M Koenig
Biographic Data
| ID | 11809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Koenig |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Koenig |
| SIGNATURE | KOENIG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Göttingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0916-2263 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 394 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Religious Diversity, Islam, and Integration in Western Europe—Dissecting Symbolic, Social, and Institutional Boundary Dynamics
Religious diversity and, in particular, the presence of Islam is often perceived as a threat to national solidarity and social cohesion across Western Europe. Reviewing and synthesizing compartmentalized research literature on religion and immigrant integration, this article scrutinizes symbolic, social, and institutional boundary processes and their underlying micro-level mechanisms. First, it showcases the relative brightness of religiously cod…
Reconfiguring Cultural Differences
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The problem of religious diversity: European challenges, Asian approaches
For twenty years, research on secularism has proliferated across disciplines. Political theorists have debated the normative principles of state-religion relations in liberal democracies, while ant
The Judicial Politics of Burqa Bans in Belgium and Spain—Socio-Legal Field Dynamics and the Standardization of Justificatory Repertoires
Over the past decade, controversies over Muslim women's face veiling have become increasingly widespread in societies across Europe. This article comparatively explores the socio-legal dynamics of claims making by proponents and opponents of prohibiting full-face coverings in Belgium and Spain. In Belgium, a federal ban of full-face coverings was adopted in July 2011 and, after intensive judicial struggles, received judicial validation by the Con…
Islamischer Religionsunterricht an öffentlichen Schulen
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Religion und Bildungserfolg im Migrationskontext – Theoretische Argumente, empirische Befunde und offene Fragen
Exploring the micro-politics of recognition
As part of the book symposium on Getting Respect by Lamont et al., this essay explores the micro-politics of recognition and their context-specific varieties in the U.S., Brazil and Israel. The essay scrutinizes the action-theoretical assumptions inherent in the authors' phenomenological exploration of experiences of, and responses to, ethno-racial exclusion among ordinary people. Furthermore, it critically discusses the role of groupness, classi…
Ist die Zeitschrift für Soziologie eine Zeitschrift für Soziologie
Religion and new immigrants' labor market entry in Western Europe
This paper analyzes the effects of religious participation upon a major socio-economic integration outcome, namely employment, among recent Christian and Muslim newcomers in three Western European destination countries: Germany, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. The paper revisits theoretical arguments about religious participation as an ethnic investment strategy or, alternatively, as a bridge to the societal mainstream. Drawing on the longitu…
Explaining the Muslim employment gap in Western Europe: Individual-level effects and ethno-religious penalties
Gouverner le religieux avec les juges. Introduction
Si l'analyse comparée des rapports entre État et religion connaît un regain d'intérêt, l'étude des processus politiques sous-jacents à la régulation publique du religieux reste balbutiante. La multiplication des controverses judiciaires impliquant la religion invite à s'intéresser à la place que tient la justice dans la gouvernance du religieux. Au croisement des champs d'études de l'action publique et de la judiciarisation du politique, ce dossi…
Modernités multiples et mondialisation
Les récentes tentatives théoriques de reconstruire les explications weberiennes de la modernité ont apparemment pris deux directions opposées, soulignant les dynamiques globales de la rationalisation et l'émergence de multiples modernités. Cet article suggère que l'intégration de ces deux courants macrosociologiques ouvre de fructueuses perspectives de recherche pour les sociologues des religions. Elle est non seulement conceptuellement faisable,…
Bridges and Barriers: Religion and Immigrant Occupational Attainment across Integration Contexts
This article advances knowledge about context-dependent impacts of religion on immigrant structural integration. Drawing on theories of inter-generational immigrant integration, it identifies and spells out two context-dependent mechanisms through which religion impinges upon structural integration — as ethnic marker prompting exclusion and discrimination, or as social organization providing access to tangible resources. The propositions are empi…
Zwischen Säkularisierung und religiöser Reorganisation – Eine Analyse der Religiosität türkischer und polnischer Neuzuwanderer in Deutschland
God Can Wait – New Migrants in Germany Between Early Adaptation and Religious Reorganization
We analyse migration‐related changes in religiosity among new Polish and Turkish migrants in Germany by using data from an international project on Socio‐Cultural Integration Processes of New Immigrants in Europe ( SCIP ). The study confirms that after migration, both groups experience a decrease in religious practices that is more pronounced among Muslim Turks than among Catholic Poles and more pertinent for worship attendance than for prayer. A…
