Religious Studies As We Like It: Annemarie Schimmel’s research between emancipatory choice and androcentric compulsion

Vor­trag von Pauli­na Rinn im Rah­men der Mon­day-Lec­tures, die gemein­sam von Max-Weber-Kol­leg, Sem­i­nar für Reli­gion­swis­senschaft sowie dem The­ol­o­gis­chen Forschungskol­leg t³ The­olo­gie — Tra­di­tion — Trans­for­ma­tion ver­anstal­tet wer­den.

Although Prof. Dr. Dr. Annemarie Schim­mel achieved wide­spread inter­na­tion­al renown, has a large aca­d­e­m­ic oeu­vre to her name and, thanks to her exper­tise in study of Islam and her lin­guis­tic tal­ent, among oth­er things, pro­vid­ed numer­ous new and coura­geous research impuls­es, her aca­d­e­m­ic exper­tise is reduced in pub­lic dis­course in Ger­man-speak­ing coun­tries pri­mar­i­ly to the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the Peace Prize of the Ger­man Book Trade (1995).
This reflects the prob­lem of selec­tive mem­o­ry cul­ture, which is char­ac­terised by struc­tur­al pow­er dynam­ics. Using the exam­ple of Annemarie Schim­mel, Reli­gious Stud­ies as We Like It address­es the chal­lenges that female schol­ars in Ger­man-lan­guage reli­gious research were and are con­front­ed with and calls for a more sen­si­tive exam­i­na­tion of the his­to­ry of the dis­ci­pline.