Dr. Katharina Neef

Dr. Katharina Neef

Research Fellow

Zentrum für Lehrer:innenbildung und Schulforschung
Institutsgebäude, ZLS wAL
Prager Straße 38-40, Room 110
04317 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97 30430

Dr. Katharina Neef

Dr. Katharina Neef

Research Fellow

Religionswissenschaftliches Institut
Institutsgebäude
Schillerstraße 6, Room S 116
04109 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97 - 37165
Fax: +49 341 97 - 37169

Abstract

Katharina Neef is a research and teaching assistant at the Institute for the Study of Religion.


Her research focusses on the interrelation of religion and politics, especially concerning small, marginal(ized) and new religious groups. She also is interested in the history and sociology of secular groups and organizations in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Since 2016, she also is working on the formation and practice of the issue of religion in school education.

Professional career

  • since 02/2018
    Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Religion at Leipzig University
  • since 10/2022
    Researcher and Lecturer at the Centre for Teachers' Education at Leipzig University
  • 04/2016 - 09/2020
    Researcher and Lecturer at the Chair for Ethical Education at the Centre for Teachers' Education at the Technical University in Chemnitz
  • 04/2009 - 03/2014
    Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Religion at Leipzig University
  • 10/2006 - 12/2008
    Researcher in the project "Reconstruction of the Discourses in the Philosophy of Science in Wilhelm Ostwald's Annals of Natural Philosophy" at the Saxonian Academy of Sciences
  • 07/2003 - 03/2006

Education

  • 01/2007 - 11/2010
    Ph.D.-studies
  • 10/2000 - 09/2006
  • Neef, K.
    Heterodoxie in der Religiongeschichte
    In: Schetsche, M.; Schmied-Knittel, I. (Eds.)
    Heterodoxie. Konzepte, Traditionen, Figuren der Abweichung. Köln: Franz van Halem Verlag. 2018. pp. 34–54.
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  • Neef, K.
    Die Entstehung der Soziologie aus der Sozialreform
    Frankfurt [u.a.]: Campus Verlag. 2012.
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  • Neef, K.
    Religion als Herausforderung des Wertneutralitätsgebots im Ethikunterricht
    In: Neef, K.; Kim, M.; Gutmann, T.; Friedrich, J. (Eds.)
    Werte im Ethikunterricht. An den Grenzen der Wertneutralität. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich. 2021. pp. 125–146.
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  • Neef, K.
    Politicizing a (Non)Religious Act. The Secularist Church Exit Propaganda of the Komitee Konfessionslos (1908–1914)
    Freethinkers in Europe: National and Transnational Secularities, 1789–1920s. Berlin u.a.: de Gruyter. 2020. pp. 297–329.
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  • Neef, K.; Junginger, H.; Wöstemeyer, C.; Alberts, W. (Eds.)
    Handbuch Religionskunde in Deutschland
    Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 2023.
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more publications

  • The History of Religions in Germany After 1945

  • Religion in the Public Sphere

    International Master Seminar in cooperation with Bergen University and Vilnius University in Vilnius

    SoSe 2022

  • Tutorium Master

    2019 - 2023

  • Introduction to the History of Religion

    SoSe 2017 - 2019

  • Introduction to the History of Religions

  • Religion and Politics

    International Master Seminar in cooperation with Vilnius University

    2022

  • Indigenous Religions in Eastern Europe

    WS 2021/22

    held together with B. Krumnow and V. Vitanova

  • Heterodox Movements in the Middle Ages

    Reading and Translating medieval Latin sources

    WS 2021/22

    held together with S. Roebert

  • Atheist Posters

    WS 2020/21

    held together with Prof. Junginger

  • Religion and Politics in the Eastern Bloc

    WS 2019/20

    held together with B. Krumnow and V. Vitanova

  • Religious Systems of Meaning

    SoSe 2019

  • Critique of Religion and Reform

    WS 2018

  • Max Weber on Religion

    WS 2017

Research fields

Religious studies, Religion

Specializations

  • New Religious Movements, Religious Plurality in Germany in the 19th and 20th Centuries

  • Religions and Politics

  • Religion in Ethical Education

  • Freethought Movements in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Contact for media inquiries

Phone: +49 341 97 30430

Mittwoch 10:00 - 11:00 Uhr und nach Vereinbarung