Beyond the paradigm of secularization?—A discussion with Charles Taylor: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Charles Taylor
Mit seinem Buch A Secular Age hat der Sozialphilosoph Charles Taylor einen aufsehenerregenden Alternativentwurf zum klassischen Säkularisierungsparadigma vorgelegt. Das Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, ihn auf die religionssoziologische Diskussion um Säkularisierung und deren verschiedenen Teilprozesse zu beziehen. Es werden drei Ansprüche formuliert, an denen Alternativentwürfe zu messen sind. Erstens müssen sie verständlich machen, warum "Säkularit…
Conflict in the world polity - neo-institutional perspectives
This article assesses the potential contribution of neo-institutional world polity theory to the study of global conflict dynamics. Prevalent conflict theories explain the emergence and resolution of conflicts by resorting to actors' mutually incompatible preferences and differential access to economic, social or symbolic sources of power. World polity theory challenges fundamental assumptions of such theories by conceptualizing action as highly …
Programmatic Implications of Meeting the Unmet Need for Contraception: Evidences from a longitudinal study in rural India
Based on a longitudinal study in rural India, this article examines whether (i) women in unmet need are more likely to use contraception compared to those in no need; (ii) meeting unmet need can reduce unwanted pregnancies; (iii) contraceptive intentions with fertility preferences can enhance the utility of unmet need. The study covered 6303 women interviewed in 1998 and followed-up in 2002 in the states of Bihar, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Duri…
Religiosität türkischer Migranten im Generationenverlauf: Ein Befund und einige Erklärungsversuche / Religiosity of First and Second Generation Turkish Migrants: A Phenomenon and Some Attempts at a Th…
Die Religiosität türkischer Einwanderer zeichnet sich durch eine erstaunlich hohe intergenerationale Stabilität aus. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert existierende theoretische Erklärungsansätze für Religiosität im Generationenverlauf und überprüft sie anhand empirischer Daten der in Deutschland durchgeführten Generations- and Gender Surveys (GGS). Dabei wird gezeigt, dass die klassische Assimilationstheorie und Konzepte der symbolischen oder kompensator…
Grenzziehungen im System wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen – der Fall der “Kulturwissenschaft(en)
Der Beitrag analysiert die (inter-)disziplinären Grenzziehungspraktiken, die mit der Konjunktur der "Kulturwissenschaft(en)" im deutschsprachigen Raum verbunden sind. Differenzierungstheoretische Analysen des Wissenschaftssystems werden dabei um Einsichten der neueren Theorie symbolischer und sozialer Grenzziehung erweitert. Die Konjunktur der interdisziplinären "Kulturwissenschaften" (im Plural) wird aus spezifischen Strategien des boundary-blur…
Religiosity and gender equality: Comparing natives and Muslim migrants in Germany
In European public debates, Islam is often described as an impediment to gender equality. By using data from surveys conducted in Germany, we analyse the role of high levels of individual religiosity in explaining Turks'and Germans' approval of gender equality and the way Turkish and German couples share household tasks. Results suggest that, for both groups, individuals with strong religious commitments are less likely than secular individuals t…
Mondialisation des droits de l'homme et transformation de l'État-nation. Une analyse néo-institutionnaliste
Cet article analyse la transformation du concept moderne de citoyenneté nationale. S’appuyant sur la théorie néo-institutionnaliste de la mondialisation, il avance qu'émerge un nouveau modèle global de citoyenneté multiculturelle qui justifie le découplage de l’appartenance étatique, des droits individuels et de l’identité nationale. L'analyse du discours juridique international sur les droits de l’homme, notamment en matière religieuse, montre q…
Vitalité religieuse et mécanismes de sécularisation institutionnelle en Europe
Si la théorie classique de la sécularisation a été quelque peu bousculée par les débats récents sur la vitalité religieuse, son noyau paradigmatique est resté largement intact. En réalité, le cœur de cette théorie repose sur le présupposé selon lequel les systèmes sociaux s'éloignent de plus en plus de la religion. L'auteur remet en question les conceptions téléologiques de la différenciation, en mettant en lumière les constellations d'acteurs, l…
Institutional Change in the World Polity: International Human Rights and the Construction of Collective Identities
This article discusses the transformation of the classical nation-state, as articulated in contemporary struggles for recognition. Elaborating neoinstitutional world polity theory, it analyses global institutional changes that underlie those transformations. It is claimed that the worldwide diffusion of the classical nation-state model itself has had paradoxical consequences, which have in the long run generated a new model of multicultural citiz…
