Ulrich Berner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1637655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulrich Berner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulrich |
| FAMILY NAME | Berner |
| SIGNATURE | BERNER U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bayreuth |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Matt Tomlinson and Yujie Zhu, ‘Making Places Sacred: New Articulations of Place and Power’
Matt Tomlinson and Yujie Zhu, Making Places Sacred: New Articulations of Place and Power (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025, Elements in New Religious Movements), 63 pp., $23.00 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-009-61632-4
Donald Wiebe: An Argument in Defence of a Strictly Scientific Study of Religion. The Controversy at Delphi. A Critical Account of the Meeting of the Extended Executive Committee of the International A…
Article Donald Wiebe: An Argument in Defence of a Strictly Scientific Study of Religion. The Controversy at Delphi. A Critical Account of the Meeting of the Extended Executive Committee of the International Association for the History of Religions. September 13–15, 2019 Delphi, Greece. Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion. Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2021. 345 Seiten. was published on May 1, 2022 in the journal Zeitschrift für Religionswisse…
Max Müller, Charles Darwin and the science of religion
The science of religion, as a discipline distinct from theology emerging in the 19th century, from the beginning was closely related to the discourse on Darwinism. This article focusses on Max Müller, known as 'The father of Comparative Religion', who was involved in the Darwinian discourse, compared with Jane Ellen Harrison who emphasised the impact of the theory of evolution, approaching, however, the 'scientific study of religion' from a diffe…
Mountains as sacred spaces
Sacred mountains are well known from all over the world, especially as places for pilgrimage. Classical phenomenology of religion used to present them as places of a hierophany and/or as spaces for a numinous experience. Although both these concepts – ’hierophany’ and ’numinous experience’ – have been the target of severe criticism in Religious Studies, it may be rewarding to redefine them as purely descriptive categories and discuss the applicab…
Contextualization of Religious Studies and of religious phenomena
The present paper provides a case study from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, describing the changes in the Religious Studies program as a response to institutional pressures, and emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration in the context of Cultural Studies as a perspective for the future development of Religious Studies as a discipline and as a field of studies
"Reflections Upon the Concept of "New Religious Movement
concept of New Religious Movement has frequently been used to describe a religious phenomenon of the 20th century. Other concepts which have been applied to the same phenomenon, such as New Religion and Independent Church, have the disadvantage of being too narrow in one or the other respect. H.W. Turner, prob ably, is the scholar who has written most extensively on this new global phenomenon, giving special attention to the African continent. In…
Gegenstand und Aufgabe der Religionswissenschaft
Contextualization of Religious Studies and of religious phenomena
The present paper provides a case study from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, describing the changes in the Religious Studies program as a response to institutional pressures, and emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration in the context of Cultural Studies as a perspective for the future development of Religious Studies as a discipline and as a field of studies
Gegenstand und Aufgabe der Religionswissenschaft
"Reflections Upon the Concept of "New Religious Movement
concept of New Religious Movement has frequently been used to describe a religious phenomenon of the 20th century. Other concepts which have been applied to the same phenomenon, such as New Religion and Independent Church, have the disadvantage of being too narrow in one or the other respect. H.W. Turner, prob ably, is the scholar who has written most extensively on this new global phenomenon, giving special attention to the African continent. In…
Contextualization of Religious Studies and of religious phenomena
The present paper provides a case study from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, describing the changes in the Religious Studies program as a response to institutional pressures, and emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration in the context of Cultural Studies as a perspective for the future development of Religious Studies as a discipline and as a field of studies
Mountains as sacred spaces
Sacred mountains are well known from all over the world, especially as places for pilgrimage. Classical phenomenology of religion used to present them as places of a hierophany and/or as spaces for a numinous experience. Although both these concepts – ’hierophany’ and ’numinous experience’ – have been the target of severe criticism in Religious Studies, it may be rewarding to redefine them as purely descriptive categories and discuss the applicab…
Max Müller, Charles Darwin and the science of religion
The science of religion, as a discipline distinct from theology emerging in the 19th century, from the beginning was closely related to the discourse on Darwinism. This article focusses on Max Müller, known as 'The father of Comparative Religion', who was involved in the Darwinian discourse, compared with Jane Ellen Harrison who emphasised the impact of the theory of evolution, approaching, however, the 'scientific study of religion' from a diffe…
Donald Wiebe: An Argument in Defence of a Strictly Scientific Study of Religion. The Controversy at Delphi. A Critical Account of the Meeting of the Extended Executive Committee of the International A…
Article Donald Wiebe: An Argument in Defence of a Strictly Scientific Study of Religion. The Controversy at Delphi. A Critical Account of the Meeting of the Extended Executive Committee of the International Association for the History of Religions. September 13–15, 2019 Delphi, Greece. Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion. Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2021. 345 Seiten. was published on May 1, 2022 in the journal Zeitschrift für Religionswisse…
Matt Tomlinson and Yujie Zhu, ‘Making Places Sacred: New Articulations of Place and Power’
Matt Tomlinson and Yujie Zhu, Making Places Sacred: New Articulations of Place and Power (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025, Elements in New Religious Movements), 63 pp., $23.00 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-009-61632-4
Philosophy (5 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Study and Philosophy of Religion (4 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)