rights. The chapter elaborates the theory of human rights as a personal, societal and cultural project. It uses a social theory framework for considering the fac…
Tensions Within and Between Religions and Human Rights
Religiöser Pluralismus im Fokus quantitativer Religionsforschung
Die religiöse Vielfalt hat in Europa in den letzten Jahren stark zugenommen. Dazu haben nicht nur Prozesse der Pluralisierung innerhalb des Christentums sowie das zunehmende Interesse an Formen alternativer New-Age Spiritualität beigetragen. Bunter geworden ist das religiöse Spektrum vor allem durch die Zuwanderung von Menschen mit nichtchristlicher Identität aus allen Teilen der Welt. Die leitenden Fragen dieses Bandes lauten: â Was ist religiös…
The Public Significance of Religion
This book reflects on the idea that religion represents a force in the public realms of society. The empirical evidence reveals a regained relevance for and commitment to religion re-emerging in secularized countries, but also that it does so in a new form: unexpected, foreign, and maybe even dangerous. If religion regains public significance in social debates, what are its characteristics in terms of topics and interests, actors and parties? How…
Intercultural Identity — Religion, Values, In-Group and Out-Group Attitudes
The current study examines the mediating role of adolescents’ values in the relationship between religion and adolescents’ self-reported positive and negative out-group and in-group attitudes. 1790 adolescents (among them 1102 Christians and 372 Muslims, mean age = 15, 17 years) completed assessments of their religious denomination, individual values and perception of in-groups and out-groups. The self/other perception was represented by way of t…
Einführung in die Empirische Theologie. Gelebte Religion erforschen
Attitudes and Values of Adolescent Europeans towards Europeanisation
Based on original empirical data collected from adolescents in Europe (N=9003) this paper focuses on the lifeworlds of young people. It analyses negative and positive patterns of attitude and combines them with further concepts: first, personal life perspectives, various key values and political attitudes, second, religious attitudes towards church(es), religions, world views and religious education. Technically, the attitude towards Europe acts …
Religious Education and Values
This article looks at the kind of religious education that young people want and their value orientations. The data comes from a survey in questionnaire form that was administered to 1925 adolescents (mean age 17.8), of whom 55% were female. As well, 50% of respondents were Roman Catholic, 25% were Lutheran, and 22% reported belonging to no religious community. Essentially the young respondents expressed a wish for religious education that provid…
The Short-Form Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Epqr-S): A German Edition
A sample of 331 undergraduate students in Germany completed the German translation of the short form Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQR-S; Eysenck, Eysenck, & Barrett, 1985). The findings support the psychometric properties of the extraversion, neuroticism and lie scales. The psychoticism scale, however, was found to be less satisfactory
Teacher Professionalism in Religious Education
The article gives an overview of selected research results of the project, "Teacher professionalism and professionalisation in religious education". 1 It deals with the question of how teachers in classroom interaction in religious education (RE) lessons reason about the underlying meaning of students' expressions and what professional competencies are related to these processes. An inference-based theory of teacher professionalism helps to overc…
Christlicher Glaube und Glück: Eine Empirische Studie Zum Zusammenhang von Religiosität und Glückserfahrungen
Fur das menschliche Gluck interessieren sich Philosophen (vgl. z.B. McFall 1989) und Psychologen (vgl. z. B. Argyle 1987). Philosophisch betrachtet ist das Gluck Ziel des menschlichen Handelns, Orientierung des menschlichen Willens oder Erful lung des Menschen. Fur die Philosophie ist das Gluck so etwas wie die „Realisierung der vollen menschlichen Bestimmung (Bien 1995, 758). In der Psychologie be zeichnet „Gluck den psychischen Aspekt von Gesun…
The Relationship Between Religion and Happiness Among German Students
The Relationship Between Religion and Happiness Among German Students
The Impact of Religion and National Origin on Attitudes towards Refugee Rights: An International Comparative Empirical Study
This paper is concerned with the rights of refugees. The refugee issue has been an acutely charged item on the political agenda for several years. Although the great waves of influx have flattened out, people are continually venturing into Europe. Europe's handling of refugees has been subject to strong criticism, and the accusation that various actions contradict internationally agreed law is particularly serious. It remains a question of how to…