Europeanising the Governance of Religious Diversity: An Institutionalist Account of Muslim Struggles for Public Recognition
Recent comparative social science research has emphasised that different patterns of incorporating Muslim migrant minorities are related to institutional varieties of religious governance in Western European countries. This article focuses on the emergence of institutional elements of religious governance at the European level and their impact on the organisational and symbolic incorporation of Muslims. Drawing on conceptual tools from institutio…
Religiosity and gender equality: Comparing natives and Muslim migrants in Germany
In European public debates, Islam is often described as an impediment to gender equality. By using data from surveys conducted in Germany, we analyse the role of high levels of individual religiosity in explaining Turks'and Germans' approval of gender equality and the way Turkish and German couples share household tasks. Results suggest that, for both groups, individuals with strong religious commitments are less likely than secular individuals t…
Religiosität türkischer Migranten im Generationenverlauf: Ein Befund und einige Erklärungsversuche / Religiosity of First and Second Generation Turkish Migrants: A Phenomenon and Some Attempts at a Th…
Die Religiosität türkischer Einwanderer zeichnet sich durch eine erstaunlich hohe intergenerationale Stabilität aus. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert existierende theoretische Erklärungsansätze für Religiosität im Generationenverlauf und überprüft sie anhand empirischer Daten der in Deutschland durchgeführten Generations- and Gender Surveys (GGS). Dabei wird gezeigt, dass die klassische Assimilationstheorie und Konzepte der symbolischen oder kompensator…
Bridges and Barriers: Religion and Immigrant Occupational Attainment across Integration Contexts
This article advances knowledge about context-dependent impacts of religion on immigrant structural integration. Drawing on theories of inter-generational immigrant integration, it identifies and spells out two context-dependent mechanisms through which religion impinges upon structural integration — as ethnic marker prompting exclusion and discrimination, or as social organization providing access to tangible resources. The propositions are empi…
Europeanising the Governance of Religious Diversity: An Institutionalist Account of Muslim Struggles for Public Recognition
Recent comparative social science research has emphasised that different patterns of incorporating Muslim migrant minorities are related to institutional varieties of religious governance in Western European countries. This article focuses on the emergence of institutional elements of religious governance at the European level and their impact on the organisational and symbolic incorporation of Muslims. Drawing on conceptual tools from institutio…
God Can Wait – New Migrants in Germany Between Early Adaptation and Religious Reorganization
We analyse migration‐related changes in religiosity among new Polish and Turkish migrants in Germany by using data from an international project on Socio‐Cultural Integration Processes of New Immigrants in Europe ( SCIP ). The study confirms that after migration, both groups experience a decrease in religious practices that is more pronounced among Muslim Turks than among Catholic Poles and more pertinent for worship attendance than for prayer. A…
Religion and new immigrants' labor market entry in Western Europe
This paper analyzes the effects of religious participation upon a major socio-economic integration outcome, namely employment, among recent Christian and Muslim newcomers in three Western European destination countries: Germany, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. The paper revisits theoretical arguments about religious participation as an ethnic investment strategy or, alternatively, as a bridge to the societal mainstream. Drawing on the longitu…
Institutional Change in the World Polity: International Human Rights and the Construction of Collective Identities
This article discusses the transformation of the classical nation-state, as articulated in contemporary struggles for recognition. Elaborating neoinstitutional world polity theory, it analyses global institutional changes that underlie those transformations. It is claimed that the worldwide diffusion of the classical nation-state model itself has had paradoxical consequences, which have in the long run generated a new model of multicultural citiz…
Explaining the Muslim employment gap in Western Europe: Individual-level effects and ethno-religious penalties
Conflict in the world polity - neo-institutional perspectives
This article assesses the potential contribution of neo-institutional world polity theory to the study of global conflict dynamics. Prevalent conflict theories explain the emergence and resolution of conflicts by resorting to actors' mutually incompatible preferences and differential access to economic, social or symbolic sources of power. World polity theory challenges fundamental assumptions of such theories by conceptualizing action as highly …
Religion und Bildungserfolg im Migrationskontext – Theoretische Argumente, empirische Befunde und offene Fragen
