U R Kleinhempel
Biographic Data
| ID | 42852 |
|---|---|
| NAME | U R Kleinhempel |
| GIVEN NAMES | U R |
| FAMILY NAME | Kleinhempel |
| SIGNATURE | KLEINHEMPEL U R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zululand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4685-9147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Stigmata and embodiment: Tattoos and piercings as mediums of culture and self
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The Reception of Bantu Divination in Modern South Africa: African Traditional Worldview in Interaction with European Thought
Bantu African divination is firmly established in South Africa in the context of modernity and is protected, endorsed and regulated by law. It is received in the therapeutic field. Important explorations were performed in the early 20th century by psychiatrists and psychoanalysts of Jungian orientation. Their cultural, philosophical, spiritual, and academic backgrounds are relevant to this reception. Jungian thought, Spiritual Spiritism, and trad…
Sacred sites, identity, and resilience - on the retrieval of collective and historic identity across religious and cultural difference
This study explores the role of eminent buildings and shrines of cultural and religious significance for collective and individual identities, in the context of present culture with its disruptions of tradition, in cultural and religious regard. It draws on the renewed awareness of this connection, that developed in public debate in France, after the arson of eminent cathedrals, and in Germany, in debate about the reconstruction of historic build…
Reflections on the position paper at the conference of the DVRW (German Ass. for Science of Religion), Bayreuth 2023, calling for integrated teaching of ‘religion’ for all students in Germany
In Germany, Austria, and to some extent in Switzerland, denominational instruction in religion or secular ethics at schools is the legally enshrined norm. Considering that these countries comprise about 100 million inhabitants, with Germany being the by far most populous nation in the EU, this is of cultural significance outside of the German-speaking realm too. A philosophy of inclusion of the Churches and recognised religious communities into t…
The Christian orthodox concept of the person and Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimension of ‘feminity – masculinity’: Reconsidering the foundations of cultural difference
Essay based on my presentation at the 1st International Conference on Ethics and Justice for a Sustainable World, co-organised by the University of Zululand, South Africa, and the University of Namibia. (Online: 8 –9 June 2023)
Calvin, Rabelais, and the platonic tradition: Cognition of god and the self in renaissance and modernity
In Sociology of Religion the massive shift towards secularisation, especially in historically Protestant countries of Europe, or these with Protestant influence, has been found to comprise two shifts: one towards the loss of religion, the other towards highly individualistic esoteric spirituality. The ‘individualisation of faith’, brought about by Protestantism, proclaimed especially by John Calvin, as ‘master theoretician’, is regarded to be a f…
Aisthetics of Religion and embodied spiritual perception: Hermeneutic approaches in Hesychasm, Christian Platonism, and Aesthetics of Idealism, to ‘divine light’ and ‘mystical flight’
In this essay I show developments in Aisthetics of Religion, a new discipline of Science of Religion, towards the inclusion of the body, and the senses, departing from an approach of naturalistic reductionism towards the integration of the category or dimension of the transcendent”. Here, recourse is taken to the philosophical aesthetics of German Idealism, that integrates ‘body’ and ‘soul, by its concept of the faculty of ‘imagination’ as instru…
Contemporary religiosity and consequences for the instruction of religion at upper secondary schools in Germany
This is a pioneering article. It integrates findings about the composition of the field of religious and spiritual as well as atheistic convictions among the population of Germany, and among students in upper secondary classes of ‘protestant religion’ for teaching this subject. In particular, the strong presence of esoteric and Universalists convictions is taken note of. The article presents methodological and didactic consequences taken by the a…
The deconstruction of a cathedral: On recent debate about Nuernberg’s St Lorenz church
This presentation is about the background and implications of a recent phenomenon, especially in German Protestantism, of ‘partial profanation of churches’. I propose that it reflects an ‘in-depth’ secularisation in Protestantism, leading to a redistribution of roles of custodianship of the spiritual cultural heritage in society
Reincarnation: Revisiting the transmigration of souls as systematic and pastoral issue
The issue of reincarnation has factually been laid to rest in Christian theology at the end of Greco-Roman Antiquity. Not so in the cultural histories of European countries, where is revived continuously, most forcefully from the 18th century in onwards, as in Germany. This requires a new look at the idea, and at practices of ‘past-life regression’ that are widespread, from a dogmatic and pastoral perspective. Recent academic publications on the …
Breathing Divine Breath: On the Greco-Egyptian Sources of Hesychasm
The genesis of Hesychasm is still quite unresolved. In this article, the assumption that its origins lie in late Greco-Egyptian Antiquity, in the eastern Mediterranean, and that Yoga contributed to it, remain in the background. The normative form of Hesychasm, referred to here, is that described briefly by St. Gregory Palamas. In this article, two constituents, presented by him as essential, are investigated for their likely roots in the Greco-Eg…
Replanting a Deserted Field: Kardecism's New Establishment in German-Speaking Countries