Leben in Diversit t ? Interkulturelles Lernen
Religions in Dialogue
The catalogues issued by the publishing houses are an indicator of the movements on the book-market. In the past few years the number of publications dealing with a new relationship between Christianity and other religions has increased dramatically. This report will deal with a small selection of systematic writings and others related to school and pastoral practice
Religions in Dialogue
The catalogues issued by the publishing houses are an indicator of the movements on the book-market. In the past few years the number of publications dealing with a new relationship between Christianity and other religions has increased dramatically. This report will deal with a small selection of systematic writings and others related to school and pastoral practice
Religious Pluralism and Religious Education
When thinking of alternatives for denominational religious teaching, it always includes answering the question about the relating discipline. In this contribution, the question is which theological horizon justifies the established type of denominational teaching as practised in Germany, and which theological justifications for alternative concepts of teaching are involved. In addition, it is also necessary to investigate the actual importance of…
Representations of Church Among Young Theologians
Since 1995, so-called 'wishes of churchgoers' have been implemented in a number of European countries. In these adjustments a fundamental church reform is demanded, especially in the fields of women's ordination, celibacy, having a say in bishop appointments, sexual ethics and the association with divorced - and remarried people. The list with critical remarks is long, which explains the tension between the church as it is desired and the church …
Leben in Diversit t ? Interkulturelles Lernen
The Human Image of God
A new wave of religious energy is sweeping through the western nations. Although God is disappearing from religious discourse in western culture, both as a word and as a concept, there is a definite undercurrent of religious ardour, which is growing in strength. It focuses all the more attention on the issue: what or who is God in the modern era? This is the question examined through systematic studies, practical theology and empirical research, …
Modern Religiousness: Extrinsic , Intrinsic or quest
The authors examine the religiousness of theology students and students in other disciplines at several German universities in a context of religious differentiation and pluralisation. Based on Batson's model, religiousness is classified into intrinsic, extrinsic and quest orientations. The religiousness of students of theology and students in other fields was found to differ significantly in the three dimensions. Non-theologians tended to ascrib…
Normativity and Empirical Research in Pra Ctical Theology
In research, normativity is 'unavoidable' because when a particular problem (or facets of a problem) is chosen and the decision for a concrete project is made, other problems (or facets) are excluded. Furthermore, unavoidable normative goals are connected to every research project. It can also be a matter of direct goals which relate to an immediate purpose or of indirect goals which refer to the indirect purpose of a research project. In the end…
The Relationship between Personality and Religion among Undergraduate Students in Germany
A sample of 311 undergraduate students in Germany completed German translations of the short form Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire together with the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity. The data demonstrated that psychoticism is fundamental to individual differences in religiosity, while religiosity is independent of both extraversion and neuroticism. These findings are consistent with those from a series of studies employing t…
Christlicher Glaube und Glück: Eine Empirische Studie Zum Zusammenhang von Religiosität und Glückserfahrungen
Fur das menschliche Gluck interessieren sich Philosophen (vgl. z.B. McFall 1989) und Psychologen (vgl. z. B. Argyle 1987). Philosophisch betrachtet ist das Gluck Ziel des menschlichen Handelns, Orientierung des menschlichen Willens oder Erful lung des Menschen. Fur die Philosophie ist das Gluck so etwas wie die „Realisierung der vollen menschlichen Bestimmung (Bien 1995, 758). In der Psychologie be zeichnet „Gluck den psychischen Aspekt von Gesun…
The Relationship Between Religion and Happiness Among German Students
Teacher Professionalism in Religious Education