Beyond the paradigm of secularization?—A discussion with Charles Taylor: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Charles Taylor
Mit seinem Buch A Secular Age hat der Sozialphilosoph Charles Taylor einen aufsehenerregenden Alternativentwurf zum klassischen Säkularisierungsparadigma vorgelegt. Das Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, ihn auf die religionssoziologische Diskussion um Säkularisierung und deren verschiedenen Teilprozesse zu beziehen. Es werden drei Ansprüche formuliert, an denen Alternativentwürfe zu messen sind. Erstens müssen sie verständlich machen, warum "Säkularit…
Zwischen Säkularisierung und religiöser Reorganisation – Eine Analyse der Religiosität türkischer und polnischer Neuzuwanderer in Deutschland
The Judicial Politics of Burqa Bans in Belgium and Spain—Socio-Legal Field Dynamics and the Standardization of Justificatory Repertoires
Over the past decade, controversies over Muslim women's face veiling have become increasingly widespread in societies across Europe. This article comparatively explores the socio-legal dynamics of claims making by proponents and opponents of prohibiting full-face coverings in Belgium and Spain. In Belgium, a federal ban of full-face coverings was adopted in July 2011 and, after intensive judicial struggles, received judicial validation by the Con…
Exploring the micro-politics of recognition
As part of the book symposium on Getting Respect by Lamont et al., this essay explores the micro-politics of recognition and their context-specific varieties in the U.S., Brazil and Israel. The essay scrutinizes the action-theoretical assumptions inherent in the authors' phenomenological exploration of experiences of, and responses to, ethno-racial exclusion among ordinary people. Furthermore, it critically discusses the role of groupness, classi…
Gouverner le religieux avec les juges. Introduction
Si l'analyse comparée des rapports entre État et religion connaît un regain d'intérêt, l'étude des processus politiques sous-jacents à la régulation publique du religieux reste balbutiante. La multiplication des controverses judiciaires impliquant la religion invite à s'intéresser à la place que tient la justice dans la gouvernance du religieux. Au croisement des champs d'études de l'action publique et de la judiciarisation du politique, ce dossi…
Religious Diversity, Islam, and Integration in Western Europe—Dissecting Symbolic, Social, and Institutional Boundary Dynamics
Religious diversity and, in particular, the presence of Islam is often perceived as a threat to national solidarity and social cohesion across Western Europe. Reviewing and synthesizing compartmentalized research literature on religion and immigrant integration, this article scrutinizes symbolic, social, and institutional boundary processes and their underlying micro-level mechanisms. First, it showcases the relative brightness of religiously cod…
The problem of religious diversity: European challenges, Asian approaches
For twenty years, research on secularism has proliferated across disciplines. Political theorists have debated the normative principles of state-religion relations in liberal democracies, while ant
Grenzziehungen im System wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen – der Fall der “Kulturwissenschaft(en)
Der Beitrag analysiert die (inter-)disziplinären Grenzziehungspraktiken, die mit der Konjunktur der "Kulturwissenschaft(en)" im deutschsprachigen Raum verbunden sind. Differenzierungstheoretische Analysen des Wissenschaftssystems werden dabei um Einsichten der neueren Theorie symbolischer und sozialer Grenzziehung erweitert. Die Konjunktur der interdisziplinären "Kulturwissenschaften" (im Plural) wird aus spezifischen Strategien des boundary-blur…
Vitalité religieuse et mécanismes de sécularisation institutionnelle en Europe
Si la théorie classique de la sécularisation a été quelque peu bousculée par les débats récents sur la vitalité religieuse, son noyau paradigmatique est resté largement intact. En réalité, le cœur de cette théorie repose sur le présupposé selon lequel les systèmes sociaux s'éloignent de plus en plus de la religion. L'auteur remet en question les conceptions téléologiques de la différenciation, en mettant en lumière les constellations d'acteurs, l…
Historical Sociology - Limitations and Perspectives
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Social Conditions for the Implementation of Linguistic Human Rights Through Multicultural Policies: The Case of the Kyrgyz Republic
This paper begins with a survey of various theories of nationalism and the function of language in its constructs. The resurgence of nationalist projects in the last part of the 20th century is set within the context of globalisation which is seen as intensifying and encouraging the desire for a recognition of ethnic specificity. Within the successor states of the USSR, ethnic revivalist and nationalist tendencies threaten the transition to democ…
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Politics and Religion in European Nation-States: Institutional Varieties and Contemporary Transformations
Weltgesellschaft, Menschenrechte und der Formwandel des Nationalstaats / World Society, Human Rights and the Transformation of the Nation-State
Incorporating Muslim migrants in western nation states – a comparison of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany
