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

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.

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