Kardecism has been reintroduced to all German-speaking countries over the past four decades. Here, its lines of tradition have factually been severed, since the Second World War. It has been reintroduced successfully by a handful of local influential personalities engaged in quests for new orientation in the fields of spirituality, therapy and medicine, striving for integrated views and practices and by Kardecist Brazilian professionals establish…
Topology of the sacred and agency: Water sites of power in Bantu African and Brazilian culture, with considerations on baptism
On the background of resurging interest in ‚sites of power', on both sides of the Atlantic, this essay presents a feature, sometimes marginalised in their theories: 'agency'. It is understood that the recognition of the relation between 'topography' and 'agency' is required, to understand the dynamics of such sites, as experienced and codified in cultures and religions. This essay focusses on the 'sites of water' as important archetypes of Bantu …
Politics of exclusion: On the de-funding of the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and mental health (IGPP) in Freiburg i. B. in Germany
Politics of exclusion On the de funding of the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and mental health IGPP in Freiburg i B in Germany nbsp
White Sangomas: The manifestation of Bantu forms of shamanic calling among whites in South Africa
South Africa is one of some few countries where sizeable communities of black and white people live together which have preserved their distinct cultures. Other than in the Americas, South Africa has a black majority with the Bantu African languages and cultural institutions largely preserved - and it has the most marked history of segregation. Thus few elements of Bantu cultures have been adopted by white South Africans. Yet in recent years a co…
Covert Syncretism: The Reception of South Africa’s Sangoma Practise and Spirituality by “Double Faith” in the Contexts of Christianity and of Esotericism
South African Bantu mediumism (of “Sangoma” type) has moved from contexts in African Traditional Religion (ATR) and rural culture into South African Christianity, especially in the African Instituted Churches (AIC), which have adopted and transformed elements of mediumist practice and ritual. In recent years it has spread to urban culture and to white milieus in South Africa and Europe, where it is received in Esoteric contexts and beyond as a fo…
Sacred sites, identity, and resilience - on the retrieval of collective and historic identity across religious and cultural difference
This study explores the role of eminent buildings and shrines of cultural and religious significance for collective and individual identities, in the context of present culture with its disruptions of tradition, in cultural and religious regard. It draws on the renewed awareness of this connection, that developed in public debate in France, after the arson of eminent cathedrals, and in Germany, in debate about the reconstruction of historic build…
Aisthetics of Religion and embodied spiritual perception: Hermeneutic approaches in Hesychasm, Christian Platonism, and Aesthetics of Idealism, to ‘divine light’ and ‘mystical flight’
In this essay I show developments in Aisthetics of Religion, a new discipline of Science of Religion, towards the inclusion of the body, and the senses, departing from an approach of naturalistic reductionism towards the integration of the category or dimension of the transcendent”. Here, recourse is taken to the philosophical aesthetics of German Idealism, that integrates ‘body’ and ‘soul, by its concept of the faculty of ‘imagination’ as instru…
Replanting a Deserted Field: Kardecism's New Establishment in German-Speaking Countries
Kardecism has been reintroduced to all German-speaking countries over the past four decades. Here, its lines of tradition have factually been severed, since the Second World War. It has been reintroduced successfully by a handful of local influential personalities engaged in quests for new orientation in the fields of spirituality, therapy and medicine, striving for integrated views and practices and by Kardecist Brazilian professionals establish…
Covert Syncretism: The Reception of South Africa’s Sangoma Practise and Spirituality by “Double Faith” in the Contexts of Christianity and of Esotericism
South African Bantu mediumism (of “Sangoma” type) has moved from contexts in African Traditional Religion (ATR) and rural culture into South African Christianity, especially in the African Instituted Churches (AIC), which have adopted and transformed elements of mediumist practice and ritual. In recent years it has spread to urban culture and to white milieus in South Africa and Europe, where it is received in Esoteric contexts and beyond as a fo…
White Sangomas: The manifestation of Bantu forms of shamanic calling among whites in South Africa
South Africa is one of some few countries where sizeable communities of black and white people live together which have preserved their distinct cultures. Other than in the Americas, South Africa has a black majority with the Bantu African languages and cultural institutions largely preserved - and it has the most marked history of segregation. Thus few elements of Bantu cultures have been adopted by white South Africans. Yet in recent years a co…
Politics of exclusion: On the de-funding of the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and mental health (IGPP) in Freiburg i. B. in Germany
Politics of exclusion On the de funding of the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and mental health IGPP in Freiburg i B in Germany nbsp
Replanting a Deserted Field: Kardecism's New Establishment in German-Speaking Countries
Kardecism has been reintroduced to all German-speaking countries over the past four decades. Here, its lines of tradition have factually been severed, since the Second World War. It has been reintroduced successfully by a handful of local influential personalities engaged in quests for new orientation in the fields of spirituality, therapy and medicine, striving for integrated views and practices and by Kardecist Brazilian professionals establish…
Topology of the sacred and agency: Water sites of power in Bantu African and Brazilian culture, with considerations on baptism
