Anne Koch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Koch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Koch |
| SIGNATURE | KOCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Research Professor, Private University of Education of the Diocese of Linz Linz Austria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5236-6085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Theoriebildungen seit 1990
Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der deutschsprachigen Religionswissenschaft
Between local culture, leisure activity, and nonreligion – the individual constructions of religion by adolescents in rural Austria
The article presents a four-fold typology of adolescent constructions of religion in rural Austria. At first, it identifies the major types of ‘religion as part of local culture’ and ‘religion as leisure activity’ that dominate group discussions among adolescents in rural Austria. In addition, the article identifies two marginal types of ‘explicit nonreligion’ and ‘highly individualized religion’ that dominate the individual constructions of reli…
IOM Unbound?
It is an era of expansion for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an increasingly influential actor in the global governance of migration. Bringing together leading experts in international law and international relations, this collection examines the dynamics and implications of IOM's expansion in a new way. Analyzing IOM as an international organization (IO), the book illuminates the practices, obligations and accountability of …
Cosmopolitan Modes of Governance of Religious Diversity across Europe
From the various contingent cases of interreligious dialogue ( IRD ) across European countries presented at the conference, a systematic cross-regional comparison and system-theory informed analysis is suggested from a cultural study of religion understanding. Along the coordinates of system integration, social integration and cosmopolitanism (as developed in political sciences by U. Beck, E. Grande, N. Sznaider) an interpretation of the specific…
Aestheticscapes und joint speech als ästhetische Strategie
Der Beitrag erläutert anhand von zwei Aestheticscapes einer charismatischen katholischen Gemeinschaft, wie mit unterschiedlichen ästhetischen Strategien das Erleben beeinflusst wird. Das hat zur Folge, dass die religiöse Botschaft multimedial intensiv und nachhaltig bei den Teilnehmenden verankert wird. Zentrale und in der Literatur schon gut belegte These ist, dass dies über den Zustand einer Absorption stattfinden kann. In den beiden Ritualsequ…
Sovereignty and the Sacred
The Governance of Aesthetic Subjects Through Body Knowledge and Affect Economies. A Cognitive-Aesthetic Approach
Introduction
This special issue enquires into aesthetic ways of newly creating or re-shaping and re-presenting civil religion and its central characters, symbols, or figures. Normally, civil religion addresses value-orientation and social integration. In addition to these features, the papers make the aesthetic performance of civil religion the subject of discussion. The reason for taking this path is the altered aesthetic circumstances of highly mediatised a…
Alternative Healing as Magical Self-Care in Alternative Modernity
Alternative healing, including spiritual healing, unconventional, traditional/folk, and complementary medical treatments, is an increasingly relevant health-care resource in contemporary health-care systems, and a broad, constantly changing, and heterogeneous field of medical pluralism. Some suggestions for classifying spiritual healing as presented in the academic and gray literature are summarized and discussed. The findings are interpreted in …
Thinking through the Body. Essays in Somaesthetics
Religionsökonomie
Religionsökonomie analysiert einerseits Religion mit wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Modellen und untersucht andererseits kritisch ökonomische Theorien, die selbst mit einem ideologischen Anspruch auftreten, wie gutes Management oder effizientes menschliches Verhalten auszusehen hätten. Die vorliegende Einführung stellt erstmals systematisch diese junge Teilperspektive der Religionswissenschaft dar. Beschrieben werden historische Positionen wie Ada…
Competitive Charity
Recent developments in global yoga show a tendency towards social activism in the charity market. As part of this, Yoga Aid World Challenge 2012 (founded in 2007) is a good example of how neoliberal organisational culture and generosity may become entangled. Competition stands out as an unusual strategy in the predominantly gentle type of modern postural yoga. During this 24-hour event, yoga is practised across 25 countries worldwide, following t…
Monica M. Emerich
The Politics and Discourse of Migrant Return
This article proposes that there is added value in moving beyond isolated studies of return-related migration policies in order to consider both deportations and so-called assisted voluntary returns under the common heading of ‘state-induced returns’. Based on official documents and interviews with staff members of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration, it argues that international acto…
Museum in Context
In using the critical term museality in aesthetics of religion, it is our aim in this article to reveal the socio-cultural embeddedness of museums in Western societies and beyond. To do this we draw on two distinct cultural and sociological models of society, dispositive theory and Luhmann's communicational systems theory. Dispositive theory allows us to include non-discursive practices and materialisations in the aesthetic analysis of religious …