The article gives an overview of selected research results of the project, "Teacher professionalism and professionalisation in religious education". 1 It deals with the question of how teachers in classroom interaction in religious education (RE) lessons reason about the underlying meaning of students' expressions and what professional competencies are related to these processes. An inference-based theory of teacher professionalism helps to overc…
The Short-Form Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Epqr-S): A German Edition
A sample of 331 undergraduate students in Germany completed the German translation of the short form Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQR-S; Eysenck, Eysenck, & Barrett, 1985). The findings support the psychometric properties of the extraversion, neuroticism and lie scales. The psychoticism scale, however, was found to be less satisfactory
Religious Education and Values
This article looks at the kind of religious education that young people want and their value orientations. The data comes from a survey in questionnaire form that was administered to 1925 adolescents (mean age 17.8), of whom 55% were female. As well, 50% of respondents were Roman Catholic, 25% were Lutheran, and 22% reported belonging to no religious community. Essentially the young respondents expressed a wish for religious education that provid…
Einführung in die Empirische Theologie. Gelebte Religion erforschen
Attitudes and Values of Adolescent Europeans towards Europeanisation
Based on original empirical data collected from adolescents in Europe (N=9003) this paper focuses on the lifeworlds of young people. It analyses negative and positive patterns of attitude and combines them with further concepts: first, personal life perspectives, various key values and political attitudes, second, religious attitudes towards church(es), religions, world views and religious education. Technically, the attitude towards Europe acts …
Intercultural Identity — Religion, Values, In-Group and Out-Group Attitudes
The current study examines the mediating role of adolescents’ values in the relationship between religion and adolescents’ self-reported positive and negative out-group and in-group attitudes. 1790 adolescents (among them 1102 Christians and 372 Muslims, mean age = 15, 17 years) completed assessments of their religious denomination, individual values and perception of in-groups and out-groups. The self/other perception was represented by way of t…
The Public Significance of Religion
This book reflects on the idea that religion represents a force in the public realms of society. The empirical evidence reveals a regained relevance for and commitment to religion re-emerging in secularized countries, but also that it does so in a new form: unexpected, foreign, and maybe even dangerous. If religion regains public significance in social debates, what are its characteristics in terms of topics and interests, actors and parties? How…
Human Rights among Muslims and Christians in Palestine and Germany
This chapter presents a study on 1,492 Christian and Muslim adolescents from Germany and Palestine and their attitudes towards specific political, socio-economic, and environmental human rights. It specifies the influence of personal, societal and cultural factors on the support of human rights. The chapter elaborates the theory of human rights as a personal, societal and cultural project. It uses a social theory framework for considering the fac…
Tensions Within and Between Religions and Human Rights
Religiöser Pluralismus im Fokus quantitativer Religionsforschung
Die religiöse Vielfalt hat in Europa in den letzten Jahren stark zugenommen. Dazu haben nicht nur Prozesse der Pluralisierung innerhalb des Christentums sowie das zunehmende Interesse an Formen alternativer New-Age Spiritualität beigetragen. Bunter geworden ist das religiöse Spektrum vor allem durch die Zuwanderung von Menschen mit nichtchristlicher Identität aus allen Teilen der Welt. Die leitenden Fragen dieses Bandes lauten: â Was ist religiös…
Human Rights and the Impact of Religion
Mystical Experience and Psychopathology: A Study Among Secular, Christian, and Muslim Youth in Germany
Freedom of religion in the 21st century: A Human Rights Perspective on the Relation Between Politics and Religion
Freedom of Religion in the 21st Century: A human rights perspective on the relation between politics and religion
Freedom of religion consists of the right to practice, to manifest and to change one’s religion. The modern democratic state is neutral towards the variety of religions, but protects the right of citizens to practice their different religious beliefs. Recent history shows that a number of religious claims challenge the neutral state. This happens especially when secularity is rejected as the basis of the modern state. How can conflicting interpre…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (12 works) · Religious Education and Schools (12 works) · Religious studies (11 works) · Human rights (10 works)