On the background of resurging interest in ‚sites of power', on both sides of the Atlantic, this essay presents a feature, sometimes marginalised in their theories: 'agency'. It is understood that the recognition of the relation between 'topography' and 'agency' is required, to understand the dynamics of such sites, as experienced and codified in cultures and religions. This essay focusses on the 'sites of water' as important archetypes of Bantu …
Contemporary religiosity and consequences for the instruction of religion at upper secondary schools in Germany
This is a pioneering article. It integrates findings about the composition of the field of religious and spiritual as well as atheistic convictions among the population of Germany, and among students in upper secondary classes of ‘protestant religion’ for teaching this subject. In particular, the strong presence of esoteric and Universalists convictions is taken note of. The article presents methodological and didactic consequences taken by the a…
The deconstruction of a cathedral: On recent debate about Nuernberg’s St Lorenz church
This presentation is about the background and implications of a recent phenomenon, especially in German Protestantism, of ‘partial profanation of churches’. I propose that it reflects an ‘in-depth’ secularisation in Protestantism, leading to a redistribution of roles of custodianship of the spiritual cultural heritage in society
Reincarnation: Revisiting the transmigration of souls as systematic and pastoral issue
The issue of reincarnation has factually been laid to rest in Christian theology at the end of Greco-Roman Antiquity. Not so in the cultural histories of European countries, where is revived continuously, most forcefully from the 18th century in onwards, as in Germany. This requires a new look at the idea, and at practices of ‘past-life regression’ that are widespread, from a dogmatic and pastoral perspective. Recent academic publications on the …
Breathing Divine Breath: On the Greco-Egyptian Sources of Hesychasm
The genesis of Hesychasm is still quite unresolved. In this article, the assumption that its origins lie in late Greco-Egyptian Antiquity, in the eastern Mediterranean, and that Yoga contributed to it, remain in the background. The normative form of Hesychasm, referred to here, is that described briefly by St. Gregory Palamas. In this article, two constituents, presented by him as essential, are investigated for their likely roots in the Greco-Eg…
Reflections on the position paper at the conference of the DVRW (German Ass. for Science of Religion), Bayreuth 2023, calling for integrated teaching of ‘religion’ for all students in Germany
In Germany, Austria, and to some extent in Switzerland, denominational instruction in religion or secular ethics at schools is the legally enshrined norm. Considering that these countries comprise about 100 million inhabitants, with Germany being the by far most populous nation in the EU, this is of cultural significance outside of the German-speaking realm too. A philosophy of inclusion of the Churches and recognised religious communities into t…
The Christian orthodox concept of the person and Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimension of ‘feminity – masculinity’: Reconsidering the foundations of cultural difference
Essay based on my presentation at the 1st International Conference on Ethics and Justice for a Sustainable World, co-organised by the University of Zululand, South Africa, and the University of Namibia. (Online: 8 –9 June 2023)
Calvin, Rabelais, and the platonic tradition: Cognition of god and the self in renaissance and modernity
In Sociology of Religion the massive shift towards secularisation, especially in historically Protestant countries of Europe, or these with Protestant influence, has been found to comprise two shifts: one towards the loss of religion, the other towards highly individualistic esoteric spirituality. The ‘individualisation of faith’, brought about by Protestantism, proclaimed especially by John Calvin, as ‘master theoretician’, is regarded to be a f…
Aisthetics of Religion and embodied spiritual perception: Hermeneutic approaches in Hesychasm, Christian Platonism, and Aesthetics of Idealism, to ‘divine light’ and ‘mystical flight’
In this essay I show developments in Aisthetics of Religion, a new discipline of Science of Religion, towards the inclusion of the body, and the senses, departing from an approach of naturalistic reductionism towards the integration of the category or dimension of the transcendent”. Here, recourse is taken to the philosophical aesthetics of German Idealism, that integrates ‘body’ and ‘soul, by its concept of the faculty of ‘imagination’ as instru…
The Reception of Bantu Divination in Modern South Africa: African Traditional Worldview in Interaction with European Thought
Bantu African divination is firmly established in South Africa in the context of modernity and is protected, endorsed and regulated by law. It is received in the therapeutic field. Important explorations were performed in the early 20th century by psychiatrists and psychoanalysts of Jungian orientation. Their cultural, philosophical, spiritual, and academic backgrounds are relevant to this reception. Jungian thought, Spiritual Spiritism, and trad…
Sacred sites, identity, and resilience - on the retrieval of collective and historic identity across religious and cultural difference
This study explores the role of eminent buildings and shrines of cultural and religious significance for collective and individual identities, in the context of present culture with its disruptions of tradition, in cultural and religious regard. It draws on the renewed awareness of this connection, that developed in public debate in France, after the arson of eminent cathedrals, and in Germany, in debate about the reconstruction of historic build…
Stigmata and embodiment: Tattoos and piercings as mediums of culture and self
.
Philosophy (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Theology (8 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Religious studies (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Social science (5 works)