Die Religionssoziologie Max Webers im Lichte der neueren Kulturwissenschaft und der Religionsökonomie
Es gibt kaum neuere Literatur zu Religion und Wirtschaft, die nicht Weber zitiert. Webers Credo, dass die empirische Wirklichkeit – in ihren kleinsten ‚Atomen‘ das Handeln Einzelner – erst annähernd vollständig beschrieben ist, wenn sie aus ökonomischer, religionsgeschichtlicher und soziologischer Perspektive beleuchtet wird, hat bis heute nichts an Faszination verloren. Und die berühmte Übersetzungsfrage in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft: „was ist …
Praktische Religionswissenschaft
Literatur und Religion als Medien einer Sozialethik und -kritik. Ein religionswissenschaftlicher Vergleich der christlichen ,,Apokalypse" mit Henning Mankells Krimi ,,Brandmauer"
How can literature and religion be understood together from a religious studies perspective? One possibility for a comparative basis is the social-ethical self-understanding that takes places within the literary medium. As an example of religious literature, the Book of Revelation is compared to Henning Mankell's contemporary crime fiction. The choice of ,,apocalyptic" models in their literary and pragmatic form is suitable for religious and soci…
The Study of Religion as Theorienschmiede for Cultural Studies
This article proposes understanding an important task of the Study of Religion as a monitoring system in the neuroscience sense, i.e. a higher-order-level of evaluation and reflexivity. The Study of Religion in the context of several specialized cultural studies approaches reflects on these approaches and on how they frame a discourse. These scientific and popular discourses as well form our contemporary world view. By its self-critical dissoluti…
Zur religiösen Codierung moderner Ernährung. Ayurvedische Koch- und Ernährungsbücher als Lebensratgeber
The article surveys German-language ayurvedic cooking and nutrition books from 1990 until today. The semantic analysis reveals a market diversification that corresponds to the following categories: health, diet, spirituality, and individualism. These are main attractors of Ayurveda along with its promises of holistic balance and cosmological integration. Because this development can be interpreted as a reaction to the Western scientific formation…
The Politics and Discourse of Migrant Return
This article proposes that there is added value in moving beyond isolated studies of return-related migration policies in order to consider both deportations and so-called assisted voluntary returns under the common heading of ‘state-induced returns’. Based on official documents and interviews with staff members of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration, it argues that international acto…
Competitive Charity
Recent developments in global yoga show a tendency towards social activism in the charity market. As part of this, Yoga Aid World Challenge 2012 (founded in 2007) is a good example of how neoliberal organisational culture and generosity may become entangled. Competition stands out as an unusual strategy in the predominantly gentle type of modern postural yoga. During this 24-hour event, yoga is practised across 25 countries worldwide, following t…
Alternative Healing as Magical Self-Care in Alternative Modernity
Alternative healing, including spiritual healing, unconventional, traditional/folk, and complementary medical treatments, is an increasingly relevant health-care resource in contemporary health-care systems, and a broad, constantly changing, and heterogeneous field of medical pluralism. Some suggestions for classifying spiritual healing as presented in the academic and gray literature are summarized and discussed. The findings are interpreted in …
Zur religiösen Codierung moderner Ernährung. Ayurvedische Koch- und Ernährungsbücher als Lebensratgeber
The article surveys German-language ayurvedic cooking and nutrition books from 1990 until today. The semantic analysis reveals a market diversification that corresponds to the following categories: health, diet, spirituality, and individualism. These are main attractors of Ayurveda along with its promises of holistic balance and cosmological integration. Because this development can be interpreted as a reaction to the Western scientific formation…
The Study of Religion as Theorienschmiede for Cultural Studies
This article proposes understanding an important task of the Study of Religion as a monitoring system in the neuroscience sense, i.e. a higher-order-level of evaluation and reflexivity. The Study of Religion in the context of several specialized cultural studies approaches reflects on these approaches and on how they frame a discourse. These scientific and popular discourses as well form our contemporary world view. By its self-critical dissoluti…
Literatur und Religion als Medien einer Sozialethik und -kritik. Ein religionswissenschaftlicher Vergleich der christlichen ,,Apokalypse" mit Henning Mankells Krimi ,,Brandmauer"
How can literature and religion be understood together from a religious studies perspective? One possibility for a comparative basis is the social-ethical self-understanding that takes places within the literary medium. As an example of religious literature, the Book of Revelation is compared to Henning Mankell's contemporary crime fiction. The choice of ,,apocalyptic" models in their literary and pragmatic form is suitable for religious and soci…
Die Religionssoziologie Max Webers im Lichte der neueren Kulturwissenschaft und der Religionsökonomie