Historical Sociology - Limitations and Perspectives
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Europeanising the Governance of Religious Diversity: An Institutionalist Account of Muslim Struggles for Public Recognition
Recent comparative social science research has emphasised that different patterns of incorporating Muslim migrant minorities are related to institutional varieties of religious governance in Western European countries. This article focuses on the emergence of institutional elements of religious governance at the European level and their impact on the organisational and symbolic incorporation of Muslims. Drawing on conceptual tools from institutio…
Mondialisation des droits de l'homme et transformation de l'État-nation. Une analyse néo-institutionnaliste
Cet article analyse la transformation du concept moderne de citoyenneté nationale. S’appuyant sur la théorie néo-institutionnaliste de la mondialisation, il avance qu'émerge un nouveau modèle global de citoyenneté multiculturelle qui justifie le découplage de l’appartenance étatique, des droits individuels et de l’identité nationale. L'analyse du discours juridique international sur les droits de l’homme, notamment en matière religieuse, montre q…
Vitalité religieuse et mécanismes de sécularisation institutionnelle en Europe
Si la théorie classique de la sécularisation a été quelque peu bousculée par les débats récents sur la vitalité religieuse, son noyau paradigmatique est resté largement intact. En réalité, le cœur de cette théorie repose sur le présupposé selon lequel les systèmes sociaux s'éloignent de plus en plus de la religion. L'auteur remet en question les conceptions téléologiques de la différenciation, en mettant en lumière les constellations d'acteurs, l…
Institutional Change in the World Polity: International Human Rights and the Construction of Collective Identities
This article discusses the transformation of the classical nation-state, as articulated in contemporary struggles for recognition. Elaborating neoinstitutional world polity theory, it analyses global institutional changes that underlie those transformations. It is claimed that the worldwide diffusion of the classical nation-state model itself has had paradoxical consequences, which have in the long run generated a new model of multicultural citiz…
Programmatic Implications of Meeting the Unmet Need for Contraception: Evidences from a longitudinal study in rural India
Based on a longitudinal study in rural India, this article examines whether (i) women in unmet need are more likely to use contraception compared to those in no need; (ii) meeting unmet need can reduce unwanted pregnancies; (iii) contraceptive intentions with fertility preferences can enhance the utility of unmet need. The study covered 6303 women interviewed in 1998 and followed-up in 2002 in the states of Bihar, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Duri…
Religiosität türkischer Migranten im Generationenverlauf: Ein Befund und einige Erklärungsversuche / Religiosity of First and Second Generation Turkish Migrants: A Phenomenon and Some Attempts at a Th…
Die Religiosität türkischer Einwanderer zeichnet sich durch eine erstaunlich hohe intergenerationale Stabilität aus. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert existierende theoretische Erklärungsansätze für Religiosität im Generationenverlauf und überprüft sie anhand empirischer Daten der in Deutschland durchgeführten Generations- and Gender Surveys (GGS). Dabei wird gezeigt, dass die klassische Assimilationstheorie und Konzepte der symbolischen oder kompensator…
Grenzziehungen im System wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen – der Fall der “Kulturwissenschaft(en)
Der Beitrag analysiert die (inter-)disziplinären Grenzziehungspraktiken, die mit der Konjunktur der "Kulturwissenschaft(en)" im deutschsprachigen Raum verbunden sind. Differenzierungstheoretische Analysen des Wissenschaftssystems werden dabei um Einsichten der neueren Theorie symbolischer und sozialer Grenzziehung erweitert. Die Konjunktur der interdisziplinären "Kulturwissenschaften" (im Plural) wird aus spezifischen Strategien des boundary-blur…
Religiosity and gender equality: Comparing natives and Muslim migrants in Germany
In European public debates, Islam is often described as an impediment to gender equality. By using data from surveys conducted in Germany, we analyse the role of high levels of individual religiosity in explaining Turks'and Germans' approval of gender equality and the way Turkish and German couples share household tasks. Results suggest that, for both groups, individuals with strong religious commitments are less likely than secular individuals t…
Beyond the paradigm of secularization?—A discussion with Charles Taylor: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Charles Taylor
Mit seinem Buch A Secular Age hat der Sozialphilosoph Charles Taylor einen aufsehenerregenden Alternativentwurf zum klassischen Säkularisierungsparadigma vorgelegt. Das Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, ihn auf die religionssoziologische Diskussion um Säkularisierung und deren verschiedenen Teilprozesse zu beziehen. Es werden drei Ansprüche formuliert, an denen Alternativentwürfe zu messen sind. Erstens müssen sie verständlich machen, warum "Säkularit…
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