Es gibt kaum neuere Literatur zu Religion und Wirtschaft, die nicht Weber zitiert. Webers Credo, dass die empirische Wirklichkeit – in ihren kleinsten ‚Atomen‘ das Handeln Einzelner – erst annähernd vollständig beschrieben ist, wenn sie aus ökonomischer, religionsgeschichtlicher und soziologischer Perspektive beleuchtet wird, hat bis heute nichts an Faszination verloren. Und die berühmte Übersetzungsfrage in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft: „was ist …
Praktische Religionswissenschaft
Museum in Context
In using the critical term museality in aesthetics of religion, it is our aim in this article to reveal the socio-cultural embeddedness of museums in Western societies and beyond. To do this we draw on two distinct cultural and sociological models of society, dispositive theory and Luhmann's communicational systems theory. Dispositive theory allows us to include non-discursive practices and materialisations in the aesthetic analysis of religious …
Religionsökonomie
Religionsökonomie analysiert einerseits Religion mit wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Modellen und untersucht andererseits kritisch ökonomische Theorien, die selbst mit einem ideologischen Anspruch auftreten, wie gutes Management oder effizientes menschliches Verhalten auszusehen hätten. Die vorliegende Einführung stellt erstmals systematisch diese junge Teilperspektive der Religionswissenschaft dar. Beschrieben werden historische Positionen wie Ada…
Competitive Charity
Recent developments in global yoga show a tendency towards social activism in the charity market. As part of this, Yoga Aid World Challenge 2012 (founded in 2007) is a good example of how neoliberal organisational culture and generosity may become entangled. Competition stands out as an unusual strategy in the predominantly gentle type of modern postural yoga. During this 24-hour event, yoga is practised across 25 countries worldwide, following t…
Monica M. Emerich
The Politics and Discourse of Migrant Return
This article proposes that there is added value in moving beyond isolated studies of return-related migration policies in order to consider both deportations and so-called assisted voluntary returns under the common heading of ‘state-induced returns’. Based on official documents and interviews with staff members of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration, it argues that international acto…
Alternative Healing as Magical Self-Care in Alternative Modernity
Alternative healing, including spiritual healing, unconventional, traditional/folk, and complementary medical treatments, is an increasingly relevant health-care resource in contemporary health-care systems, and a broad, constantly changing, and heterogeneous field of medical pluralism. Some suggestions for classifying spiritual healing as presented in the academic and gray literature are summarized and discussed. The findings are interpreted in …
Thinking through the Body. Essays in Somaesthetics
The Governance of Aesthetic Subjects Through Body Knowledge and Affect Economies. A Cognitive-Aesthetic Approach
Introduction
This special issue enquires into aesthetic ways of newly creating or re-shaping and re-presenting civil religion and its central characters, symbols, or figures. Normally, civil religion addresses value-orientation and social integration. In addition to these features, the papers make the aesthetic performance of civil religion the subject of discussion. The reason for taking this path is the altered aesthetic circumstances of highly mediatised a…
Sovereignty and the Sacred
Cosmopolitan Modes of Governance of Religious Diversity across Europe
From the various contingent cases of interreligious dialogue ( IRD ) across European countries presented at the conference, a systematic cross-regional comparison and system-theory informed analysis is suggested from a cultural study of religion understanding. Along the coordinates of system integration, social integration and cosmopolitanism (as developed in political sciences by U. Beck, E. Grande, N. Sznaider) an interpretation of the specific…
Aestheticscapes und joint speech als ästhetische Strategie
Der Beitrag erläutert anhand von zwei Aestheticscapes einer charismatischen katholischen Gemeinschaft, wie mit unterschiedlichen ästhetischen Strategien das Erleben beeinflusst wird. Das hat zur Folge, dass die religiöse Botschaft multimedial intensiv und nachhaltig bei den Teilnehmenden verankert wird. Zentrale und in der Literatur schon gut belegte These ist, dass dies über den Zustand einer Absorption stattfinden kann. In den beiden Ritualsequ…
IOM Unbound?
It is an era of expansion for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an increasingly influential actor in the global governance of migration. Bringing together leading experts in international law and international relations, this collection examines the dynamics and implications of IOM's expansion in a new way. Analyzing IOM as an international organization (IO), the book illuminates the practices, obligations and accountability of …
Theoriebildungen seit 1990
Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der deutschsprachigen Religionswissenschaft
Between local culture, leisure activity, and nonreligion – the individual constructions of religion by adolescents in rural Austria
The article presents a four-fold typology of adolescent constructions of religion in rural Austria. At first, it identifies the major types of ‘religion as part of local culture’ and ‘religion as leisure activity’ that dominate group discussions among adolescents in rural Austria. In addition, the article identifies two marginal types of ‘explicit nonreligion’ and ‘highly individualized religion’ that dominate the individual constructions of reli…
Sociology (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Corporate governance (4 works)